The Biology of the Mycobacteria Vol. 3: Clinical Aspects of Mycobacterial Disease

by John Stanford

The mycobacteria are responsible for causing more deaths in animals and man than any other group of microbes; diseases caused by these bacteria include tuberculosis, which kills 3 million a year, and leprosy, infecting 20 million people worldwide. This book reviews current clinical research into the major mycobacterial diseases, and is concerned with the manifestation of the host-pathogen interactions as histologically definable lesions and the signs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0125823037
• ISBN13: 9780125823036
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 621 Pages