# 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