Medical microbiology and virology

For pre-nursing and allied health students (including mixed-majors courses).

Mononuclear phagocytes, which include macrophages, monocytes and their precursor cells, are the most important cells in the host defence against micro-organisms and tumor cells.

Eine der häufigsten Todesursachen bei AIDS ist die Infektion mit Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonie.

"e;Developments in Food Quality and Safety Series"e; is the most up-to-date resource covering trend topics such as Advances in the analysis of toxic compounds and control of food poisoning; Food fraud, traceability and authenticity; Revalorization of agrifood industry; Natural antimicrobial compounds and application to improve the preservation of food; Non-thermal processing technologies in the food industry; Nanotechnology in food production; and Intelligent packaging and sensors for food applications.

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Understanding neutralization is particularly relevant to an appreciation of the interaction between a virus and its antibody-synthesizing host since it is likely that viruses and the antibody system have evolved in response to reciprocally imposed selective pressures.

For decades this virus system has served--and continues to do so--to pioneer investigations on the molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics of mammalian cell systems.

Since penicillin and salvarsan were discovered, a number of new drugs to combat infectious diseases have been developed, but at the same time, the number of multi-resistant microorganism strains is increasing.

This book reviews new promising drug targets for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), with a special focus on antiprotozoal drugs against trpyanosomatids Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania spp.

This second edition updates the reader on the most common intrauterine transmitted viral infection, CMV.

This book series focuses on current progress in the broad field of medical microbiology, and covers both basic and applied topics related to the study of microbes, their interactions with human and animals, and emerging issues relevant for public health.

The metabolomics and systems biology approach to research can be applied to many disciplines.

Many girls want to become scientists when they grow up, just like many boys do.

This new volume in the series Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century is a novel book on the role of microbes in the pathogenesis of common and disabling non-infectious diseases.

This volume of Advances in Virus Research focuses on mycoviruses.

Leishmania parasites cause a diverse group of diseases endemic to many tropical and subtropical regions of the world.

In the clinical microbiology laboratory, blood is a critical diagnostic sample that, in the majority of cases is sterile (or is it?

This Brief concerns the chemical risk in food products from the viewpoint of microbiology.

Antibiotic resistance, once a term appreciated only by microbiologists, has become a common topic in the popular press.

DNA Tumor Viruses will focus on the DNA viruses in the human population that are associated with cancers.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health threat that needs immediate attention and action from the scientific community.

Dieser Band möchte seine Leser mit dem Autor Koch vertraut machen und enthält, neben einer Einleitung, eine Reihe von Aufsätzen zu seinen wichtigsten Arbeitsgebieten: Ätiologie, Epidemiologie und die Technik und Methodik des Labors.

This second fully updated and extended edition of the textbook serves as a highly readable guide on latest developments in vaccine development and vaccination programs in infants, children and adolescents from a European perspective.

Parasitic zoonoses, the parasitic diseases transmitted between humans and other vertebrate animals, are widespread.

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Providing both historical background and recent advances, this series reviews in-depth the biologic, molecular, immunologic, and patholic features of this facinating virus family.

Gives medical students 500 questions, answers, and explanations to prepare for the microbiology section of the USMLE Step 1.

In recent years, plants have been increasingly explored for production of biomedicines and vaccine components.

Present Knowledge in Food Safety: A Risk-Based Approach Through the Food Chain presents approaches for exposure-led risk assessment and the management of changes in the chemical, pathogenic microbiological and physical (radioactivity) contamination of 'food' at all key stages of production, from farm to consumption.

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Diseases caused by animal parasites remain, on a worldwide basis, among the principal causes of morbidity and mortality.

Irradiation for Quality Improvement, Microbial Safety and Phytosanitation of Fresh Produce presents the last six and a half decades of scientific information on the topic.

A practical manual of the key characteristics of the bacteria likely to be encountered in microbiology laboratories and in medical and veterinary practice.

This volume captures emerging strategies, technologies, and innovations leading to international advancements in healthcare outcomes and health science education.

The book focuses on the evolutionary impact of horizontal gene transfer processes on pathogenicity, environmental adaptation and biological speciation.

Although upstaged by the tragic appearance of the human immunodeficiency virus, herpes simplex viruses (HSV) types 1 and 2 continue to be major human pathogens against which we lack acceptable vaccines or other means of immunological control.

Aromatase Inhibitors (AIs) treat postmenopausal estrogen receptor positive tumours, which constitute the majority of breast cancer patients.

Highly Commended by the BMA Medical Book Awards for Basic & Clinical Sciences!

This timely book discusses antimicrobial drug resistance, specifically, the resistance against the beta-lactam class of antibiotics by Gram-Negative bacteria.

Ökosystem Darm II setzt den interdisziplinären Dialog fort, der mit dem vor einem Jahr erschienenen Band "Ökosystem Darm: Morphologie, Mikrobiologie, Immunologie - Klinik und Therapie akuter und chronischer entzündlicher Darmerkrankungen" begonnen wurde.

Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of prolonged illness, premature mortality, and soaring health costs.

The 4-quinolone antibacterial agents have been under development and in use for over 25 years, but despite an enormous body of research work there are still many basic questions that remain unanswered.

The book is structured with classroom learning in mind.

The first volume of the nineteen-volume series entitled Comprehensive Virology was published in 1974 and the last is yet to appear.

This book highlights cutting-edge studies in the development of cell-inspired biomaterials and synthetic materials that manipulate cell functions and provide the next generation with contemporary tools for treating complex human diseases.

It has become commonplace to say that the decline of rheu- matic fever in Europe and North America has little, if any- thing, to do with medicine; but to conclude that efforts to control the disease are futile would be an error leading to what could be termed public health malpractice.

Oxford Case Histories in Infection and Microbiology contains over 45 well structured cases, providing comprehensive coverage of the diagnostic and management dilemmas in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.

Producing Safe Eggs: Microbial Ecology of Salmonella takes the unique approach of interfacing problems of Salmonella and microbial contamination with commercial egg production.