Text-Book of Medical Bacteriology (eBook)

Front Cover 1
A Text-Book of Medical Bacteriology 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 8
PREFACE 6
PART: I GENERAL BACTERIOLOGY 10
CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL SURVEY 10
CHAPTER II. THE MORPHOLOGY OF BACTERIA 19
CHAPTER III. THE BIOLOGY OF BACTERIA 31
CHAPTER IV. THE CULTIVATION OF BACTERIA 42
The use of Culture Media 47
The Isolation of Pure Cultures 52
The Identification of Bacteria 55
CHAPTER V. THE MULTIPLICATION OF BACTERIA 58
CHAPTER VI. THE DESTRUCTION OF BACTERIA 62
Physical Agents 63
Chemical Agents 66
Process of Disinfection 69
Removal of Bacteria 70
CHAPTER VII. INFECTION 73
CHAPTER VIII. IMMUNITY 88
CHAPTER IX. ANTIGENS, ANTIBODIES AND THEIR REACTIONS 102
Agglutination 108
Precipitation 117
Bacteriolysins and Bacteriocidins 118
Complement-Fixation Test 121
Phagocytosis, Opsonins and Bacteriotropins 124
Toxin-Antitoxin Neutralization 126
Unity or Diversity of Antibodies 131
CHAPTER X. HYPERSENSITIVENESS : ANAPHYLAXIS, IDIOSYNCRASY AND ALLERGY 133
Anaphylaxis 134
Idiosyncrasy 138
Allergy 140
CHAPTER XI. THE CLASSIFICATION OF BACTERIA 142
CHAPTER XII. BACTERIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 149
PART II: SYSTEMATIC BACTERIOLOGY 156
CHAPTER XIII. STAPHYLOCOCCUS, MICROCOCCUS AND SARCINA STAPHYLOCOCCUS 156
Micrococcus 163
Sarcina 164
CHAPTER XIV. STREPTOCOCCUS 165
CHAPTER XV. PNEUMOCOCCUS : PNEUMONIA 179
Pneumonia 183
Other Pneumococcal Infections 187
CHAPTER XVI. NEISSERIA : GONORRHOEA : MENINGITIS 193
GONOCOCCUS OR NEISSERIA GONORRHŒÆ 193
MENINGOCOCCUS OR NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS (INTRACELLULARIS) 201
CHAPTER XVII. ORGANISMS OF THE COLI-TYPHOID-DYSENTERY GROUP GENUS BACTERIUM
The Lactose-Fermenting Bacteria 212
Non-Lactose-Fermenting Bacteria 214
The Salmonella Group 215
Enteric Fever 219
Bacterial Food-poisoning 225
The Dysentery Group 228
Summer Diarrhoea 235
CHAPTER XVIII. THE FRIEDLANDER GROUP AND GENUS PROTEUS 236
Genus Proteus 238
CHAPTER XIX. PASTEURELLA: PLAGUE 240
Past. Pestis or the Plague Bacillus 240
Plague 242
CHAPTER XX. BRUCELLA : UNDULANT FEVER : TULARÆMIA 246
Undulant Fever 249
Tularæmia 252
CHAPTER XXI. HÆMOPHILUS AND ASSOCIATED ORGANISMS : WHOOPING-COUGH 254
H. INFLUENZA (INFLUENZA OR PFEIFFER'S BACILLUS) 254
KOCH-WEEKS BACILLUS 258
H. PERTUSSIS OR THE BORDET-GENGOU BACILLUS 258
THE MORAX-AXENFELD BACILLUS 261
THE BACILLUS OF SOFT SORE OR DUCREY'S BACILLUS 261
CHAPTER XXII. CORYNEBACTERIUM : DIPHTHERIA 263
C. DIPHTHERIA OR THE DIPHTHERIA BACILLUS 264
CHAPTER XXIII. MYCOBAGTERIUM : TUBERCULOSIS: LEPROSY 282
My. TUBERCULOSIS OR THE TUBERCLE BACILLUS 283
CHAPTER XXIV. VIBRIO: CHOLERA: SPIRILLUM 303
V. cholerae or the Cholera Vibrio 304
Cholera 306
Genus Spirillum 309
CHAPTER XXV. PFEIFFERELLA : GLANDERS : MELIOIDOSIS 310
Pf. mallei or the Glander's Bacillus 310
Pf. whitmori : Melioidosis 313
CHAPTER XXVI. ACTINOMYCES : ACTINOMYCOSIS : MADURA DISEASE 315
A. bovis 316
Actinomycosis 317
Madura Disease 319
Actinobacillosis 319
CHAPTER XXVII. BACILLUS : ANTHRAX 320
B. anthracis or the Anthrax Bacillus 321
Anthrax 323
CHAPTER XXVIII. GLOSTRIDIUM : TETANUS : GAS GANGRENE: BOTULISM 328
Tetanus 334
Gas Gangrene 340
Botulism 344
CHAPTER XXIX. MISCELLANEOUS GENERA: PSEUDOMONAS, LAGTOBACILLUS AND FUSIFORMIS 348
PSEUDOMONAS 348
LACTOBACILLUS 349
FUSIFORMIS 350
CHAPTER XXX. SPIROCHÆTES : SYPHILIS, YAWS, WEIL'S DISEASE, SEVEN-DAY FEVER, RELAPSING FEVER AND VINCENT'S ANGINA 351
Syphilis 353
Yaws 364
Weil's Disease or Infectious Jaundice 364
Seven-day Fever of Japan 367
Relapsing Fever 368
Vincent's Angina 370
CHAPTER XXXI. FILTERABLE VIRUSES 371
A. ACCEPTED VIRUS DISEASES 378
B. PROBABLE VIRUS DISEASES 390
C. POSSIBLE VIRUS DISEASES 399
CHAPTER XXXII. THE RICKETTSIÆ 403
THE RICKETTSIÆ 403
CHAPTER XXXIII. BAGTERIOPHAGE 407
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE BACTERIOLOGY OF WATER, MILK AND SHELLFISH 411
WATER 411
MILK 414
PART III: HIGENERAL TECHNIQUE 422
CHAPTER XXXV. THE MICROSCOPE: STAINING METHODS 422
The Microscope 422
Staining Methods 423
Simple Stains 424
Differential Stains 424
Staining of Capsules 426
Methods for Demonstrating Spirochætes 428
Romanowsky Stains 429
CHAPTER XXXVI. PREPARATION OF CULTURE MEDIA 430
CHAPTER XXXVII. SEROLOGICAL TECHNIQUE 438
INDEX 446