Books

Microbial Inhabitants of Humans: The Ecology and Role in Health and Disease
Michael Wilson
Cambridge University Press (New York), 2005

Control Of Communicable Diseases Manual, 18th edition
David L. Heymann, ed
American Public Health Association, 2004

Infectious Causes of Cancer: Targets for Intervention
James J. Goedert, ed
Humana Press (Totowa, NJ), 2000

Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments
Paul W. Ewald
The Free Press (New York), 2000

Microbes and Malignancy: Infection as a Cause of Human Cancers
Julie Parsonnet, ed
Oxford University Press (New York), 1999

Infectious Disease

Wikipedia's List of Infectious Diseases

List of ICD-9 codes 001-139: Infectious and parasitic diseases

Infectious disease: Inextricable linkages between human and ecosystem health. (editorial)
Biological Conservation 2006 Aug;131:143
Macdonald DW, Laurenson MK

Filthy friends. [hygiene hypothesis]
New Scientist 2005 Apr 16:34-39
Hamilton G

Infections and immune factors in cancer: the role of epidemiology.
Oncogene 2004 Aug 23;23(38):6341-8
Kinlen L

The challenge of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
Nature 2004 Jul 8;430(6996):242-9
Morens DM, Folkers GK, Fauci AS

Risk factors for human disease emergence.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 2001 Jul 29;356(1411):983-9
Taylor LH, Latham SM, Woolhouse ME

Diseases of humans and their domestic mammals: pathogen characteristics, host range and the risk of emergence.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 2001 Jul 29;356(1411):991-9
Cleaveland S, Laurenson MK, Taylor LH

Psychotropic Infections

Immunity and behavior: antibodies alter emotion.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2006 Jan 17;103(3):678-83
Huerta PT, Kowal C, DeGiorgio LA, Volpe BT, Diamond B

Post-streptococcal autoimmune disorders of the central nervous system.
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2005 Nov;47(11):785-791
Dale RC

Coughs and sneezes spread mind diseases.
New Scientist 2004 Nov 6:40-43
Ginsburg J

Detecting pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder and tics.
Biological Psychiatry 2004 Jan 1;55(1):61-8.
Murphy TK, Sajid M, Soto O, Shapira N, Edge P, Yang M, Lewis MH, Goodman WK.

Psychotropic viruses.
Current Opinion in Microbiology 2004 Aug;7(4):420-5
Lipkin WI, Hornig M

Borna disease virus.
Journal of Neurovirology 2003 Apr;9(2):259-73
Hornig M, Briese T, Lipkin WI

Tick-borne Psychotropic Infections

Toxoplasma gondii. (Wikipedia)

Full year of treatment helps infants and children with toxoplasmosis. (press release)
University of Chicago Medical Center, May 15, 2006

Parasites as causative agents of human affective disorders? The impact of anti-psychotic, mood-stabilizer and anti-parasite medication on Toxoplasma gondii's ability to alter host behaviour.
Proceedings: Biological Sciences/The Royal Society 2006 Apr 22;273(1589):1023-30
Webster JP, Lamberton PH, Donnelly CA, Torrey EF

Immune to fear.
American Scientist 2006 Mar-Apr;94:121-122
Brodie C

Diagnosis and Management of Tickborne Rickettsial diseases: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichioses, and anaplasmosis - United States
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2006 Mar 31;55(RR-4)
Chapman AS

Non-psychotropic Infections

Virus (Wikipedia)

Human cytomegalovirus infection and T cell immunosenescence: A mini review.
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development 2006 Jun;127(6):538-43
Koch S, Solana R, Rosa OD, Pawelec G

Virus-induced obesity.
American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 2006 Jan;290(1):R188-9
Greenway F

Serum antibodies against human intracisternal A-type particle (HIAP) endogenous retrovirus in Alopecia areata patients: a hallmark of autoimmune disease?
Journal of Investigational Dermatology 2004 Aug;123(2):407-9
La Placa M, Vitone F, Bianchi T, Vincenzi C, Gibellini D, Re MC, Tosti A

Dendritic cell-induced autoimmune heart failure requires cooperation between adaptive and innate immunity.
Nature Medicine 2003 Dec;9(12):1484-90
Eriksson U, Ricci R, Hunziker L, Kurrer MO, Oudit GY, Watts TH, Sonderegger I, Bachmaier K, Kopf M, Penninger JM

Detection of a human intracisternal A-type retroviral particle antigenically related to HIV.
Science 1990 Nov 23;250(4984):1127-9
Garry RF, Fermin CD, Hart DJ, Alexander SS, Donehower LA, Luo-Zhang H

Miscellaneous

The End of the Self [a different take on immunity/autoimmunity]
Discover 1996 Apr;17(4)
Richardson S

Overcoming self [cancer vaccinology]
Scientific American 2004 Jul:40-1
Stix G