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Medical microbiology : a guide to microbial infections : pathogenesis, immunity, laboratory diagnosis and control

Title
Medical microbiology : a guide to microbial infections : pathogenesis, immunity, laboratory diagnosis and control / edited by David Greenwood [and others].
Publication
Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Greenwood, David, 1935-
Description
xiv, 738 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Microbiology and medicine -- Morphology and nature of micro-organisms -- Classification, identification and typing of micro-organisms -- Bacterial growth, physiology, and death -- Antimicrobial agents -- Bacterial genetics -- Virus-cell interactions -- 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 -- 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 enterbacteria -- Pseudomanads and non-fermenters -- Campylbacter and helicobacter -- Vibro, 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, anaplasma and coxiella -- Mycoplasmas -- Adenoviruses -- Herpesviruses -- Poxviruses -- Papillomaviruses and polyomaviruses -- 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 disease) -- Fungi -- Protozoa -- Helminths -- Arthropods -- Infective syndromes -- Diagnostic procedures -- Strategy of antimicrobial chemotherapy -- Epidemiology and control of community infections -- Hospital infection -- Immunization.
ISBN
  • 0443102090
  • 0443102104 (International student ed.)
  • 9780443102103 (International student ed.)
  • 9780443102097 (pbk.)
LCCN
2006051699
OCLC
  • ocm71873518
  • 71873518
  • SCSB-5359680
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries