The pneumococcus
By: volume editor, Elaine I. Tuomanen ; associate editors, Timothy J. Mitchell, Donald A. Morrison, Brian G. Spratt.
Contributors: Tuomanen, Elaine I.
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Streptococcus pneumoniae.; Streptococcus pneumoniae -- pathogenicity.; Streptococcus pneumoniae -- physiology.; Pneumococcal Infections -- physiopathology.; Pneumococcal Infections -- prevention & control.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The bacteria; value: Genome; value: What is a pneumococcus? / Christopher G. Dowson; value: Comparative genomics of streptococcus pneumoniae : intrastrain diversity and genome plasticity / Hervé Tettelin and Susan Hollingshead; value: Surface anatomy; value: Capsule / Janet Yother; value: Choline-binding proteins / Edwin Swiatlo, Larry S. McDaniel and David E. Briles; value: Pneumolysin and other virulence proteins / Tim J. Mitchell; value: Microbial physiology; value: Cell wall hydrolases / Rubens Lopez ... [et al.]; value: Transformation / Sanford A. Lacks; value: Host-microbe interactions; value: Exposure and colonization; value: Evolutionary and population biology of streptococcus pneumoniae / Brian G. Spratt, William P. Hanage and Angela B. Brueggemann; value: Pneumococcal carriage / Derrick W. Crook ... [et al.]; value: Epidemiology of pneumococcal disease / Jay C. Butler; value: Mechanisms of carriage / Jeffrey N. Weiser; value: Invasion and infection; value: Inflammation and host defense / Paul Anthony Majcherczyk and Philippe Moreillon; value: Interactions of streptococcus pneumoniae with the proteins of the complement pathways / Margaret K. Hostetter; value: A pathogenetic categorization of clinical syndromes caused by streptococcus pneumoniae / Daniel M. Musher; value: Attachment and invasion of the respiratory tract / Elaine I. Tuomanen; value: Pathogenesis of pneumococcal meningitis / Joerg R. Weber; value: Immunodeficiency and invasive pneumococcal disease / Edward N. Janoff and Jeffrey B. Rubins; value: Treatment and prevention; value: Changing the ecology of pneumococci with antibiotics and vaccines / Ron Dagan and Marc Lipsitch; value: Pneumococcal infections : therapeutic strategies and pitfalls / Kathryn M. Edwards; value: Clinical relevance of antibiotic resistance in pneumococcal infections / Keith P. Klugman; value: Mechanisms for penicillin resistance in streptococcus pneumoniae : penicillin binding proteins, gene transfer, and cell wall metabolism / Carina Bergmann ... [et al.]; value: Macrolide, quinolone, and other non-Ý-lactam antibiotic resistance in streptococcus pneumoniae / Karita Ambrose and David S. Stephens; value: The humoral immune response to streptococcus pneumoniae / Clifford M. Snapper ... [et al.]; value: New pneumococcal vaccines : basic science developments / James C. Paton; value: Vaccine-induced immunity to pneumococcal infection/ P. Helena Mäkelä and Helena Mäkelä.