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Main Title Listeria monocytogenes: Pathogenesis and Host Response [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Goldfine, Howard.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Shen, Hao.
Publisher Springer US,
Year Published 2007
Call Number QR1-502
ISBN 9780387493763
Subjects Life sciences ; Immunology ; Food science ; Veterinary medicine ; Cytology ; Microbiology ; Bacteriology
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49376-3
Collation XII, 287 p. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
A 20-Year Perspective on Listeria monocytogenes Pathogenesis -- Listeriosis -- Listeria Genomics -- Metabolism and Physiology of Listeria monocytogenes -- The Cell Wall of Listeria monocytogenes and its Role in Pathogenicity -- Environmental Reservoir and Transmission into the Mammalian Host -- Regulation of Listeria monocytogenes Virulence Genes -- Invasion of Host Cells by Listeria monocytogenes -- Escape of Listeria monocytogenes from a Vacuole -- Actin-Based Motility and Cell-to-Cell Spread of Listeria monocytogenes -- Adaptive Immunity to Listeria monocytogenes -- Immune Evasion and Modulation by Listeria monocytogenes -- Bacteriophages of Listeria. 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.