Genetic approaches to studying bacterial pathogenesis
Biological basis for antibacterial action
Innate immunity
Adaptive immunity
The parasite's way of life
Damage by microbial toxins
Introduction to the pathogenic bacteria
Staphylococci: abscesses and toxin-mediated diseases
Streptococci and enterococci: "strep throat" and beyond
Pneumococcus and bacterial pneumonia
Neisseriae: gonococcus and meningococcus
Bacteroids, intra-abdominal infection, and abscesses
Enteric bacteria: secretory diarrhea
Invasive and tissue-damaging enteric bacterial pathogens: bloody diarrhea and dysentery
Psudomonas aeruginosa: a ubiquitous opportunist
Bordetella and whooping cough
Clostridia: diarrheal disease, tissue infection, botulism, and tetanus
Legionella: parasite of amoebae and macrophages
Helicobacter pylori: pathogenesis of a persistent bacterial infection
Mycobacteria: tuberculosis and leprosy
Syphilis: a disease with a history
Borrelia burgdorferi and lyme disease
Cat scatch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, and other bartonelloses
Chlamydiae: genital, ocular, and respiratory pathogens
Rocky mountain spotted fever and other rickettsioses
Mycoplasma: curiosity and pathogen
Strategies to combat bacterial infections
Biology of viruses
Picornaviruses and coronaviruses --
Arthropodborne viruses
Paramyxoviruses: measles virus and respiratory syncytial virus
Rabies
Influenza and its viruses
Rotaviruses, noroviruses, and other viral agents of gastroenteritis
The human retroviruses: AIDS and other diseases
Adenoviruses
Human papillomaviruses and warts
Alphaherpesviruses: herpes simplex virus and Varicella-Zoster virus-- Beta- and gammaherpesviruses: cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus
Viral hepatitis
Antiviral treatment strategies
Vaccines and antisera for the prevention and treatment of infectious disease
Introduction to the fungi and mycoses
Endemic mycoses
Opportunistic fungal infections
Subcutaneous, cutaneous, and superificial mycoses
Anitfungal agents
Introduction to parasitology
Blood and tissue protozoa
Intestinal and vaginal protozoa
Intestinal helminths
Tissue and blood helminths
Prion diseases
Biological agents of warfare and terrorism
Diagnostic principles
Principles of epidemiology
Digestive system infectons
Infections of the central nervous system
Respiratory system infections
Urinary tract infections
Infections of the skin and soft tissue
Infections of the bone, joints, and muscles
Sepsis
Intravascular infection
Head and neck infections
Sexually transmitted diseases
Infections of the immunocompromised patient
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
Congenital and perinatal infections
Zoonoses
Fever: a clinical sign of infection
Health care-associated infections
Foodborne disease.
Other title(s)
Mechanisms of microbial disease
ISBN
9780781787444
0781787440
9781451100051
1451100051
LCCN
2011052163
OCLC
769141612
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