Virulence mechanisms of bacterial pathogens / edited by Kim A. Brogden [and others].

Date:
[2000], ©2000
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Publication/Creation

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [2000], ©2000.

Physical description

xvii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition

3rd ed.

Notes

"This edition resulted from the International Symposium of Virulence Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens held in Ames, Iowa, USA on September 13-15, 1999"--Pref.
Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Bacterial adherence, colonization, and invasion of mucosal surfaces / John H. Brumell and B. Brett Finlay -- Bacterial evasion of host-derived antimicrobial peptides on mucosal surfaces / Kim Alan Brogden -- Consequences of bacterial invasion into nonprofessional phagocytic cells / Jeffrey B. Lyczak and Gerald B. Pier -- Ecological aspects of host colonization: coaggregation, osmoadaptation, and acid tolerance or resistance / Thad Stanton -- Relationships between community behavior and pathogenesis in psuedomonas aeruginosa / Matthew R. Parsek and E.P. Greenberg -- Antibiotic resistance and survival in the host / Emma L.A. Macfarlane and Robert E.W. Hancock -- What is the very model of a modern macrophage pathogen / David G. Russell -- Bacterial resistance to antibody-dependent defenses / Lynette B. Corbeil -- Mechanisms of resistance to NO-related antibacterial activity / Andrés Vazques-Torres and Ferric C. Fang -- DNA repair and mutators: effects on antigenic variation and virulence of bacterial pathogens / Thomas A. Cebula and J. Eugene LeClerc -- Bacterial toxins in disease production / Joseph T. Barbieri and Kristin J. Pederson -- Exploitation of mammalian host cell function by shigella spp. / Larean D. Brandon and Marcia B. Goldberg -- Bacterial induction of cytokine secretion in pathogenesis of airway inflammation / Alice Prince -- Type III secretion pathway: dictating the outcome of bacterial-host interactions / Raymond Schuch and Anthony T. Maurelli -- Impact of horizontal gene transfer on the evolution of salmonella pathogenesis / Robert A. Kingsley -- Regulation of virulence gene expression in vivo / James M. Slauch -- Identification of virulence genes in silico: infectious disease genomics / George M. Weinstock.

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