Yersinia pestis: Retrospective and Perspective

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yang, Ruifu (Editor), Anisimov, Andrey (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 918
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.

This book addresses nearly every aspect of Y. pestis, approaching it from a new perspective. Topics covered include the history, epidemiology, physiology, ecology, genome, evolution, pathogenesis, host-pathogen interaction, big-data-driven research, vaccines, clinical aspects and future research tre...

Table of Contents:

• Plague: a disease changed the path of human civilization
• Discovery of the plague pathogen: lessons learned
• Taxonomy of Yersinia pestis
• Physiology of Yersinia pestis
• Ecology of Yersinia pestis and epidemiology of plague
• Genome and evolution of Yersinia pestis
• Pathology and pathogenesis of plague
• Genetic regulation of Yersinia pestis
• Yersinia pestis in the age of big data
• Immunology of Yersinia pestis infection
• Plague: clinics, diagnosis and treatment
• Plague vaccines: status and future
• Bacteriophages of Yersinia pestis
• Perspectives on Yersinia pestis: a model for studying zoonotic pathogens.