Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 1132 g
Reihe: Intracellular Pathogens
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 1132 g
Reihe: Intracellular Pathogens
ISBN: 978-1-55581-674-2
Verlag: Wiley
Details the scientific knowledge about how these obligate intracellular bacteria invade, survive and replicate inside eukaryotic cells.
Describes the spectrum of disease caused by an infection including protective and pathologic immune responses.
Describes the latest developments, including genomics and biomathematical modeling, and progress towards genetic tools and a vaccine.
Serves as a significant research book for scientists, physicians, medical students, public health professionals, epidemiologists, biocomputational scientists and government policy makers.
This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.
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INTRACELLULAR PATHOGENS I: CHLAMYDIALES CONTENTS
1. Chlamydia Infection and Epidemiology
Byron E. Batteiger
1
2. Deep and Wide: Comparative Genomics of Chlamydia
Garry S. A. Myers, Jonathan Crabtree, and Heather Huot Creasy
27
3. Lessons from Environmental Chlamydiae
Alexander Siegl and Matthias Horn
51
4. The Chlamydial Cell Envelope
David E. Nelson
74
5. Chlamydial Adhesion and Adhesins
Johannes H. Hegemann and Katja Moelleken
97
6. Initial Interactions of Chlamydiae with the Host Cell
Ted Hackstadt
126
7. Temporal Gene Regulation during
the Chlamydial Developmental Cycle
Ming Tan
149
8. Cell Biology of the Chlamydial Inclusion
Marcela Kokes and Raphael H. Valdivia
170
9. Protein Secretion and Chlamydia Pathogenesis
Kenneth A. Fields
192
10. Immune Recognition and Host Cell Response
during Chlamydia Infection
Uma M. Nagarajan
217
11. Chlamydia Immunopathogenesis
Toni Danville and Catherine M. O'Connell
240
12. Chlamydial Persistence Redux
Gerald I. Byrne and Wandy L. Beatty
265
13. In Vivo Chlamydial Infection
Roger G. Rank
285
14. Chlamydia Vaccine: Progress and Challenges
Ashlesh K. Murthy, Bernard P. Arulanandam, and Guangming Zhong
311
15. Chlamydial Genetics: Decades of
Effort, Very Recent Successes
Brendan M. Jiffrey, Anthony T. Maurelli, and Daniel D. Rockey
334
16. Biomathematical Modeling of
Chlamydia Infection and Disease
Andrew P. Craig, Patrik M. Bavoil, Roger G. Rank, and David P. Wilson
352
