Text - Book of Bacteriology (eBook)

Front Cover 1
A Text-Book of Bacteriology 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 8
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION 6
PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION 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 71
Chapter VII.CHEMOTHERAPY 74
The Sulphonamides 74
Penicillin 80
Chapter VIII. INFECTION 81
Chapter IX. IMMUNITY 96
Chapter X. ANTIGENS, ANTIBODIES AND THEIR REACTIONS 111
Agglutination 117
Complement-Fixation Test 131
Phagocytosis, Opsonins and Bacteriotropins 133
Toxin-Antitoxin Neutralization 136
Unity or Diversity of Antibodies 140
Chapter XI. HYPERSENSITIVENESS : ANAPHYLAXIS, IDIOSYNCRASY AND ALLERGY 143
Anaphylaxis 144
Idiosyncrasy 148
Allergy 151
Chapter XII. THE CLASSIFICATION OF BACTERIA 153
Chapter XIII. BACTERIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 160
PART II: SYSTEMATIC BACTERIOLOGY 168
Chapter XIV. STAPHYLOCOCCUS, MICROCOCCUS AND SARCINA 168
Staphylococcus 168
Micrococcus 176
Sarcina 176
Chapter XV. STREPTOCOCCUS 177
Chapter XVI. PNEUMOCOCCUS : PNEUMONIA 193
Pneumonia 197
Chapter XVII. NEISSERIA : GONORRHOEA : MENINGITIS 208
GONOCOCCUS OR NEISSERIA GONORRHOELE 208
MENINGOCOCCUS OR NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS(INTRACELLULARIS) 216
Cerebrospinal Meningitis 219
Chronic Meningococcal Septicaemia 224
Neisseria (Micrococcus) catarrhalis 224
Neisseria pharyngis (Micrococcus pharyngis flavus and siccus group) 225
Chapter XVIII. ORGANISMS OF THE COLI-TYPHOID-DYSENTERY GROUP GENUS BACTERIUM
The Lactose-Fermenting Bacteria 229
Non-Lactose-Fermenting Bacteria 231
Enteric Fever 236
Bacterial Food-poisoning 242
The Dysentery Group 245
Summer Diarrhoea 253
Chapter XIX. THE FRIEDLANDER GROUP AND GENUS PROTEUS 254
Genus Proteus 256
Chapter XX. PASTEURELLA : PLAGUE 258
Past. Pestis ör the Plague Bacillus 258
Plague 260
Chapter XXI. BRUCELLA : UNDULANT FEVER : TULARAEMIA 264
Undulant Fever 267
Tularaemia 270
Chapter XXII. HÆMOPHILUS AND ASSOCIATED ORGANISMS : WHOOPING-COUGH 272
H. INFLUENZA (INFLUENZA OR PFEIFFERS BACILLUS) 272
KOCH-WEEKS BACILLUS 276
H. PERTUSSIS OR THE BORDET-GENGOU BACILLUS 276
Whooping-cough 278
THE MORAX-AXENFELD BACILLUS 279
THE BACILLUS OF SOFT SORE OR DUCREY'S BACILLUS 279
Chapter XXIII. CORYNEBACTERIUM : DIPHTHERIA 281
C. DIPHTHERIA OR THE DIPHTHERIA BACILLUS 282
Diphtheria 288
Chapter XXIV. MYCOBACTERIUM : TUBERCULOSIS : LEPROSY 300
My. TUBERCULOSIS OR THE TUBERCLE BACILLUS 301
Leprosy 319
Chapter XXV. VIBRIO : CHOLERA : SPIRILLUM 321
V. cholera or the Cholera Vibrio 322
Cholera 324
Chapter XXVI. PFEIFFERELLA : GLANDERS : MELIOIDOSIS 328
Pf. mallei or the Glanders Bacillus 328
Pf. whitmori : Melioidosis 331
Chapter XXVII. ACTINOMYCES : ACTINOMYCOSIS : MADURA DISEASE 333
A. bovis 334
Actinomycosis 335
Madura Disease 337
Actinobacillosis 337
Chapter XXVIII. BACILLUS : ANTHRAX 338
B. anthracis or the Anthrax Bacillus 339
Anthrax 341
Chapter XXIX. CLOSTRIDIUM : TETANUS : GAS GANGRENE BOTULISM 346
Tetanus 352
Gas Gangrene 358
Botulism 362
Chapter XXX. MISCELLANEOUS GENERA : PSEUDOMONAS, LACTOBACILLUS : FUSIEORMIS 366
PSEUDOMONAS 366
LACTOBACILLUS 367
FUSIFORMIS 368
LISTERELLA 369
Chapter XXXI. SPIROCHÆTES : SYPHILIS, YAWS, WEIL'SDISEASE, SEVEN-DAY FEVER, RELAPSING FEVER AND VINCENT'S ANGINA 370
Syphilis 372
Yaws 383
Weil's Disease or Infectious Jaundice 383
Relapsing Fever 387
Vincent's Angina 389
Chapter XXXII. FILTERABLE VIRUSES 391
A. ACCEPTED VIRUS DISEASES 401
B. PROBABLE VIRUS DISEASES 417
C. POSSIBLE VIRUS DISEASES 425
Chapter XXXIII. THE RICKETTSÜE 428
Trench Fever 431
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever 432
Chapter XXXIV. BAOTERIOPHAGE 433
Chapter XXXV. THE BACTERIOLOGY OF WATER, MILK AND SHELLFISH 439
WATER 439
MILK 443
Shellfish 449
PART III: GENERAL TECHNIQUE 451
Chapter XXXVI. THE MICROSCOPE : STAINING METHODS 451
The Microscope 451
Staining Methods 452
Simple Stains 453
Differential Stains 453
Staining of Capsules 455
Romanowsky Stains 458
Chapter XXXVII. PREPARATION OF CULTURE MEDIA 459
Chapter XXXVIII. SEROLOGICAL TECHNIQUE 467
INDEX 475