Bacterial Virulence: Basic Principles, Models and Global Approaches

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Bacterial Virulence: Basic Principles, Models and Global Approaches

Editor(s): Philippe Sansonetti

Published Online: 25 FEB 2010

Print ISBN: 9783527323265

Online ISBN: 9783527629664

DOI: 10.1002/9783527629664

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Starting with basic principles, this reference and handbook discusses examples of the most advanced models of bacterial infection with regard to their value as paradigms to understand the molecular cross-talks between microbes and their host and tissue targets. It adopts a very forward-looking, advanced approach, placing special emphasis on the main global challenges facing scientists today, such as pathogenicity vs. commensalisms, infections in immunocompromised hosts and species specificity issues.

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      Front Matter (pages i–xix)

  2. Part I: Basic Principles

    1. Chapter 1

      How Bacterial Pathogens were Constructed (pages 1–15)

      Ulrich Dobrindt and Jörg Hacker

    2. Chapter 2

      Antimicrobial Mechanisms of Neutrophils (pages 17–29)

      Catherine Chaput and Arturo Zychlinsky

    3. Chapter 3

      H. pylori Infection – The Route from Inflammation to Cancer (pages 31–41)

      Tsutomu Chiba, Hiroyuki Marusawa, Hiroshi Seno and Norihiko Watanabe

  3. Part II: Models

    1. Chapter 4

      Host–Pathogen Relationship in Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Caused by Group A streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus (pages 43–68)

      Inbal Mishalian, Miriam Ravins, Moshe Baruch, Merav Persky, Ilia Belotserkovsky and Emanuel Hanski

    2. Chapter 5

      Mechanisms of Meningeal Invasion by Septicemic Extracellular Pathogens: The Examples of Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus agalactiae and Escherichia coli (pages 69–101)

      Olivier Join-Lambert, Etienne Carbonnelle, Fabrice Chrétien, Sandrine Bourdoulous, Stéphane Bonacorsi, Claire Poyart and Xavier Nassif

    3. Chapter 6

      Two Important Bacterial Pathogens Causing Community Acquired Pneumonia: Streptococcus pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila (pages 103–138)

      Birgitta Henriques-Normark and Carmen Buchrieser

    4. Chapter 7

      The Salmonella–Mouse Interaction: A Versatile Model to Study Bacterial Infection (pages 139–164)

      Jessica A. Thompson, Sophie Helaine and David W. Holden

    5. Chapter 8

      Chlamydia: from Molecular Insight to Therapeutic Discovery (pages 165–191)

      Lesley A. Ogilvie, Dagmar Heuer and Thomas F. Meyer

  4. Part III: Global Approaches of Bacterial Virulence

    1. Chapter 9

      The Gut Microbiota and its Contribution to Homeostasis (pages 193–214)

      Pamela Schnupf and Philippe J. Sansonetti

    2. Chapter 10

      Anatomy of the Gut Barrier and Establishment of Intestinal Homeostasis (pages 215–249)

      Gernot Sellge, Pamela Schnupf and Philippe J. Sansonetti

    3. Chapter 11

      Dynamic Imaging Technologies to Explore Infectious Processes at the Cellular, Tissue and Organ Level (pages 251–277)

      Jost Enninga, Regis Tournebize, Keira Melican and Agneta Richter-Dahlfors

    4. Chapter 12

      The Issue of Species Specificity of Bacterial Infection, How to Address it Experimentally (pages 279–310)

      Olivier Disson, Pascale Cossart and Marc Lecuit

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      Index (pages 311–320)

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