Screen LibraryMolecular paradigms of infectious disease：a bacterial perspective
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| Published: |
Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Emerging infectious diseases of the 21st century |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 645 p., [4] p. of plates: ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0387309179 (hd. bd.) 0387329013 (e-book) 9780387309170 (hd. bd.) 9780387329017 (e-book) |
| Index Number: | R37 |
| CLC: |
R37 R510.3 |
| Call Number: | R510.3/M718 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Genetic analysis of bacterial pathogenesis -- Genetic exchance in bacteria and the modular structure of mobile DNA elements -- Genomics and the use of genomic tools to study pathogenic bacteria -- Pathogenicity islands and bacterial virulence -- Capsules -- Bacterial cell walls -- Mechanisms of bacterial adhesion and consequences of attachment -- Bacterial invasion into non-phagocytic cells -- Bacterial protein secretion mechanisms -- Toxins as host cell modulators -- Quorum sensing: coordinating group behavior through intercellular signals -- The role of sigma factors in regulating bacterial stress responses and pathogenesis -- Two-component regulatory systems -- Oxidative stress systems in bacteria: four model organisms -- Bacterial biowarfare agents. |