Genetic Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases

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Genetic Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases is written by Richard A. Kaslow M.D. and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 019972122X (ISBN 10) and 9780199721221 (ISBN 13).

Infectious diseases are commonly regarded as a distinct category, with different causes and patterns than chronic or genetic disease. But in fact there are many varieties of genetic susceptibility to infection, the subject of this book, which will be divided into three sections: 1) concepts and methods, 2) genes and pathophysiologic mechanisms, and 3) infectious agents and diseases. No currently plubished text on either genetics or infectious diseases focuses on the genetic aspects of the special relationship between host and pathogen in the way envisioned for Section 1. No other work on the selected genes regulating immunity deals as systematically with the sequence variation/function relationships most pertinent to infection as planned for Section 2. And no other book gives as meaningful a picture of how these genes operate in infectious disease as Section 3 will.