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Microbiology; including immunology and molecular genetics / [by] Bernard D. Davis [and others].

Contributor(s): Davis, Bernard D, 1916-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Hagerstown, MD : Medical Dept., Harper & Row, [1973]Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xv, 1562 p : ill. ; 27 cm.ISBN: 006140683X.Subject(s): Medical microbiology | Immunology | Molecular geneticsDDC classification: 576
Contents:
Evolution of microbes and of microbiology -- Part I Bacterial physiology / Bernard D. Davis: Bacterial structure -- Energy production -- Biosynthesis -- Bacterial nutrition and growth -- The cell envelope; spores -- Chemotherapy -- Part II Bacterial and molecular genetics / Bernard D. Davis/Renato Dulbecco: Bacterial variation and population dynamics -- Gene transfer in bacteria -- Structure and replication of nucleic acids -- Organization, alteration and expression of the genetic information -- Protein synthesis -- Metabolic regulation -- Part III Immunology / Herman N. Eisen: Introduction to immune responses -- Antibody-antigen reactions -- Antibody Structure: the immunoglobulins -- Antibody formation -- Complement -- Antibody-mediated (immediate-type) hypersensitivity -- Cell-mediated hypersensitivity and immunity -- Alloantigens on cell surfaces: blood group substances and histocompatibility antigens -- Part IV Bacterial and mycotic infections / Maclyn McCarty: Host-parasite relations in bacterial infections -- Chemotherapy of bacterial diseases -- Corynebacteria -- Pneumococci -- Streptococci -- Staphlococci -- The neisseriae -- The enteric bacilli and similar gram-negative bacteria -- The hemophilus-bordetella group -- The yersiniae, francisella and pasteurella -- The brucellae -- Aerobic spore-forming bacilli -- Anaerobic spore-forming bacilli -- Mycobacteria -- Actinomycetes: the fungus-like bacteria -- The spirochetes -- Rickettsiae -- Chlamydiae -- Mycoplasmas and L forms -- Other pathogenic bacteria -- Bacteria indigenous to man -- Fungi -- Part V Virology / Renato Dulbecco/Harold S. Ginsberg: The nature of viruses -- Multiplication and genetics of bacteriophages -- Lysogeny, episomes and transducing bacteriophages -- Animal cell cultures -- Multiplication and genetics of animal viruses -- Interference with viral multiplication -- Viral immunology -- Pathogenesis of viral infections -- Adenoviruses -- Herpesviruses -- Poxviruses -- Picornaviruses -- Myxoviruses -- Paramyxoviruses and rubella virus -- Coronaviruses -- Rhabdoviruses -- Togaviruses and other arthropod-borne viruses; arenaviruses -- Reoviruses -- Hepatitis viruses -- Tumor viruses -- Sterilization and disinfection.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

New edition of a standard textbook first published in 1980. Material is presented in a historical perspective (despite the pressures on space in a text for a rapidly advancing field). For students and investigators of medicine and the allied professions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evolution of microbes and of microbiology -- Part I Bacterial physiology / Bernard D. Davis: Bacterial structure -- Energy production -- Biosynthesis -- Bacterial nutrition and growth -- The cell envelope; spores -- Chemotherapy -- Part II Bacterial and molecular genetics / Bernard D. Davis/Renato Dulbecco: Bacterial variation and population dynamics -- Gene transfer in bacteria -- Structure and replication of nucleic acids -- Organization, alteration and expression of the genetic information -- Protein synthesis -- Metabolic regulation -- Part III Immunology / Herman N. Eisen: Introduction to immune responses -- Antibody-antigen reactions -- Antibody Structure: the immunoglobulins -- Antibody formation -- Complement -- Antibody-mediated (immediate-type) hypersensitivity -- Cell-mediated hypersensitivity and immunity -- Alloantigens on cell surfaces: blood group substances and histocompatibility antigens -- Part IV Bacterial and mycotic infections / Maclyn McCarty: Host-parasite relations in bacterial infections -- Chemotherapy of bacterial diseases -- Corynebacteria -- Pneumococci -- Streptococci -- Staphlococci -- The neisseriae -- The enteric bacilli and similar gram-negative bacteria -- The hemophilus-bordetella group -- The yersiniae, francisella and pasteurella -- The brucellae -- Aerobic spore-forming bacilli -- Anaerobic spore-forming bacilli -- Mycobacteria -- Actinomycetes: the fungus-like bacteria -- The spirochetes -- Rickettsiae -- Chlamydiae -- Mycoplasmas and L forms -- Other pathogenic bacteria -- Bacteria indigenous to man -- Fungi -- Part V Virology / Renato Dulbecco/Harold S. Ginsberg: The nature of viruses -- Multiplication and genetics of bacteriophages -- Lysogeny, episomes and transducing bacteriophages -- Animal cell cultures -- Multiplication and genetics of animal viruses -- Interference with viral multiplication -- Viral immunology -- Pathogenesis of viral infections -- Adenoviruses -- Herpesviruses -- Poxviruses -- Picornaviruses -- Myxoviruses -- Paramyxoviruses and rubella virus -- Coronaviruses -- Rhabdoviruses -- Togaviruses and other arthropod-borne viruses; arenaviruses -- Reoviruses -- Hepatitis viruses -- Tumor viruses -- Sterilization and disinfection.