Infection

This comprehensive treatise on the reticuloendothelial system is a project jointly shared by individual members of the Reticuloendothelial (RE) Society and bio medical scientists in general who are interested in the intricate system of cells and molecular moieties derived from those cells that constitute the RES. It may now be more fashionable in some quarters to consider these cells as part of what is called the mononuc1ear phagocytic system or the lymphoreticular system. Nevertheless, because of historical developments and current interest in the subject by investigators from many diverse areas, it seems advantageous to present in one comprehensive treatise current information and knowledge con cerning basic aspects of the RES, such as morphology, biochemistry, phylogeny and ontogeny, physiology, and pharmacology, as well as c1inical areas inc1uding immunopathology, cancer, infectious diseases, allergy, and hypersensitivity. It is anticipated that, by presenting information concerning these apparently het erogeneous topics under the unifying umbrella of the RES, attention will be focused on the similarities as well as interactions among the cell types constitut ing the RES from the viewpoint of various disciplines. The treatise editors and their editorial board, consisting predominantly of the editors of individual vol umes, are extremely grateful for the enthusiastic cooperation and enormous task undertaken by members of the biomedical community in general and especially by members of the American as well as European and Japanese Reticuloen dothelial Societies Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Resistance to Respiratory Infection in the Immunocompetent Host....Pages 1-23 The Role of the Reticuloendothelial System in Infections of the Central Nervous System....Pages 25-46 Chronic Adult Periodontitis....Pages 47-63 Host—Pathogen Interactions in the Gastrointestinal Tract....Pages 65-84 Host Resistance against Bacterial Infections....Pages 85-107 Immunity to Syphilitic Infection....Pages 109-124 Immunology of Mycobacterial Infections....Pages 125-177 Interactions between Macrophages and Fungi....Pages 179-205 Macrophages and Natural Resistance to Virus Infections....Pages 207-223 Virus-Induced Modulation of Reticuloendothelial Function....Pages 225-247 The Role of the Reticuloendothelial System in Viral Hepatitis....Pages 249-268 Pathogenetic Mechanisms of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome....Pages 269-296 The Reticuloendothelial System in Infection with RNA Tumor Viruses....Pages 297-347 Back Matter....Pages 349-357