Overview
- Complete and comprehensive overview of toxinology
- Written by renowned experts from all around the world
- Covers all important areas of toxinology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Toxinology (TOXI)
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Table of contents (24 entries)
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Bacillus Toxins
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Burkholderia Toxins
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Burkholderia Toxins
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Clostridium Toxins
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Clostridium Toxins
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Escherichia Toxins
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Helicobacter Toxins
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Helicobacter Toxins
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Brad Stiles is a microbiologist by training with a keen appreciation
for diverse topics in biology. His education in science was formally forged at Pennsylvania State University, Virginia Tech, and then the University of Texas. He spent over two decades in a Department of Defense laboratory studying protein toxins from snakes, marine cone snails, and bacteria. The goals were to further a basic understanding of how toxins affect cells, and subsequently generate methods for detection as well as neutralization via vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, and small molecular-weight inhibitors. Results from his laboratory led to numerous peer-reviewed publications with various national and international laboratories. National and international students have studied in his laboratory, and now further the tradition of understanding science. Besides working in the United States, he has formally studied in France and Germany at various universities and public/private laboratories. Dr. Stiles now teaches microbiology and basic biology courses at Wilson College, as well as Shippensburg University, both in the US.
Alberto Alape-Girón is a professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Costa Rica and head of Instituto Clodomiro Picado, also at University of Costa Rica. Prof. Alape-Girón received his Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and participates as a lecturer in biochemistry undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Costa Rica. His research interests include bacterial and snake venom toxic proteins. Prof. Alape-Girón is associate editor of FEBS Open Bio and serves as a reviewer for several journals including mBio, BBA, PLOS One, Vaccine and Toxicon.
Dr. J. Daniel Dubreuil received a B.Sc. (Agr.) from Macdonald College (McGill University), a master’s degree from l’Université de Montréal and a Ph.D. (Department of Microbiology and
Immunology, Université de Montréal) executed at the Armand-Frappier Institute. A yearpostgraduate study was conducted at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France (Unité des agents antibactériens), and two in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology (Victoria University, British Columbia, Canada). He joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal in 1988.He was awarded the title of full professor in 1998. In 2001–2002, he was visiting scholar at the Instituto di Ricerche in Immunobiologiche Siena-Chiron, a pharmaceutical research center in Siena, Italy. There he conducted research on the virulence of Helicobacter pylori. He is the author of over 120 scientific publications, including many reviews and several book chapters on Escherichia coli toxins. Very involved with the Canadian Society of Microbiologists, he was elected president (2013–2014). Since June 2014, he is chair of the Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal.Dr. Manas Mandal received both bachelor’s (honours) and master’s degrees in human phyiology from the University of Calcutta, India. He earned a Ph.D. degree from the Jadavpur University, Calcutta, in 1992, working on snake venom vaccine development project at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. Afterwards, he did extensive post-doctoral research in cellular immunology at the Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research, University of Chicago, and University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. At the University of Michigan, he research centered on Listeria monocytogenes-derived toxin listeriolysin-O in a liposomal delivery system targeting antigen-specific protective cytotoxic T lymphocyte response using murine tumor and viral infection models. Dr. Mandal joined Roseman University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy in 20
06 as an assistant professor to direct and coordinate immunology course for the Pharm.D. students. He also teaches immunology to the students of Roseman University College of Dental Medicine. Dr. Mandal is an adjunct faculty position at the Touro University of Nevada and teaches in their Physician’s Assistant Program and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine program. He has published in major journals in toxinology, immunology and drug delivery. His current research interest involves use of bacterial toxin in vaccine delivery, marine toxin in drug discovery and drug-induced immune modulation.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microbial Toxins
Editors: P. Gopalakrishnakone, Brad Stiles, Alberto Alape-Girón, J. Daniel Dubreuil, Manas Mandal
Series Title: Toxinology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6449-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6448-4Published: 18 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6449-1Published: 04 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2542-761X
Series E-ISSN: 2542-7644
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 502
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedicine general