Julius Kreier

Infection, Resistance, and Immunity, Second Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Designed as an introductory textbook, this volume provides basic information on the workings of the immunological system and on infectious processes and their control. With sections on immunological disorders, immunization, immunodiagnosis, and epidemiology, it relates immunology to practical problems in medicine. The book includes a section on comparative immunology, introducing students to differences among immunological systems among common species of nonhuman animals. Written for the advanced undergraduate, the focus is on host-parasite interactions-distinguishing this text from other standard texts, which focus on the cellular mechanisms of the immune response.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1060g
• ISBN-13: 9789057025952
• ISBN-10: 9057025957
• Artikelnr.: 54610121

Autorenporträt

Kreier\, Julius

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1 - Introduction to Infection
Resistance and Immunity
Chapter 2 - Host-Parasite Relationships
Chapter 3 - Constitutive Host Resistance
Chapter 4 - The Inflammatory Response: A Bridge Between the Constitutive and Inducible Systems
Chapter 5 - The Inducible System: History of Development of Immunology as a Component of Host-Parasite Interactions
Chapter 6 - The Inducible System: Antigens
Chapter 7 - The Inducible Defense System: Antibody Molecules and Antigen-Antibody Reactions
Chapter 8 - The Inducible Defense System: The Induction and Development of the Inducible Defense
Chapter 9 - Specific Host Resistance: The Effector Mechanisms
Chapter 10 - Immunologically Mediated Diseases and Allergic Reactions
Chapter 11 - The Host Response to Grafts and Transplantation Immunology
Chapter 12 - The Immunological System and Neoplasia
Chapter 13 - Comparative Immunology
Chapter 14 - Pathogenicity and Virulence
Chapter 15 - Bacteria
Chapter 16 - The Viruses
Chapter 17 - The Parasitic Protozoa and Helminth Worms
Chapter 18 - The Fungi
Chapter 19 - Immunization
Chapter 20 - Immunological Tests for Diagnosis of Disease and Identification of Molecules
Chapter 21 - Epidemiology
Disease Transmission
Prevention and Control
Index