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8.6 Bacteria 958

8.6 Bacteria 958

8.6 Bacteria CONTENTS 8.6.1 Diphtheria  959 Delia B. Bethell and Tran Tinh Hien 8.6.2 Streptococci and enterococci  965 Dennis L. Stevens and Sarah Hobdey 8.6.3 Pneumococcal infections  975 Anthony Scott 8.6.4 Staphylococci  991 Kyle J. Popovich, Robert A. Weinstein, and Bala Hota 8.6.5 Meningococcal infections  1010 Petter Brandtzaeg 8.6.6 Neisseria gonorrhoeae  1025 Jackie Sherrard and Magnus Unemo 8.6.7 Enterobacteria and bacterial food poisoning  1032 Hugh Pennington 8.6.8 Pseudomonas aeruginosa  1041 G.C.K.W. Koh and Sharon J. Peacock 8.6.9 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers  1044 Christopher M. Parry and Buddha Basnyat 8.6.10 Intracellular klebsiella infections (donovanosis
and rhinoscleroma)  1051 John Richens and Nicole Stoesser 8.6.11 Anaerobic bacteria  1055 Anilrudh A. Venugopal and David W. Hecht 8.6.12 Cholera  1060 Aldo A.M. Lima and Richard L. Guerrant 8.6.13 Haemophilus influenzae  1066 Esther Robinson 8.6.14 Haemophilus ducreyi and chancroid  1071 Nigel O’Farrell 8.6.15 Bordetella infection  1073 Cameron C. Grant 8.6.16 Melioidosis and glanders  1076 Sharon J. Peacock 8.6.17 Plague: Yersinia pestis  1081 Michael Prentice 8.6.18 Other Yersinia infections: Yersiniosis  1086 Michael Prentice 8.6.19 Pasteurella  1088 Marina S. Morgan 8.6.20 Francisella tularensis infection  1091 Petra C.F. Oyston 8.6.21 Anthrax  1094 Arthur E. Brown 8.6.22 Brucellosis  1102 Juan D. Colmenero and Pilar Morata 8.6.23 Tetanus  1109 C. Louise Thwaites and Lam Minh Yen 8.6.24 Clostridium difficile  1115 David W. Eyre and Mark H. Wilcox 8.6.25 Botulism, gas gangrene, and clostridial gastrointestinal infections  1120 Dennis L. Stevens, Michael J. Aldape, and Amy E. Bryant 8.6.26 Tuberculosis  1126 Richard E. Chaisson and Jean B. Nachega 8.6.27 Disease caused by environmental mycobacteria  1150 Jakko van Ingen 8.6.28 Leprosy (Hansen’s disease)  1154 Diana N.J. Lockwood 8.6.29 Buruli ulcer: Mycobacterium ulcerans infection  1167 Bouke de Jong, Françoise Portaels, and Wayne M. Meyers 8.6.30 Actinomycoses  1170 Klaus P. Schaal 8.6.31 Nocardiosis  1176 Roderick J. Hay 8.6.32 Rat bite fevers (Streptobacillus moniliformis and
Spirillum minus infection)  1179 Andrew F. Woodhouse 8.6.33 Lyme borreliosis  1181 Gary P. Wormser, John Nowakowski, and Robert B. Nadelman 8.6.34 Relapsing fevers  1188 David A. Warrell