Bacterial genomes and infectious diseases
By: edited by Voon L. Chan, Philip M. Sherman, Billy Bourke.
Contributors: Chan, Voon L.; Sherman, Philip M.; Bourke, Billy.
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Bacterial genomes; Communicable diseases -- Pathogenesis
Description: Presents major findings about bacterial genomes and their impact on strategy and approach for investigating mechanisms of pathogenesis of infectious diseases. This book imparts fundamental knowledge on the structure, organization, and evolution of bacterial genomes. The value and power of comparative genomics and proteomics, bioinformatics, microarrays, and knockout animal models in analyzing genomes, bacteria (host interactions and disease are demonstrated. Also discussed are the genomes of virulent and nonvirulent strains and species, origin and evolution of pathogens, different models of bacteria) host interactions, and diseases mechanisms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Contributors; title: Introduction; title: Microbial genomes; title: Voon Loong Chan; title: Evolution and origin of virulence isolates; title: Voon Loong Chan, Philip M. Sherman, and Billy Bourke; title: Genomic approach to understanding of infectious; title: Diseases mechanisms; title: Voon Loong Chan, Philip M. Sherman, and Billy Bourke; title: Knockout and disease models in toll-like; title: Receptor-mediated immunity; title: Huey-lan Huang and Wen-Chen Yeh; title: Campylobacter from glycome to pathogenesis; title: John Kelly ... [et al.]; title: Genomics of helicobacter species; title: Zhongming Ge and David B. Schauer; title: The organization of leptospira at a genomic level / Dieter Bulach, Torsten Seemann, and Ben Adler; title: Listeria monocytogenes / Keith Ireton; title: Mycobacterial genomes / David C. Alexander and Jun Liu; title: Mycoplasma / Yuko Sasaki; title: Genome comparisons of diverse staphylococcus aureus strains / Martin J. Mcgavin; title: Type III secretion, systems in yersinia pestis, and yersinia pseudotuberculosis / James B. Bliska, Michelle B. Ryndak, and Jens P. Grabenstein; title: Genomics and the evolution of pathogenic vibrio cholerae / William S. Jermyn, Yvonne A. O'shea; title: Anne Marie Quirke and E. Fidelma Boyd; title: Future directions of infectious disease research; title: Philip M. Sherman, Billy Bourke, and Voon Loong Chan; title: Index.