Download PDF Infectious Disease: Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Case Studies by N. Shetty

Download PDF Infectious Disease: Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Case Studies by N. Shetty

Sinopsis 

Microbes and their habitats have held a peculiar fascination for mankind ever since Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) recorded some of the most important discoveries in the history of biology. Once Leeuwenhoek succeeded in creating the simple microscope, he described bacteria, free-living and parasitic creatures, sperm cells, blood cells, microscopic nematodes and much more. His publications opened up an entire world of microscopic life for scientific study. Microbes continue to excite intense research because of their virulence; their ability to cause tissue damage and death. They have been responsible for the great plagues and epidemics and have often changed the course of human history. The HIV pandemic has emerged as the single most defining occurrence in the history of infectious diseases of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Microbes continue to baffle human ingenuity; they defy attempts at control by chemotherapeutic agents, vaccines, and the human immune system. The threat of a future pestilence is never far away. In order to study the microbial etiology of infectious disease, an understanding of the basic principles of microbiology and their interaction with the human host are essential. There are four basic groups of microbes:

• Bacteria
• Viruses
• Fungi: yeasts and molds
• Protozoa.

Content 

1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2. Microbial etiology of disease 
3. Structure and function of microbes
4. Host defence versus microbial pathogenesis and the mechanisms of microbial escape
5. Diagnosis of microbial infection 
6. General principles of antimicrobial chemotherapy 
7. Basic concepts of the epidemiology of infectious diseases 
8. A SYSTEMS BASED APPROACH TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES
9. Infections of the skin, soft tissue, bone, and joint 
10. Gastroenteritis 
11. Cardiac and respiratory tract infections 
12. Infections of the central nervous system 
13. Infections of the genitourinary system 
14. INFECTIONS IN SPECIAL GROUPS
15. Obstetric, congenital and neonatal infections
16. Infections in the immunocompromised host
17. Healthcare associated infections
18. The fever and rash conundrum: rashes of childhood
19. INFECTIONS OF GLOBAL IMPACT
20. Tuberculosis 
21. Malaria
22. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
23. Viral hepatitis
24. Influenza
25. Infections in the returning traveler
26. EMERGING AND RESURGENT INFECTIONS
27. Viral hemorrhagic fevers
28. Emerging infections I (human monkeypox, hantaviruses, Nipah virus, Japanese encephalitis, chikungunya
29. Emerging infections II (West Nile virus, dengue, severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus)
30. Diphtheria
31. Agents of bioterrorism

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