Published October, 2010
By Patrice Boquet and E. Lemichez
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Pathogenic bacteria for human and animals have developed sophisticated weapons, termed virulence factors, to ensure their replication and persistence into their hosts. The authors in this volume show a synthesis on how the various host cellular Rho GTPases activities are manipulated by bacteria to fulfil their virulence.

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Published October, 2010
By Cornelia Kasper, Martijn van Griensven, Ralf Portner, Martijn Griensven and Ralf Poertner
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology
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The aim of tissue engineering is the development of therapeutic approaches to substitute diseased organs or tissues or improve their function. Moreover, a very important issue in tissue en- neering is the formation of tissues under well defined, controlled and reprod- ible conditions.

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Published October, 2010
By Klaus Aktories, K. Aktories and T.D. Wilkins
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Clostridium difficile has been recognized as the cause of a broad spectrum of enteric disease ranging from mild antibiotic-associated diarrhea to pseudomembranous colitis.

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Published October, 2010
By Keya Chaudhuri and S. N. Chatterjee
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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To start with, we feel that we should explain why the book has been entitled Cholera Toxins. In fact, the enterotoxin secreted by Vibrio cholerae, which is p- marily responsible for causation of the disease, is conventionally known as or referred to as cholera toxin, or CT.

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Published October, 2010
By Tiiu Kull, J. Arditti and Sek Man Wong
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As stated many times before the purpose of Orchid Biology, Reviews and Perspectives (OB) is to present reviews on all aspects of orchids.

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Published October, 2010
By Didier Raoult and Michel Drancourt
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This fascinating new volume comes complete with color illustrations and features the methodology and main achievements in the emerging field of paleomicrobiology. New molecular approaches have already provided exciting results, such as confirmation of a single biotype of Yersinia pestis as the cause of historical plague pandemics.

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Published October, 2010
By Luis Enjuanes
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Human coronaviruses caused the SARS epidemic that infected more than 8000 people, killing about ten percent of them in 32 countries. This book provides essential information on these viruses and the development of vaccines to control coronavirus infections.

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Published October, 2010
By Nirmal C. Sukul and Anirban Sukul
Publisher: Springer
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Since the subject of high dilution effects is still a subject for debate, this volume provides evidence in support of effects from control clinical studies, clinical records from veteran physicians, controlled experiments on animals and plants, and in vitro tests without any organisms (Chapter II).

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Published October, 2010
By Jean-Pierre Changeux and Peter Palese
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Ulrich Desselberger, Gif-sur-Yvette/Cambridge.Infection of a naive (non-immune) host with a virus elicits an immediate response which results in a cascade of changes in the host, including an interferon response (innate immunity).

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Published October, 2010
By Anton Buzdin and Sergey Lukyanov
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Several approaches, such as microarray hybridization, have become extremely popular tools for specialists in biochemistry and biomedicine, while the potential of many other advantageous techniques seems to be underestimated. Written by an international team of authors, this book details the current state-of-art in hybridization techniques.

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