Ground-breaking overview of an enduring topic
Despite the use of antibiotics, bacterial diseases continue to be a critical issue in public health, and bacterial pathogenesis remains a tantalizing problem for research microbiologists. This new edition of
Virulence Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens
broadly covers the knowledge base surrounding this topic and presents recently unraveled bacterial virulence strategies and cutting-edge therapies.
A team of editors, led by USDA scientist Indira Kudva, compiled perspectives from experts to explain the wide variety of mechanisms through which bacterial pathogens cause disease: the host interface, host cell enslavement, and bacterial communication, secretion, defenses, and persistence. A collection of reviews on targeted therapies rounds out the seven sections of this unique book. The new edition provides insights into some of the most recent advances in the area of bacterial pathogenesis, including
how metabolism shapes the host-pathogen interface
interactions across species and genera
mechanisms of the secretion systems
evasion, survival, and persistence mechanisms
new therapies targeting various adaptive and virulence mechanisms of bacterial pathogens
Written to promote discussion, extrapolation, exploration, and multidimensional thinking,
serves as a textbook for graduate courses on bacterial pathogenesis and a resource for specialists in bacterial pathogenicity, such as molecular biologists, physician scientists, infectious disease clinicians, dental scientists, veterinarians, molecular biologists, industry researchers, and technicians.