With this self-teaching reference residents learn a disease per day. It covers epidemiology, pathophysiology, risk factors, clinical presentations, diagnostic approaches, and treatment of adult human infections. It includes lucid accounts of each syndrome, clinical vignettes to illustrate common and complicated clinical points, key pathogenic characteristics of organisms, and useful figures and radiographs. It presents an innovative bridge between general medicine textbooks and encyclopedic presentations. It is perfect for the 30 day infectious disease clerkship.