Modern Medical Microbiology: The Fundamentals Book

	Author biography
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
Pt. I	Introduction	1
1	Health and safety in the laboratory	3
2	Emerging and re-emerging diseases	5
3	Disease in the developing world	8
4	Food poisoning	12
5	Evasion of the immune response by bacteria	15
6	DNA vaccination	17
7	Antibiotics	20
8	Microbiology of catheters	23
9	Monoclonal antibodies in medicine	26
10	Lactic acid bacteria and human health	28
11	Clinical applications of leeches and maggots	31
12	Applications of molecular biology	34
13	Bioterrorism	37
Pt. II	Bacteriology	41
14	Plague and other Yersinia infections	43
15	Anthrax infection	47
16	Botulism	50
17	Tetanus	52
18	Other anaerobic infections	55
19	Tuberculosis	58
20	Leprosy	61
21	Travellers' diarrhoea	64
22	Salmonella	67
23	Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli	70
24	Campylobacter enteritis	77
25	Shigellosis	80
26	Cholera	83
27	Helicobacter pylori	86
28	Listeriosis	89
29	Syphilis	92
30	Chlamydia	95
31	Gonorrhoea	98
32	Whooping cough	101
33	Acute bacterial meningitis	104
34	Meningococcal disease	107
35	Pneumococcal disease	111
36	Haemophilus influenzae	115
37	Lyme disease	117
38	Q fever	120
39	Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)	123
40	Brucellosis	126
41	Mycoplasma infection	129
42	Bacterial urinary tract infections	132
43	Cyanobacteria	134
Pt. III	Virology	137
44	Viral hepatitis	139
45	The common cold	143
46	Respiratory syncytial virus	145
47	Rubella	148
48	Filoviruses	151
49	Smallpox	154
50	Influenza	157
51	Epstein-Barr virus	160
52	Rabies	163
53	HIV and AIDS	165
54	Herpes simplex viruses I and II	170
55	Dengue fever	173
56	Human papillomavirus infection	176
57	Polio	178
58	Parvovirus infection	182
59	Chickenpox and shingles	185
Pt. IV	Parasitology	189
60	Toxoplasma	191
61	Malaria	194
62	Cyclosporiasis	197
63	Cryptosporidiosis	200
64	Microsporidiosis	203
65	Schistosomiasis	206
66	Onchocerciasis	209
67	Acanthamoeba infection	211
68	Parasitic cestodes	214
Pt. V	Mycology	219
69	Candidiasis	221
70	Ringworm	224
71	Aspergillosis	226
72	Histoplasmosis	229
	App.: useful websites	231
	Index	233