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This concise text explores the interactions between pathogens and
the immune system. Taking a disease-based approach, it explains how
micro-organisms adapted to growth in human hosts can evade the
immune system and cause disease. The opening chapter overviews the
innate and adaptive immune responses to microbes. Subsequent
chapters are specific to particular pathogens, beginning with their
biology and leading on to illustrate mechanisms of adaptation and
ensuing consequences. Each of these chapters ends with a summary,
review questions and further reading lists. The text includes:
Concise yet comprehensive discussion of pathogens from the viruses,
bacteria, fungi, protozoan parasites and helminth worms. Summaries,
review questions and further reading make this book suitable for
self-directed study. Infection and Immunity is ideal for any
undergraduates taking a course that explores the interaction
between pathogens and the human immune system.
This is a thorough revision and update of the highly successful
first edition, which which achieved sales in excess of 4,500. The
text serves as a comprehensive introduction to parasitology for
both undergraduate and beginning graduate students. In this
edition, particular emphasis is placed on parasites of human and
veterinary importance. The first three chapters in the text are
concerned with how parasites 'work, ' their biochemistry, molecular
and cell biology and physiology. The remaining chapters cover
ecology and epidemiology, immunology and chemotherapy, with the
final chapter covering integrated control. This new edition
contains new material on cell and molecular biology, vectors and
control, which is in contrast to the general biological approach of
the first edition. The second edition will succeed the first as the
major text on parasitology for students in biology, zoology,
microbiology, medicine, veterinary medicine, tropical medicine and
public health
Humans and animals are frequently infected with at least one species of parasite and most also harbor other parasitic or infectious agents. The interactions between these agents are often subtle and are subsequently ignored by parasitologists, ecologists and immunologists. This volume explores these interactions in detail, with particular emphasis on their immunological and ecological aspects. Included are contributions on parasitic infections and AIDS, and the problems of treating patients with multiple infections. This book is of interest to researchers and clinicians dealing with parasitic, viral, or bacterial infections in the laboratory or in the field.
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