Research Catalog

Title

Persistent bacterial infections / edited by James P. Nataro, Martin J. Blaser, Susanna Cunningham-Rundles.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Nataro, James P.
• Blaser, Martin J.
• Cunningham-Rundles, Susanna.

Description

xv, 453 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Subjects

• Infections
• Chronic Disease
• Bacterial Infections
• Host-bacteria relationships
• Chronic diseases
• Infection
• Medical bacteriology
• Bacterial diseases

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Persistent bacterial infections : commensalism gone awry or adaptive niche? -- The biology of persistent infection -- Antigenic variation and the persistence of extracellular bacteria in vertebrate hosts -- Life on the inside : microbial strategies for intracellular survival and persistence -- Mechanisms for establishing persistence : immune modulation -- Mathematical models of colonization and persistence in bacterial infections -- The natural history and ecology of commensal human floras -- Pathological consequences of commensalism -- Bacterial infections in the immunocompromised host -- Influence of [gamma delta] T cells on the development of chronic disease and persistent bacterial infections -- Microbial superantigens and immunological deregulation -- Persistent bacterial pathogens -- Neisseria gonorrhoeae : adaptation and survival in the urogenital tract -- Chlamydia spp. -- Helicobacter pylori -- Lyme Borreliosis -- Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections -- Mycobacterium infections -- Bartonella species -- Pathogenesis of persistent clinical syndromes -- Persistence of infective endocarditis -- Osteomyelitis -- Abscesses -- Dental plaque -- Biofilms and device-related infections.

ISBN

1555811590

LCCN

^^^00025074^

OCLC

• 43521023
• SCSB-14234759

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library