Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a disease associated with high morbidity and mortality, with at least one third of cases requiring hospitalization, exceeding the numbers admitted for myocardial infarction and stroke. Despite a broad armamentarium of antimicrobials available, it remains an impo...

Description complète

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Autres auteurs: Suttorp, Norbert (Éditeur intellectuel), Welte, Tobias (Éditeur intellectuel), Marre, Reinhard (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2007.
Édition:1st ed. 2007.
Collection:Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases,
Sujets:
Medical microbiology.
Medicine-Research.
Biology-Research.
Medical Microbiology.
Biomedical Research.
Accès en ligne:Texto Completo
Table des matières:
  • Diagnosis and treatment of community acquired pneumonia - the German perspective
  • Detection of respiratory bacterial pathogens
  • Viral pathogens and epidemiology, detection, therapy and resistance
  • Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae
  • Influenza
  • Pathogenesis of Chlamydophila pneumoniae infections - epidemiology, immunity, cell biology, virulence factors
  • Legionnaires' disease and its agent Legionella pneumophila
  • Pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections:adaptive immunity, innate immunity, cell biology, virulence factors
  • Pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections:adaptive immunity, innate immunity, cell biology, and virulence factors
  • Community-acquired pneumonia: paving the way towards new vaccination concepts.

Documents similaires