Evolution of microbial pathogens
By: edited by H. Steven Seifert and Victor J. DiRita.
Contributors: Seifert, H. Steven.; DiRita, Victor J.
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781555813000
Subjects: Pathogenic bacteria -- Evolution.; Bacterial genetics.; Bacteria -- genetics.; Bacteria -- pathogenicity.; Evolution, Molecular.; Fungi -- genetics.; Fungi -- pathogenicity.
Description: Examines the evolution of microbial pathogenesis, capitalizing on explosion of knowledge of molecular mechanisms and microbial genome sequencing. Covers general concepts of microbial evolution including gene acquisition, gene loss, and concept of microbial species; presents information on broad areas of evolution of pathogenesis, including evolution of pathogenic microbes in soil, evolution of microbe-plant interactions, human specific pathogens, zoonotic infections, biofilm formation in the environment and pathogenesis, and co-evolution of pathogens and the immune system. Considers evolution of pathogenic systems found in a variety of microbes or specific subsets of pathogens.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Studying evolution by using genome sequence data / Jeffrey G. Lawrence; title: Population dynamics of bacterial pathogens / Martin C.J. Maiden and Rachel Urwin; title: The study of microbial adaptation by long-term experimental evolution / Vaughn S. Cooper; title: The contribution of pathogenicity islands to the evolution of bacterial pathogens / Bianca Hochhut, Ulrich Dobrindt, and Jurg Hacker; title: Black holes and antivirulence genes: selection for gene loss as part of the evolution of bacterial pathogens / William A. Day and Anthony T. Maurelli; title: Evolution of pathogens in soil / Rachel Muir and Man-Wah Tan; title: Experimental models of symbiotic host-microbial relationships: understanding the underpinnings of beneficence and the origins of pathogenesis / Margaret J. McFall-Ngai and Jeffrey I. Gordon; title: The evolution of bacterial toxins / O. Colin Stine and James P. Nataro; title: Function, evolution, and classification of macromolecular transport systems / Paul J. Planet, David H. Figurski, and Rob DeSalle; title: The evolution of antibiotic resistance / Dean Rowe-Magnus and Didier Mazel; title: Group A Streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus: evolution, reemergence, and strain diversification / Sean D. Reid ... [et al.]; title: Evolution of enteric pathogens / Ruiting Lan and Peter R. Reeves; title: Mycobacterial evolution: insights from genomics and population genetics / Alexander S. Pym and Peter M. Small; title: Surface structures of group B Streptococcus important in human immunity / Judith N. Steenbergen and Arturo Casadevall.