Bücher der Reihe New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology

Progress in the pursuit of these goals led to the recognition that bacteria other than Vibrio cholerae are also important causes of acute dehydrating diarrhea which resembles cholera in its manifestations and patho genesis;

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers in Microbiology, Held Nov. 20-22, in Leuven, Belgium, in Honour of Prof. P. de Somer

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Combined Antimicrobial Therapy, held in Rome, 21-22 April, 1978

Proceedings of the third Anaerobe Discussion Group Symposium held at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, July 30-31, 1983 followed by the abstracts of the first meeting of the Society for Intestinal Microbial Ecology and Disease, Boston, Nov. 1983

Proceedings of the Round Table Conference on Developments in Antibiotic Treatment of Respiratory Infections in the Hospital and General Practice, held in the Kurhaus, Scheveningen, The Netherlands, June 15-16, 1980

This book records the papers and discussions at a Work shop which took place in London on the 5th and 6th of April 1979, as part of the programme of the Commission of the European Communities on Medical and Public Health Research.

Proceedings of the Fourth Anaerobic Discussion Group Symposium held at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, July 26-28, 1985

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers in Microbiology, Held Nov. 20-22, in Leuven, Belgium, in Honour of Prof. P. de Somer

Proceedings of the 18th Joint Conference on Cholera

It goes almost without saying that there has been a marked increase in the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases throughout the world in the past two to three decades. Indeed, despite the progress that has been made in methods of diagnosis and treatment, the sexually transmitted diseases as a whole are the most common communicable diseases and as such constitute an important health problem. The increase in incidence may be accounted for by changes in sexual behaviour, the introduction of contraceptives and the increasing mobility of the population. In addition, during the same time period, the number of infectious agents recognized as being sexually transmitted has increased considerably. These include Chlamydia trachomatis, herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus and hepatitis B virus. Indeed, some are as dependent on sexual transmission as the agents which cause the traditional venereal diseases and collectively they cause morbidity which has out-stripped that caused by gonorrhoea and syphilis. It could almost be said that to know the sexually transmitted diseases is to know micro- biology. However, the approach taken in this book has not been to consider individual infectious agents and evaluate what they do and do not cause but to consider clinical conditions and what might be responsible for them. To cover the complete spectrum of the sexually transmitted diseases in a comprehensive way now takes a text book of massive proportion.