Main description:

The state of our knowledge of Campylobacter infection in one comprehensive volume.

Presents findings on the extent of campylobacter in the food supply, transmission of antibiotic resistant campylobacters from food animals to humans, and control of campylobacter at the food source.
Includes six sections of chapters that detail the campylobacter organism; the clinical and epidemiologic aspects of campylobacter infections, pathogenesis, and immunity; the emerging field of campylobacter glycobiology, which has provided a structural basis for understanding important polysaccharides and glycolipids from the organism.
Offers insight into glycosylation systems, which are present in other prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Covers groundbreaking work on the molecular analyses of C. jejuni and other Campylobacter species.

This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

Contents:

Table of Contents

I. The Organism

1. Taxonomy of the Family Campylobacteraceae, Lies Debruyne, Dirk Gevers, and Peter Vandamme

2. Population Biology of Campylobacter jejuni and Related Organisms, Martin C. J. Maiden and Kate E. Dingle

3. Complexity and Versatility in the Physiology and Metabolism of Campylobacter jejuni, David J. Kelly

4. Comparative Geonomics of Campylobacter jejuni, Olivia L. Champion, Suaad Al-Jaberi, Richard A. Stabler, and Brendan W. Wren

5. Comparative Genomics of Campylobacter Species Other Than Campylobacter jejuni, William G. Miller

II. Clinical and Epidemiologic Aspects of Campylobacter Infections

6. Clinical Aspects of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli Infections, Martin J. Blaser and Jorgen Engberg

7. Clinical Significance of Campylobacter and Related Species, Other Than Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli, Albert J. Lastovica and Ban Mishu Allos

8. Burden of Illness of Campylobacteriosis and Sequelae, Kare Molbak and Arie Havelaar

9. Epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni Infections in Industrialized Nations, Christine K. Olson, Steen Ethelberg, Wilfrid van Pelt, and Robert V. Tauxe

10. Molecular Epidemiology of Campylobacter Species, Stephen L. W. On, Noel McCarthy, William G. Miller, and Brent J. Gilpin

11. Isolation, Identification, Subspecies Differentiation, and Typing of Campylobacter fetus, Marcel A. P. van Bergen, Jos P. M. van Putten, Kate E. Dingle, Martin J. Blaser, and Jaap A. Wagenaar

12. Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Campylobacter Species, Collette Fitzgerald, Jean Whichard, and Irving Nachamkin

13. Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Campylobacter Infection, Bart C. Jacobs, Alex van Belkum, and Hubert P. Endtz

14. Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance in Campylobacter, Qijing Zhang and Paul J. Plummer

15. National Molecular Subtyping Network for Food-Borne Bacterial Disease Surveillance in the United States, Peter Gerner-Smidt, Steven G. Stroika, and Collette Fitzgerald

III. Pathogenesis and Immunity

16. Interaction of Campylobacter jejuni with Host Cells, Robert O. Watson and Jorge E. Galan

17. Cell Biology of Human Host Cell Entry by Campylobacter jejuni, Lan Hu and Dennis J. Kopecko

18. Campylobacter jejuni Secretes Proteins via the Flagellar Type III Secretion System That Contribute to Host Cell Invasion and Gastroenteritis, Charles L. Larson, Jeffrey E. Christensen, Sophia A. Pacheco, Scott A. Minnich, and Michael E. Konkel

19. Innate Immunity in Campylobacter Infections, Nichole M. Iovine

20. Chemosensory Signal Transduction Pathway of Campylobacter jejuni, Victoria Korolik and Julian Ketley

21. Animal Models of Campylobacter jejuni Infections, Linda S. Mansfield, David B. Schauer, and James G. Fox

22. Rabbit Model of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Nobuhiro Yuki

23. Pathogenesis of Campylobacter fetus, Martin J. Blaser, Diane G. Newell, Stuart A. Thompson, and Ellen L. Zechner

24. Development of a Human Vaccine, David R. Tribble, Shahida Baqar, and Stuart A. Thompson

IV. Glycobiology

25. N-Linked Protein Glycosylation in Campylobacter, Harald Nothaft, Saba Amber, Markus Aebi, and Christine M. Szymanski

26. O-Linked Flagellar Glycosylation in Campylobacter, Susan M. Logan, Ian C. Schoenhofen, and Patricia Guerry

27. Campylobacter jejuni Lipooligosaccharides: Structures and Biosynthesis, Michel Gilbert, Craig T. Parker, and Anthony P. Moran

28. Campylobacter jejuni Capsular Polysaccharide, Andrey V. Karlyshev, Brendan W. Wren, and Anthony P. Moran

29. Campylobacter Metabolomics, Evelyn C. Soo, David J. McNally, Jean-Robert Brisson, and Christopher W. Reid

V. Genes and Gene Expression

30. Regulation of Flagellar Gene Expression and Assembly, David R. Hendrixson

31. Natural Competence and Transformation in Campylobacter, Rebecca S. Wiesner and Victor L. DiRita

32.Survival Strategies of Campylobacter jejuni: Stress Responses, the Viable but Nonculturable State, and Biofilms, Sarah L. Svensson, Emilisa Frirdich, and Erin C. Gaynor

33. Iron Metabolism, Transport, and Regulation, Alain Stintzi, Arnoud H. M. van Vliet, and Julian M. Ketley

34. Regulation of Genes in Campylobacter jejuni, Marc M. S. M. Woesten, Andries van Mourik, and Jos P. M. van Putten

VI. Food Safety and Intervention

35. Campylobacter in the Food Supply, Wilma Jacobs-Reitsma, Ulrike Lyhs, and Jaap Wagenaar

36. Transmission of Antibiotic Resistance from Food Animals to Humans, Frank M. Aarestrup, Patrick F. McDermott, and Henrik C. Wegener

37. Poultry Colonization with Campylobacter and Its Control at the Primary Production Level, Jaap A. Wagenaar, Wilma Jacobs-Reitsma, Merete Hofshagen, and Diane Newell

38. Bacteriophage Therapy and Campylobacter, Ian F. Connerton, Phillippa L. Connerton, Paul Barrow, Bruce S. Seal, and Robert J. Atterbury