Taxonomic guide to infectious diseases : understanding the biologic classes of pathogenic organisms /

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In the past few decades, there have been great advances in the phylogenetic classification of infectious diseases of man. Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases organizes this information into a standard biological classification and provides a short, clinically-oriented description of every genus (...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berman, Jules J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Communicable diseases > Classification.
Communicable Diseases > classification
Bacteria > classification
Eukaryota > classification
Viruses > classification
Maladies infectieuses > Classification.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Contagious.
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
Communicable diseases
Classification
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pt. I. Principles of taxonomy. The magnitude and diversity of infectious diseases
  • What is a classification?
  • The tree of life
  • pt. II. Bacteria. Overview of Class Bacteria
  • The Alpha Proteobacteria
  • Beta Proteobacteria
  • Gamma Proteobacteria
  • Epsilon Proteobacteria
  • Spirochaetes
  • Bacteroidetes and Fusobacteria
  • Mollicutes
  • Class Bacilli plus Class Clostridia
  • Chlamydiae
  • Actinobacteria
  • pt. III. Eukaryotes. Overview of Class Eukaryota
  • Metamonada
  • Euglenozoa
  • Percolozoa
  • Apicomplexa
  • Ciliophora (ciliates)
  • Heterokontophyta
  • Amoebozoa
  • Choanozoa
  • Archaeplastida
  • pt. IV. Animals. Overview of Class Animalia
  • Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
  • Nematoda (roundworms)
  • Acanthocephala
  • Chelicerata
  • Hexapoda
  • Crustacea
  • Craniata
  • pt. V. Fungi. Overview of Class Fungi
  • Zygomycota
  • Basidiomycota
  • Ascomycota
  • Microsporidia
  • pt. VI. Nonliving infectious agents : viruses and prions. Overview of viruses
  • Group I viruses : double-stranded DNA
  • Group II viruses : single-stranded (+)sense DNA
  • Group III viruses : double-stranded RNA
  • Group IV viruses : single-stranded (+)sense RNA
  • Group V viruses : single stranded (-)sense RNA
  • Group VI viruses : single-stranded RNA reverse transcriptase viruses with a DNA intermediate in life-cycle
  • Group VII viruses : double stranded DNA reverse transcriptase viruses
  • Prions
  • Appendices : I. Additional notes on taxonomy
  • II. Number of occurrences in some common infectious diseases
  • III. Organisms causing infectious disease in humans.

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