Understanding Microbes in Sickness and in Health

Understanding Microbes

in Sickness and in Health

NIAID

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health

NIAID SCIENCE EDUCATION

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Understanding Microbes

in Sickness and in Health

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIH Publication No. 09-4914 September 2009 niaid.

Contents

3 What Are Microbes? 9 Microbes Have Bothered Us for Millennia 12 Microbes Can Make Us Sick 14 Microbes Can Infect Us 19 Some People Are Immune to Certain Diseases 21 Microbes Cause Different Kinds of Infections 23 You Can Prevent Catching or Passing on Germs 26 When You Should Go to the Doctor 27 Infectious Diseases Are Diagnosed in Many Ways 28 Infectious Diseases Are Treated in Many Ways 33 New and Old Microbes Emerge on the Scene 35 Research 37 Glossary 40 More Information 42 Credits

(cover) Electromicrograph of an amoeba as it entraps a Legionella pneumophila bacterium, which causes Legionnaires' disease. (left) Macrophage infected by Fransicella tularensis bacteria, which cause tularemia.

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NIAID I UNDERSTANDING MICROBES

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