Molecular biology of bacterial infection : current status and future perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Society for General Microbiology
Other Authors:	Hormaeche, C. E., Penn, C. W., Smyth, C. J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Series:	Symposia of the Society for General Microbiology ; 49th
Subjects:	Bacterial diseases > Molecular aspects > Congresses. Host-bacteria relationships > Congresses. Bacterial genetics > Congresses. Virulence (Microbiology) > Congresses. Bacterial Infections > genetics > congresses. Virulence > genetics > congresses. Molecular Biology > congresses.

Table of Contents:

Mechanisms involved in the development of the intestinal microflora in relation to the host organism: consequences for colonization resistance / D. Van der Waaij
Recent developments regarding the evolution of pathogenic bacteria / M. Achtman and R. Hakenbeck
Molecular genetic approaches to understanding bacterial pathogenesis / B.B. Finlay
Molecular and cellular biology of epithelial invasion by Shigella flexneri and other enteroinvasive pathogens / P.J. Sansonetti
Antigenic variation in bacterial pathogens / B.D. Robertson and T.F. Meyer
Haemophilus influenzae lipopolysaccharide: the biochemistry and biology of a virulence factor / E.R. Moxon and D. Maskell
Life within phagocytic cells / S.H.E. Kaufmann and I.E.A. Flesch
Chronic infections, latency and the carrier state / C.W. Penn
Bacterial enterotoxin interactions / B.W. Wren
Superantigenic activities of bacterial toxins / C.R.A. Hewitt ... [et al.]
Use of mutants for defining the role of virulence factors in vivo / T.J. Foster.
(cont) Global regulation of gene expression during environmental adaptation: implications for bacterial pathogens / C.J. Dorman and N. Ni Bhriain
Yersiniae, finely tuned pathogens / G.R. Cornelis
Bacterial fimbriae: variation and regulatory mechanisms / C.J. Smyth and S.G.J. Smith
Salmonella genetics and vaccine development / S. Chatfield ... [et al.].