This book provides an up-to-date account of these developments in the molecular biology and immunology of mycobacteria, coupled with allied advances of a more applied nature, such as the use of molecular techniques for diagnosis and epidemiological investigations. With chapters contributed from an international team of experts, it will not only be an essential reference text for the expanding mycobacterial research community, but also will find a prominent place on the shelves of clinicians, infectious disease and public health specialists, diagnostic laboratories, postgraduate students and indeed anyone concerned with the management and investigation of outbreaks of tuberculosis.
- Comprehensively covers recent advances in the molecular biology of the mycobacteria.
- First book to be published on this subject since the publishing of the complete genome for the tubercle bacillus (M. tuberculosis).
- Coincides with a worldwide resurgence of tuberculosis.
Preface.
1 Recombination.
2 Mobile Genetic Elements/Plasmids.
3 Mycobacteriophages.
4 Gene Expression And Regulation.
5 Genomics of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Mycobacterium Leprae.
6 Molecular Epidemiology: Human.
7 Molecular Epidemiology: Mycobacterium.
8 Molecular Epidemiology: Other Mycobacteria.
9 Molecular Diagnostics.
10 Immunodiagnosis of Mycobacterial Infection.
11 Mycobacterial Growth and Dormancy.
12 Cell Wall: Physical Structure and Permeability.
13 The Cell-Wall Core of Mycobacterium: Structure, Biogenesis and Genetics.
14 Iron Metabolism.
15 Antibiotic and Antibiotic Resistance in Mycobacteria.
16. Immunotherapy for Mycobacterial Disease.
17 Vaccines.
18 Mycobacterial Antigens.
19 Mycobacterium and the Seduction of the Macrophage.
20 Cytokines in Immunity to Tuberculosis.
Index
J. W. Dale
