Research Catalog

Title

Immunology of infectious diseases / edited by Stefan H.E. Kaufmann, Alan Sher, Rafi Ahmed.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kaufmann, S. H. E. (Stefan H. E.)
• Sher, Alan.
• Ahmed, Rafi.

Description

xi, 495 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subjects

• Communicable diseases > Immunological aspects
• Immune response

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, Alan Sher and Rafi Ahmed -- 1. Overview of the Bacterial Pathogens / Michael Kuhn, Werner Goebel and Dana J. Philpott / [et al.] -- 2. Overview of the Fungal Pathogens / Luigina Romani -- 3. Overview of the Parasitic Pathogens / Edward J. Pearce and Rick L. Tarleton -- 4. Overview of the Viral Pathogens / Jonathan W. Yewdell and Jack R. Bennink -- 5. Evolution of the Host Defense System / Austin L. Hughes -- 6. Phagocytes and Anti-Infective Immunity / Gordon D. Brown and Siamon Gordon -- 7. Innate Immunity in Bacterial Infections / Emil Unanue -- 8. Defensins and Cathelicidins: Antimicrobial Peptide Effectors of Mammalian Innate Immunity / Tomas Ganz and Robert I. Lehrer -- 9. Innate Immunity to Parasitic Infections / Christopher A. Hunter and Alan Sher -- 10. Innate Immunity and Fungal Infections / Amy C. Herring and Gary B. Huffnagle --
• 11. Innate Immunity and Viral Infections / Christine A. Biron, Marc Dalod and Thais P. Salazar-Mather -- 12. The Th1/Th2 Paradigm in Infections / Tim R. Mosmann and Deborah J. Fowell -- 13. Immunological Memory and Infection / Rafi Ahmed, J. Gibson Lanier and Eric Pamer -- 14. Regional Immune Response to Microbial Pathogens / Marian R. Neutra and Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl -- 15. Acquired Immunity against Bacteria / Helen L. Collins and Stefan H. E. Kaufmann -- 16. Acquired Immunity against Fungi / Arturo Casadevall -- 17. Adaptive Immune Effector Mechanisms against Intracellular Protozoa and Gut-Dwelling Nematodes / Phillip Scott and Richard K. Grencis -- 18. Acquired Immunity against Viral Infections / Eva Szomolanyi-Tsuda, Michael A. Brehm and Raymond M. Welsh -- 19. Autoimmunity as a Consequence of Infection / Kai W. Wucherpfennig and Nilufer P. Seth -- 20. Pathology and Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections / Steffen Stenger and Robert Modlin --
• 21. Pathology and Pathogenesis of Parasitic Disease / Thomas A. Wynn and Dominic Kwiatkowski -- 22. Pathology and Pathogenesis of Virus Infections / Shawn P. O'Neil, Wun-Ju Shieh and Sherif R. Zaki -- 23. Bacterial Persistence: Strategies for Survival / Ernesto J. Munoz-Elias and John D. McKinney -- 24. Viral Immune Evasion / David C. Johnson and Grant McFadden -- 25. Immune Evasion by Parasites / John M. Mansfield and Martin Olivier -- 26. Immunogenetics of the Host Response to Bacteria and Parasites in Humans / Laurent Abel and Jean-Laurent Casanova -- 27. Immunogenetics of the Host Response to Bacteria in Mice / Philippe Gros and Erwin Schurr -- 28. Immunogenetics of the Host Response to Viral Infections / Michel Brahic, Charles M. Bangham and Gabriel Gachelin / [et al.] -- 29. Immune Intervention in Tuberculosis / Doublas B. Young and Brian D. Robertson -- 30. Immune Intervention in AIDS / Guido Silvestri and Mark B. Feinberg.

ISBN

1555812147

LCCN

00069980

OCLC

• 45620611
• ocm45620611
• SCSB-4325607

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries