Infection and Immunity

This concise text explores the interactions between pathogens and the immune system. Taking a disease-based approach, it explains how micro-organisms adapted to growth in human hosts can evade the immune system and cause disease.
The opening chapter overviews the innate and adaptive immune responses to microbes. Subsequent chapters are specific to particular pathogens, beginning with their biology and leading on to illustrate mechanisms of adaptation and ensuing consequences. Each of these chapters ends with a summary, review questions and further reading lists.
Summaries, review questions and further reading make this book suitable for self-directed study. Infection and Immunity is ideal for any undergraduates taking a course that explores the interaction between pathogens and the human immune system.

List of contents

1. The Immune System 2. Bacteria 3. Viruses 4. Parasitic Infections 5. Fungi 6. Vaccines.

About the author

D H Davies, M A Halablab, T W K Young, F. E. G. Cox, J. Clarke

Summary

Taking a disease-based approach, this text explores the interactions between pathogens and the human immune system and explains how mircoorganisms can evade the immune system and thus cause disease. Concise yet comprehensive.

Product details

• Authors: J. Clarke, J. (Professor Emeritus in the History of Ideas Clarke, J. (St. Mary's Hospital Clarke, F. E. G. Cox, F. E. G. (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Cox, Cox F. E. G., D H Davies, D. H. Davies, M A Halablab, M. A. Halablab, T W K Young, T. W. K. Young
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780748407880
• ISBN: 978-0-7484-0788-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Weight: 508 g
• Series: Lifelines Series; Modules in Life Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Microbiology; Microbiology (non-medical), Virology (non-medical), SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology