Immunology of Human Infection

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Bacteria

   1. Bacterial Immunity

      • Alan A. Glynn

      Pages 1-24

   2. Immunology of Streptococcus pneumoniae

      • Arthur J. Ammann

      Pages 25-46

   3. Immunology of Streptococci

      • Lewis W. Wannamaker

      Pages 47-92

   4. Immunology of Staphylococci

      • Jan Verhoef, Phillip K. Peterson, Paul G. Quie

      Pages 93-111

   5. Immunology of Haemophilus influenzae Infections

      • E. Richard Moxon

      Pages 113-138

   6. Immunology of Neisseria meningitidis

      • Martha L. Lepow, Ronald Gold

      Pages 139-155

   7. Immunology of Bordetella pertussis

      • Stephen I. Morse

      Pages 157-170

   8. Immunobiology of Diphtheria

      • Lane Barksdale

      Pages 171-199

   9. Immunity of Listeria monocytogenes

      • Robert J. North

      Pages 201-219

   10. Immunology of Enterobacterial Infections

       • W. Lee Hand, James W. Smith

       Pages 221-247

   11. Immunology of Enteric Pathogens Salmonella, Shigella, and Escherichia coli

       • Myron M. Levine, Richard B. Hornick

       Pages 249-290

   12. Immunology of Vibrio cholerae

       • Richard A. Finkelstein

       Pages 291-315

   13. Immunology of Anaerobic Bacterial Infections

       • Dan Danielsson, Dwight W. Lambe Jr.

       Pages 317-343

   14. Immunology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

       • Maurice J. Lefford

       Pages 345-368

   15. Immunobiology of Leprosy

       • Ward E. Bullock

       Pages 369-390

   16. Immunology of Syphilis

       • Peter L. Perine

       Pages 391-413

3. Mycoplasmas

   1. Immunology of Mycoplasma Infection

      • Gerald W. Fernald, Wallace A. Clyde Jr., Floyd W. Denny

      Pages 415-439

4. Chlamydiae

   1. Immunology of Chlamydial Infections

      • Hayes C. Lamont, Roger L. Nichols

      Pages 441-474

5. Fungi

   1. Mechanisms of Resistance in the Systemic Mycoses

      • Dexter H. Howard

      Pages 475-494

When we were first approached by the senior editors of this series to edit a book on interactions between the host and infectious agents, we accepted this offer as an exciting challenge. The only condition, readily agreed upon, was that such a book should focus on the immunology of infections in humans. Our reasons, if not biases, were severalfold. We sensed that the fields of microbiology and im­ munology, which had diverged as each was focusing on its individual search, were coming together. In agreement with the opinions expressed by Dr. Richard Krause in the Introduction, we strongly believed that the development of the immune system evolved in response to infectious agents and that the evolution of these agents was influenced in turn by the character of the host's responses. An inten­ sive examination of the multitude of primitive or more recently developed host defense mechanisms to determine their relative contribution to man's resistance to a given infectious agent appeared to us to be of crucial basic and practical interest. Many immune mechanisms studied in animals were being explored in humans and it appeared timely to focus particularly on what was known about man's resistance to infectious agents, correlating this information with lessons learned from relevant experiments in animal models.

• immune system
• immunology
• infection
• infections
• microbiology
• resistance

• Emory University, Atlanta, USA

  André J. Nahmias

• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

  Richard J. O’Reilly

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