Host-Pathogen Interactions in Streptococcal Diseases (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 368)

Description

• A useful reference work for everyone working in the field of streptococcal infections and their sequelae
• Provides up-to-date and comprehensive overview ?
• Written by leading authorities in the subject area

This volume comprehensively covers various aspects of streptococcal diseases. It will be a useful reference work for clinicians, microbiologists, public health workers, students of medicine and microbiology as well as a large number of scientists working in this field.

Table of contents

• Group A Streptococcal Diseases and Their Global Burden
  Anna P. Ralph and Jonathan R Carapetis
• Molecular Markers for the Study of Streptococcal Epidemiology
  David J McMillan, Martina L Sanderson-Smith, Pierre Smeesters and Kadaba S Sriprakash
• Epidemiology and Pathogenicity of Zoonotic Streptococci
  Marcus Fulde and Peter Valentin-Weigand
• Adherence and Invasion of Streptococci to Eukaryotic Cells and Their Role in Disease Pathogenesis
  Manfred Rohde and G. Singh Chhatwal
• Common Regulators of Virulence in Streptococci
  Nadja Patenge, Tomas Fiedler and Bernd Kreikemeyer
• Host-Pathogen Interactions in Streptococcal Immune Sequelae
  D. Patric Nitsche-Schmitz and Gursharan S. Chhatwal
• Immunopathogenesis of Streptococcal Deep Tissue Infections
  Linda Johansson and Anna Norrby-Teglund
• Modulation of the Coagulation System During Severe Streptococcal Disease
  Oonagh Shannon, Heiko Herwald and Sonja Oehmcke
• Group A Streptococcal Vaccine Candidates: Potential for the Development of a Human Vaccine
  Anna Henningham, Christine M. Gillen and Mark J. Walker
• Clinical Management of the Most Common Group A ß-Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections
  Edward Kaplan