Principles of Bacterial Pathogenesis

Principles of Bacterial Pathogenesis presents a molecular perspective on a select group of bacterial pathogens by having the leaders of the field present their perspective in a clear and authoritative manner. Each chapter contains a comprehensive review devoted to a single pathogen. Several chapters include work from authors outside the pathogenesis field, providing general perspectives on the evolution, regulation, and secretion of virulence and determinants.

Explains the basic principles of bacterial pathogenesisCovers diverse aspects integrating regulation, cellular microbiology and evolution of microbial disease of humansDiscusses current strategies for the identification of virulence determinants and the methods used by microbes to deliver virulence factorsPresents authoritative treatises of the major disease microorganisms

Contributors.
E.A. Groisman, Preface.
H. Ochman, Evolution of Bacterial Pathogenesis.
J.R. Harper and T.J. Silhavy, Germ Warfare: The Mechanisms of Virulence Factor Delivery.
C. J. Dorman and S.G.J. Smith, Regulation of Virulence Gene Expression in Bacterial Pathogens.
A. Camilli, D.S. Merrell, and J.J. Mekalanos, Strategies to Identify Bacterial Pathogenicity Factors.
J.R. Alfano and A. Collmer, Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenesis in Plants: Familiar Foes in a Foreign Kingdom.
A.P. Boyd & G.R. Cornelis, Yersinia.
C.A. Scherer and S.I. Miller, Molecular Pathogenesis of Salmonellae.
P.J. Sansonetti, C. Egile, and C. Wennerås, Shigellosis: From Disease Symptoms to Molecular and Cellular Pathogenesis.
J.L. Puente and B.B. Finlay, Pathogenic Escherichia coli.
V.J. DiRita, Molecular Basis of Vibrio cholerae Pathogenesis.
T.L. Cover, D.E. Berg, M.J. Blaser, and H.L.T. Mobley, H. Pylori, Pathogenesis.
S.D. Gray-Owen, C. Dehio, T. Rudel, M. Naumann, and T.F. Meyer, Neisseria.
P.A. Cotter and J.F. Miller, Bordetella.
C.M. Tang, D.W. Hood, and E.R. Moxon, Pathogenesis of Haemophilus Influenzae Infections.
M. Caparon, Pathogenic Mechanisms in Streptococcal Diseases.
H. Fsihi, P. Steffen, and P. Cosart, Listeria Monocytogenes.
Index.