1. Edition - July 2009
202.- Euro
2009. XXIV, 712 Pages, Hardcover
650 Fig. (250 Colored Fig.), 50 Tab. 
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN-10: 3-527-32207-8
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-32207-7 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim






Content

Sample Chapter

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Short description
Providing information from general mechanisms to microbe specific phenomena,most excellent specialsist in the field guide us through microbes niches within a host cell.In a unique style the book reviews microbes adaptation as result of long lasting evolutionary processes.

From the contents
Foreword (Sansonetti)
GENERAL ASPECTS
Introduction: The Evolution of Intracellular Life Forms and their Niches (Schaible and Haas)
Limited Genomes and Gene Transfer in the Evolution of Intracellular Parasitism and Symbiosis (Somboonna and Dean)
Phagocytosis: Early Events in Particle Recognition and Uptake (Cosío and Grinstein)
Cellular Model Systems Used to Study Phagosome Biogenesis (Steinert)
Methods Used to Study Phagosome Biogenesis (Haas)
In Vitro Fusion Assays with Phagosomes (Becken and Haas)
Phagosome Proteomes Unite! A Virtual Model of Maturation as a Tool to Study Pathogen-Induced Changes (Dieckmann and Soldati)
Phagosome - Cytoskeleton Interactions (Gutierrez and Griffiths)
Intracellular Microbe Whole-Genome Expression Profiling: Methodological Considerations and Biological Inferences (Waddell and Butcher)
Everybody Has A Home of Their Own - The Phagosome Zoo (Haas)
Consequences of Pathogen Compartmentation for Therapeutic Intervention (Haas and Schaible)
The Immune Response to Intracellular Pathogens (Korbel and Schaible)
SELECTED PATHOGENS
VACUOLAR BACTERIA
Afipia felis (Schneider and Haas)
Brucella (Kalde, Moreno, and Gorvel)
Chlamydiae (Hackstadt)
Coxiella burnetii (Gilk, Voth, and Heinzen)
Ehrlichia and Anaplasma (Rikihisa)
Legionella pneumophila (Ingmundson and Roy)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis and His Comrades (Schaible)
Rhodococcus equi and Nocardia asteroides (von Bargen and Haas)
Salmonella (Steele-Mortimer)
INTRACYTOSOLIC BACTERIA
Burkholderia pseudomallei (Stevens and Stevens)
Francisella tularensis (Allen and Schulert)
Listeria monocytogenes (Balestrino and Cossart)
Mycobacterium marinum (Hagedorn and Soldati)
Rickettsia (Sahni, Rydkina, and Silverman)
Shigella (Van Nhieu and Sansonetti)
INTRACELLULAR SYMBIONTS
Bacterial Symbionts of Plants (Kambara, Broughton, and Deakin)
Cyanobacterial and Algal Symbioses (Kovacevic, Steiner, and Löffelhardt)
Insect Symbionts (Feldhaar and Gross)
PARASITES AND FUNGI
Histoplasma capsulatum (Newman)
Leishmania: L. mexicana vs. donovani vs. major; Amastigotes vs. Promastigotes (Matte, Mallégol, and Descoteaux)
Plasmodium and Babesia (Winterberg, Przyborski, Lingelbach)
Theileria (Dobbelaere and Baumgartner)
Toxoplasma gondii (Sibley)
Trypanosoma cruzi (Taylor)
Trichinella and the Nurse Cell (Guiliano and Oksov)