Atlas of Fungal Infection

Atlas of Fungal Infection
by Carol A. Kauffman (Editor), Gerald L. Mandell (Editor)

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* Hardcover: 280 pages
* Publisher: Current Medicine Group; 2nd ed. edition (November 9, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1573402427

Book Description
This atlas will show the panoply of infections caused by fungi, emphasizing the visual clues to diagnosis of specific fungal diseases. The entire spectrum, from noninvasive cutaneous infections to systemic involvement with the endemic mycoses, to disease from a wide variety of opportunistic pathogens, will be highlighted.

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Control of Biofilm Infections by Signal Manipulation

Control of Biofilm Infections by Signal Manipulation (Springer Series on Biofilms)
by J.W. Costerton (Foreword), Naomi Balaban (Editor)

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* Hardcover: 175 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (January 8, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 3540738525

Book Description
The medical miracle of antibiotics is being eroded by the emergence and spread of bacterial drug resistance. This is compounded by the fact that bacterial biofilms are believed to be a common cause of persistent infections, when because growing in biofilms, bacteria are protected from the hosts immune response and from antibiotics. In addition, biofilms may spawn systemic infections by sloughing of planktonic bacteria, leading to dissemination, bacteremia, sepsis, and death. The number of patients affected by and dying from what can be considered as a biofilm disease is higher than heart disease and cancer combined, making medical biofilms the biggest single disease that the healthcare system is facing today.
This book describes the molecular mechanisms of cell-to-cell communication among bacterial cells in a biofilm, the development of antibiofilm inhibitors, like quorum-sensing inhibitors, and the use of biofilm inhibitors to prevent and treat bacterial infections in humans and other animals.


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Nitrogen-fixing Actinorhizal Symbioses

Nitrogen-fixing Actinorhizal Symbioses (Nitrogen Fixation: Origins, Applications, and Research Progress)
by Katharina Pawlowski (Editor), William E. Newton (Editor)

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* Hardcover: 312 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 9, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1402035403

Book Description
This book is the self-contained sixth volume of a comprehensive series on nitrogen fixation. It presents the state-of-the-art in regards to actinorhizal symbioses. Like legumes, actinorhizal plants form root nodules that host nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria. However, because the macrosymbionts are, with one exception, woody plants rather than crop plants, actinorhizal symbioses are less well-known than legume symbioses to which they are phylogenetically related. Actinorhizal plants come from eight different families. They can grow on marginal soils by virtue of these symbioses and are used extensively in reforestation, soil reclamation, and desert agroforestry. The diversity of the involved host plants poses a variety of challenges to the actinorhizal symbiosis and results in interesting strategies, for example, to cope with the O2 dilemma or nutrient exchange between plant and bacterium. The actinorhizal micro-symbionts are Gram-positive actinomycetes of the genus Frankia. The inability to culture several actinorhizal microsymbionts has led to the development of diverse molecular strategies for strain identification. This volume includes chapters that deal with all these aspects of the symbiosis and both symbionts plus their ecological role and use. Other chapters tackle the global distribution of different actinorhizal plants and their microsymbionts and how this impacts the question of co-evolution of the micro- and macrosymbionts as well as comparing the actinorhizal and leguminous symbioses. No other book provides the up-to-date and in-depth coverage of this volume, which is intended to serve as an indispensable reference work for academic, governmental, and industrial scientists working in this area, to introduce students to the global importance of this association, and to provide science administrators with ready access to vital relevant information.

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