Listeria monocytogenes : pathogenesis and host response / edited by Howard Goldfine and Hao Shen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldfine, Howard.

Shen, Hao, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Listeria monocytogenes.

Listeriosis.

Listeria--pathogenicity.

Medical Subjects:

Listeria--pathogenicity.

Physical Description:

xii, 287 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (partly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2007]

Summary:

This comprehensive volume, written by experts in the field, includes concise and timely reviews of Listeria monocytogenes, one of the most intensively studied bacterial pathogens. Listeria monocytogenes is the cause of listeriosis, a potentially fatal disease that arises from the consumption of contaminated food. During the past two decades studies of this organism have uncovered a wealth of information on its virulence factors, its genome organization and its interactions with host cells and the immune system. This book serves as an important information source for those who are already working in the field, those who teach about infectious agents and those who are beginning to study this and related bacterial pathogens.

Contents:

1 A 20-Year Perspective on Listeria monocytogenes Pathogenesis / Daniel A. Portnoy 1

2 Listeriosis / Bennett Lorber 13

3 Listeria Genomics / Philippe Glaser, Christophe Rusniok, Carmen Buchrieser 33

4 Metabolism and Physiology of Listeria monocytogenes / Jorg Slaghuis, Biju Joseph, Werner Goebel 63

5 The Cell Wall of Listeria monocytogenes and its Role in Pathogenicity / M. Graciela Pucciarelli, Helene Bierne, Francisco Garcia-del Portillo 81

6 Environmental Reservoir and Transmission into the Mammalian Host / Haley F. Oliver, Martin Wiedmann, Kathryn J. Boor 111

7 Regulation of Listeria monocytogenes Virulence Genes / Maurine D. Miner, Gary C. Port, Nancy E. Freitag 139

8 Invasion of Host Cells by Listeria monocytogenes / Javier Pizarro-Cerda, Pascale Cossart 159

9 Escape of Listeria monocytogenes from a Vacuole / Howard Goldfine, Helene Marquis 177

10 Actin-Based Motility and Cell-to-Cell Spread of Listeria monocytogenes / Matthew D. Welch 197

11 Adaptive Immunity to Listeria monocytogenes / Kelly A.N. Messingham, John T. Harty 225

12 Immune Evasion and Modulation by Listeria monocytogenes / Lauren A. Zenewicz, Hao Shen 251

13 Bacteriophages of Listeria / Steven Hagens, Martin J. Loessner 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0387493735

9780387493732

038749376X

9780387493763

OCLC:

86167054