BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 INFECTIOUS AGENTS AND THE HUMAN IMMUNE RESPONSE -- INFECTIOUS AGENTS: CATEGORIES OF ORGANISMS -- BACTERIA -- VIRUSES -- FUNGI -- PARASITES -- MODES OF AGENT SURVIVAL -- COMENSAL ORGANISMS -- ENVIRONMENT AND THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS AGENTS -- FAMILY PATTERNS -- POPULATION DENSITY -- SOCIAL HABITS -- TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY -- MOVEMENT -- OCCUPATION AND COMMERCE -- THE INANIMATE ENVIRONMENT -- IMMUNE RESPONSE TO INFECTION -- NATURAL AND ACQUIRED IMMUNITY -- IMMUNIZATION -- CHAPTER 2 BACTERIAL DISEASES: LEPROSY AND TUBERCULOSIS -- LEPROSY -- MYSTERIES OF THE DISEASE -- TRANSMISSION -- COURSE OF DISEASE -- THERAPY -- LEPROSY THROUGH HISTORY -- TUBERCULOSIS -- THE COURSE OF TUBERCULOSIS -- DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT -- TUBERCULOSIS THROUGH HISTORY -- OTHER MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTIONS -- CHAPTER 3 BACTERIAL DISEASES: CHOLERA AND PLAGUE -- CHOLERA -- THE CHOLERA BACTERIUM AND TOXIN -- SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT -- PREVENTION -- CHOLERA THROUGH HISTORY -- PLAGUE -- NATURE OF THE DISEASE -- PLAGUE THROUGH HISTORY -- CHAPTER 4 RICKETTSIAL AND CHLAMYDIAL DISEASES -- RICKETTSIAL DISEASES -- BARTONELLOSIS -- BOUTONNEUSE FEVER -- EPIDEMIC TYPHUS -- Q FEVER -- ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER -- SCRUB TYPHUS -- TRENCH FEVER -- CHLAMYDIAL DISEASES -- PSITTACOSIS -- TRACHOMA -- CHAPTER 5 BACTERIAL DISEASES: ANTHRAX TO YAWS -- ANTHRAX -- BOTULISM -- DIPHTHERIA -- LYME DISEASE -- RELAPSING FEVER -- SYPHILIS -- COURSE OF DISEASE -- DETECTION AND TREATMENT -- SYPHILIS THROUGH HISTORY -- TETANUS -- TULAREMIA -- WHOPING COUGH -- YAWS -- CHAPTER 6 VIRAL DISEASES: POX, POLIO, AND CLASSIC CHILDHOOD INFECTIONS -- POX DISEASE -- CHICKENPOX -- COWPOX -- SMALLPOX -- POLIO -- COURSE OF DISEASE -- TREATMENT AND VACCINATION -- POLIO THROUGH HISTORY -- MEASLES, MUMPS, AND RUBELA -- CHAPTER 7 VIRAL DISEASES: INFLUENZA.

CLASSIFICATION OF INFLUEN ZA VIRUSES -- EVOLUTION AND VIRULENCE OF INFLUEN ZA VIRUSES -- TRANSMISSION AND SYMPTOMS -- TREATMENT AND PREVENTION -- HISTORICAL AND MODERN INFLUEN ZA OUTBREAKS -- INFLUENZA PANDEMIC OF 1918-19 -- ASIAN FLU OF 1957 -- HONG KONG FLU OF 1968 -- INFLUENZA PANDEMIC (H1N1) OF 2009 -- INFLUENZA PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS -- BIRD FLU -- CHAPTER 8 VIRAL DISEASES: HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS AND ACUTE VIRAL INFECTIONS -- CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER -- TRANSMISSION AND SYMPTOMS -- DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION -- HISTORICAL AND MODERN OUTBREAKS -- DENGUE -- VIRAL TRANSMISSION -- DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT -- DENGUE THROUGH HISTORY -- EBOLA -- STRAINS OF EBOLA -- COURSE OF INFECTION AND TREATMENT -- OUTBREAKS -- PAPATACI FEVER -- WEST NILE VIRUS -- YELOW FEVER -- COURSE OF DISEASE -- DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, AND CONTROL -- YELLOW FEVER THROUGH HISTORY -- RABIES -- SARS -- VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS -- CHAPTER 9 VIRAL DISEASES: AIDS -- THE EMERGENCE OF HIV/AIDS -- GROUPS AND SUBTYPES OF HIV -- TRANSMISSION -- LIFE CYCLE OF HIV -- GENOME OF HIV -- COURSE OF INFECTION -- DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION -- SOCIAL, LEGAL, AND CULTURAL ASPECTS -- CHAPTER 10 PROTOZOAL DISEASES -- MALARIA -- COURSE OF DISEASE -- DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT -- MALARIA THROUGH HISTORY -- EVOLUTION OF MALARIA PARASITES IN PRIMATES -- NEGLECTED PROTO ZOAL DISEASES -- AMEBIC DYSENTERY -- CHAGAS' DISEASE -- LEISHMANIASIS -- SLEEPING SICKNESS -- TOXOPLASMOSIS -- CHAPTER 11 INFECTIOUS DISEASES: WORMS, PRIONS, AND FUNGI -- INFECTIOUS WORMS AND INTESTINAL DISEASE -- CESTODIASIS -- DRACUNCULIASIS -- FILARIASIS -- ONCHOCERCIASIS -- SCHISTOSOMIASIS -- PRIONS -- BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY -- CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE -- KURU -- FUNGAL DISEASES -- BLASTOMYCOSIS -- CRYPTOCOCCOSIS -- HISTOPLASMOSIS -- RINGWORM -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.