Evolution of Microbial Pathogens - Rilegato

Steven Seifert, H Steven; Dirita, Victor J

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1555813003 ISBN 13: 9781555813000

Casa editrice: ASM Press, 2006

Riassunto

An up-to-date examination of the evolution of microbial pathogenesis. • Provides comprehensive coverage with a dual focus on pathogenesis and methods used to study evolution. • Emphasizes broad themes of evolution and examines the process of studying evolution. • Provides examples of how problems that are common to various pathogens have been solved by evolution. • Serves as a valuable reference for laboratory directors, postdoctoral fellows, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students.

This title is published by the American Society for Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

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Contenuti

Table of Contents Part I. General Concepts of Microbial Evolution 1. Part I Overview, John J. Mekalanos 2. Studying Evolution Using Genome Sequence Data, Jeffrey G. Lawrence 3. Population Dynamics of Bacterial Pathogens, Martin C. J. Maiden and Rachel Urwin 4. The Study of Microbial Adaptation by Long-Term Experimental Evolution, Vaughn S. Cooper 5. The Contribution of Pathogenicity Islands to the Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens, Bianca Hochhut, Ulrich Dobrindt, and Jörg Hacker 6. Black Holes and Antivirulence Genes: Selection for Gene Loss as Part of the Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens, William A. Day and Anthony T. Maurelli Part II. Environment and the Evolution of Microbial Pathogens 7. Part II Overview, Roberto Kolter and Deborah A. Hogan 8. Evolution of Pathogens in Soil, Rachel Muir and Man-Wah Tan 9. Experimental Models of Symbiotic Host-Microbial Relationships: Understanding the Underpinnings of Beneficence and the Origins of Pathogenesis, Margaret J. McFall-Ngai and Jeffrey I. Gordon 10. The Evolution of Bacterial Toxins, O. Colin Stine and James P. Nataro 11. Function, Evolution, and Classification of Macromolecular Transport Systems, Paul J. Planet, David H. Figurski, and Rob DeSalle 12. The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance, Dean Rowe-Magnus and Didier Mazel Part III. Evolution of Selected Pathogenic Species and Mechanisms 13. Part III Overview, James B. Kaper 14. Group A Streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus: Evolution, Reemergence, and Strain Diversification, Sean D. Reid, J. Ross Fitzgerald, Stephen B. Beres, Nicole M. Green, and James M. Musser 15. Evolution of Enteric Pathogens, Ruiting Lan and Peter R. Reeves 16. Mycobacterial Evolution: Insights from Genomics and Population Genetics, Alexander S. Pym and Peter M. Small 17. The Evolution of Human Fungal Pathogens, Judith N. Steenbergen and A. Casadevall

Dalla quarta di copertina

examines evolution of microbial pathogenesis, capitalizing on explosion of knowledge of molecular mechanisms and microbial genome sequencing; covers general concepts of microbial evolution including gene acquisition, gene loss, and concept of microbial species; presents information on broad areas of evolution of pathogenesis, including evolution of pathogenic microbes in soil, evolution of microbe–plant interactions, human specific pathogens, zoonotic infections, biofilm formation in the environment and pathogenesis, and co–evolution of pathogens and the immune system; considers evolution of pathogenic systems found in a variety of microbes or specific subsets of pathogens.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: ASM Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1555813003
• ISBN 13: 9781555813000
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 370
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile