Tuberculosis and the tubercle bacillus.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiley Online Library
Other Authors: Cole, Stewart T (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : ASM Press, 2005
Series:Monograph, ASM Press.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Global burden of tuberculosis : past, present, and future / Liz Corbett and Mario Raviglione
  • Overview of clinical tuberculosis / Philip C. Hopewell and Robert M. Jasmer
  • Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis / M. Donald Cave, Megan Murray, and Edward Nardell
  • Clinical mycobacteriology (tuberculosis) laboratory : services and methods / Leonid Heifets and Edward Desmond
  • Immune-based methods / Suman Laal and Yasir A.W. Skeiky
  • Molecular diagnosis of mycobacterial infections / Betty A. Forbes and Gaby Pfyffer
  • Global impact of multidrug resistance / Marcos A. Espinal and Max Salfinger
  • Mechanisms of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Ying Zhang, William R. Jacobs, and Catherine Vilchèze
  • Introduction to functional genomics of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex / Priscille Brodin, Caroline Demangel, and Stewart T. Cole
  • Comparative genomics and evolution of Mycobacterium bovis BCG / Roland Brosch and Marcel A. Behr
  • TB or not TB: a structural genomics mission? / Celia W. Goulding, Debnath Pal, and David Eisenberg.
  • Gene replacement systems / Neil G. Stoker, P. Sander, and J.M. Reyrat
  • Repetitive DNA in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex / Stephen V. Gordon and Philip Supply
  • Mycobacteriophages and tuberculosis / Graham F. Hatfull
  • Control of mycobacterial transcription / Issar Smith, William R. Bishai, and Valakunja Nagaraja
  • The proteome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis / John T. Belisle [and others]
  • The cell envelope of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with special reference to the capsule and outer permeability barrier / Philip Draper and Mamadou Daffé
  • Structure, biosynthesis, and genetics of the mycolic acid-arabinoglactan-peptidoglycan complex / Sebabrata Mahapatra [and others]
  • A waxy tale, by Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Laurent Kremer and Gurdyal S. Besra
  • General metabolism and biochemical pathways of tubercle bacilli / Paul R. Wheeler and John S. Blanchard
  • Iron metabolism in the tubercle bacillus and other mycobacteria / Luis E.N. Quadri and Colin Ratledge.
  • Two-component systems, protein kinases, and signal transduction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Yossef Av-Gay and Vojo Deretic
  • Nucleic acid metabolism / Valerie Mizrahi, Michael Buckstein, and Harvey Rubin
  • Transport processes / Jean Content [and others]
  • Receptor-mediated recognition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by host cells / Matthew J. Fenton, Lee W. Riley, and Larry S. Schlesinger
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis : the indigestible microbe / David G. Russell
  • Intracellular models of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection / John Chan [and others]
  • Dendritic cells in host immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Marc Mendelson, Willem Hanekom, and Gilla Kaplan
  • CD8 T cells in tuberculosis / Stefan H.E. Kaufmann and JoAnn L. Flynn
  • CD1 and tuberculosis / Christopher C. Dascher and Michael B. Brenner
  • TH1 and TH2 cytokines in the human immune response to tuberculosis / Peter F. Barnes and Ramakrishna Vankayalapati
  • Role of antibody-mediated immunity in host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Aharona Glatman-Freedman and Arturo Casadevall.
  • The PE and PPE multigene families of mycobacteria / Michael J. Brennan, Nico C. Gey van Pittius, and Clara Espitia
  • Mycobacterium marinarum and fish and frog models of infection / Michele Trucksis, Christopher L. Pritchett, and Renate Reimschuessel
  • Experimental infection models of tuberculosis in domestic and wild animals / Bryce M. Buddle, John M. Pollock, and R. Glyn Hewinson
  • Animal models of tuberculosis / JoAnne L. Flynn, Andrea M. Cooper, and William Bishai
  • Tuberculosis vaccine preclinical screening and development / Ian M. Orme and Angelo A. Izzo.