REVIEW OF Medical Microbiology
and Immunology: a guide to clinical infectious disease
REVIEW OF Medical Microbiology and Immunology a guide to clinical infectious disease |
By
WARREN LEVINSON, MD, PHD
Professor of Microbiology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, Califomia
Peter Ching Hong
Elizabeth A Joyce
Jesse Nussbaum
Briwan Schwartz
Contents of review of medical microbiology and immunology
Preface
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
I. BASIC BACTERIOLOGY
1. Bacteria Compared with Other Microorganisms
2. Structure of Bacterial Cells
3. Growth
4. Genetics
5. Classification of Medically Important Bacteria.
6. Normal Flora
7. Pathogenesis.
8. Host Defenses
9. Laboratory Diagnosis.
10. Antimicrobial Drugs: Mechanism of Action.
11. Antimicrobial Drugs: Resistance
12. Bacterial Vaccines
13. Sterilization & Disinfection
II. CLINICAL BACTERIOLOGY
14. Overview of the Major Pathogens,and Introduction to Anaerobic(without oxygen) Bacteria.
15. Gram-positive Cocci.
16. Gram-Negative Cocci
17. Gram-Positive Rods
18. Gram Neg (-) Rods bacteria Related to the GIT/ Enteric Tract
19. Gram Neg(-) Rods Related to the Respiratory Tract
20 Gram Neg(-) Rods
Related to Animal Sources(such as zonotic organism)
21. Mycobacteria
22. Actinomycetes
23. Mycoplasmas
24. Spirochetes…
25. Chlamydiae
26. Rickettsiac
27. Minor Bacterial Pathogens.
III. BASIC VIROLOGY
28. Structure ….
2 29. Replication
30. Genetics & Gene Therapy
31. Classification of Medically
Important Viruses
32. Pathogenesis
33. Host Defenses
34. Laboratory Diagnosis.
135, Antiviral Drugs
36. Viral Vaccines
IV, CLINICAL VIROLOGY
37. DNA Enveloped Viruses.
38. DNA Nonenveloped Virus
39. RNA Enveloped Viruses
40. RNA Nonenveloped Viruses,
41. Hepatitis Viruses
42. Arboviruses.
43. Tumor Viruses
44. Slow Viruses & Prions
45. Human Immunodeficiency Virus
46. Minor Viral Pathogens
V. MYCOLOGY
47. Basic Mycology
248. Cutaneous & Subcutaneous Mycoses
49. Systemic Mycoses..
50. Opportunistic Mycoses.
VI. PARASITOLOGY
51. Intestinal & Urogenital Protozoa
52. Blood & Tissue Protozoa.
53. Minor Protozoan Pathogens.
54. Cestodes.
55. Trematodes.
56. Nematodes.
VII. IMMUNOLOGY
57. Immunity…
58. Cellular Basis of the Immune Response
59. Antibodies
60. Humoral Immunity
61. Cell-Mediated Immunity
62. Major Histocompatibility Complex & Transplantation
63. Complement
64. Antigen-Antibody Reactions in the Laboratory
65. Hypersensitivity (Allergy)……
66. Tolerance & Autoimmune Disease
67. Tumor Immunity.
68. Immunodeficiency
VIII. ECTOPARASITES
69. Ectoparasites That Cause Human Disease
IX. BRIEF SUMMARIES OF
MEDICALLY IMPORTANT ORGANISMS
Summaries of Medically Important Bacteria.
Summaries of Medically Important Viruses
Summaries of Medically Important Fungi
Summaries of Medically Important Parasites
Summaries of Medically Important Ectoparasites.
X, CLINICAL CASES
XI. PEARLS FOR THE USMLE
XII USMLE (NATIONAL BOARD) PRACTICE QUESTIONS
Basic Bacteriology
Clinical Bacteriology
Basic Virology
Clinical Virology
Mycology
Parasitology
Immunology
Extended Matching Questions
Clinical Case Questions
XIII, USMLE (NATIONAL BOARD) PRACTICE EXAMINATION
Index