Preface to the fourth edition

6

Preface to the first edition

7

PART 1

CONCEPTS

1

Structure and classification of bacteria

8

2

Innate immunity and normal flora

10

3

Pathogenicity and pathogenesis of infectious disease

12

4

The laboratory investigation of infection

14

5

Antibacterial therapy

16

6

Antibiotics in clinical use

18

7

Resistance to antibacterial agents

20

8

Sources and transmission of infection

22

9

Principles of infection control

24

10

Infection in the hospital environment

26

11

Immunization

28

12

Emerging infections

30

PART 2

BACTERIOLOGY

13

Staphylococcus

32

14

Streptococcal infections

34

15

Streptococcus pneumoniae, other Gram-positive cocci and the alpha-haemolytic streptococci

36

16

Listeria, Bacillus. Covynebacterium and environmental mycobacteria

38

17

Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis

40

18

Pathogenic mycobacteria

42

19

Clostridium

44

20

Non-sporing anacrobic infections

46

21

Neisseria and Moraxella

48

22

Small Gram-negative coccobaciili: Haemophilus, Brucella, Francisella, Yersinia and Bartonella

50

23

Pathogenicity of enteric Gram-negative bacteria

52

24

Enterobacteriaceac clinical syndromes

54

25

Vibrio, Campylobacter and Helicobacter

56

26

Environmental pathogens: Pseudomonas, Burkholderia and Legionella

58

27

Chlamydia, Mycoplasma and Rickettsia

60

28

Spiral bacteria

62

PART 3

VIROLOGY

29

Virus structure, classification and antiviral therapy

64

30

Herpesviruses I

66

31

Herpesviruses II

68

32

DNA viruses: adenovirus, parvovirus and poxvirus

70

33

Measles, mumps and rubella

72

34

Influenza viruses

74

35

Parainfluenza and other respiratory viruses

76

36

Enterovirus and viruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract

78

37

Hepatitis viruses

80

38

Tropical, exotic or arbovirus infections

82

PART 4

MYCOLOGY

39

Yeast infections

84

40

Filamentous fungi

86

PART 5

PARASITOLOGY

41

Intestinal protozoa

88

42

Malaria, leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis

90

43

Gut helminths

92

44

Tissue helminths

94

PART 6

SYSTEMIC INFECTION

45

Congenital and perinatal infections

96

46

HIV infection and AIDS

98

47

Pyrexia of unknown origin and septicaemia

100

48

Endocarditis, myocarditis and pericarditis

102

49

Infections of the central nervous system

104

50

Respiratory tract infections

106

51

Urinary and genital infections

108

52

Infections of the bones and joints

110

53

Bacterial diarrhoeal disease

112

54

Zoonoses

114

55

Infections in immunocompromised patients

116

56

Ocular infections

118

57

Infections of the skin and soft tissue

120

Index

122