For trainees and surgeons, internists, and infectious disease physicians, Fry (surgery, Northwestern U.) presents 25 chapters that summarize best practices in the prevention and management of surgical infections. Chapters first discuss the relevant basic science, including the microbiology of surgical pathogens, antimicrobial agents, and surgical immunology, then infections by body region, system, and pathogen, such as hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia, postoperative urinary tract infections, burn wound infections, fungal and viral infections, obstetrics and gynecologic infections, sepsis, microbes used in bioterrorism, and others, with information on risk factors, epidemiology, diagnosis, pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention. Contributors are surgeons and various medical specialists from the US and China. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)