Medical microbiology and virology

This book covers the full scope of fundamental oral and maxillofacial surgery, while supporting readers to focus on the essential information and disorders which are the most common, or have significant implications for modern clinical practice.

This accessibly written, comprehensive summary of research findings on the gut microbiome and its implications for health and disease-a topic of growing interest and concern-serves as an essential resource for teachers and students.

Although there are a number of excellent current reviews on one or another aspect of cytomegalovirus, the last comprehensive treatment of this subject was that of Krech et al.

Understanding Biology Using Peptides: Proceedings of the 19th American Peptide Symposium highlights many of the recent developments in peptide science, with a particular emphasis on how these advances are being applied to basic problems in biology and medicine.

It has been 10 years since Plenum included a series of reviews on bacte- riophages, in Comprehensive Virology.

Antimicrobial Resistance in Agriculture: Perspective, Policy and Mitigation is a valuable industrial resource that addresses complex, multi-factorial topics regarding farm, wild, companion animals, fish, and how the environment plays an important role in amplification and transmission of resistant bugs into the human food chain.

In an age of antibiotic resistant infections, the study of biofilms is increasingly important.

Dieser handliche Leitfaden bietet dem Leser das notwendige Instrumentarium zum Verständnis und zur Durchführung mikrobiologischer Untersuchungs- und Nachweisverfahren in der Urologie.

Can today's innovative practices and molecular tools tame this ancient disease?

This volume focuses on the evidence for or against molecular mimicry as a cause of autoimmunity.

Various aspects, including diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis, of two brain tumors (meningioma and schwannoma) , of brain tumors are discussed in this volume.

The Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science is growing and changing.

Nanotechnology Applications for Food Safety and Quality Monitoring brings together nanotechnology science-based research for food safety and quality monitoring.

Reoviruses are one of the most important viral groups for understanding the molecular and genetic basis for viral pathogenesis.

Las periodontitis en los humanos están relacionadas con una compleja microbiota en donde aproximadamente 30-40 especies de bacterias que incluyen las arqueas, están implicadas de un total de las 800 especies que han identificado en la microbiota oral y que hoy se considera la segunda microbiota mas compleja del cuerpo humano, después de la intestinal.

Biosensors for Foodborne Pathogens Detection: A Rapid Detection Approach covers rapid and accurate measurement for biosensing analysis.

This volume reviews the current state of research concerning bacterial virulence factors and the infection biology of Helicobacter pylori, which is the leading cause of peptic ulcers and gastric cancer worldwide.

This textbook introduces in an engaging way the fundamentals of how pathogenic bacteria interact with, and are virulent within, the human host.

Coronaviruses were recognized as a group of enveloped, RNA viruses in 1968 and accepted by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses as a separate family, the Coronaviridae, in 1975.

American trypanosomiasis, or Chagas disease, is caused by the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi.

Fungi are eukaryotic microorganisms that are closely related to humans at cellular level.

This volume is based on the Proceedings of the International Conference on "e;Microbial Infections: Role of Biological Response Modifiers"e; held in Tampa, FL, May 29-31, 1991.

The books in this acclaimed series are the most detailed, up-to-date accounts of the field available.

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.

Recent years have seen a resurgence of antibiotic drug discovery.

This book introduces readers to Direct Acting Antiviral (DAAs) agents, newly developed drugs to treat chronic hepatitis C virus infection, which have an excellent anti-viral effect on virus replication.

This book examines applications of multi-omics approaches for understanding disease etiology, pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions.

This book shows the huge impact the gut microbiota has on the gastrointestinal health of humans with a particular focus on children.

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This book presents an essential overview of beta-lactams and their medicinal value and use in the preparation of other biologically active compounds.

 TOR, the Target of Rapamycin was discovered a little over ten years ago in a genetic screen in S.

The Series will provide microbiologists, hygienists, epidemiologists and infectious diseases specialists with well-chosen contributed volumes containing updated information in the areas of basic and applied microbiology involving relevant issues for public health, including bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections, zoonosis and anthropozoonosis, environmental and food microbiology.

The topic of this book, Collectins, is a family of proteins whose major function is in innate immunity, where Collectins act as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs).

The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses.

Die Kenntnis der Wurmkrankheiten ist mit dem Nachlassen der Wurmseuche keineswegs nebensächlich oder gar überflüssig geworden.

This book explores cutting-edge methods to work with the notoriously difficult, but highly prevalent, obligate intracellular pathogen, Chlamydia trachomatis.

It is now just 40 years since coxsackieviruses were first isolated by Dalldorf and Sickles in the "e;eponymous"e; town of Coxsackie, New York.

The eye is a computerized system that has been designed for self-defense, and these defense mechanisms create challenges in administration of medications to the eye.

The book provides an overview on how the microbiome contributes to human health and disease.

Flexible Robotics in Medicine: A Design Journey of Motion Generation Mechanisms and Biorobotic System Development provides a resource of knowledge and successful prototypes regarding flexible robots in medicine.

By 1977 it was clear that the thermophilic campylobacters were a major cause of acute bacterial enteritis.

This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, guest edited by James E.