Title | Cytokines and Chemokines in Infectious Diseases Handbook [electronic resource] / edited by Malak Kotb, Thierry Calandra |
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Imprint | Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-309-5 |
Descript | XV, 436 p. 54 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource |
Introduction: Cytokine Biology Relevant to Infectious Diseases -- I Cytokines in Infectious Diseases -- 1 Leptin: Its Role in Immunomodulation and Susceptibility to Infection -- 2 Cytokine Gene Polymorphism and Host Susceptibility to Infection -- II Cytokines in Gram-Negative Infections -- 3 Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines as Mediators of Gram-Negative Sepsis -- 4 Host Response to Pathogenic Bacteria at Mucosal Sites -- 5 Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor as a Cytokine of Innate Immunity -- III Cytokines in Gram-Positive Infections -- 6 Cytokine Patterns in Severe Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections -- 7 Superantigens and Bacterial DNA as Cytokine Inducers in Gram-Positive Sepsis -- 8 Cytokines and Chemokines in Listeriosis -- IV Cytokines in Mycobacterial Infections -- 9 Regulation of Cytokines and Chemokines in Human Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection -- 10 Cytokines and Chemokines in Protective and Inflammatory Responses to Infection with Nontuberculous Mycobacteria -- 11 Human Interleukin-12โInterferon-? Axis in Protective Immunity to Mycobacteria -- 12 Role of Th1 Cytokines in Host Defenses Against Mycobacterium leprae -- V Cytokines in Other Bacterial Infections -- 13 Possible Role of Molecular Mimicry in Lyme Arthritis -- 14 Cytokine Responses in Patients with Pneumonia -- VI Cytokines in Fungal Infections -- 15 Cytokines and the Host Defense Against Aspergillus fumigatus -- 16 Cytokines of Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Candida albicans -- VII Cytokines in Parasitic Infections -- 17 Th1 and Th2 Cytokines in Leishmaniasis -- 18 Cytokines in the Regulation of Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Toxoplasma gondii -- VIII Cytokines in Viral Infections -- 19 Viroceptors: Virus-Encoded Receptors for Cytokines and Chemokines -- 20 Chemokines and Chemokine Receptors in HIV Infection -- 21 Cytokines in Viral Hepatitis -- IX Cytokines as Therapeutic Agents in Infectious Diseases -- 22 Interferon-? in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases -- 23 Interleukin-2 for the Treatment of HIV Infection -- 24 Clinical Applications of G-CSF and GM-CSF in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases -- X Anticytokine-Based Therapy in Treatment of Infectious Diseases -- 25 Anticytokine Therapies in Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock -- 26 Intravenous Immunoglobulin Adjunctive Therapy in Patients with Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome and Necrotizing Fasciitis