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Clostridial diseases of animals / / [edited by] Francisco Alejandro Uzal, John Francis Prescott, J. Glenn Songer, Michel Robert Popoff
| Clostridial diseases of animals / / [edited by] Francisco Alejandro Uzal, John Francis Prescott, J. Glenn Songer, Michel Robert Popoff |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ames, Iowa : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
| Disciplina | 636.089/6931 |
| Soggetto topico |
Clostridium diseases in animals
Clostridium |
| ISBN |
1-118-72833-5
1-118-72830-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; SECTION 1 The Pathogenic Clostridia; Chapter 1 Taxonomic Relationships among the Clostridia; Bibliography; Chapter 2 General Physiological and Virulence Properties of the Pathogenic Clostridia; Introduction; Anaerobic metabolism; Major clostridial diseases; The onset of clostridial infections; The key role of protein toxins in clostridial disease; The key role of spores in the epidemiology of clostridial disease; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 3 Brief Description of Animal Pathogenic Clostridia; Bibliography
SECTION 2 Toxins Produced by the Pathogenic Clostridia Chapter 4 Toxins of Histotoxic Clostridia: Clostridium chauvoei, Clostridium septicum, Clostridium novyi, and Clostridium sordellii; Introduction; A - Intracellularly active toxins from histotoxic clostridia; B - Membrane-damaging toxins from histotoxic clostridia; Phospholipases; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Toxins of Clostridium perfringens; Introduction; A - Major toxins; B - Other toxins; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Toxins of Clostridium difficile; Introduction; Toxins A and B; C. difficile ADP-ribosylating toxin (CDT) Hypervirulence of C. difficile and its potential mechanisms Immunotherapy of C. difficile infections; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium tetani neurotoxins; Introduction; Clostridia producing botulinum neurotoxins; Clostridium tetani; Susceptibility of animal species to clostridial neurotoxins; Structure of clostridial neurotoxins; Mode of action of clostridial neurotoxins; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; SECTION 3 Clostridial Infections of the Gastrointestinal System; Chapter 8 Diseases produced by Clostridium perfringens type A in mammalian species Introduction Yellow lamb disease; Other enteric diseases produced by Clostridium perfringens type A in mammals; Clostridium perfringens beta 2 toxin-associated gastrointestinal disease; Bibliography; Chapter 9 NetF-associated necrotizing enteritis of foals and canine hemorrhagic gastroenteritis; Introduction; Etiology; Epidemiology and clinical findings; Gross changes; Microscopic changes; Diagnosis; Bibliography; Chapter 10 Necrotic enteritis of poultry; Introduction; Epidemiology; Etiology and pathogenesis; Host response; Predisposing factors; Clinical signs; Gross changes Microscopic changes Prophylaxis; Diagnosis; Bibliography; Chapter 11 Infections by Clostridium perfringens type B; Introduction; Etiology; Clinical signs; Gross changes; Microscopic changes; Diagnosis; Prevention and treatment; Bibliography; Chapter 12 Diseases produced by Clostridium perfringens type C; Diseases of mammalian species; Necrotic enteritis of poultry; Bibliography; Chapter 13 Diseases Produced by Clostridium perfringens type D; Introduction; Etiology; Epidemiology and pathogenesis; Clinical signs; Gross changes; Microscopic changes; Diagnosis; Prophylaxis and treatment Bibliography |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136822903321 |
| Ames, Iowa : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The comprehensive sourcebook of bacterial protein toxins / / Joseph Alouf, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Daniel Ladant, Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biochimie des Interactions Moléculaires, Paris, France, Michel R. Popoff, Institut Pasteur, Unité des Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines, Paris, France ; contributors, Klaus Aktories [and one hundred ten others]
| The comprehensive sourcebook of bacterial protein toxins / / Joseph Alouf, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Daniel Ladant, Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biochimie des Interactions Moléculaires, Paris, France, Michel R. Popoff, Institut Pasteur, Unité des Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines, Paris, France ; contributors, Klaus Aktories [and one hundred ten others] |
| Autore | Alouf J. E (Joseph E.) |
| Edizione | [4th ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Elsevier, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1201 p.) |
| Disciplina | 528.2039474 |
| Soggetto topico | Bacterial toxins |
| ISBN |
0-12-800589-0
0-12-800188-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; The Comprehensive Sourcebook of Bacterial Protein Toxins; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction to the Fourth Edition; In memory of J. E. Alouf (1929-2014); I. Basic Genomic and Physiological Aspects of Bacterial Protein Toxins; 1 Evolutionary aspects of toxin-producing bacteria; Introduction; Molecular ecology of toxin-producing bacteria; Pathogenicity islands, horizontal gene transfer, and the prevalence of toxins; Toxins encoded by plasmids, bacteriophages, and other pathogenicity islands; PAI-encoded toxins delivered by specialized secretion systems
Molecular evolution of toxins through genetic exchangeGenetic exchange and toxin evolution; Toxin evolution and transmission in the host; Toxin evolution and transmission in the soil environment; Toxin evolution and transmission in aquatic environments; Toxin evolution and transmission in the phyllosphere; Toxin evolution in the guts of insects and other vectors; Toxin evolution in biofilms and regulation by quorum sensing; Vaccines and toxin evolution; Modular recombination of bacterial toxins; Conclusion; References 2 Mobile genetic elements and pathogenicity islands encoding bacterial toxinsIntroduction: The genome structure of prokaryotes; Protein toxins encoded by mobile genetic elements; Protein toxins encoded by plasmids; Gram-negative bacteria; Gram-positive bacteria; Protein toxins encoded by bacteriophages; Gram-negative bacteria; Gram-positive bacteria; Protein toxin genes and other mobile genetic elements; Toxins encoded by PAIs; PAIs; PAI-encoded toxins; Enterobacteria; Other Gram-negative bacteria; The bacterial T6SS; Gram-positive bacteria; Instability of PAIs; Conclusion Evolution of new pathogenic variants caused by PAIs and mobile genetic elementsHGT and the evolution of toxin families; Acknowledgments; References; 3 News and views on protein secretion systems; Introduction; Most historical secretion types; Type I secretion system; Type II secretion system; Type III secretion system; Type IV secretion system: a protein and DNA transport machine; Type V secretion system: free or surface-bound?; Type VI secretion system: weapon for bacterial warfare; How far can we go with secretion types?; Type VII secretion system Extracellular appendages and secretion typesThe type IX secretion system; What about other secretion concepts?; Bacteriocins, colicins, pyocins, contact-dependent inhibition; Cell surface lipoproteins; OM Vesicles; What about Gram-positive bacteria, then?; Closing remarks; References; II. Intracellularly Alive Bacterial Protein Toxins; 4 Diphtheria toxin; Introduction; Diphtheria toxin: from pathology to crystal structure; Symptoms, treatment, prophylaxis, and epidemiology of diphtheria; History of DT research; Regulation of DT production; The structure of DT; The mechanism of action of DT The main steps of cell intoxication |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910583473403321 |
Alouf J. E (Joseph E.)
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| Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Elsevier, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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