LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ............................................ V
PREFACE ........................................................ IX
Part I APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS ...... 1
1 Models for Studying Bacterial Pathogenesis ................... 3
Richard W. Titball and Olivia L. Champion
2 Strategies for Identifying Bacterial Pathogenicity Genes .... 39
Raphael H. Valdivia
3 Genetic Determinants of Bacterial Pathogenicity ............. 51
Gavin K. Paterson and Duncan J. Maskell
Part II BACTERIAL ADHESION TO THE CELL SURFACE AND
EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX OF HOST TISSUES ........................... 69
4 Fimbrial Adhesins: Adhesive Molecules on a 'Stalk' .......... 71
Hae Joo Kang, Edward N. Baker and Thomas Proft
5 Non-pilus (Non-fimbrial) Adhesins ........................... 99
Amanda J. Sheets and Joseph W. St. Geme, III
6 Biofilms: The Secret Story of Microbial Communities ........ 129
Christophe S. Bernard, Caroline Giraud, Jennifer Spagnolo
and Sophie de Bentzmann
Part III POISONING THE HOST BY TOXINS ......................... 169
7 Toxins Damaging Cellular Membranes: Paradigms and
Molecular Features ......................................... 171
Joseph E. Alouf
8 Toxins Acting on Intracellular Targets: Only Foes or Also
Friends? ................................................... 181
Teresa Frisan, Riccardo Guidi and Lina Guerra
Part IV CELLULAR INVASION BY BACTERIAL PATHOGENS ............. 207
9 Mechanisms of Bacterial Entry into Host Cells .............. 209
Kevin Moreau and Frank Lafont
10 The Bacterial Life in a Vacuole ............................ 223
Ana Rita Furtado and Agathe Subtil
11 The Bacterial Life in the Cytosol .......................... 243
Serge Mostowy and Pascale Cossart
Part V BACTERIAL EVASION OF HOST DEFENCES ................... 261
12 Bacterial Handling of Host Nutrients: the Iron Paradigm .... 263
Klaus Hantke
13 Bacterial Escape from the Complement System ................ 287
Marta Biedzka-Sarek and Mikael Skurnik
14 Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobial Peptides ............. 305
John D.F. Hale
15 Bacteria-induced Host Cell Death ........................... 317
Scott D. Kobayashi, Kevin M., Rigby and Frank R. DeLeo
INDEX ......................................................... 363
PLATE SECTION .................................................. A1
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