Pathogenicity islands and other mobile virulence elements / edited by James B. Kaper and Jörg Hacker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaper, James B.

Hacker, Jörg (Jörg Hinrich)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virulence (Microbiology)--Molecular aspects.

Virulence (Microbiology).

Bacterial genetics.

Mobile genetic elements.

Plasmids.

Virulence.

Bacteria--genetics.

Interspersed Repetitive Sequences.

Medical Subjects:

Virulence.

Bacteria--genetics.

Interspersed Repetitive Sequences.

Plasmids.

Physical Description:

xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [1999]

Contents:

1. The Concept of Pathogenicity Islands / Jorg Hacker, James B. Kaper 1

2. Methods and Strategies for the Detection of Bacterial Virulence Factors Associated with Pathogenicity Islands, Plasmids, and Bacteriophages / Joachim Reidl 13

3. Pathogenicity Islands and Other Mobile Genetic Elements of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli / James B. Kaper, Jay L. Mellies, James P. Nataro 33

4. Pathogenicity Islands of Extraintestinal Escherichia coli / Jorg Hacker, Gabriele Blum-Oehler, Britta Janke, Gabor Nagy, Werner Goebel 59

5. The High-Pathogenicity Island of Yersiniae / Alexander Rakin, Soren Schubert, Cosima Pelludat, Daniela Brem, Jurgen Heesemann 77

6. The 70-Kilobase Virulence Plasmid of Yersiniae / Maite Iriarte, Guy R. Cornelis 91

7. Pathogenicity Islands and the Evolution of Salmonella Virulence / Eduardo A. Groisman, Anne-Beatrice Blanc-Potard, Keiichi Uchiya 127

8. The Virulence Plasmid of Shigellae: an Archipelago of Pathogenicity Islands? / Claude Parsot, Philippe J. Sansonetti 151

9. Pathogenicity Islands and Other Mobile Virulence Elements of Vibrio cholerae / David K. R. Karaolis, James B. Kaper 167

10. cag, the Pathogenicity Island of Helicobacter pylori, Triggers Host Responses / Antonello Covacci, Rino Rappuoli 189

11. Are the vap Regions of Dichelobacter nodosus Pathogenicity Islands? / Brian F. Cheetham, Gabrielle Whittle, Margaret E. Katz 203

12. Virulence Gene Clusters and Putative Pathogenicity Islands in Listeriae / Jurgen Kreft, Jose-Antonio Vazquez-Boland, Eva Ng, Werner Goebel 219

13. Virulence-Associated Mobile Elements in Bacilli and Clostridia / Veit Braun, Christoph von Eichel-Streiber 233

14. Mobile Elements, Phages, and Genomic Islands of Staphylococci and Streptococci / Knut Ohlsen, Wilma Ziebuhr, Werner Reichardt, Wolfgang Witte, Friedrich Gotz, Jorg Hacker 265

15. Diverse Roles of Agrobacterium Ti Plasmid-Borne Genes in the Formation and Colonization of Plant Tumors / Stephen C. Winans, Virginia Kalogeraki, Samina Jafri, Reiko Akakura, Qi Xia 289

16. The hrp Cluster of Pseudomonas syringae: a Pathogenicity Island Encoding a Type III Protein Translocation Complex? / Steven W. Hutcheson 309

17. Conjugative Transposons: Transmissible Resistance Islands / Abigail Salyers, Nadja Shoemaker, George Bonheyo, Jorge Frias 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1555811612

OCLC:

41096140