Staphylococcus aureus Infection and Disease

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Honeyman, Allen L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Friedman, Herman (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bendinelli, Mauro (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Σειρά: Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis,
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Internal medicine.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Medical Microbiology.; Internal Medicine.

Staphylococcus aureus is now acknowledged as being the most important bacterial pathogen of humans. It usually produces localized disease but can be rapidly invasive, spreading through the tissues, invading bone, and seeding the bloodstream to produce a fulminant picture of septic shock, disseminate...

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• The Regulation of Virulence in the Staphylococci
• Small Colony Variants of Staphylococcus aureus: Mechanisms for Production, Biology of Infection, and Clinical Significance
• Capsule Production
• Capsule and Vaccine Development
• Superantigen Activation of Macrophages
• Toxin Production
• Staphylococcal Enterotoxins
• Staphylococcal Extracellular/ Surface Enzymatic Activity
• Surface Protein Anchoring and Display in Staphylococci
• Pore-forming Cytolysins ? and ?-Hemolysins and Leukocidin from Staphylococcus aureus
• Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis
• Internalization of Staphylococcus aureus by Nonprofessional Phagocytes
• Staphylococcus aureus Mastitis
• Global Regulation of Virulence Determinants in Staphylococcus aureus.