Topley and Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infextions

Virology edited by: Brian W.J. Mahy, Senior Scientific Adviser, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA Volker ter Meulen, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Virology and Immunology, Former Chairman of the Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany Bacteriology edited by: S. Peter Borriello, Director, Specialist and Reference Microbiology Division, Health Protection Agency, London, UK Patrick R. Murray, Chief, Microbiology Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA Guido Funke, CEO, Gartner & Colleagues Laboratories, Ravensburg, Germany Medical Mycology edited by: William G. Merz, Professor of Pathology, Dermatology, Epidemiology, and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Roderick J. Hay, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Parasitology edited by: F.E.G Cox, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Derek Wakelin, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Stephen H. Gillespie, Professor of Medical Microbiology, and Regional Microbiologist, Centre for Medical Microbiology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK Dickson D. Despommier, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Immunology edited by: Stefan H.E. Kaufmann, Director, Department of Immunology, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany Michael W. Steward, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK