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Bacterial pathogenesis：a molecular approach

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Salyers Abigail A.
Group Author: Whitt Dixie D.
Published: ASM Press,
Publisher Address: Washington, D.C.
Publication Dates: c1994.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Bacterial diseases > Pathogenesis.
Virulence (Microbiology)
Bacteria > Pathogenicity.
Bacterial Infections > etiology.
Bacterial Infections > prevention & control.
Host-Parasite Relations
Virulence.
Carrier Form: xxvii, 418 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
ISBN: 1555810705
Index Number: Q939
CLC: Q939.4
R378
Call Number: R378/S186
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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