Bacterial pathogenesis
Subtitle: a molecular approach
By: Brenda A. Wilson ... [et al.].
Contributors: Salyers, Abigail A.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781555814182
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Bacterial pathogenesis : a molecular approach / Abigail A. Salyers and Dixie D. Whitt. 2nd ed. c2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The power of bacteria; title: Skin and mucosa : the first lines of defense against bacterial infections; title: The innate immune system : always on guard; title: The second line of defense : antibodies and cytotoxic T cells; title: The normal human microbiota; title: Microbes and disease : establishing a connection; title: Mechanisms of genetic modification and exchange : role in pathogen evolution; title: Identification of virulence factors : measuring infectivity and virulence; title: Identification of virulence factors : molecular approaches for bacterial factors; title: Identification of virulence factors : molecular approaches for host factors; title: Bacterial strategies for evading or surviving host defense systems; title: Toxins and other toxic virulence factors; title: Delivery of virulence factors; title: Virulence regulation; title: Antibiotics and their targets; title: How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics; title: Vaccination : an underappreciated component of the modern medical armamentarium; title: Gram-positive opportunistic pathogens; title: Gram-negative opportunistic pathogens and emerging pathogens; title: Biosecurity : the changing roles of microbiologists in an age of bioterrorism and; title: Emerging diseases.