Patho-biotechnology
By: [edited by] Roy Sleator, Colin Hill.
Contributors: Sleator, Roy.; Hill, Colin, PhD.
Series: Biotechnology intelligence unit; Biotechnology intelligence unit (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587063046
Subjects: Microbial biotechnology; Pathogenic bacteria -- Therapeutic use; Genetic Vectors -- therapeutic use; Bacteria; Bacterial Toxins -- therapeutic use; Gene Therapy -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Application of bacterial pathogens in replacement therapy / John R. Tagg, Jeremy P. Burton and Philip A. Wescombe; title: Improvement of insect pathogens as insecticides through genetic engineering / Brian A. Federici, Bryony C. Bonning and Raymond J. St Leger; title: Phage therapy : a Trojan horse approach to the control of intracellular pathogens / Lawrence Broxmeyer; title: Bacterial ghosts as vaccine and drug delivery platforms / Ulrike Beate Mayr ... [et al.]; title: In vivo remote control of bacterial vectors for prophylaxis and therapy / Holger Loessner and Siegfried Weiss; title: Genetic immunization : bacteria as DNA vaccine delivery vehicles / Pablo Daniel Becker, Miriam Noerder, Carlos Alberto Guzman; title: Bacteria mediated gene therapy strategies / Sophie Conchon and Georges Vassaux; title: Use of intracellular bacteria for the development of tools for tumor therapy and the detection of novel antibacterial targets / Christoph Schoen ... [et al.]; title: Bacterial vectors for RNAi delivery / Thu Nguyen and Johannes H. Fruehauf; title: Viral pathogens as therapeutic delivery vehicles / Helen O'Shea; title: Promiscuous drugs from pathogenic bacteria in the post-antibiotics era / Arsenio M. Fialho, Tapas K. Das Gupta and Ananda M. Chakrabarty; title: Attack and counter-attack : targeted immunomodulation using bacterial virulence factors / Mohammed Bahey-El-Din, Brendan T. Griffin and Cormac G.M. Gahan; title: Cosmetic and therapeutic applications of botulinum toxin in the head and neck / Nwanmegha Young and Andrew Blitzer; title: The use of recombinant phage lysins for the control of bacterial pathogens / Marianne Horgan ... [et al.]; title: Engineered pharmabiotics with improved therapeutic potential / Roy Sleator and Colin Hill.