Published September, 2012
By Peter J. Quinn and Xiaoyuan Wang
Publisher: Springer
Series: Subcellular Biochemistry
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Endotoxins are potentially toxic compounds produced by Gram-negative bacteria including some pathogens.The way endotoxins interact with the host cells is fundamental to understanding the mechanism of sepsis, and recent research on these aspects of endotoxins has served to illuminate previously undescribed functions of the innate immune system.

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Published September, 2012
By Alicia Ponte-Sucre, Emilia Diaz and Maritza Padron-Nieves
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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One of the main problems concerning therapeutic tools for the treatment of parasitic diseases, including leishmaniasis, is that some field parasites are naturally resistant to the classical drugs;

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Published September, 2012
By Klaus Aktories, Joachim H.C. Orth and Ben Adler
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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This volume brings together contributions from experts in the field of Pasteurella research. Its covers areas such as comparative genomics, pathogenic mechanisms, bacterial proteomics, as well as a detailed description and analysis of PMT and its interaction with host tissues, cells, immune system, and signalling pathways.

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Published September, 2012
By Stuart B. Levy, Stuart Levy and Stuart Calderwood
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book resulted from presentations at an international conference on bacterial p1asmids held January 5-9, 1981 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Diseases and socio-economic practices of developing countries exist in the Dominican Republic whose scientific community could directly benefit from having the meeting there.

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Published September, 2012
By M. Pilar Francino
Publisher: Elsevier (Caister Academic Press)
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Published September, 2012
By Colin R. Young, David N. McMurray and Dick van Soolingen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Tuberculosis remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases resulting in excess of one million deaths annually. This title covers: History of TB; Geographical distribution of TB; Risk factors for TB; Laboratory testing for TB; Molecular Diagnosis of TB; Tuberculosis of all the body systems; and, many more.

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Published August, 2012
By H. Fraenkel-Conrat
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Comprehensive Virology
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This comprehensive series, which will comprise some 6000 pages in a total of about 22 volumes, represents a commitment by a large group of active investigators to analyze, digest, and expostulate on the great mass of data relating to viruses, much of which is now amorphous and disjointed and scattered throughout a wide literature.

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Published August, 2012
By Dominique Expert, Mark O'Brian and Mark R. O'Brian
Publisher: Springer
Series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
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Molecular Aspects of Iron Metabolism in Pathogenic and Symbiotic Plant-Microbe Associations is a valuable resource to microbiologists, pathologists and scientists interested in iron uptake and metabolism in microbial pathogenesis, rhizobia legume associations, and plant physiology and immunity.

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Published August, 2012
By Muhammad Munir, Siamak Zohari and Mikael Berg
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences
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Peste de Petits Ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious viral disease of domestic and wild small ruminants that can significantly affect economies.

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Published August, 2012
By Alan Jackson and Alan C. Jackson
Publisher: Springer (Springer Basel)
Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
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A variety of pathogenetic mechanisms are involved in these infections and an understanding of the pathogenesis is essential in understanding the diagnostic and clinical management aspects of the disease.

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