Medical microbiology and virology

Blastomycosis remains the most enigmatic of human mycotic infections.

Fungal dimorphism is a topic that sounds inherently too rarified to attract more than a specialist audience.

Salmonella infections of man and animals continue to be a distressing health problem worldwide.

Kevin Marshall is a hard act to follow.

Lyme Borreliosis is a worldwide infectious disease causing a multisystem illness with considerable morbidity, particularly in North America and Europe.

Corona- and related viruses are important human and animal pathogens that also serve as models for other viral-mediated diseases.

Forty years after the discovery of the helix nature of DNA and more than twenty after the first applications of recombinant DNA technology to the pharmaceutical industry, the Pandora's vase of biotechnology seems far from being empty.

Bacterial taxonomy as a specialized discipline is practised by a minority but the applications of taxonomy are important to most, if not all microbiologists.

This volume represents a series of papers presented at the Second International Workshop on HPV Immunology held at the University of Cambridge July 5-7 1993.

The genus Aspergillus has a worldwide distribution and is one of the most common of all groups of fungi.

In the past decade, the global efforts in the control of HIV disease were basically concentrated on the search for anti-retroviral agents.

This compendium is the result of the FEMS Workshop on "e;Rapid Diagnosis of Mycoplasmas"e; which I organized and which took place in Jerusalem, Israel, August 11-23, 1991.

There is considerable interest in thermophile microorganisms, in their environments, their ability to survive at temperatures which normally denature proteins, but more importantly, as a valuable resource for bio- technology.

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

Much research over the past 30 to 40 years has shown that the inflammatory response, while critical for host defense during microbial infection, may itself play a central role in the pathogenesis of sepsis.

Infection Control in the ICU Environment provides the details of the most common infection control problems facing intensive care units.

Advances in DNA sequencing and phylogenetic inference have created powerful methods to investigate many dangerous human viruses.

North American Parasitic Zoonoses provides a concise and useful review of essential information about parasitic zoonotic diseases.

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

In 1996 the International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) recognized the name Nidovirales, as the formal name for Coronaviridae and A rteriviridae.

The discovery and concept that Helicobacter pylori is associated with gastric disease including gastric cancer which is one of the most common and frequently lethal forms of malignancy, heralded a new and rapidly expanding field recognizing the emergence of many new pathogens and disease syndromes in clinical medicine, as well as basic infectious disease research.

PAS proteins control numerous physiological and developmental events, and span phylogeny from bacteria to man.

The evolution ofdata about the HIV-Associated Lipodystrophy Syndrome has been rapid.

After almost fifteen years in the laboratory and in the test plots, bioengineered crops arrived to the market in the mid-1990s.

In Vivo EPR (ESR) is a textbook on this relatively new subject in biomedical electron spin resonance.

New Bacterial Vaccines focuses upon unfulfilled needs for bacterial vaccines.

Severe Infections Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa emphasizes controversies worldwide in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and pathogenesis of pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.

Integrating Population Outcomes, Biological Mechanisms and Research Methods in the Study of Human Milk and Lactation is the product of the 10th Conference of the International Society for Research on Human Milk and Lactation, held on September 15-19, 2000, in Tucson, Arizona.

This book discusses recent developments in several laboratories studying leishmaniasis.

Glycosylation is a common and extremely important modification in biological molecules, particularly of proteins.

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This book focuses on the function of antibodies in vivo.

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This book illustrates the intimate relationship between alveolar macrophages and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.

This SpringerBrief on Spx reviews the investigations that led to the discovery of Spx and its orthologs and ties together the results of various studies that have explored the function and control of spx in Gram-positive organisms.

This SpringerBrief is comprehensive account of the functions and effects of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) EBNA1 protein that relate to EBV-associated cancers and evidence for EBNA1 contributions to these cancers.

The collection of chapters in this proceeding volume reflects the latest research presented at the Aegean meeting on Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress held in Crete in Fall of 2012.

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As the population of patients with acute or chronic kidney disease grows, healthcare professionals need a resource that optimizes drug effectiveness while minimizing potential toxicity.

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Astroviruses were first identified in the feces of children in 1975.

Development of new-generation vaccines is now more challenging than ever, as identifying, purifying and evaluating vaccine antigens is a complex undertaking.

This next volume in the series will provide up to date Information and discussion on future approach to control several challenging Infectious Disease worldwide.