Genetic Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases

By Janet McNicholl, Richard A. Kaslow, Adrian V.S. Hill

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195174909
• ISBN13: 9780195174908
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.