The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hurst, Christon J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: Advances in Environmental Microbiology, 3
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Aquatic ecology.; Microbial ecology.; Microbiology.; Plant pathology.; Animal physiology.; Life Sciences.; Microbial Ecology.; Animal Physiology.; Plant Pathology.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.

This volume focuses on those instances when benign and even beneficial relationships between microbes and their hosts opportunistically change and become detrimental toward the host.  It examines the triggering events which can factor into these changes, such as reduction in the host’s capacity for...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• How well do surrogate hosts serve as model systems for understanding pathogenicity
• Host-symbiont relationships: understanding the change from guest to pest
• Opportunistic infections in elasmobranchs
• Bacterial opportunistic pathogens of fish
• Fungal secondary invaders of fish
• Opportunistic pathogens of marine mammals
• Opportunistic pathogens of terrestrial plants
• Non-spore-forming bacterial entomopathogens – their toxins, hosts and the environment: why be a pathogen
• Opportunistic infections of avians
• Opportunistic algae, fungi, and ichthyosporea associated with mammalian livestock disease
• Opportunisitic pathogens of humans.