Infection and Immunity
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 March 2008
- ISBN 9780199206735
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 245x188x16 mm
- Weight 800 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 160 figures 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre features
? Figures from the book, ready to download (for registered adopters)
- Hyperlinks to primary literature articles cited in the text
Few books are available that are suitable for a course that integrates microbiology and immunology, but this one succeeds in explaining the immune system and its role in host defense very well. Immunology is a rapidly advancing discipline and this third edition is a welcome update.
Table of Contents:
1. The infectious organisms
Introduction: parasites, pathogens, and immunity
Viruses
Bacteria
Fungi
Protozoa
Helminths (worms)
Prions
Disease: virulence and susceptibility
2. The immune system
Defence, immunity, the immune system
External defences: entry and exit
Innate immunity
How pathogens escape innate immunity
Disease due to innate immunity
Immunodeficiency I: primary defects of innate immunity
Adaptive immunity: introduction
B cells and antibody
T cells and the MHC
The antibody response
Cell-mediated responses
Regulation of immune responses and memory
How pathogens escape adaptive immunity
Disease due to adaptive immunity I: hypersensitivity
Disease due to adpative immunity II: autoimmunity
Immunodeficiency II: primary defects of adpative immunity
Immunodeficiency III: secondary immunodeficiency and AIDS
3. The host-pathogen balance
Epidemiology
Control of infectious disease: vaccination
Control of infectious disease: chemotherapy
Control of infectious disease: public health measures
Viral and prion disease and immunity
Bacterial disease and immunity
Fungal disease and immunity
Protozoal disease and immunity
Helminth disease and immunity
Emerging and future infectious diseases
