Notes on Medical Microbiology

Subtitle:: Including Virology, Mycology and Parasitology
Author:: Katherine N. Ward; A. Christine McCartney
Format:: Softcover

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Short description

This completely rewritten, revised, and updated new edition provides an indispensable introduction to medical microbiology for students, trainee doctors and laboratory workers. Its contents cover advances in molecular microbiology especially for diagnostic techniques and include such topical subjects as MRSA, "C. difficile," avian influenza and vCJD. The text is illustrated throughout with 130 illustrations most in full colour.

Long description

This completely rewritten, revised, and updated new edition provides an indispensable introduction to medical microbiology for students, trainee doctors and laboratory workers. Its contents cover advances in molecular microbiology especially for diagnostic techniques and include such topical subjects as MRSA, C. difficile, avian influenza and vCJD. The text is illustrated throughout with 130 illustrations most in full colour.

Product details

Publisher:: Churchill Livingstone
ISBN:: 9780443102844
Publication date:: December 2008
Length:: 211mm
Width:: 137mm
Thickness:: 28mm
Weight:: 907g
Edition:: 2nd Edition, Updated
Pages:: 597
Illustrations:: Illustrated
Illustrated:: Illustrated

Introduction to medical microbiology. Bacteria: Bacteria structure, taxonomy, nutrition, growth and genetics. laboratory diagnosis of bacterial diseases. Gram-positive bacteria including mycobacteria. Gram-negative bacteria. Antibacterial therapy. Bacterial diseases: Bacterial infections of the respiratory tract. Bacterial diseases acquired through the gastrointestinal tract. Enteric fever. Urinary tract infections. Bacterial meningitis. Skin, soft tissue and wound infections, abscesses, sepsis. Infective endocarditis. Sexually transmitted diseases. Mycobacterial diseases including tuberculosis and leprosy. Bone and joint infections: osteomyelitis and arthritis. Non-arthropod-borne bacterial zoonoses. Arthropod-borne bacterial diseases. Viruses: Viruses: general properties, taxonomy, replication and genetics. Laboratory diagnosis of virus diseases. Antiviral therapy Virus diseases: Viral diseases of the respiratory tract. Viral gastroenteritis. Viral hepatitis. Viral neurological diseases. Enteroviral diseases. Viral exanthemata and other 'childhood diseases'. Herpesvirus diseases. Papilloma and polyoma virus infections and disease. Retroviral diseases. Non-arthropod-borne viral zoonoses and poxvirus diseases. Arthropod-borne viral diseases. Prion diseases: Prion diseases: transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Medical mycology: Diseases due to fungi. Medical parisitology: Diseases due to parasites. Special infection problems: Sterilization and disinfection. Healthcare-associated infections. Prevention of microbial disease: Immunization. Infections of the eye. Pyrexia of unknown origin. Infection in the immunocopromised. Infection and pregnancy.

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