Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions
A compendium of unpleasant infections
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 December 2013
- ISBN 9780199641024
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages612 pages
- Size 241x162x53 mm
- Weight 1044 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Approx 200 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
An extraordinary range of infectious agents affect humans, from worms, arthopods, and fungi to bacteria, viruses, and prions. Looking at the curious nature of each, David I. Grove explores their life history, the people who discovered them, and how they were identified, in this fascinating exploration of infections around the globe.
MoreLong description:
An extraordinary array of infectious agents affects humans; from worms, arthopods, and fungi to bacteria, viruses, and prions. In this compendium of the curious and fascinating organisms that cause disease, including Legionnaire's disease, mumps, CJD, and chlamydia, David I. Grove provides a lively, fact-filled account of the nature of each organism, their life cycle, the ingenious ways in which they infect humans, and the human stories behind their discovery.
At £25.00, this book is a snip and should be on everyone's reading list
Table of Contents:
Infection: the search for its causes
Worms
Ascaris - the giant intestinal roundworm
Tapeworms
Hookworm anaemia
Schistosomiasis (sometimes called Bilharziasis)
Filariasis (elephantiasis)
Arthropods
Lice (pediculosis)
The itch (scabies)
Fungi
Tinea (ringworm etc)
Candida (thrush)
Protozoa
Giardiasis
Amoebic dysentery and liver abscess
Malaria
Sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis)
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (Oriental sore) and visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar)
Chagas' disease (South American trypanosomiasis)
Bacteria
The germ theory of disease
Anthrax
Tuberculosis (consumption)
Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
The golden staphylococcus
The streptococcus and post-streptococcal disorders
The pneumococcus and pneumonia
Gonorrhoea (the clap)
Syphilis (the pox)
The meningococcus and meningitis
Diphtheria
Whooping cough (pertussis)
Cholera
Typhoid fever
Escherichi coli
Shigella (bacillary dysentery)
Tetanus (lockjaw)
Plague (the Black Death)
Brucellosis (undulant fever)
Legionnaires' disease
Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcers
Typhus
Chlamydia (urethritis and trachoma)
Viruses
The discovery of viruses and determination of their nature
Smallpox
Rabies
Yellow fever
Dengue fever (break-bone fever)
Poliomyelitis (polio)
Measles (rubeola)
German measles (rubella)
Mumps
Varicella (chickenpox and shingles
Herpes simplex (cold sores and more)
Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis)
Influenza (the flu)
Viral hepatitis (A, B, and C)
HIV and AIDS
Prions
Kuru, Mad cows and variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease
IX. Unde venis et quo vadis?
References
Glossary and pronunciation
Further reading
Person Index
Subject index
