Bacterial Infections

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Welcome.
• I. Bacterial Infections: Changes in their Causative Agents. Trends.
• Changing Prevalence of Pathogenic Bacteria in Relation to Time and the Introduction and Use of New Antimicrobial Agents.
• The Changing Pattern of Infecting Organisms.
• Etiology of Pyogenic and Urinary Tract Infections in the Region of Cologne.
• The Change of Causative Agents in Wound Infection, Septicaemia and Meningitis in a 2000-bed Hospital from 1957 to 1968.
• Distribution of Pneumococcus Types at Different Times in Different Areas.
• II. Bacterial Infections: Changes in their Causative Agents. Possible Basis.
• Non-Specific Mechanisms of Resistance to Infection and their Influence on the Changing Pattern of Causative Agents.
• Opportunists and Opportunity in Infection.
• The Colonisation of Ventriculo-Atrial Shunts by Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci.
• Pathogenic Significance of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci.
• Changes in the Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus.
• Pool of Staphylococcal Infections in a Hospital.
• Changes of the Infectious Pool in the Hospital with Regard to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli.
• Occurrence of Serratia marcescens in Soft Tissue Infections.
• Septic Infections by Bacteria of low Pathogenicity in Patients with Resistance Reduced by Chemotherapy.
• Influence of Antibiotic Treatment on the Bacterial Flora of Severe Burns.
• An Antibody Response in Pyelonephritis after Change in Causative Organisms.
• L-Forms: Problems and Outlook.
• Role of Deficient Mutants in Microbial Persistence.
• Epidemiological Investigations of R-Factor Bearing Enterobacteriaceae in Man and Animals in Germany.
• General Discussion.
• Author Index.