Molecular principles of fungal pathogenesis
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
ASM Press ,
c2006
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Table of Contents:
- Fungal biofilms: agents of disease and drug resistance / Gordon Ramage, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, and Jose L. Lopez-Ribot
- Molecular basis of fungal adherence to endothelial and epithelial cells / Scott G. Filler, Donald C. Sheppard, and John E. Edwards, Jr.
- Molecular principles of antifungal drug resistance / Dominique Sanglard and Theodore C. White
- Heterologous hosts and the evolution and study of fungal pathogenesis / Eleftherios Mylonakis, Stephen B. Calderwood, and Frederick M. Ausubel
- Amoeba and slime mold: hosts of virulence evolution / Arturo Casadevall
- Aspergillus nidulans: a model for elucidation of Aspergillus fumigatus secondary metabolism / Nancy Keller
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae: an emerging and model pathogenic fungus / John H. McCusker
- Fungal-bacterial interactions / Deborah A. Hogan and Roberto Kolter
- Amphibian chytridiomycosis as an emerging infectious disease of wildlife: what can we learn from the earliest diverging fungi? / Timothy Y. James and Rytas Vilgalys
- Cryptococcus neoformans: a sugar-coated killer / John R. Perfect
- Toward a molecular understanding of Candida albicans virulence / Frank C. Odds, Neil A.R. Gow, and Alistair J.P. Brown
- Molecular determinants of Histoplasma capsulatum pathogenesis / Jon P. Woods
- Molecular determinants of virulence in Aspergillus fumigatus / Judith C. Rhodes and Axel A. Brakhage
- Pathogenesis of pneumocystis / A. George Smulian and Melanie T. Cushion
- Fungal interactions with leukocytes / Mairi C. Noverr ... [et al.]
- Fungal vaccine development / Joshua D. Nosanchuk and George S. Deepe Jr.
- Molecular immunopathogenesis of innate host defense against chronic disseminated (hepatosplenic) candidiasis / Thomas J. Walsh ... [et al.]
- Studying fungal virulence using genomics / Michael C. Lorenz
- Future of functional genomics of Histoplasma capsulatum / Anita Sil and Lena Hwang
- Functional genomic approaches to fungal pathogenesis, drug target validation, and antifungal drug discovery / Ainslie B. Parsons, Howard Bussey, and Charles Boone
- Genetic and proteomic analysis of fungal virulence / Jennifer K. Lodge and Michael C. Lorenz
- Genomic perspectives on the fungal kingdom / Jason E. Stajich and Fred S. Dietrich
- Fungal molecular pathogenesis: what can it do and why do we need it? / John R. Perfect and Arturo Casadevall
- Sex, MAT, and the evolution of fungal virulence / James A. Fraser and Joseph Heitman
- Postgenomic strategies for genetic analysis: insight from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans / Clarissa J. Nobile and Aaron P. Mitchell
- Candida albicans hypha formation and virulence / Paula Sundstrom
- The conversion from classical studies in fungal pathogenesis to the molecular era / Kyung J. Kwon-Chung and Brian L. Wickes
- Mating and parasexual genetics in Candida albicans / Mathew Miller and Alexander Johnson
- The mating-type locus and mating of Candida albicans and Candida glabrata / David R. Soll
- Evolution of human pathogenic fungi: phylogenies and species / John W. Taylor
- Establishment of cell identity in pathogenic fungi / Christina M. Hull
- Signal transduction in the interactions of fungal pathogens and mammalian hosts / Malcolm Whiteway and Catherine Bachewich
- Function and regulation of adhesin gene families in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans, and Candida glabrata / Irene Castano, Alejandro de las Penas, and Brendan P. Cormack
- Virulence mechanisms of coccidioides / Garry T. Cole ... [et al.]
- Blastomyces dermatitidis cell surface determinants and their application in vaccine development / Bruce Klein
- Virulence factors in black molds with emphasis on melanin, chitin, and wangiella as a molecularly tractable model / Paul J. Szaniszlo
- Zygomycetes as agents of infectious disease in humans / Ashraf S. Ibrahim and Brad Spellberg
- Signaling pathways in the dimorphic human fungal pathogen Penicillium marneffei / Alex Andrianopoulos and Sophie Zuber
- Innate humoral immunity to fungi / Thomas R. Kozel
- Innate and acquired cellular immunity to fungi / Luigina Romani
- Acquired antibody-mediated immunity to fungi / Liise-anne Pirofski and Arturo Casadevall
- Site-specific mucosal immunity to fungi: lessons learned from Candida albicans applied to other fungi / Paul L. Fidel, Jr. and Beatriz Finkel-Jimenez
- Intracellular pathogenesis of Histoplasma capsulatum / Simon L. Newman
- Interactions of immune cells with the facultative intracellular pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans / Lauren E. Yauch and Stuart M. Levitz