Advances in Yersinia Research

Herausgegeben:de Almeida, Alzira Maria Paiva; Leal, Nilma Cintra

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents cutting edge advances on Yersinia discussed on the 10th International Symposium on Yersinia held in Recife, Brazil 23-27 October 2010.
The 42 chapters written by top scientists from around the world features reviews and research articles distributed into 8 topic areas: Evolution; Epidemiology; Detection, Diagnosis and Identification; Immune Response; Pathogenesis and Transmission; Metabolic and Pathogenicity Factors; Regulation; and Approaches to New Therapies.
A must read for researchers in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 954
• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 80043963, 978-1-4614-3560-0
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 896g
• ISBN-13: 9781461435600
• ISBN-10: 1461435609
• Artikelnr.: 34985050

Inhaltsangabe

Evolutionary dynamics of the Yersinia enterocolitica.- Gains and losses in Yersinia enterocolitica subsp. palearctica genomes.- Consequences of Missense Mutations in Yersinia pestis: Efficient flow of Metabolic Carbon versus Virulence.- Diversity and adaptive evolution of major porin gene (ompF) in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- Biochemical and Genetic Peculiarities and the Phylogenetic Relationship of the Non-main Subspecies in the General Scheme of the Plague Agent Evolution.- The molecular phylogeny of gyrB gene: a molecular marker for systematic of Yersinia.- Preliminary survey regarding Yersiniosis in Ireland.- Pseudotuberculosis in Russian Federation.- Plague in Brazil: now and then.- Factors Affecting the Spread and Maintenance of Plague.- Isolation of enteropathogenic Yersinia from non-human sources.- Yersiniosis by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis o iii causes diarrhea in Brazilian cattle.- Prevalence, Serotype, Virulence characteristics, Clonality and Antibiotic susceptibility of pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica from swine feces.- Characterization of Yersinia enterocolitica 4/O:3 isolated from swine in slaughterhouses and pork in State of São Paulo.- Bacteriophages capable of lysing Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis: efficiency of plating tests and identification of receptors in Escherichia coli K-12.- Field and clinical applications of advanced bacteriophage-based detection of Yersinia pestis.- Plague diagnosis STNPCR and M-PCR kits assembly, reaction reproducibility and reagent stability.- Innate immune responses during infection with Yersinia pestis.- The life stage of Yersiniapestis in the flea vector confers resistance to host polymorphonuclear leukocyte phagocytosis and killing.- Phagocytes and humoral immunity to pneumonic plague.- In vitro evaluation of antiplague cellular immunity by quantitative analysis of IFN-Gamma synthesis and appearance of activation molecules on the surface of T-helpers.- Cytotoxic necrotizing factor is an effective immunogen in a Yersinia pseudotuberculosis aerosol mouse model.- Fimbrial polyadhesins: anti-immune armament of Yersinia.- Yop effector proteins from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis impair dendritic cells activation.- Impact on the host of the Yersinia pestis specific virulence set and contribution of the Pla surface protease.- Virulence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in aerosol models.- Pathogenic potential of Yersinia massiliensis species.- Modulation of host cell death pathways by Yersinia and the type three secretion effector YopK.- Biofilm-dependent and biofilm-independent mechanisms of transmission of Yersinia pestis by fleas.- YopM and Plague.- Substrates of the plasminogen activator protease of Yersinia pestis.- Variability of the functional domains of the Rho-modifying toxins of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- Yersinia pestis transition metal divalent cation transporters.- Unique virulence properties of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3.- Yersinia pestis autoagglutination is mediated by hcp-like protein and siderophore Yersiniachelin.- Yersinia surface structures and bacteriophages.- Global discovery of small non-coding rnas in pathogenic Yersinia species.- Regulation of virulence gene expression by regulatory RNA elements in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- OmpR, a central integrator of several cellularresponses in Yersinia enterocolitica.- Bacteriophage therapy of experimental bubonic plague in mice.- Preliminary pharmacokinetics of the bacterial virulence inhibitor N'-(3,5-dibromo-2-hydroxy-benzylidenene)-nicotinic acid hydrazide.- Small molecule screening for inhibitors of the YopH phosphatase of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.

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Evolutionary dynamics of the Yersinia enterocolitica.- Gains and losses in Yersinia enterocolitica subsp . p alearctica genomes.- Consequences of Missense Mutations in Yersinia pestis: Efficient flow of Metabolic Carbon versus Virulence.- Diversity and adaptive evolution of major porin gene ( ompF) in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- Biochemical and Genetic Peculiarities and the Phylogenetic Relationship of the Non-main Subspecies in the General Scheme of the Plague Agent Evolution.- The molecular phylogeny of gyrB gene: a molecular marker for systematic of Yersinia.- Preliminary survey regarding Yersiniosis in Ireland.- Pseudotuberculosis in Russian Federation.- Plague in Brazil: now and then.- Factors Affecting the Spread and Maintenance of Plague.- Isolation of enteropathogenic Yersinia from non-human sources.- Yersiniosis by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis o iii causes diarrhea in Brazilian cattle.- Prevalence, Serotype, Virulence characteristics, Clonality and Antibiotic susceptibility of pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica from swine feces.- Characterization of Yersinia enterocolitica 4/O:3 isolated from swine in slaughterhouses and pork in State of São Paulo.- Bacteriophages capable of lysing Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis: efficiency of plating tests and identification of receptors in Escherichia coli K-12.- Field and clinical applications of advanced bacteriophage-based detection of Yersinia pestis.- Plague diagnosis STNPCR and M-PCR kits assembly, reaction reproducibility and reagent stability.- Innate immune responses during infection with Yersinia pestis.- The life stage of Yersiniapestis in the flea vector confers resistance to host polymorphonuclear leukocyte phagocytosis and killing.- Phagocytes and humoral immunity to pneumonic plague.- In vitro evaluation of antiplague cellular immunity by quantitative analysis of IFN-γ synthesis and appearance of activation molecules on the surface of T-helpers.- Cytotoxic necrotizing factor is an effective immunogen in a Yersinia pseudotuberculosis aerosol mouse model.- Fimbrial polyadhesins: anti-immune armament of Yersinia.- Yop effector proteins from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis impair dendritic cells activation.- Impact on the host of the Yersinia pestis specific virulence set and contribution of the Pla surface protease.- Virulence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in aerosol models.- Pathogenic potential of Yersinia massiliensis species.- Modulation of host cell death pathways by Yersinia and the type three secretion effector YopK.- Biofilm-dependent and biofilm-independent mechanisms of transmission of Yersinia pestis by fleas.- YopM and Plague.- Substrates of the plasminogen activator protease of Yersinia pestis.- Variability of the functional domains of the Rho-modifying toxins of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- Yersinia pestis transition metal divalent cation transporters.- Unique virulence properties of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3.- Yersinia pestis autoagglutination is mediated by hcp-like protein and siderophore Yersiniachelin.- Yersinia surface structures and bacteriophages.- Global discovery of small non-coding rnas in pathogenic Yersinia species.- Regulation of virulence gene expression by regulatory RNA elements in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- OmpR, a central integrator of several cellularresponses in Yersinia enterocolitica.- Bacteriophage therapy of experimental bubonic plague in mice.- Preliminary pharmacokinetics of the bacterial virulence inhibitor N'-(3,5-dibromo-2-hydroxy-benzylidenene)-nicotinic acid hydrazide.- Small molecule screening for inhibitors of the YopH phosphatase of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.