Overview
- Written by leading authorities in the field
- Provides an up-to-date and comprehensive? overview
- Contributes to an in-depth-understanding of Legionnaires' disease
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 376)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Legionnaires’ disease, a potentially fatal type of pneumonia primarily affecting elderly and immuno-compromised persons, is caused by the ubiquitous environmental bacterium Legionella pneumophila. This book offers authoritative reviews of different facets of its virulence, focusing on comparative phagocyte infection, virulence gene regulation, biochemical functions of effector proteins and cellular pathogen-host interactions, as well as host responses and immunity to L. pneumophila. Taken together, the contributions in this compilation provide a state-of-the-art overview of current insights into the molecular pathogenesis of the opportunistic and potentially fatal pathogen L. pneumophila.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Mechanisms in Legionella Pathogenesis
Editors: Hubert Hilbi
Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40591-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40590-7Published: 31 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52300-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40591-4Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 0070-217X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 295
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Medicine, Immunology, Bacteriology