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Introduction to medical microbiology -- Basic principles of medical microbiology -- Bacterial classification -- Bacterial morphology and cell wall structure and synthesis -- Bacterial metabolism and growth -- Bacterial genetics -- Viral classification, structure, and replication -- Fungal classification, structure, and replication -- Parasitic classification, structure, and replication -- Commensal and pathogenic microbial flora in humans -- Sterilization, disinfection, and antisepsis -- Basic concepts in the immune response -- Elements of host protective responses -- The humoral immune response -- Cellular immune responses -- Immune responses to infectious agents -- Antimicrobial vaccines -- General principles of laboratory diagnosis -- Microscopic principles and applications -- Molecular diagnosis -- Serologic diagnosis -- Bacteriology -- Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis -- Antibacterial agents -- Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial diseases -- Staphylococcus and related organisms -- Streptococcus -- Enterococcus and other gram-positive cocci -- Bacillus -- Listeria and Erysipelothrix -- Corynebacterium and other gram-positive rods -- Nocardia and related bacteria -- Mycobacterium -- Neisseria and related genera -- Enterobacteriaceae -- Vibrio and Aeromonas -- Campylobacter and Heliobacter -- Pseudomonas and related organisms -- Haemophilus and related bacteria -- Bordetella -- Brucella and Francisella -- Legionella -- Miscellaneous gram-negative rods -- Anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive rods -- Anaerobic, non-spore-forming, gram-positive rods -- Anaerobic gram-negative bacteria -- Treponema, Borrelia, and Leptospira -- Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma -- Rickettsia and Orientia -- Ehrlichia anaplasma, and Coxiella -- Chlamydiaceae -- Role of bacteria in disease -- Virology -- Mechanisms of viral pathogenesis -- Antiviral agents -- Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases -- Papillomaviruses and Polyomaviruses -- Adenoviruses -- Human herpesviruses -- Poxviruses -- Parvoviruses -- Picornaviruses -- Coronaviruses and Noraviruses -- Paramyxoviruses -- Orthomyxoviruses -- Rhabdoviruses, Filoviruses, and Bornavirues -- Reoviruses -- Togaviruses and flaviviruses -- Bunyaviridae and arenaviridae -- Retroviruses -- Hepatitis viruses -- Unconventional slow viruses: prions -- Role of viruses in disease -- Mycology -- Pathogenesis of a fungal disease -- Antifungal agents -- Laboratory diagnosis of fungal diseases -- Superficial and cutaneous mycoses -- Subcutaneous mycoses -- Systemic mycoses caused by endemic dimorphic fungal pathogens -- Opportunistic mycoses -- Fungal and fungal-like infections of unusual or uncertain etiology -- Mycotoxins and Mycotoxicoses -- Role of fungi in disease -- Parasitology -- Pathogenesis of parasitic disease -- Antiparasitic agents -- Laboratory diagnosis of parasitic disease -- Intestinal and urogenital protozoa -- Blood and tissue protozoa -- Nematodes -- Trematodes -- Cestodes -- Arthropods -- Role of parasites in disease. A comprehensive textbook providing the medically important information that students need to know--in a format of concise presentations supplemented with numerous tables, color illustrations, and summary boxes. This revised edition (1st ed., 1990) greatly expands the topics, with the addition of three new sections and 13 additional chapters. |