Microbiology (non-medical)

Bacterial taxonomy as a specialized discipline is practised by a minority but the applications of taxonomy are important to most, if not all microbiologists.

This volume represents a series of papers presented at the Second International Workshop on HPV Immunology held at the University of Cambridge July 5-7 1993.

The genus Aspergillus has a worldwide distribution and is one of the most common of all groups of fungi.

Food microbiology is a fascinating and challenging science.

In the past decade, the global efforts in the control of HIV disease were basically concentrated on the search for anti-retroviral agents.

This compendium is the result of the FEMS Workshop on "e;Rapid Diagnosis of Mycoplasmas"e; which I organized and which took place in Jerusalem, Israel, August 11-23, 1991.

There is considerable interest in thermophile microorganisms, in their environments, their ability to survive at temperatures which normally denature proteins, but more importantly, as a valuable resource for bio- technology.

The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses.

As discussed in this book, a large body of evidence indicates that selenium is a cancer chemopreventive agent.

The localized attachment of circulating leukocytes to endothelium has been recognized as the cellular hallmark of the inflammatory response.

This volume is divided into three sections.

"e;More than half of the world's population is at risk of the tropical diseases malaria, leprosy, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, Chagas' disease, African trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis and half a billion are infected with at least one of these diseases"e;.

Advances in DNA sequencing and phylogenetic inference have created powerful methods to investigate many dangerous human viruses.

North American Parasitic Zoonoses provides a concise and useful review of essential information about parasitic zoonotic diseases.

Fungal infections are an increasing problem in critically ill patients and these infections carry an attributable mortality that is much higher than corresponding bacterial infections.

This volume represents the proceedings of the 9th International Proton Transport Conference, "e;Mechanisms and Consequences of Proton Transport"e; held in Leura, Australia, August 19 -21, 200 I.

Leishmania parasites cause a diverse group of diseases endemic to many tropical and subtropical regions of the world.

These are indeed exciting times to be a microbiologist.

Hepatitis viruses research started more than fifty years ago.

Advances in biochemistry, cell biology, genome-wide mutagenesis - coupled with molecular technology, including gene microarray and transgenic and knock-out animals - have been instrumental in understanding the cellular processes and molecular pathways of self-tolerance and autoimmune diseases.

In 1996 the International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) recognized the name Nidovirales, as the formal name for Coronaviridae and A rteriviridae.

The majesty of the icefields is beyond description.

Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 1 describes the most important details and advances related to the alleviation of soil stresses by soil microbes.

Although widely recognized as an important waterborne pathogen, Cryptosporidium spp.

Plasticity in Plant-Growth-Promoting and Phytopathogenic Bacteria brings together the expertise of a panel of researchers from around the world to provide comprehensive up-to-date reviews on the most interesting aspects of genomic and phenotypic plasticity in plant-beneficial and phytopathogenic bacteria.

Volume Allergic Diseases is a comprehensive, multi-authored reference work, offering a broad appeal to microbiologists, immunologists, and infectious disease specialists.

The third edition of this monograph continues to have the goal of providing an overview of current thought about the spinal cord mechanisms that are responsible for sensory processing.

The third edition of this monograph continues to have the goal of providing an overview of current thought about the spinal cord mechanisms that are responsible for sensory processing.

Severe Infections Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa emphasizes controversies worldwide in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and pathogenesis of pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.

This book discusses recent developments in several laboratories studying leishmaniasis.

Glycosylation is a common and extremely important modification in biological molecules, particularly of proteins.

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Mycotoxin contamination of food occurs as a result of crop invasion by field fungi such as Fusarium spp.

Although the phenomenon of lateral gene transfer has been known since the 1940's, it was the genomics era that has really revealed the extent and many facets of this evolutionary/genetic phenomenon.

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A number of diseases and conditions that occur primarily in remote rural or poor urban areas of low-income countries have traditionally been neglected by the neuroscience research community.

This book reviews various aspects of papaya genomics, including existing genetic and genomic resources, recent progress on structural and functional genomics, and their applications in papaya improvement.

Although widely recognized as an important waterborne pathogen, Giardia duodenalis can also be transmitted by contamination of food.

Hepatitis E (HEV) is a viral infectious disease that infects humans and domestic, wild, and synanthropic animals alike.

In the relatively few decades since the introduction of HIV into the human population, variants of the virus have diverged to such an extent that, were the discussion about something other than viruses, said variants could easily be classified as different species.

The Reverse Transcriptase (RT) of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) arguably ranks amongst one of the most extensively studied retroviral enzymes.

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is responsible for around half of the total number of hepatitis infections diagnosed worldwide.

This book focuses on the function of antibodies in vivo.

This volume presents a collection of reviews derived from work presented at the Aegean Conference: "e;4th Crossroads between innate and adaptive immunity"e;.

This SpringerBrief on Spx reviews the investigations that led to the discovery of Spx and its orthologs and ties together the results of various studies that have explored the function and control of spx in Gram-positive organisms.

This SpringerBrief is comprehensive account of the functions and effects of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) EBNA1 protein that relate to EBV-associated cancers and evidence for EBNA1 contributions to these cancers.