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Infection and Immunity - J. H. L. Playfair, Greg Bancroft

Infection and Immunity

Buch | Softcover
350 Seiten
2008 | 3rd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-920673-5 (ISBN)
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Infection and Immunity gives a perfectly balanced overview of the field, describing the key infectious agents our bodies encounter, and how our immune system responds to them. It also explains how diseases spread, and what measures we can take to control this spread - from vaccination to increased awareness through public health initiatives.
Our immune system is a complex network of cells continually working against a barrage of attack from our environment quite literally to save our lives. But how do our bodies protect us from the bacteria, and other potentially life-threatening organisms, that surround us every day? Infection and Immunity, third edition, explains how, in the lucid, accessible style for which John Playfair is renowned. Together with Greg Bancroft, an expert in infectious diseases, Playfair describes the main causes of infection that our bodies have to battle against - from bacteria to viruses, fungi to protozoa - and explains the intricate and fascinating ways that our bodies respond to infection - from detection of these potentially dangerous organisms, to their ultimate elimination. Presenting a fully-rounded, perfectly-balanced overview of the field, the book also explains how diseases spread, and what measures we can take to control this spread - from vaccination to increased awareness through public health initiatives.With examples of infectious diseases from across the world, Infection and Immunity is perfect for biomedical science, bioscience and microbiology students who need to understand what causes infection, and how our immune systems respond.
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Professor John Playfair was formerly Chairman of the Department of Immunology at University College London Medical School. Dr Gregory Bancroft is based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

1. THE INFECTIOUS ORGANISMS; 1. Introduction: parasites, pathogens, and immunity; 2. Viruses; 3. Bacteria; 4. Fungi; 5. Protozoa; 6. Helminths (worms); 7. Prions; 8. Disease: virulence and susceptibility; 2. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM; 9. Defence, immunity, the immune system; 10. External defences: entry and exit; 11. Innate immunity; 12. How pathogens escape innate immunity; 13. Disease due to innate immunity; 14. Immunodeficiency I: primary defects of innate immunity; 15. Adaptive immunity: introduction; 16. B cells and antibody; 17. T cells and the MHC; 18. The antibody response; 19. Cell-mediated responses; 20. Regulation of immune responses and memory; 21. How pathogens escape adaptive immunity; 22. Disease due to adaptive immunity I: hypersensitivity; 23. Disease due to adpative immunity II: autoimmunity; 24. Immunodeficiency II: primary defects of adpative immunity; 25. Immunodeficiency III: secondary immunodeficiency and AIDS; 3. THE HOST-PATHOGEN BALANCE; 26. Epidemiology; 27. Control of infectious disease: vaccination; 28. Control of infectious disease: chemotherapy; 29. Control of infectious disease: public health measures; 30. Viral and prion disease and immunity; 31. Bacterial disease and immunity; 32. Fungal disease and immunity; 33. Protozoal disease and immunity; 34. Helminth disease and immunity; 35. Emerging and future infectious diseases

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.3.2008
Zusatzinfo 160 figures
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 188 x 245 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10 0-19-920673-2 / 0199206732
ISBN-13 978-0-19-920673-5 / 9780199206735
Zustand Neuware
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