Community-Acquired Pneumonia Book

List of contributors     vii
Preface     ix
Diagnosis and treatment of community acquired pneumonia - the German perspective     1
Detection of respiratory bacterial pathogens     15
Viral pathogens and epidemiology, detection, therapy and resistance     27
Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae     57
Influenza     73
Pathogenesis of Chlamydophila pneumoniae infections - epidemiology, immunity, cell biology, virulence factors     83
Legionnaires' disease and its agent Legionella pneumophila     111
Pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections: adaptive immunity, innate immunity, cell biology, virulence factors     139
Pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections: adaptive immunity, innate immunity, cell biology, and virulence factors     183
Community-acquired pneumonia: paving the way towards new vaccination concepts     201
Index     247