Concepts in bacterial virulence / volume editors, Wayne Russell, Heiko Herwald

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Fundamentals of endotoxin structure and function / Bishop, R.E -- Bacterial exotoxins / Popoff, M.R -- Capsular polysaccharides and their role in virulence / Taylor, C.M., Roberts, I.S -- Fimbriae, pili, flagella and bacterial virulence / Jonson, A.-B., Normark, S., Rhen, M -- Gram-positive adhesins / Talay, S.R -- Microbial pathogenesis and biofilm development / Reisner, A. ... [et al.] -- Bacterial peptidases / Potempa, J., Pile, R.N -- Bacterial invasins : molecular systems dedicated to the invasion of host tissues / Cambronne, E.D., Schneewind, O -- Bacterial iron transport related to virulence / Braun, V -- Pathogenicity islands and their role in bacterial virulence and surviva / Hochhut, B., Dobrindt, U., Hacker, J. -- Horizontal and vertical gene transfer: the life history of pathogens / Lawrence, J.G.