Bacterial adhesion to host tissues
Subtitle: mechanisms and consequences
By: edited by Michael Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Michael, 1947 Apr. 12-
Series: Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ;; 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Bacteria -- Adhesion.; Molecular microbiology.; Pathology, Cellular.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I Bacterial adhesins and adhesive structures 1; title: 1 Surface protein adhesins of staphylococci 3; title: Timothy. Foster; title: 2 Mechanisms of utilization of host signalling molecules by; title: respiratory mucosal pathogens 27; title: Mumtaz Viji; title: 3 Adhesive surface structures of oral streptococci 59; title: Roderick McNab, Pauline S. Handley and Howard F. Jenkinson; title: 4 Regulation and function of phase variation in Escherichia coli 89; title: lan Blomfield and Marjan van der Woude; title: 5 Regulation of capsule expression 115; title: Clare Taylor and lan S. Roberts; title: 6 Role of pili in Haemophilus influenzae adherence, colonization; title: and disease 139; title: Janet R. Gilsdorf; title: Part II Effect of adhesion on bacterial structure and function 163; title: 7 Transcriptional regulation of meningococcal gene expression upon; title: adhesion to target cells 165; title: Muhamed-Kheir Taha; title: 8 Induction of protein secretion by Yersinia enterocolitica through; title: contact with eukaryotic cells 183; title: Dorothy E. Pierson; title: 9 Functional modulation of pathogenic bacteria upon contact with; title: host target cells 203; title: Andreas U. Kresse, Frank Ebel and Carlos A. Guzman; title: Part III Consequences of bacterial adhesion for the host 221; title: 10 Adhesion, signal transduction and mucosal inflammation 223; title: Catharina Svanborg, Goran Bergsten, Hans Fischer, Bjorn Frendtus, Gabriela; title: Godaly, Erika Gustafsson, Long Hang, Maria Hedlund, Ann-Charlotte Lundstedt,; title: Martin Samuelsson, Patrik Samuelsson, Majlis Svensson and Bjorn Wullt; title: 11 Adhesion of oral spirochaetes to host cells and its cytopathogenic; title: consequences 247; title: Richard P. Ellen; title: 12 Interactions between enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and; title: epithelial cells 277; title: Elizabeth L. Hartland, Gad Frankel and Stuart Knutton; title: 13 Host cell responses to Porphyromonas gingivalis and; title: Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans 299; title: RichardJ. Lamont.