Medical microbiology and virology

This book describes novel microtechnologies and integration strategies for developing a new class of assay systems to retrieve desired health information from patients in real-time.

This book, written by leading international experts, provides a comprehensive, current examination of transport-mediated antimicrobial resistance.

In the post human-genome project era, cancer specific genomic maps are redesigning tumor taxonomy by evolving from histopathology to molecular pathology.

In recent years, advanced molecular techniques in diagnostic microbiology have been revolutionizing the practice of clinical microbiology in the hospital setting.

This textbook provides an up-to-date overview of the most important parasites in humans and their potential vectors.

This book describes modern biophysical techniques that enable us to understand and examine dynamic processes of infection at the molecular level.

This book covers the state-of-the-art research on molecular biology assays and molecular techniques enabled or enhanced by microfluidic platforms.

This book provides an extensive review of researchinto Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Arcobacter speciesfound in poultry.

This volume reviews the current understanding of the taxonomy, disease syndromes, genetics, biology, and pathogenic factors of Histophilus somni, as well as the host immune response to this pathogen.

Written by specialists in the different fields, this book presents new perspectives and insights into strategies and weapons to fight microbial infections.

This book focuses on the analysis of cancer dynamics and the mathematically based synthesis of anticancer therapy.

This Series will provide microbiologists, hygienists, epidemiologists and infectious diseases specialists with well-chosen contributed volumes containing updated information in the areas of basic and applied microbiology involving relevant issues for public health, including bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections, zoonoses and anthropozoonoses, environmental and food microbiology.

The Series will provide microbiologists, hygienists, epidemiologists and infectious diseases specialists with well-chosen contributed volumes containing updated information in the areas of basic and applied microbiology involving relevant issues for public health, including bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections, zoonosis and anthropozoonosis, environmental and food microbiology.

In the last quarter century, advances in mass spectrometry (MS) have been at the forefront of efforts to map complex biological systems including the human metabolome, proteome, and microbiome.

This Brief discusses aspects of the increasingly complex production of legal and reliable food products of non-animal origin.

This book provides an overview on the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, such as Leishmaniasis, Buruli Ulcer and Schistosomiasis.

Epigenetic modification of cellular genomes is a fascinating means of regulating tissue- and cell type-specific gene expression in all developmental stages of the life of an organism.

This book provides new structural, biochemical, and clinical information on ABC transporters.

This volume is devoted to the application of microorganisms in medical treatment and health protection.

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), the sixth most prevalent cancer worldwide, remains a very difficult disease to treat and cure despite intensive investigation into molecular etiologies and tumor progression pathways.

The concept of cancer stem cells has great clinical implications.

This Brief concerns the chemical risk in food products from the viewpoint of microbiology.

This book describes how psychiatric pharmaceuticals, namely antidepressants, anxiolytics, sedatives and hypnotics are among the most prescribed active substances due to the higher occurrence of psychiatric disorders throughout the world.

The present work focuses on the diagnosis of TB, covering all its possible ways.

This new edition highlights the numerous advances made in the field of microbial endocrinology over the last five years.

Aromatase Inhibitors (AIs) treat postmenopausal estrogen receptor positive tumours, which constitute the majority of breast cancer patients.

This volume thoroughly covers HIV-1 antiretrovirals currently in clinical use, together with their advantages and limitations.

This comprehensive volume explores the latest research on the mechanisms of resistance in cancer cells to CTL-mediated immunotherapy.

This book will be a guide to understanding resistance against targeted therapeutic approaches for cancer using immunotoxins.

This brief reports about safety protocols in the food producing industry.

Pharmacogenomics supports personalized medicine by translating genome-based knowledge into clinical practice, offering enhanced benefit for patients and health-care systems at large.

Die Anwendung von antibakteriell wirksamen Substanzen in der Veterinärmedizin erfolgt zum einen aus Gründen des Verbraucherschutzes, zum anderen zur Erhaltung der Tiergesundheit.

This Brief is concerned with the connection between food packaging and the chemical composition of packaging materials.

PARP Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of the role of PARP in cancer therapy.

This Brief aims at providing a general understanding of the rationale - scientific as well as political - behind EU policy and related risk management decisions in the area on non-animal food imports.

Advances in Nitric Oxide and Cancer is a volume that serves to give the latest research on nitric oxide (NO) and cancer.

Reviewing exhaustively the current state of the art of tissue engineering strategies for regenerating bones and joints through the use of biomaterials, growth factors and stem cells, along with an investigation of the interactions between biomaterials, bone cells, growth factors and added stem cells and how together skeletal tissues can be optimised, this book serves to highlight the importance of biomaterials composition, surface topography, architectural and mechanical properties in providing support for tissue regeneration.

This volume provides a comprehensive review of resistance induced by photodynamic therapy (PDT) in tumor cells.

The book presents current affairs of Sporotrichosis as emergent disease with emphasis on the potential factors associated with genetic polymorphisms in Sporothrix complex.

This Brief concerns the influence of chemistry in the modern food and beverages industry.

The aim of this book is to provide readers with a wide overview of the main healthcare-associated infections caused by bacteria and fungi able to grow as biofilm.

This volume gathers the latest exciting findings on ADP-ribosylation from renowned experts in the field.

The successful prophylaxis and treatment of ubiquitous respiratory infections is essential for the enhancement of public health.

This critical review volume explores the theme of ABC transporters in the context of basic cancer research and its role in drug-resistant tumors.

The aim of this book is to provide readers with a wide overview of the main healthcare-associated infections caused by bacteria and fungi able to grow as biofilm.

Malaria remains an alarming emergency in developing countries.

The notion that contaminated environments in hospital settings significantly contribute to the risk of an individual acquiring an infection while hospitalized is continuously gaining recognition by the medical community.

Milton Taylor, Indiana University, offers an easy-to-read and fascinating text describing the impact of viruses on human society.

The book explores cutting-edge strategies to overcome proteasome inhibitor resistance, including the second generation 20S proteasome inhibitors, novel combinational therapies, and new targets in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (e.