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Title:

Medical microbiology : a guide to microbial infections : pathogenesis, immunity, laboratory diagnosis and control / edited by David Greenwood ... [et al.].

Edition:

17th ed.

Publisher:

Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiv, 738 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Medical microbiology.
Infection--microbiology.
Bacteria.
Fungi.
Microbiological Techniques.
Viruses.

Other Authors:

Greenwood, David, 1935-

Notes:

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 (pbk.)
9780443102097 (pbk.)
9780443102103 (International student ed.)
0443102104 (International student ed.)
9780443102097
0443102090

LCCN:

2006051699

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)