Opportunistic Intracellular Bacteria and Immunity

• Main Authors: Paradise, Lois J. (Author), Friedman, Herman (Author), Bendinelli, Mauro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Public health.; Infectious diseases.; Pathology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Infectious Diseases.; Public Health.

Table of Contents:

• Immune Defenses against Intracellular Bacterial Infections
• Genetic Regulation of Host Responses to Salmonella typhimurium
• Host Resistance and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
• The Influence of Adrenal Steroids on Macrophage and T-cell Function in Tuberculosis
• Mycobacterium leprae as an Opportunistic Pathogen
• Immunology and Immunopathology of Mycobacterial Infections
• Mycobacterium avium-Complex Infections and Immunodeficiency
• Pathogenesis of Legionella pneumophila Infection
• Immune Responses to Legionella
• The Infectious/Pathogenic Processes Driven by Listeria monocytogenes in Laboratory Mice
• Rhodococcus equi: Pathogenesis and Replication in Macrophages
• Bartonella Infections in the Immunocompromised Host
• Chlamydia trachomatis Infections
• Chlamydia Infection and Pneumonia
• Brucella Infections and Immunity
• Antibiotic Treatment of Infections with Intracellular Bacteria.