Textbook of Bacteriology
Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Bordetella Pertussis and Whooping Cough
This article focuses on the bacterium that causes whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis. It discusses how the bacterium effects the human body at it goes through various stages: colonization and the toxemic stage. Look at charts and...
Textbook of Bacteriology
Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Corynebacterium Diphtheriae
This detailed article focuses on the bacteria that causes diphtheria. Read about the discovery of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and how the and the various discoveries which have eased the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diphtheria.
Textbook of Bacteriology
Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Vibrio Cholerae and Asiatic Cholera
In addition to providing information on the intestinal disease cholera, this article discusses characteristics of the bacterium that causes it, Vibrio cholerae. This website includes a picture of the bacterium, a map of the disease's...
Textbook of Bacteriology
Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Lyme Disease (Borrelia Burgdorferi)
Read about the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, the reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, and the vaccination created to prevent Lyme disease. Included are pictures of erythema migrans, a condition in early Lyme...
Textbook of Bacteriology
Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Immune Defense: Inducible Defenses
A comprehensive approach inducible defenses and how they function differently than constitutive defenses. A discussion of immunological system, the immune responses and acquired immunity, complete with bold-face vocabulary terms. A...