Evolutionary biology of bacterial and fungal pathogens

Author(s)

• Baquero, F. (Fernando)

Bibliographic Information

Evolutionary biology of bacterial and fungal pathogens

edited by Fernando Baquero ... [et al.]

ASM Press, c2008

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Covers the relationship between microbial evolution and human biology from many perspectives. Introduces clinical microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists, medical professionals, and public health researchers to the importance and influence of evolutionary outcomes. Provides examples of the impact of evolution on microbe-human interactions and explores the influence that evolution has on infectious diseases. Presents in-depth examination of the evolutionary biology of drug resistance. Includes an explanatory list of keywords and concepts used in the field of evolutionary biology. Features comprehensive coverage of the evolution of pathogenicity of gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, and pathogenic fungi. Offers significant new material for teaching microbiology and infectious diseases. This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents I. Evolutionary Biology of Microbial-Host Interactions 1. Evolution of Bacterium-Host Interactions: Virulence and the Immune Overresponse, Elisa Margolis and Bruce R. Levin 2. Collective Traits in Pathogenic Bacteria, Jean-Baptiste Andre and Minus van Baalen 3. Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens, Keith A. Crandall and Marcos Perez-Losada 4. Environmental and Social Influences on Infectious Diseases, Anthony J. McMichael 5. Human Genome Diversity: a Host Genomic Perspective of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Infectious Diseases, Lluis Quintana-Murci 6. Human Interventions on the Evolution of Host-Bacteria Interactions, David L. Smith and Ramanan Laxminarayan 7. Effects of Immune Selection on Population Structure of Bacteria, Caroline Buckee and Sunetra Gupta 8. Evolution of Normal Intestinal Microbiota and Its Pathogenic Implications, George T. Macfarlane and Sandra Macfarlane 9. Evolution of Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens, Jose Luis Martinez 10. Multilocus Models of Bacterial Population Genetics, William P. Hanage, Christophe Fraser, Thomas R. Connor, and Brian G. Spratt 11. A Host View of the Fungal Cell Wall, Rebeca Alonso-Monge, Elvira Roman, Jesus Pla, and Cesar Nombela II. Evolutionary Genetics of Microbial Pathogens 12. Genome Architecture and Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens, Alex Mira and Ravindra Pushker 13. Evolution of Genomic Islands and Evolution of Pathogenicity, Joerg Hacker 14. Evolution of Integrons and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance, Didier Mazel 15. Evolution of Plasmids and Evolution of Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids, Alessandra Carattoli 16. Role of Phages in Evolution of Bacterial Pathogenicity and Resistance, Juan-Carolos Galan 17. Emergence, Spread, and Extinction of Bacterial Pathogenic Clones, Lesley McGee, Fred C. Tenover, Bernard Beall, and Keith P. Klugman 18. Specific Chromosome Alterations of Candida albicans: Mechanisms for Adaptation to Pathogenicity, Elena Rustchenko 19. Evolution of a Mating System Uniquely Dependent Upon Switching and Pathogenesis in Candida albicans, David R. Soll 20. Mechanisms of Variation in Microbial Pathogenesis, Susan K. Hollingshead III. Evolutionary Biology of Drug Resistance 21. Modularization and Evolvability in Antibiotic Resistance, Fernando Baquero 22. Epidemiology and Evolutionof ss-Lactamases, Rafael Canton 23. Epidemiology and Evolution of Quinolone Resistance, Jordi Vila 24. Evolution of Glycopeptide Resistance, Patrice Courvalin 25. Emergence and Evolution of Antifungal Resistance, Thomas D. Edlind 26. Effects of Antibiotic Resistance on Bacterial Fitness, Virulence, and Transmission, Dan I. Andersson and Diarmaid Hughes 27. Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance by Hypermutation, Jesus Blazquez and Jose Maria Gomez-Gomez 28. Multiple Stages in the Evolution of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Herminia de Lencastre and Alexander Tomasz IV. Evolutionary Pathogenicity of Gram-Negative Bacteria 29. Evolution of Salmonella and Salmonella Infections, Rafael Rotger 30. Evolution of Vibrio cholerae and Cholera Epidemics, Shah Faruque and John Mekalanos 31. Evolution of Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus Infections, Jose Campos, Belen Aracil, Silvia Garcia, and Jesus Oteo 32. Evolution of Pathogenic Yersinia, Stewart J. Hinchliffe, Philippa C. R. Strong, Sarah L. Howard, and Brendan W. Wren 33. Evolution of Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis as Deduced from Comparative Genome Analyses, Andrew Preston and Duncan J. Maskell 34. Genomic View on the Evolution of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, Tetsuya Hayashi, Tadasuke Ooka, Yoshitoshi Ogura, and Asadalghani 35. Evolution of Shigella and Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli, Claude Parsot and Philippe Sansonetti 36. Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pathogenicity: from Acute to Chronic Infections, Antonio Oliver, Ana Mena, and Maria D. Macia 37. Evolution of Helicobacter and Helicobacter Infections, Maria G. Dominguez-Bello and Martin J. Blaser 38. Evolution of Legionella pneumophila Icm/Dot Pathogenesis System, Gil Segal 39. Evolution of Neisseria and Neisseria Infections, Muhamed-Kheir Taha 40. Molecular Evolution of Chlamydiales, Deborah Dean and Kim Millman V. Evolutionary Pathogenicity of Gram-Positive and Related Bacteria 41. Evolution of Listeria monocytogenes, Pascale Cossart, Carmen Buchrieser, and Jurgen Kreft 42. Evolutionary Biology of Pathogenic Enterococci, Teresa M. Coque 43. Evolution of Bacillus anthracis, Causative Agent of Anthrax, Paul S. Keim, Talima Pearson, and Richard T. Okinaka 44. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Virulence and Evolution, Oliver Neyrolles and Brigitte Gicquel 45. Evolution of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Mycoplasmal Infections, Maria Antonia Meseguer 46. The Pneumococcus: Population Biology and Virulence, Mark C. Enright VI. Evolutionary Pathogenicity of Pathogenic Fungi 47. Evolution of Pathogenic Candida Species, Frank C. Odds 48. Pathogenicity of Cryptococcus neoformans: an Evolutionary Perspective, Oscar Zaragoza, Susana Frases, and Arturo Casadevall 49. Aspergillus as a Human Pathogen: an Evolutionary Perspective, Emilia Mellado, Manuel Cuenca-Estrella, and Juan L. Rodriguez-Tudela

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Details

• NCID: BA86514366
• ISBN:
  • 9781555814144
• LCCN: 2007023554
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, DC
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 622 p., [26] p. of plates
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QR81.7
  • NLM : QW 131
  • DC22 : 616.9/041
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pathogenic bacteria -- Evolution
  • LCSH : Pathogenic fungi -- Evolution
  • LCSH : Drug resistance in microorganisms
  • LCSH : Evolution (Biology)
  • MESH : Gram-Negative Bacteria -- pathogenicity
  • MESH : Bacterial Infections -- microbiology
  • MESH : Drug Resistance, Microbial
  • MESH : Fungi -- pathogenicity
  • MESH : Gram-Positive Bacteria -- pathogenicity