Published October, 2013
By Peter C. Doherty
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know
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Published October, 2013
By Hubert Hilbi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Legionnaires' disease, a potentially fatal type of pneumonia primarily affecting elderly and immuno-compromised persons, is caused by the ubiquitous environmental bacterium Legionella pneumophila.

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Published October, 2013
By John D. Lambris and George Hajishengallis
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Mounting evidence in the past decade indicates that innate immunity mediates functions above and beyond first-line defense against infection.

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Published October, 2013
By Ronald M. Atlas and James W. Snyder
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
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Published October, 2013
By Stephen P. Schoenberger, Peter D. Katsikis and Bali Pulendran
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This volume presents a collection of reviews derived from work presented at the Aegean Conference: "3rd Crossroads between innate and adaptive immunity" which occurred during September 27 - October 2, 2009 at the Minoa Palace Conference Center in Chania, Crete, Greece.

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Published October, 2013
By Anand Kumar
Publisher: Elsevier (Elsevier - Health Sciences Division)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Includes article topics such as Biowarfare/Bioterrorism pathogens, Infections in neutropenics, Infections in AIDS, Influenza and endemic viral pneumonias, Resistant gram negative infections, Toxic Shock Syndrome, Fulminant viral myocarditis, and Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection.

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Published October, 2013
By Gauri Mankekar
Publisher: Springer (Springer, India, Private Ltd)
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Incidence of invasive fungal sinusitis has been increasing over the years. It was believed earlier that invasive fungal sinusitis is seen only in immune compromised patients but clinical reports suggest otherwise. Therefore, busy clinicians would not have to perform exhaustive literature studies to diagnose invasive fungal sinusitis.

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Published October, 2013
By James Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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James Clark (c.1737-1819) was a British physician who practised medicine on the Caribbean island of Dominica for many years. In 1793 there was a deadly and widespread outbreak of yellow fever. Clark published this account in 1797, discussing the disease's possible causes and treatments.

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Published October, 2013
By Olga Genilloud and Flavia Marinelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Reports on the emergence and prevalence of resistant bacterial infections in hospitals and communities raise concerns that we may soon no longer be able to rely on antibiotics as a way to control infectious diseases.

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Published October, 2013
By Heinz Mehlhorn, Zhongdao Wu, Bin Ye and Wu Zhongdao
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Parasitology Research Monographs
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This book examines the efficacy of plant-derived products for curing human infections caused by important parasites that have been used for over a thousand years by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine in the light of recent chemotherapeuticals.

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