Main description:

Pathogenic fungi are widely distributed and can infect many organisms, particularly humans, but also other vertebrates and insects. Due to a growing number of fungal infections, there is an increasing need to understand the interaction of pathogenic fungi with their hosts.

This second completely updated and revised edition of Volume VI of The Mycota consists of state of the art reviews written by experts in the field, covering three major areas of this rapidly developing field. In the first part the current understanding of pathogenic fungi and the physiological reactions relevant for the pathogen - host interaction are elucidated. The second part describes novel technologies for the identification of proteins, virulence factors and mechanisms central to the host - pathogen interaction. The third part deals with the characterization of the host response towards pathogenic fungi and addresses timely clinical aspects.

Contents:

Pathogens.- 1 trichomycetes and the arthropod gut
Robert w. Lichtwardt
2 opportunistic mold infections
Ronald g. Washburn
3 entomopathogenic fungi: biochemistry and molecular biology
George g. Khachatourians, sohail s. Qazi, william r. Reid
4 physiology and metabolic requirements of pathogenic fungi
Matthias brock
5 co2 sensing and virulence of candida albicans
Estelle mogensen, fritz a. Muhlschlegel
6 hyphal growth and virulence in candida albicans
Andrea walther, jurgen wendland
7 pathogenicity of malassezia yeasts
Peter a. Mayser, sarah k. Lang, wiebke hort
Techniques
8 proteomics and its application to the human-pathogenic fungi aspergillus fumigatus and candida albicans
Olaf kniemeyer, axel a. Brakhage
9 transcriptomics of the fungal pathogens focusing on c. Albicans
Steffen rupp
Host
10 yeast infections in immunocompromised hosts
Emmanuel roilides, thomas j. Walsh
11 the host innate immune response to pathogenic candida albicans and other fungal pathogens
Peter f. Zipfel, katharina gropp, michael reuter, susann schindler, christine skerka
12 toll-like receptors and fungal recognition
Frank ebel, jurgen heesemann
13 clinical aspects of dermatophyte infections,
Jochen brasch, uta-christina hipler
Biosystematic index
Subject index