Schaechter's mechanisms of microbial disease / [edited by] N. Cary Engleberg, Victor J. DiRita, Terence S. Dermody.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
5th ed.
Published/​Created
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2013.
Description
xvii, 826 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 28 cm.

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Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Establishment of infectious diseases
  • The normal microbiota
  • Biology of infectious agents
  • 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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