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Human and Animal Relationships

  • Completely updated and revised new edition
  • Presents novel technologies
  • Treats also molecular aspects of host pathogen interactions including the medical relevance

Part of the book series: The Mycota (MYCOTA, volume 6)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
  2. Pathogens

    1. Trichomycetes and the Arthropod Gut

      • Robert W. Lichtwardt
      Pages 3-19
    2. Opportunistic Mold Infections

      • Ronald G. Washburn
      Pages 21-32
    3. Entomopathogenic Fungi: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

      • George G. Khachatourians, Sohail S. Qazi
      Pages 33-61
    4. CO2 Sensing and Virulence of Candida albicans

      • Estelle Mogensen, Fritz A. Mühlschlegel
      Pages 83-94
    5. Hyphal Growth and Virulence in Candida albicans

      • Andrea Walther, Jürgen Wendland
      Pages 95-114
    6. Pathogenicity of Malassezia Yeasts

      • Peter A. Mayser, Sarah K. Lang, Wiebke Hort
      Pages 115-151
  3. Host

    1. Yeast Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts

      • Emmanuel Rollides, Thomas J. Walsh
      Pages 225-232
    2. The Host Innate Immune Response to Pathogenic Candida albicans and Other Fungal Pathogens

      • Peter F. Zipfel, Katharina Gropp, Michael Reuter, Susan Schindler, Christine Skerka
      Pages 233-242
    3. Toll-Like Receptors and Fungal Recognition

      • Frank Ebel, Jürgen Heesemann
      Pages 243-261
    4. Clinical Aspects of Dermatophyte Infections

      • Jochen Brasch, Uta-Christina Hipler
      Pages 263-286
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 287-296

About this book

Pathogenic fungi are widely distributed and can infect many organisms, particularly humans, but also other vertebrates and insects. Due to a growing number of fungal infections, there is an increasing need to understand the interaction of pathogenic fungi with their hosts.

This second completely updated and revised edition of Volume VI of The Mycota consists of state of the art reviews written by experts in the field, covering three major areas of this rapidly developing field. In the first part the current understanding of pathogenic fungi and the physiological reactions relevant for the pathogen - host interaction are elucidated. The second part describes novel technologies for the identification of proteins, virulence factors and mechanisms central to the host - pathogen interaction. The third part deals with the characterization of the host response towards pathogenic fungi and addresses timely clinical aspects.

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

“This book has three sections dealing with pathogens, techniques and host, with 13 chapters and 26 contributors. … The book is well laid out and each chapter is provided with a contents part, so the reader can quickly scan the chapters’ contents. All chapters are well referenced at the back with up-to-date references. … should be available in all good school, community and university libraries and any research laboratories dealing with fungi, yeasts and medical mycology.”­­­ (K. D. Hyde, Fungal Diversity, Vol. 45, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Leibniz Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e.V. Hans-Knöll-Institut, Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany

    Axel A. Brakhage, Peter F. Zipfel

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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