Preface ....................................................... vii
Editor ......................................................... ix
Contributors ................................................... xi
SECTION I. Biology and Pathogenicity
1. Biology ..................................................... 3
Martin Wagner and Jim McLauchlin
2. Epidemiology ............................................... 27
Dongyou Liu
3. Stress Responses ........................................... 61
Helena M. Stack, Colin Hill, and Cormac G.M. Gahan
4. Pathogenesis ............................................... 97
Michael Kuhn, Marie la Scortti, and José A. Vásquez-Boland
SECTION II. Identification and Detection
5. Phenotypic Identification ................................. 139
Lisa Gorski
6. Genotypic Identification .................................. 169
Dongyou Liu, Mark L. Lawrence, A. Jerald Ainsworth,
and Frank W. Austin
7. Strain Typing ............................................. 203
Yi Chen and Stephen J. Knabel
8. Virulence Determination ................................... 241
Sylvie M. Roche, Philippe Velge, and Dongyou Liu
SECTION III. Genomics and Proteomics
9. Genetic Manipulations ..................................... 273
Armelle Bigot and Alain Charbit
10. Comparative Genomics and Evolution of Virulence ........... 311
Sukhadeo Barbuddhe, Torsten Hain, and
Trinad Chakrahorty
11. Genomic Divisions/Lineages, Epidemic Clones, and
Population Structure ...................................... 337
Ying Cheng, Robin M. Siletzky, and Sophia Kathariou
12. Analysis of Cell Envelope Proteins ........................ 359
Michaël Desvaux and Michel Hébraud
SECTION IV. Immunity and Vaccines
13. Innate Immunity ........................................... 397
Gernot Geginat and Silke Grauling-Halama
14. Adaptive Immunity ......................................... 427
Masao Mitsuyama
15. Anti-Infective Vaccine Strategies ......................... 449
Toshi Nagata and Yukio Koide
16. Anticancer Vaccine Strategies ............................. 481
Matthew M. Seavey, Thorsten Verch, and
Yvonne Paterson
Index ......................................................... 513
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