This textbook provides detailed overview of a range of topics necessary for understanding infectious diseases on a framework for educating healthcare providers at all levels and all medical specialties. Primarily aimed to offer important backgrounds on regional disease epidemiology, pathogenesis, social, and ethical aspects of disease control through the use of specific antimicrobial agents and preventive vaccines. This book is an effective tool for infectious disease physicians, internists and all other clinicians who wish to practice evidence-based medicine.  Different aspects of infectious disease are addressed and each chapter begins with an annotation of key terms, and definitions and finishes with a concrete summary, using bullet points. The excellent tables and illustrative figures in each chapter are presented with useful proactive diagnostic essentials including nonculture-based molecular advances for early diagnosis and appropriate management. Thirty different chapters are dealt from subject matters on antibiotic uses, vaccine prevention strategies for all ages, and disease transmission control in hospital care environments.