Modern Medical Microbiology : The Fundamentals

by Stuart C. Clarke

• ISBN13: 9780340810446
• ISBN10: 0340810440
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-27
• Publisher: Hodder Arnold Publishers

Summary

Modern Medical Microbiology-The Fundamentals is a unique text reference that represents the culmination of more than 70 articles written over eight years and brought together in one, easy-to-read volume. It describes in a chapter-by-chapter analysis, a vast range of common diseases and themicro-organisms that cause them as well as covering issues such as health and safety, molecular biology and bio-terrorism. The book is set apart from others in the field by its easy accessibility to the core information and fills the niche left by larger texts. Key features include: * coverage ofall major diseases-each with its own concise chapter * coverage of all major bacteria- a onse stop source * succinct writing style-easy access to facts, for fast recognition of bacteria and the resulting infectious diseases This book will prove to be an essential text for students of microbiology,scientists in training , and undergraduate medical students involved in any aspect of microbiology. Its easy to follow style will also appeal to those with a general interest in microbiology and the impact it has on the modern world.

Author Biography

Stuart C. Clarke is the Director of the Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Science, Glasgow University, Glasgow, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction R

Health and safety in the laboratory General

Emerging and re-emerging diseases

Disease in the developing world

Food poisoning

Evasion of the immune system

DNA vaccination

Antibiotics

The microbiology of catheters

Monoclonal antibodies in medicine10. Lactic acid bacteria and human health

Clinical application of leeches and maggots

The applications of molecular biology

Plague and other yersinia infections

Anthrax infection

Botulism

Tetanus

Other anaerobic infections

Tuberculosis20. Leprosy

Traveller's diarrhoea

Diarrhoeal disease in childhood

Salmonella

Diarrhoeagenic escherichia coli

Campylobacter enteritis

Shigellosis

Cholera

Helicobacter pylori

Listeriosis30. Syphilis31. Chlamydia

Gonorrhoea

Whooping cough

Acute bacterial meningitis

Meningococcal disease

Pneumococcal disease

Haemophilus influenzae

Lyme Disease

Q fever

Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)

Brucellosis

Mycoplasma infection

Bacterial urinary tract infection

Cyanobacteria Virology

Viral hepatitis

The common cold

Respiratory syncytial virus

Rubella

Filoviruses

Smallpox

Influenza

Epstein-Barr virus

Rabies

HIV and AIDS

Herpes simplex viruses I and II

Dengue fever

Human papillomavirus infection

Polio

Parvovirus infection

Chickenpox and shingles Parasitology61. Toxoplasma

Malaria63. Cyclosporiasis64. Cryptosporidiosis

Microsporidia

Schistosomiasis67. Onchocerciasis68. Acanthamoeba infection

Parasitic cestodes Mycology

Candidiasis

Ringworm

Aspergillosis

Histoplasma Appendix

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