Medical microbiology: a guide to microbial infections : pathogenesis, immunity, laboratory diagnosis and control

Includes indexes.

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--Salmonela--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.