Infectious Disease and Parasites

This book covers the complete field of the pathology of infectious disease and parasites- from Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease to Zygomycosis. The alphabetically arranged entries, each of which provides a detailed description of a specific pathological disease pattern, allow readers to quickly and easily find the information they need.

Comprehensive information on the field of pathology of infectious diseases Written by experts in the field Alphabetically arranged entries Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Professor Paul Hofman received his MD in 1989 and his PhD in 1994. From 1993-1995, he had a postdoctoral position in the department of pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. From 1996-1997, he worked at the institute for microbiology, Max-Planck-Institute, Tbingen, Germany. Since 2003, Professor Hofman is the head of the laboratory of Clinical and Experimental pathology and head of the Human Biobank Unit, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France.
Since 1988, he has been a reviewer for 21 journals. Professor Hofman is the senior author of more than 240 publications.

Inhalt
Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease.- Actinomycosis.- Adenovirus.- Adiaspiromycosis.- Alveolar ecchinococcosis.- Amebiasis.- Ancylostomasis.- Angiostrongyliasis cantonesis infections.- Angiostrongylus costarecensis infections.- Anisakiasis.- Arthropods.- Artifacts.- Ascaridiasis.- Aspergillosis.- Bacillary angiomatosis.- Bacterial infections.- Balantidiasis.- Bartonellosis.- Bilharziasis.- Blastomycosis.- Botriomycosis.- Candidiasis.- Cestoda.- Chlamydiasis.- Coccidioidomycosis.- Cryptococcosis.- Cryptosporidiosis.- Cysticercosis.- Cytopathic effect.- Dirofilariasis.- Ecchinococcosis.- Enterobiasis.- False pathogens.- Fasciolasis.- Filariasis.- Fungal infections.- Fusariasis.- Giardiasis.- Granuloma.- Helminthiasis.- Herpes virus.- Histoplasmosis.- Human Immunodeficiency Virus.- Human Rickettsioses.- Hydatidosis.- Immunodeficiency.- Inflammatory reaction.- Influenza virus.- Isosporiasis.- Leishmaniasis.- Lobomycosis.- Malakoplakia.- Malaria.- Measles.- Microsporidiosis.- Mucormycosis.- Myasis.- Mycetomas.- Mycobacterial infections.- Mycoplasmasis.- Nematodes.- Nocardiosis.- Nontuberculous mycobacteria.- Onchocercosis.- Papillomavirus.- Paracoccidioidomycosis.- Paragonimiasis.- Parasitic infections.- Pentastomiasis.- Phaeohyphomycosis.- Pneumocystosis.- Polyomavirus.- Protothecosis.- Protozoa.- Respiratory syncitial virus.- Rhinoscleroma.- Rhinosporidiosis.- Sarcocytosis.- Scedosporiasis.- Sparganosis.- Sporothricosis.- Strongyloidiasis.- Taeniasis.- Toxoplasmosis.- Trematodes.- Trichinosis.- Trypanosomiasis.- Tuberculosis.- Tungiasis.- Viral Hepatitis.- Viral infections.- Whippleïs disease.- Yersiniasis.- Zygomycosis.