Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g
Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g
Reihe: Current Topics in Infectious Disease
ISBN: 978-1-4684-8424-3
Verlag: Springer US
During the past decade, plague infections have persisted with undiminished importance in foci of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, while infections caused by the other yersiniae were recognized only during this decade as important agents of diarrheal and appendicitislike outbreaks in Europe, North America, and Japan. The dramatic rise of plague was abetted by the military conflict in Vietnam in the latter 1960s and persisted into the 1970s. During these years more Vietnamese people probably died of plague than American ser vicemen died of combat injuries. In the United States during these same years, the numbers of human cases of plague increased severalfold owing to well entrenched endemic foci in the sylvatic rodent species of the southwestern states., In the latter 1960s, microbiologists had changed the name of the plague bacillus from Pasteurella pestis to Yersinia pestis. The other two pathogenic species, Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, were known causes of mesenteric lymphadenitis and were believed to be rare. However, there originated a strong interest in these diseases in the European countries of Sweden, Finland, Belgium, and France. Yersiniae were frequently dis covered in persons with diarrhea and acute abdominal pain simulating ap pendicitis. This discovery sparked a worldwide surge of scientific interest in the genus Yersinia. Previous writings about the yersiniae have rarely considered plague and nonplague yersiniae together. Diseases caused by these bacteria, although their epidemiological patterns and clinical pictures are very different, have some striking similarities.
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1. Introduction.- 2. Discovery of the Organisms.- 2.1. Life of Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943).- 2.2. Nomenclature.- 2.3. History of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- 2.4. The Life and Work of K. F. Meyer (1884–1974).- References.- 3. Epidemiology.- 3.1. Plague.- 3.2. Yersinia enterocolitica Infection.- 3.3. Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infection.- References.- 4. Clinical Syndromes and Pathology in Humans.- 4.1. Plague.- 4.2. Yersinia enterocolitica Infection.- 4.3. Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infection.- References.- 5. Pathogenesis and Toxins.- 5.1. Plague.- 5.2. Yersinia enterocolitica Infection.- 5.3. Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infection.- References.- 6. Diagnosis and Treatment.- 6.1. The Diagnosis of Plague.- 6.2. Diagnosis of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections.- 6.3. Treatment of Plague.- 6.4. Treatment of Yersinia Infections.- References.- 7. Prevention and Control.- 7.1. Control of Plague.- 7.2. Control of Other Yersinia Infections.- References.
