Infection and Immunity
ISBN: 9780199609505 | 0199609500
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/1/2013
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Our immune system is a complex network of cells continually battling against a barrage of attacks from our environment, quite literally to save our lives. But how what protects us from the potentially life-threatening microorganisms that surround us every day?In the lucid, accessible style for which John Playfair is renowned, and together with Greg Bancroft, an expert in infectious diseases, Infection and Immunity explains how our immune system defends us. The authors describe the main causes of infection that our bodies have to battle against ... MORE
The infectious organisms
1. Introduction: parasites, pathogens, and immunity
2. Viruses
3. Bacteria
4. Fungi
5. Protozoa
6. Helminths (worms)
7. Ectoparasites
8. Prions
9. Disease: virulence and susceptibility
The immune system
10. Defence, immunity, the immune system
11. External defences: entry and exit
12. Innate immunity
13. How pathogens escape innate immunity
14. Disease due to innate immunity
15. Immunodeficiency I: primary defects of innate immunity... MORE
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