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Title Molecular paradigms of infectious disease : a bacterial perspective / Cheryl A. Nickerson, Michael J. Schurr, editors.

Publication Info. New York : Springer, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  QR74.8 .M65 2006    Available  ---
Description xii, 645 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Series Emerging infectious diseases of the 21st century
Emerging infectious diseases of the 21st century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Communicable diseases -- Molecular aspects.
Communicable diseases.
Bacteria.
Bacteria.
Molecular microbiology.
Molecular microbiology.
ISBN 0387309179 hardbound
0387329013 e-book
9780387309170 hardbound
9780387329017 e-book