Schaechter's mechanisms of microbial disease /
Schaechter, Moselio.
Engleberg, N. Cary.
DiRita, Victor J.
Dermody, Terence.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
c2013.
"International edition"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Establishment of infectious diseases -- The normal microbiota -- Biology of infectious agents -- Genetic approaches to studying bacterial pathogenesis -- Biological basis for antibacterial action -- Innate immunity -- Adaptive immunity -- The parasite's way of life -- Damage by microbial toxins -- Introduction to the pathogenic bacteria -- Staphylococci: abscesses and toxin-mediated diseases -- Streptococci and enterococci: "strep throat" and beyond -- Pneumococcus and bacterial pneumonia -- Neisseriae: gonococcus and meningococcus -- Bacteroids, intra-abdominal infection, and abscesses -- Enteric bacteria: secretory diarrhea -- Invasive and tissue-damaging enteric bacterial pathogens: bloody diarrhea and dysentery -- Psudomonas aeruginosa: a ubiquitous opportunist -- Bordetella and whooping cough -- Clostridia: diarrheal disease, tissue infection, botulism, and tetanus -- Legionella: parasite of amoebae and macrophages -- Helicobacter pylori: pathogenesis of a persistent bacterial infection -- Mycobacteria: tuberculosis and leprosy -- Syphilis: a disease with a history -- Borrelia burgdorferi and lyme disease -- Cat scatch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, and other bartonelloses -- Chlamydiae: genital, ocular, and respiratory pathogens -- Rocky mountain spotted fever and other rickettsioses -- Mycoplasma: curiosity and pathogen  -- Strategies to combat bacterial infections -- Biology of viruses -- Picornaviruses and coronaviruses --
Arthropodborne viruses -- Paramyxoviruses: measles virus and respiratory syncytial virus -- Rabies -- Influenza and its viruses -- Rotaviruses, noroviruses, and other viral agents of gastroenteritis -- The human retroviruses: AIDS and other diseases -- Adenoviruses -- Human papillomaviruses and warts -- Alphaherpesviruses: herpes simplex virus and Varicella-Zoster virus-- Beta- and gammaherpesviruses: cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus -- Viral hepatitis -- Antiviral treatment strategies -- Vaccines and antisera for the prevention and treatment of infectious disease -- Introduction to the fungi and mycoses -- Endemic mycoses -- Opportunistic fungal infections -- Subcutaneous, cutaneous, and superificial mycoses -- Anitfungal agents -- Introduction to parasitology -- Blood and tissue protozoa -- Intestinal and vaginal protozoa -- Intestinal helminths -- Tissue and blood helminths -- Prion diseases -- Biological agents of warfare and terrorism -- Diagnostic principles -- Principles of epidemiology -- Digestive system infectons -- Infections of the central nervous system -- Respiratory system infections -- Urinary tract infections -- Infections of the skin and soft tissue -- Infections of the skin and soft tissue -- Infections of the bone, joints, and muscles -- Sepsis -- Intravascular infection -- Head and neck infections -- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Infections of the immunocompromised patient -- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Congenital and perinatal infections -- Zoonoses -- Fever: a clinical sign of infection -- Health care-associated infections -- Foodborne disease.
Medical microbiology.
Communicable diseases