Microbiology; including immunology and molecular genetics / [by] Bernard D. Davis [and others].
Contributor(s): Davis, Bernard D.
Material type: BookPublisher: 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: 576Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 576 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00043104 |
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.
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.