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Preventable bacterial infections continue to be a major hazard to human health in an age which has experienced a proliferation in readily available vaccines for such diseases. Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Bacterial Vaccine Development examines the latest developments in bacterial vaccinology and the impact they have had on the control of bacterial infections by comprehensively reviewing old, current and future vaccines. Ten of the most globally prevalent bacterial pathogens are covered, providing an indepth analysis of novel strategies for vaccine design and of the state-of-the-art technology available in this field. This timely and authoritative review of vaccine development will be an essential source of information for scientists, clinicians and public health specialists, as well as postgraduate students in relevant fields.
Genetic Control of Natural Resistance to Infection and Malignancy is a collection of papers presented at the 1980 Proceedings of an International Symposium of the Canadian Society for Immunology held in Montreal, Quebec. It provides information about the different models of genetic resistance to various diseases. The book offers an overview of the genetic determination of the susceptibility or resistance to infection and malignancy. It also discusses the importance of genetic resistance not only in the first-line observation of infections and tumors, but also in chemotherapy and immunotherapy. It then explains the genetic control of resistance to parasitic, bacterial, and virus infections, as well as to tumor growth. It further discusses the genetic control of macrophage differentiation and function.
Proceedings of the FEMS Symposium on Genes and Proteins Underlying Microbial Urinary Tract Virulence: Basic Aspects and Applications, held September 16-19, 1999, in Pécs, Hungary. Urinary tract infections are among the most frequent diseases caused by microbial pathogens. In this volume, researchers, clinical microbiologists and clinicians exchange the latest ideas covering four major aspects of this important topic: Genetic information, synthesis and assembly of virulence factors in urinary pathogens; Regulation of genes involved in the phenotypic appearance of virulence; Host-parasite interactions determining the process and outcome of the infection; Possible applications of the above aspects in diagnosis, therapy and prevention.
The molecular age has brought about dramatic changes in medical microbiology, and great leaps in our understanding of the mechanisms of infectious disease. Molecular Medical Microbiology is the first book to synthesise the many new developments in both molecular and clinical research in a single comprehensive resource. This timely and authoritative 3-volume work is an invaluable reference source of medical bacteriology. Comprising over 100 chapters, organised into 17 major sections, the scope of this impressive work is wide-ranging. Written by experts in the field, chapters include cutting edge information, and clinical overviews for each major bacterial group, in addition to the latest upda...
Salmonella infections of man and animals continue to be a distressing health problem worldwide. Far from disappearing, the incidence of typhoid fever in developing countries may be far higher than we had imagined. Salmonella food poisoning has increased to one of the major causes of gastroenteritis in the developed world, in itself also an indication that animal salmonellosis is still a major cause for concern. The situation requires a concerted multidisciplinary research effort in order to generate the new information and technology needed to assist in the control of these diseases. This concept was the driving force behind the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Biology of Salmonella" held...
Encyclopedia of immunology provides the largest integrated reference source of immunological knowledge that is available. Covered are ABO Blood Group System to Cooperation, Mechanisms of Cellular; Copper and the Immune System to Idiotype Network; Iga/Igss "CD79a/CD79b" to Nude "Athymic"Mice; Nutrition and the Immune System to Zinc and the Immune System.