Preface; Part I. Recognition of Bacteria: 1. The dendritic cell in
bacterial infection: sentinel or Trojan horse? Benjamin M. Chain; 2. CD1
and non-peptide recognition systems in microbial immunity Kayvan R. Niazi,
Steven A. Porcelli and Robert L. Modlin; 3. The NRAMP family: co-evolution
of a host/pathogen defence system Richard Bellamy; Part II. Evasion of
Humoral Immunity: 4. Evasion of complement pathways by bacteria Michael A.
Kerr and Brian Henderson; 5. Bacterial immunoglobulin-evading mechanisms:
Ig degradation and Ig-binding proteins Mogens Killian; 6. Evasion of
antibody responses: bacterial phase variation Nigel J. Saunders; Part III.
Evasion of Cellular Immunity: 7. Type III protein secretion and resistance
to phagocytosis Ake Forsberg, Roland Rosqvist and Maria Fallman; 8.
Bacterial superantigens and immune evasion John Fraser, Thomas Proft,
Vickery Arcus and Edward Baker; 9. Density-dependent bacterial signalling
molecules as immune modulators David Pritchard, Doreen Hooi, Eleanor
Watson, Sek Chow, Gary Telford, Barrie Bycroft, Siri Ram Chhabra,
Christopher Harty, Miguel Camara, Stephen Diggle and Paul Williams; 10.
Microbial modulation of cytokine networks B. Henderson and Rob M. Seymour;
11. Enterotoxins: adjuvants and immune inhibitors Jan-Michael Klapproth and
Michael S. Donnenberg; 12. Type III protein secretion and inhibition of
NF-¿B Klaus Ruckdeschel, Bruno Rouot and Jürgen Heesemann.
