Lecture Notes: Medical Microbiology and Infection, 4th Edition

by Tom S Elliott (Queen Elizabeth Hospital); Husam Osman (Birmingham Heartlands Hospital); Martin Gill (Queen Elizabeth Hospital); Tony Worthington (Aston University)

• ISBN13: 9781405129329
• ISBN10: 1405129328
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Lecture Notes: Medical Microbiology and Infection has been thoroughly updated and revised in this 4th edition, to reflect the contemporary medical school curriculum and most current understanding and practice of medical microbiology and infection. Content covers basic microbiology and antimicrobial agents, giving an overview of the basic science of pathogens. This is then followed by a regionally-based coverage of infection. Succinct and focussed on core information, with colour plates to illustrate the clinical context, Lecture Notes: Medical Microbiology and Infection is an essential text for medical students, junior doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in need of an easily digestible introduction and reference to medical microbiology. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Professor Tom Elliott, Consultant Microbiologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Medical School, Birmingham

Martin Gill, Division of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham Medical School

Husan Osman, Clinical Virologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Medical School, Birmingham

Tony Worthington, Department of Microbiology, Aston University

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition,	vi
Acknowledgements,	vii
Basic microbiology
1 Basic bacteriology: structure,	1
2 Basic bacteriology: physiology,	8
3 Basic bacteriology: genetics,	11
4 Classification of bacteria,	16
5 Staphylococci,	19
6 Streptococci and enterococcci,	23
7 Clostridia,	28
8 Other Gram-positive bacteria,	31
9 Gram-negative cocci,	36
10 Enterobacteriaceae,	39
11 Parvobacteria,	44
12 Pseuziomonas and other aerobic Gram-negative bacilli,	49
13 Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Vibrios,	52
14 Trepotzema, Borrelia and Leptospira,	55
15 Gram-negative anaerobic bacteria,	58
16 Mycobacteria	60
17 Chlamydiae, Rickettsiaceae, mycoplasmas and L-forms,	63
18 Basic virology,	68
19 Major virus groups,	73
20 Basic mycology and classification of fungi,	87
21 Parasitology: protozoa,	93
22 Parasitology: metazoa (helminths),	104
Applied microbiology
23 Host–parasite relationships,	116
24 Diagnostic laboratory methods,	126
25 Epidemiology and prevention of infection,	134
26 Management of infections,	141
27 Immunization,	143
28 Sterilization and disinfection,	148
Antimicrobial agents
29 Antibacterial agents,	153
30 Antifungal agents,	166
31 Antiviral agents,	168
Infection
32 Upper respiratory tract infections,	174
33 Lower respiratory tract infections,	179
34 Gastrointestinal infections,	185
35 Liver and biliary tract infections,	193
36 Urinary tract infections,	199
37 Genital Infections (including sexually transmitted infections),	204
38 Infections of central nervous system,	209
39 Septicaemia and bacteraemia,	216
40 Device-related infections,	220
41 Drug-resistant microorganisms,	224
42 Cardiovascular infections,	228
43 Bone and joint infections,	232
44 Skin and soft-tissue infections,	235
45 Infections in the compromised host,	244
46 Perinatal and congenital infections,	247
47 Human immunodeficiency viruses,	254
48 Miscellaneous viral infections,	257
Subject index,	261
Organism index,	271