Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases: Understanding the Biologic Classes of Pathogenic Organisms

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Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases: Understanding the Biologic Classes of Pathogenic Organisms, Second Edition tackles the complexity of clinical microbiology by assigning every infectious organism to one of 40+ taxonomic classes and providing a description of the defining traits that apply to all the organisms within each class. This edition is an updated, revised and greatly expanded guide to the classes of organisms that infect humans. This book will provide students and clinicians alike with a simplified way to understand the complex fields of clinical microbiology and parasitology. Cover Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases: Understanding the Biologic Classes of Pathogenic Organisms Copyright Other books by the author About the author Preface to second edition Preface to first edition 1 Principles of taxonomy Section 1.1 The consequence of evolution is diversity Section 1.2 What is a classification? Section 1.3 The tree of life Glossary References 2 Species and speciation Section 2.1 A species is a biological entity Section 2.2 The biological process of speciation Section 2.3 Diverse forms of diversity Section 2.4 The species paradox Glossary References 3 Bacteria Section 3.1 Overview of Class Bacteria Section 3.2 Alpha Proteobacteria Section 3.3 Beta Proteobacteria Section 3.4 Gamma Proteobacteria Section 3.5 Epsilon Proteobacteria Section 3.6 Spirochaetes Section 3.7 Bacteroidetes and Fusobacteria Section 3.8 Mollicutes Section 3.9 Class Bacilli plus Class Clostridia Section 3.10 Chlamydiae Section 3.11 Actinobacteria Glossary References 4 Eukaryotes Section 4.1 Overview of Class Eukaryota Section 4.2 Metamonada Section 4.3 Euglenozoa Section 4.4 Percolozoa Section 4.5 Apicomplexa Section 4.6 Ciliophora (ciliates) Section 4.7 Heterokonta Section 4.8 Amoebozoa Section 4.9 Choanozoa Section 4.10 Archaeplastida Glossary References 5 Animals Section 5.1 Overview of Class Animalia Section 5.2 Opisthokonts to Class ParaHoxozoa Section 5.3 Bilaterians to Protostomes Section 5.4 Platyhelminthes (flatworms) Section 5.5 Nematoda Section 5.6 Acanthocephala Section 5.7 Chelicerata Section 5.8 Hexapoda Section 5.9 Crustacea Glossary References 6 Fungi Section 6.1 Overview of Class Fungi Section 6.2 Zoopagomycota and Mucoromycota (formerly Zygomycota) Section 6.3 Basidiomycota Section 6.4 Ascomycota Section 6.5 Microsporidia Glossary References 7 Viruses Section 7.1 Viruses and the meaning of life Section 7.2 Viral phylogeny Section 7.3 Group I viruses: Double-stranded DNA Section 7.4 Group II viruses: Single-stranded (+) sense DNA Section 7.5 Group III viruses: Double-stranded RNA Section 7.6 Group IV viruses: Single-stranded (+) sense RNA Section 7.7 Group V viruses: Single-stranded (−) sense RNA Section 7.8 Group VI viruses: Single-stranded RNA reverse transcriptase viruses with a DNA intermediate in life cycle Section 7.9 Group VII viruses: Double-stranded DNA reverse transcriptase viruses Glossary References 8 Changing how we think about infectious diseases Section 8.1 Abandoning Koch's postulates Section 8.2 Prion diseases: Fulfilling Koch's postulates, but without an organism Section 8.3 Diagnostic challenges Section 8.4 Discovering new infections among the diseases of unknown origin Section 8.5 Unstable taxonomies Section 8.6 Taxonomic stupidity Section 8.7 Recurring sources of error Glossary References Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z