Tapeworms, lice and prions : a compendium of unpleasant infections / David I Grove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grove, David I., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--Transmission.

Communicable diseases.

Vector-pathogen relationships.

Worms as carriers of disease.

Arthropod vectors.

Pathogenic fungi.

Pathogenic bacteria.

Viruses.

Physical Description:

viii, 602 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

When Lieutenant Forbes Tulloch of the Royal Army Medical Corps accidentally cut his hand on a knife contaminated from a patient with sleeping sickness, he knew he was doomed. Tulloch was one among many investigators struggling to find the-source of the disease and the method of infection. The agents behind infectious diseases have often taken many years to identify, and the stories of their discovery involve bravery, dedication, professional rivalry, sheer luck, and what would now be considered dubious ethical practices, such as deliberately infecting condemned prisoners. Some scientists even experimented on themselves. Humans are prey to attack by a whole range of organisms, from viruses and bacteria to fungi and small parasitic animals. Here, David Ian Grove assembles the stories of most of these agents of disease, right up to the recently isolated proteins known as prions, with accounts of their curious lives and the often dramatic stories of their discovery. Together they represent a great swathe of the history of medicine that has profoundly changed our lives. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Infection: the search for its causes 1

II Worms 4

1 Ascaris-the giant intestinal roundworm 6

2 Tapeworms 15

3 Hookworm anaemia 28

4 Schistosomiasis (sometimes called Bilharziasis) 38

5 Filariasis (elephantiasis) 52

III Arthropods 63

6 Lice (pediculosis) 64

7 The itch (scabies) 71

IV Fungi 79

8 Tinea (ringworm, etc.) 82

9 Candidiasis (thrush) 89

V Protozoa 95

10 Giardiasis 96

11 Amoebic dysentery and liver abscess 102

12 Malaria 115

13 Sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) 136

14 Cutaneous leishmaniasis (Oriental sore) and visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar) 149

15 Chagas disease (South American trypanosomiasis) 162

VI Bacteria 172

16 The germ theory of disease 174

17 Anthrax 196

18 Tuberculosis (consumption) 202

19 Leprosy (Hansen's disease) 218

20 The golden staphylococcus 228

21 The pus-forming streptococcus 237

22 The pneumococcus and pneumonia 250

23 Gonorrhoea (the clap) 259

24 Syphilis (the pox) 269

25 The meningococcus and meningitis 284

26 Diphtheria 291

27 Whooping cough (pertussis) 302

28 Cholera 311

29 Typhoid fever 324

30 Escherichia coli 339

31 Bacillary dysentery (shigellosis) 348

32 Tetanus (lockjaw) 357

33 Plague (the Black Death) 365

34 Brucellosis (undulant fever) 379

35 Legionnaires' disease 387

36 Helicobacter-pylori and peptic ulcers 394

37 Typhus 403

38 Chlamydia, trachoma, and urethritis 414

VII Viruses 424

39 The discovery of viruses and determination of their nature 427

40 Smallpox (variola) 437

41 Rabies (hydrophobia) 443

42 Yellow fever 449

43 Dengue fever (break bone fever) 458

44 Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) 464

45 Measles (rubeola) 471

46 German measles (rubella) 475

47 Mumps 480

48 Varicella (chickenpox and shingles) 485

49 Herpes simplex (cold sores and more) 494

50 Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis) 499

51 Influenza (the flu) 504

52 Viral hepatitis (A, B, and C) 512

53 Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 524

VIII Prions 535

54 Kuru, mad cows, and variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease 536

IX Unde Venis Et Quo Vadis? 549.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199641024

0199641021

OCLC:

827266743