Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview / Mazen Saleh
  • Structure and function of bacterial and fungal cell walls / Johanna Delongchamp, Mazen Saleh, and Garry Ferroni
  • Bacterial cell surface structures important in pathogenesis / Nadia Mykytczuk, Garry Ferroni, and Leo G. Leduc
  • An introduction to protein secretion in prokaryotes / Johanna Delongchamp, Garry Ferroni, and Mazen Saleh
  • Viruses / Mazen Saleh
  • The innate immune system / Robert M. Lafrenie
  • Respiratory infections / Marina Ulinova and Robert M. Lafrenie
  • Prions / Chongsuk Ryon and Charles E. Mays
  • Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy / Chongsuk Ryon
  • Diagnostic microbiology / Kenneth L. Muldrew and Yi-Wei Tang.