| Edition |
Seventeenth edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 738 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- Salmonella -- 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Medical microbiology.
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Infections -- microbiology.
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Bacteria.
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Fungi.
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Microbiological Techniques.
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Viruses.
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| Added Author |
Greenwood, David, 1935-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Medical microbiology. 17th ed. Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2007 0443102090 0443102104 (DLC) 2006051699 (OCoLC)71873518 |
| ISBN |
9780702040092 |
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0702040096 |
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