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A Guide to Microbial Infections: Pathogenesis, Immunity, Laboratory Diagnosis and Control. With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
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Seventeenth Edition
By
David Greenwood, BSc, PhD, DSc, FRCPath, Emeritus Professor of Antimicrobial Science, University of Nottingham Medical School
Richard Slack, MA, MB, BChir, FFPHM, MRCPath, DRCOG, Senior Lecturer, Division of Microbiology, University of Nottingham Medical School, Nottingham,
UK; Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, Nottingham Health Authority; Honorary Consultant, Public Health Laboratory Service, Nottingham,
UK
John Peutherer, BSc, MB, ChB, MD, FRCPath, FRCPE, Formerly Senior Lecturer, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh Medical School;
Honorary Consultant, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust, Edinburgh, UK
Michael Barer, MBBS, PhD, FRCPath, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester Medical School, Leicester, UK
Description
"...reaches the high standards set by previous editions and should be a required purchase for all medical and biomedical students."
British
Journal of Biomedical Science (review of 16th edition)
Now in full colour, this new edition of the bestselling Medical
Microbiology covers Microbial biology; Infection and immunity; Bacterial pathogens and associated diseases; Viral pathogens and
associated diseases; Fungal pathogens and parasitic infections; and Diagnosis, treatment and control of infection. The major portion
gives an organism-based systematic coverage of microbiology. Each organism is considered under a standard set of headings: Description,
Pathogenesis, Clinical features, Laboratory diagnosis, Treatment, and Epidemiology. The section on immunology covers that part of the
subject that is of direct relevance to the understanding of microbial infection.
Contents
Part 1: Microbial Biology:
Microbiology and medicine. Morphology and nature of micro-organisms. Classification, identification
and typing of micro-organisms of micro-organisms. Bacterial growth, physiology and death. Antimicrobial agents. Bacterial genetics. Virus?cell
interactions.
Part 2: Infection and immunity:
Immunological principles: antigens and antigen recognition. Innate and acquired
immunity. Immunity in viral infections. Parasitic infections: pathogenesis and immunity. Immunity in bacterial infections. Bacterial
pathogenicity. The natural history of infection.
Part 3: Bacterial Pathogens and Associated Diseases:
Staphylococcus. Streptococcus
and enterococcus. Coryneform bacteria, listeria and erysipelothrix. Mycobacterium. Environmental mycobacteria. Actinomyces, nocardia
and tropheryma. Bacillus. Clostridium. Neisseria and moraxella. Salmonella. Shigella. Escherichia. Klebsiella, enterobacter, proteus
and other enterobacteria. Pseudomonads and non-fermenters. Campylobacter and helicobacter. Vibrio, mobiluncus, gardnerella and spirillum.
Haemophilus. Bordetella. Legionella. Brucella, bartonella and streptobacillus. Yersinia, pasteurella and francisella. Non-sporing anaerobes.
Treponema and borrelia. Leptospira. Chlamydia. Rickettsia, orientia, ehrlichia and coxiella. Mycoplasmas.
Part 4: Viral Pathogens
and Associated Diseases:
Adenoviruses. Herpesviruses. Poxviruses. Papillomaviruses and polyomaviridae. Hepadnaviruses. Parvoviruses.
Picornaviruses. Orthomyxoviruses. Paramyxoviruses. Arboviruses: alphaviruses, flaviviruses and bunyaviruses. Togavirus and hepacivirus.
Arenaviruses and filoviruses. Reoviruses. Retroviruses. Caliciviruses and astroviruses. Coronaviruses. Rhabdoviruses. Transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies (prion diseases).
Part 5: Fungal Pathogens, Parasitic Infections and Medical Entomology:
Fungi. Protozoa.
Helminths. Arthropods.
Part 6: Diagnosis, Treatment and Control of Infection:
Infective syndromes. Diagnostic procedures.
Strategy of antimicrobial hemotherapy. Epidemiology and control of community infections. Hospital infection. Immunization.
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Paperback, 752 pages, publication date: MAY-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10209-7
ISBN-10: 0-443-10209-0
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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