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Bacterial pathogenesis : a molecular approach /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salyers, Abigail A.
Other Authors: Whitt, Dixie D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [1994]
Subjects:
Bacteria > pathogenicity.
Bacterial Infections > etiology.
Bacterial Infections > prevention & control.
Host-Parasite Interactions.
Virulence.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the host-parasite interaction
  • Host defenses against bacterial pathogens: defenses of body surfaces
  • Host defenses against bacterial pathogens: defenses of tissue and blood
  • Virulence factors that promote colonization
  • Virulence factors that damage the host
  • Regulation of virulence genes
  • Experimental approaches to investigating the host-bacterium interaction
  • Vaccines and other approaches to modulating the immune response
  • Antibiotics: mechanisms of action and mechanisms of bacterial resistance.
  • Paradigms of bacterium-host interactions
  • Diphtheria
  • Scarlet fever, toxic shock syndrome, and the return of severe, invasive streptococcal disease
  • Disease without colonization: food-borne toxinoses caused by Clostridium botulinum, Staphylococcus aureus, and Clostridium perfringens
  • Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)
  • Whooping cough (Bordetella pertussis)
  • Dysentery caused by Shigella species
  • Listeria monocytogenes
  • Escherichia coli gastrointestinal infections
  • Escherichia coli urinary tract infections.
  • Yersinia infections
  • Salmonella infections
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Future challenges
  • Gastric and duodenal ulcers: an infectious disease
  • Pseudomembranous colitis
  • Lyme disease and syphilis
  • Legionnaire's disease
  • Tuberculosis
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae
  • Streptococcal sore throat, rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis
  • Cell surface structure of bacteria
  • Phylogenetic diversity of pathogenic bacteria
  • Nucleic acid-based detection systems.