[...]... 659 Medical Microbiology and the Internet 661 Index Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license 663 Dr Karl Thomae GmbH F Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH I Basic Principles of Medical Microbiologie and Immunology Macrophage hunting bacteria Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005... verocytotoxin-producing E coli varicella zoster virus Western blot World Health Organization Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license XIII Contents I Basic Principles of Medical Microbiology and Immunology 1 General Aspects of Medical Microbiology F H Kayser 2 The History of Infectious Diseases The... this textbook is to impart these essentials to them Table 1.1 provides an overview of the causes of human infectious diseases Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license 1 4 1 General Aspects of Medical Microbiology 1 Table 1.1 Human Pathogens Subcellular biological entities Prokaryotic microorganisms Eukaryotic microorganisms Animals... parasites, rod- shaped to coccoid, that reproduce by binary transverse fission The diameter of the individual cell is from 0.3–1 lm Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license 1 6 1 General Aspects of Medical Microbiology 1 Table 1.2 Characteristics of Prokaryotic (Eubacteria) and Eukaryotic (Fungi, Protozoans) Microorganisms Characteristic... immunity, the most important of which is production of IgA proteases (impedins), molecular mimicry, and immunogen variability Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license 1 8 1 General Aspects of Medical Microbiology 1 & Damage to host tissues due to direct bacterial cytotoxicity, exotoxins, and exoenzymes (aggressins) & Damage due to... Transplantation Immunity 115 Immune Defects and Immune Response Modulation 117 Immune Defects 118 Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license XVI Contents Immunoregulation Immunostimulation ... Catabolic Reactions Anabolic Reactions Metabolic Regulation 160 160 160 161 163 164 Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license Contents XVII Growth and Culturing of Bacteria 164 Nutrients ... Immunomodulators 187 187 196 196 197 200 200 201 201 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 Laboratory Diagnosis 207 Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license XVIII Contents Preconditions, General Methods, Evaluation Preconditions ... Listeria monocytogenes Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae Gardnerella vaginalis 251 252 253 254 Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license 246 248 250 251 Contents XIX Corynebacterium, Actinomyces, Other Gram-Positive Rod Bacteria Corynebacterium... Helicobacter pylori Spirillum minus 306 306 307 308 Pseudomonas, Stenotrophomonas, Burkholderia 308 Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license XX Contents Pseudomonas aeruginosa 309 Other Pseudomonas species, Stenotrophomonas . thepresent time. II Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved. Usage subject to terms and conditions of license. Medical Microbiology Fritz. Microbiology Fritz H. Kayser, M. D. Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology Institute of Medical Microbiology University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland Kurt