Immunology of Infectious Diseases

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-55581-214-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 282 mm, Gewicht: 1420 g

An integrated view of the principal aspects of immune response to all types of infectious agents, emphasizing the immune system as a host defense system. • Illustrates how the dialogue between different types of pathogens and the host immune system, as well as the cross-talk between the different members of the immune response, works. • Serves as valuable reading for microbiologists interested in pathogenesis and immunology; clinicians with an interest in immunology, virology, vaccine development, infectious diseases, bacteriology, parasitology, pathology, and cell biology; and immunologists wanting to expand their knowledge of infectious diseases and their causative agents.

This title is published by the American Society for Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaufmann, Stefan H. E.

Sher, Alan

Ahmed, Rafi

Kaufmann, Stefan H.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Introduction, Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, Alan Sher, and Rafi Ahmed

I. The Pathogens

1. Overview of the Bacterial Pathogens, Michael Kuhn, Werner Goebel, Dana J. Philpott, and Philippe J. Sansonetti

2. Overview of the Fungal Pathogens, Luigina Romani

3. Overview of the Parasitic Pathogens, Edward J. Pearce and Rick L. Tarleton

4. Overview of the Viral Pathogens, Jonathan W. Yewdell and Jack R. Bennink

II. The Anti-Infective Immune Response

5. Evolution of the Host Defense System, Austin L. Hughes

III. Innate Immunity

6. Phagocytes and Anti-Infective Immunity, Gordon D. Brown and Siamon Gordon

7. Innate Immunity and Bacterial Infections, Emil Unanue

8. Defensins and Cathelicidins—Antimicrobial Peptide Effectors of Mammalian

Innate Immunity, Tomas Ganz and Robert I. Lehrer

9. Innate Immunity to Parasitic Infections, Christopher A. Hunter and Alan Sher

10. Innate Immunity and Fungal Infections, Amy C. Herring and Gary B. Huffnagle

11. Innate Immunity and Viral Infections, Christine A. Biron, Marc Dalod, and Thais P. Salazar-Mather

IV. Acquired Immunity

12. The Th1/Th2 Paradigm in Infections, Tim R. Mosmann and Deborah J. Fowell

13. Immunological Memory and Infection, Rafi Ahmed, J. Gibson Lanier, and Eric Pamer

14. Regional Immune Response to Microbial Pathogens, Marian R. Neutra and Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl

15. Acquired Immunity against Bacteria, Helen L. Collins and Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

16. Acquired Immunity against Fungi, Arturo Casadevall

17. Adaptive Immune Effector Mechanisms against Intracellular Protozoa and Gut-

Dwelling Nematodes, Phillip Scott and Richard K. Grencis

18. Acquired Immunity against Viral Infections, Eva Szomolanyi-Tsuda, Michael S. Brehm, and Raymond M. Welsh

V. Pathology

19. Autoimmunity as a Consequence of Infection, Kai W. Wucherpfennig and Nilufer P. Seth

20. Pathology and Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections, Steffen Stenger and Robert Modlin

21. Pathology and Pathogenesis of Parasitic Disease, Thomas A. Wynn and Dominic Kwiatkowski

22. Pathology and Pathogenesis of Virus Infections, Shawn P. O'Neil, Wun-Ju Shieh, and Sherif R. Zaki

VI. Evasion and Latency

23. Bacterial Persistence: Strategies for Survival

Ernesto J. Muñoz-Elías and John D. McKinney

24. Viral Immune Evasion

David C. Johnson and Grant McFadden

25. Immune Evasion by Parasites

John M. Mansfield and Martin Olivier

VII. Immunogenetics

26. Immunogenetics of the Host Response to Bacteria and Parasites in

Humans, Laurent Abel and Jean-Laurent Casanova

27. Immunogenetics of the Host Response to Bacteria in Mice, Philippe Gros and Erwin Schurr

28. Immunogenetics of the Host Response to Viral Infections, Michel Brahic, Charles M. Bangham, Gabriel Gachelin, and Jean-François Bureau

VIII. Immune Intervention

29. Immune Intervention in Tuberculosis, Douglas B. Young and Brian D. Robertson

30. Immune Intervention in AIDS, Guido Silvestri and Mark B. Feinberg