The goal of this textbook is to explain the general principle of infectious diseases and the most common infectious diseases, including etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis and pathology, clinical manifestations, laboratory examinations, diagnosis,differential diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prophylaxis. At the same time itpresents a thorough and updated overview of this field. Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are also included in it, like SARS, H1N1 and hand-food-and-mouth diseas

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Conceptions of Infection and Infectious Disease
1.2 The Host Response to Infection
1.3 Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease
1.4 Major Manifestations of Infection
1.5 Prevention and Control of Infection
1.6 Diagnosis of Infectious Disease
1.7 Principle Management of Infection
Chapter 2 Prion Diseases
2.1 Etiology
2.2 Epidemiology
2.3 Pathogenesis and Pathology
2.4 Clinical Manifestations
2.5 Laboratory Examinations
2.6 Diagnosis
2.7 Differential Diagnosis
2.8 Prognosis
2.9 Treatment
2.10 Prophylaxis
Chapter 3 Viral Infections
3.1 ViralHepatitis
3.2 Dengue Fever
3.3 Epidemic Encephalitis
3.4 Rabies
3.5 Influenza
3.6 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
3.7 Mumps
3.8 Measles
3.9 Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome
3.10 Poliomyelitis
3.11 Chickenpox and Herpes Zoster
3.12 Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease
3.13 AIDS
Chapter 4 Rickettsiae Infections
4.1 Epidemic Typhus
4.2 EndemicTyphus
Chapter 5 Bacterial Infections
5.1 Scarlet Fever
5.2 Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis
5.3 Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever
5.4 Bacterial Food Poisoning
5.5 ShigeUosis
5.6 Cholera
5.7 Diphtheria
5.8 Pertussis
5.9 Anthrax
5.10 Brucellosis
5.11 Plague
Chapter 6 Spirochete Infection
6.1 Leptospirosis
Chapter 7 Protozoon Infections
7.1 Amebiasis
7.2 Malaria
Chapter 8 Helminth Infection
8.1 Schistosomiasts