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9781555811594

Persistent Bacterial Infections

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  • ISBN13:

    9781555811594

  • ISBN10:

    1555811590

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-05-01
  • Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology

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Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Contents include the biology of persistent infection, persistent bacterial pathogens, pathogenesis of persistent clinical syndromes, and more. For microbiologists and practitioners. DNLM: Bacterial diseases.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Foreword xiii
I INTRODUCTION 1(10)
Persistent Bacterial Infections: Commensalism Gone Awry or Adaptive Niche?
3(8)
James P. Nataro
Martin J. Blaser
Susanna Cunningham-Rundles
II THE BIOLOGY OF PERSISTENT INFECTION 11(188)
Antigenic Variation and the Persistence of Extracellular Bacteria in Vertebrate Hosts
13(18)
John L. Wylie
Robert C. Brunham
Life on the Inside: Microbial Strategies for Intracellular Survival and Persistence
31(22)
Anthony P. Sinai
Mechanisms for Establishing Persistence: Immune Modulation
53(26)
Taraz Samandari
Myron M. Levine
Marcelo B. Sztein
Mathematical Models of Colonization and Persistence in Bacterial Infections
79(22)
Denise E. Kirschner
Rolf Freter
The Natural History and Ecology of Commensal Human Floras
101(14)
K. A. Bettelheim
Pathological Consequences of Commensalism
115(30)
Agnes E. Wold
Ingegerd Adlerberth
Bacterial Infections in the Immunocompromised Host
145(20)
Susanna Cunningham-Rundles
Mirjana Nesin
Influence of γδ T Cells on the Development of Chronic Disease and Persistent Bacterial Infections
165(18)
Paul J. Egan
Simon R. Carding
Microbial Superantigens and Immunological Deregulation
183(16)
Barbara A. Torres
Jeanne M. Soos
George Q. Perrin
Howard M. Johnson
III PERSISTENT BACTERIAL PATHOGENS 199(156)
Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Adaptation and Survival in the Urogenital Tract
201(28)
Ann E. Jerse
Chlamydia spp.
229(34)
Toni Darville
Helicobacter pylori
263(18)
Andre Dubois
Anthony Welch
Douglas E. Berg
Martin J. Blaser
Lyme Borreliosis
281(24)
Stephen W. Barthold
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections
305(22)
V. Deretic
Mycobacterium Infections
327(12)
Michele Trucksis
Bartonella Species
339(16)
Jane E. Koehler
IV PATHOGENESIS OF PERSISTENT CLINICAL SYNDROMES 355(86)
Persistence of Infective Endocarditis
357(18)
Mark C. Herzberg
Osteomyelitis
375(22)
M. E. Shirtliff
J. E. Mader
Abscesses
397(12)
Laurie E. Comstock
Arthur O. Tzianabos
Dental Plaque
409(14)
Cynthia Gove Bloomquist
William F. Liljemark
Biofilms and Device-Related Infections
423(18)
J. William Costerton
Philip S. Stewart
Index 441

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