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9781555813000

Evolution of Microbial Pathogens

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  • ISBN13:

    9781555813000

  • ISBN10:

    1555813003

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-03-20
  • Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology

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Northwestern Univ., Chicago, IL. Offers current understanding of virulence evolution for the microbiologist. Topics include general concepts of microbial evolution, environment and the evolution of microbial pathogens, evolution of selected pathogenic species and mechanisms, and more. For microbiologists and immunologists. DNLM: Bacteria - genetics.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Introduction xi
I. GENERAL CONCEPTS OF MICROBIAL EVOLUTION
1(122)
Part I Overview
3(8)
John J. Mckalanos
Studying Evolution Using Genome Sequence Data
11(24)
Jeffrey G. Lawrence
Population Dynamics of Bacterial Pathogens
35(20)
Martin C. J. Maiden
Rachel Urwin
The Study of Microbial Adaptation by Long-Term Experimental Evolution
55(28)
Vaughn S. Cooper
The Contribution of Pathogenicity Islands to the Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens
83(26)
Bianca Hochhut
Ulrich Dobrindt
Jorg Hacker
Black Holes and Antivirulence Genes: Selection for Gene Loss as Part of the Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens
109(14)
William A. Day
Anthony T. Maurelli
II. ENVIRONMENT AND THE EVOLUTION OF MICROBIAL PATHOGENS
123(120)
Part II Overview
125(6)
Roberto Kolter
Deborah A. Hogan
Evolution of Pathogens in Soil
131(16)
Rachel Muir
Man-Wah Tan
Experimental Models of Symbiotic Host-Microbial Relationships: Understanding the Underpinnings of Beneficence and the Origins of Pathogenesis
147(20)
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai
Jeffrey I. Gordon
The Evolution of Bacterial Toxins
167(22)
O. Colin Stine
James P. Nataro
Function, Evolution, and Classification of Macromolecular Transport Systems
189(32)
Paul J. Planet
David H. Figurski
Rob DeSalle
The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
221(22)
Dean Rowe-Magnus
Didier Mazel
III. EVOLUTION OF SELECTED PATHOGENIC SPECIES AND MECHANISMS
243(104)
Part III Overview
245(6)
James B. Kaper
Group A Streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus: Evolution, Reemergence, and Strain Diversification
251(22)
Sean D. Reid
J. Ross Fitzgerald
Stephen B. Beres
Nicole M. Green
James M. Musser
Evolution of Enteric Pathogens
273(28)
Ruiting Lan
Peter R. Reeves
Mycobacterial Evolution: Insights from Genomics and Population Genetics
301(26)
Alexander S. Pym
Peter M. Small
The Evolution of Human Fungal Pathogens
327(20)
Judith N. Steenbergen
A. Casadevall
Index 347

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