Medical microbiology and virology

Spirochetes comprise a fascinating group of bacteria.

If ripple effect is a measure of greatness in scientific discovery then GEMMOs have a lot going for them and this book dramatically illustrates the risks associated with advances being made by researchers to mobilize and control the power of the microorganism in the world's fight to perfect nature and fmd remedies for its imperfections.

This book provides a detailed overview of the progress and challenges of non-traditional approaches for tackling antimicrobial resistance.

It is now widely acknowledged that at the beginning of this century Claude von Pirquet first pointed out that a viral disease, i.

Band 3 der Reihe Ökosystem Darm befaßt sich mit den Abwehrmechanismen im Magen-Darm-Trakt.

Pathogenic fungi are widely distributed and can infect many organisms, particularly humans, but also other vertebrates and insects.

This new volume written by experts in the field of trypanosome research covers every aspect of trypanosome-vector-host biology.

A comprehensive and richly illustrated introduction to the world of virusesAs parasites that are often hundreds of times smaller than bacteria, viruses exist in and on everything, everywhere.

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 Immunoassay Kit Directory, Series B: Infectious Diseases deals with commercially available immunoassay kits for the diagnosis of clinically important infectious diseases.

This is the first comprehensive book on human/animal gene responses to RNA viral infections, including prevalent, emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses such as HIV, SARS-CoV, West Nile virus, influenza virus and many others.

New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016 NPR Great Read of 2016 Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London)From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwina microbes-eye view of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life on earth.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of microbial polysaccharides, their current uses, and highlights biomedical opportunities.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in nanotechnology as an alternative strategy for addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Microbial infections have been and continue to be a major threat to public health.

Challenging Concepts in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology details over 30 challenging cases from a wide area of infectious diseases, medical microbiology and virology and includes topics ranging from typhoid fever to secondary syphilis.

Hepatitis Delta Virus is an up-to-date guide to hepatitis D virus (HDV), a human virus with a number of distinctive features.

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

Antiviral drugs are important tools for treatment or prevention of viral infections.

The book overviews the complex interactions amongst the microbes and their possible applications.

This volume, now the third in a series, presents a more hetero- geneous content than previous issues.

About 100 years ago, it was dicovered that insects transmitgrave, mainly tropical diseases - very much to theastonishment of the physicians of that time, who saw this asa new, possibly easy, way of eradicating the diseases byexterminating the vectors.

This book introduces the current approaches in prokaryotic taxonomy and streamlines the advanced techniques for use in prokaryotic systematics.

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.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens (TTP-4), held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 21 to 26 July 2002.

The study and therapeutic application of macrophages is a rapidly developing field.

Infection of the lower respiratory tract is a major determinant of the course of cystic fibrosis.

This book describes the demographic and clinical patterns of Zika infection and evaluates the risk of it spreading to Europe.

The studies presented in this special issue of VIRUS GENES provide information on the two aspects of virus evolution: the ancient evolution of viruses from the time prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells evolved, and the ongoing process of the current molecular evolution of viruses.

Cell signalling lies at the heart of many biological processes and currently is the focus of intense research interest.

This outstanding overview sets a new standard for a methods book on pathogen detection.

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Atlas of Oral Microbiology provides a complete description of the oral microbial systems, illustrating them with a large variety of bacteria culture images and electron microscopy photos.

This book illustrates the role of the human microbiome in health and diseases.

In response to the ever-changing needs and responsibilities of the clinical microbiology field, Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook, Fourth Edition has been extensively reviewed and updated to present the most prominent procedures in use today.

This new work contains the first integrated discussion of the role of olfaction in mosquito-host interactions.

depth overview of the retrovirus family.

Microsporidia: Pathogens of Opportunity provides a systematic overview of the biology of microsporidia.

There are three major types of human retroviruses, namely HIV, HTLV, and endogenous human retroviruses.

This second volume of the two-volumes work "e;Antimicrobials in Livestock"e; offers an in-depth look at the antimicrobials commonly used in veterinary medical care of the major food producing animals pigs, poultry and cattle as well as horses, bringing to readers' attention also pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics of these drugs.

Shigellosis is present all over the world.

We live today in a world densely populated by human beings living in close commu- nication with one another all over the surface of the planet.

This book helps in understanding the relationship between microorganisms and oral carcinogenesis, and the possible oncogenic mechanisms enhancing the association.

Resistance to therapies, both targeted and systemic, and metastases to distant organs are the underlying causes of breast cancer-associated mortality.

African trypanosomes are tsetse-transmitted protozoa that inhabit the extracellular compartment of host blood.

During the past two decades, virus taxonomy has advanced to the point where most viruses can be classified as belonging to families, genera, or groups of related viruses.

Parasitic infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the world today.