CONTENTS // Preface...v // PARTI. BACTERIA...i // 1 BACTERIAL TAXONOMY...1 // 2 CELL STRUCTURES, VIRULENCE FACTORS, and TOXINS ...9 // 3 BACTERIAL GENETICS ...21 // GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA...27 // 4 STREPTOCOCCUS...27 // 5 STAPHYLOCOCCUS...40 // 6 BACILLUS and CLOSTRIDIUM (SPORE-FORMING RODS) ...48 // 7 CORYNEBACTERIUM and LISTERIA (NON-SPORE-FORMINGRODS)...58 // GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA...64 // 8 NEISSERIA../...64 // 9 THE ENTERICS J...72 // 10 HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED GRAM NEGATIVES (by C. Scott Mahan, MD) ...91 // 11 HAEMOPHILUS, BORDETELLA, and LEGIONELLA ...96 // 12 YERSINIA, FRANCISELLA, BRUCELLA, and PASTEURELLA...104 // 13 CHLAMYDIA, RICKETTSIA, and FRIENDS ...110 // 14 SPIROCHETES...128 // ACID-FAST BACTERIA...142 // 15 MYCOBACTERIUM (contributing author: C. Scott Mahan, MD)...142 // BACTERIA WITHOUT CELL WALLS...156 // 16 MYCOPLASMA...156 // ANTI-BACTERIAL MEDICATIONS ...160 // 17 PENICILLIN FAMILY ANTIBIOTICS...160 // 18 ANTI-RIBOSOMAL ANTIBIOTICS (contributing author: C. Scott Mahan, MD)...174 // 19 ANTI-TB and ANTI-LEPROSY ANTIBIOTICS ... 186 // 20 MISCELLANEOUS ANTIBIOTICS...194 // PART 2. FUNGI...202 // 21 THE FUNGI...202 // 22 ANTI-FUNGAL MEDICATIONS (contributing author: C. Scott Mahan, MD) ...216 // PART 3. VIRUSES...226 // 23 VIRAL REPLICATION and TAXONOMY...226 // 24 ORTHOMYXO and PARAMYXOVIRIDAE...240 // 25 HEPATITIS VIRIDAE...254 // 26 RETROVIRIDAE, HIV, and AIDS (contributing author: C. Scott Mahan, MD) ...266 // 27 HERPESVIRIDAE (contributing author: John Beigel,
MD) ...281 // 28 REST OF THE DNA VIRUSES ...290 // 29 REST OF THE RNA VIRUSES (contributing authors: Amy Guillet Agrawal, MD and John Beigel, MD) .296 // 30 ANTI-VIRAL MEDICATIONS (contributing author: C. Scott Mahan, MD)...314 // VI