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Diagnostic Virology Protocols (Hardcover, 1998 ed.) Loot Price: R4,580
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Diagnostic Virology Protocols (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): John R. Stephenson, Alan Warnes

Diagnostic Virology Protocols (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)

John R. Stephenson, Alan Warnes

Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine, 12

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The accurate and reliable diagnosis of transmissible diseases is the most powerful weapon available to ensure their control, and in some cases eradication. The detection of parasites in clinical cases, companion and farm animals, and in the environment is relatively easy since many of them are visible to the naked eye, and those that are not are readily detected by light microscopy. Fungal infections can similarly be determined. Bacteria are somewhat harder to detect. Although their presence can frequently be detected by light microscopy, differential diagnosis, beyond their gross morphology, is almost always impossible. However, most bacterial pathogens can be cultured in the laboratory and can be accurately identified by combinations of a series of simple tests such as morphology, staining, antibiotic sensitivity, biochemical analyses, nutrient dependence, and phage sensitivity. Viruses, however, have proved much more difficult; their size and absolute dependence of the host cell for propagation have rendered useless the methods traditionally used for other microorganisms. Until the development of tissue culture in the middle of this century, diagnosis was entirely dependent on the skill and experience of the clinician. But this was an unreliable process since many of the common virus infections exhibit similar clinical symptoms, such as coryza, exanthema, vomiting, diarrhea, neuralgia, and lethargy. Indeed many viral infections display clinical signs that are indistinguishable from bacterial or parasitic infections.

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Imprint: HumanaPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine, 12
Release date: August 1998
First published: 1998
Editors: John R. Stephenson • Alan Warnes
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 370
Edition: 1998 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89603-479-2
Categories: Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Medical diagnosis > General
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pathology > Medical microbiology & virology
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LSN: 0-89603-479-8
Barcode: 9780896034792

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