Microbial transmission
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Microbial transmission
ASM Press, c2019
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Other editors: Emilio Bouza, J.A Gutiérrez-Fuentes, Teresa M. Coque
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Microbial transmission, the processes by which microbes transit to new environments, is a significant and broad-reaching concept with applications throughout the biological sciences. This collection of reviews, edited by an international team of experts studying and working across a range of disciplines, explores transmission not just as an idea in disease but as a fundamental biological process that acts in all domains of nature and exerts its force on disparate size scales, from the micro to the macro, and across units of time as divergent as a single bacterial replication cycle and the entire course of evolution.
In five sections, this overview defines the concept of transmission and covers basic processes of transmission, including causality, control strategies, fitness costs, virulence, and selection. Anyone studying or working in microbial colonization, evolution, pathogenicity, antimicrobial resistance, or public health will benefit from a deeper understanding of Microbial Transmission.
Table of Contents
1. Origin, History, and Meanings of the Word Transmission
Joaquin Villalba, Fernando A. Navarro, Francisco Cortes
2. Causality in Biological Transmission: Forces and Energies
Fernando Baquero
3. Natural and Artificial Strategies to Control the Conjugative Transmission of Plasmids
Maria Getino, Fernando de la Cruz
4. Fitness Costs of Plasmids: A Limit to Plasmid Transmission
Alvaro San Millan, R. Craig MacLean
5. Basic Processes in Salmonella-Host Interactions: Within-Host Evolution and the Transmission of the Virulent Genotype
Mederic Diard, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt
6. Salmonella Intracellular Lifestyles and Their Impact on Host-to-Host Transmission
M. Graciela Pucciarelli, Francisco Garcia-del Portillo
7. Selection and Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Dan I. Andersson, Diarmaid Hughes
8. Ecology and Evolution of Chromosomal Gene Transfer between Environmental Microorganisms and Pathogens
Jose Luis Martinez
9. Food-to-Humans Bacterial Transmission
Patricia Antunes, Carla Novais, Luisa Peixe
10. Insects and the Transmission of Bacterial Agents
Maureen Laroche, Didier Raoult, Philippe Parola
11. Biology of Hand-to-Hand Bacterial Transmission
Rosa del Campo, Laura Martinez-Garcia, Ana Maria Sanchez-Diaz, Fernando Baquero
12. Transmission Surveillance for Antimicrobial-Resistant Organisms in the Health System
Johann D. D. Pitout
13. The Evolution of Genotyping Strategies to Detect, Analyze, and Control Transmission of Tuberculosis
Dario Garcia de Viedma, Laura Perez-Lago
14. Breaking Transmission with Vaccines: The Case of Tuberculosis
Jesus Gonzalo-Asensio, Nacho Aguilo, Dessislava Marinova, Carlos Martin
15. Transmission, Human Population, and Pathogenicity: the Ebola Case in Point
Rafael Delgado, Fernando Simon
16. Quantifying Transmission
Mark Woolhouse
17. Experimental Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance: Looking for an Appropriate Animal Model System
Pablo Llop, Amparo Latorre, Andres Moya
18. Transmission in the Origins of Bacterial Diversity, From Ecotypes to Phyla
Frederick M. Cohan
19. Tracking the Rules of Transmission and Introgression with Networks
Chloe Vigliotti, Cedric Bicep, Eric Bapteste, Philippe Lopez, Eduardo Corel
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