Medical microbiology
Subtitle: a guide to microbial infections : pathogenesis, immunity, laboratory diagnosis and control
By: edited by David Greenwood ... [et al.].
Contributors: Greenwood, David, 1935-
Edition: 17th ed.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier; Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 738
ISBN-13: 9780443102103; 9780443102097
Subjects: Medical microbiology; Infection -- microbiology; Bacteria; Fungi; Microbiological Techniques; Viruses
Description: Keeping up with new findings and areas of changing importance, this descendant of the original Mackie & McCartney text on microbiology offers an organism-based systematic coverage of microbiology with each organism considered under a standard set of headings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Microbiology and medicine; title: Morphology and nature of micro-organisms; title: Classification, identification and typing of micro-organisms; title: Bacterial growth, physiology, and death; title: Antimicrobial agents; title: Bacterial genetics; title: Virus-cell interactions; title: Immunological principles: antigens and antigen recognition; title: Innate and acquired immunity; title: Immunity in viral infections; title: Parasitic infections: pathogenesis and immunity; title: Immunity in bacterial infections; title: Bacterial pathogenicity; title: The natural history of infection; title: Staphylococcus; title: Streptococcus and enterococcus; title: Coryneform bacteria, listeria and erysipelothrix; title: Mycobacterium; title: Environmental mycobacteria; title: Actinomyces, nocardia and tropheryma; title: Bacillus; title: Clostridium; title: Neisseria and moraxella; title: Salmonella; title: Shigella; title: Escherichia; title: Klebsiella, enterobacter, proteus and other enterbacteria; title: Pseudomanads and non-fermenters; title: Campylbacter and helicobacter; title: Vibro, mobiluncus, gardnerella and spirillum; title: Haemophilus; title: Bordetella; title: Legionella; title: Brucella, bartonella and streptobacillus; title: Yersinia, pasteurella and francisella; title: Non-sporing anaerobes; title: Treponema and borrelia; title: Leptospira; title: Chlamydia; title: Rickettsia, orientia, ehrlichia, anaplasma and coxiella; title: Mycoplasmas; title: Adenoviruses; title: Herpesviruses; title: Poxviruses; title: Papillomaviruses and polyomaviruses; title: Hepadnaviruses; title: Parvoviruses; title: Picornaviruses; title: Orthomyxoviruses; title: Paramyxoviruses; title: Arboviruses: alphaviruses, flaviviruses and bunyaviruses; title: Togavirus and hepacivirus; title: Arenaviruses and filoviruses; title: Reoviruses; title: Retroviruses; title: Caliciviruses and astroviruses; title: Coronaviruses; title: Rhabdoviruses; title: Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (prion disease); title: Fungi; title: Protozoa; title: Helminths; title: Arthropods; title: Infective syndromes; title: Diagnostic procedures; title: Strategy of antimicrobial chemotherapy; title: Epidemiology and control of community infections; title: Hospital infection; title: Immunization.