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By R. N. Grüneberg MD, FRCPath (auth.)
A working towards clinician is needed to take advantage of wisdom from many fluctuate ent fields. it really is unrealistic to anticipate him to be grasp of various. in fact, clinicians gather a smattering of knowledge on so much proper matters, and research which texts give you the targeted informa tion that is sometimes required on extra hugely really good concerns. In my expert contacts with clinicians and clinical scholars it has develop into glaring that they generally lack the straightforward body paintings of microbiological wisdom essential to consultant their activities. it's because regular textbooks and realized treatises alike are con cerned with providing a physique of knowledge instead of with current ing what the health practitioner must comprehend to be able to deal with his sufferers. This quantity is an try to support clinicians of their daily perform. for that reason i've got stored it brief and feature no longer dwelt at size even on these themes which in particular curiosity me. No try out has been made to put in writing a textbook: a lot of those exist already. a number of refer ences are given to significant studies and to assets justifying many of the extra forthright statements. the topic of clinical microbiology is huge and concerned. i've got for this reason obvious it as my activity to simplify the presentation of the cloth, being very selective with reference to content material and giving my very own perspectives on issues of scientific significance.
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Precise diagnosis is important because it will determine subsequent management of the patient: inactivity in the commensal state; inactivity or resection of the lesion in aspergilloma; steroid therapy possibly combined with imidazoles for bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, and amphotericin B for invasive aspergillosis. The tendency to underestimate the significance of fungi is exemplified by an unfortunate patient seen in hospital some years ago. He had an unexplained fever lasting many weeks during which the whole gamut of clinical, radiological and laboratory investigations were undertaken without result.
Tissue cultures are monolayer cultures, in bottles, of cell lines derived from mammalian or human tissues which retain their vitality and capacity to divide for lengthy periods provided they are bathed in a suitable fluid, containing nutrients and changed at appropriate intervals. These cell sheets can be infected by viruses from clinical material. As no particular cell culture will be suitable for the culture of all medically important viruses, clinical laboratories undertaking this work maintain several different cell lines to cover most of the likely possibilities.
In some cases, virus nucleic acid may integrate with the host cell's genetic material and alter the characteristics of the host cell (lysogenic conversion). One example of this is the production, under the influence of a 'phage, of diphtheria toxin by strains of otherwise non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Another example is the virulence factor for the intestinal tract of young animals which is conferred by other 'phages on some serotypes of Escherichia coli. The occasional role of 'phages in accidentally carrying plasmids mediating antibiotic resistance or other characteristics from one bacterial host to another (transduction) has been mentioned in Chapter 2.