Screen LibraryMolecular paradigms of infectious disease：a bacterial perspective
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Emerging infectious diseases of the 21st century |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32901-7 |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 645 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780387329017 (electronic bk.) 0387329013 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | R510 |
| CLC: | R510.3 |
| 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. |