Main description:

The field of oral microbiology has seen fundamental conceptual changes in recent years. Microbial communities are now seen as the fundamental etiological agent in oral diseases through their interface with host inflammatory responses. Study of structured microbial communities has increased our understanding of the roles of each member in the pathogenesis of oral diseases, principles that apply to both periodontitis and dental caries.

Against this backdrop, the third edition of Oral Microbiology and Immunology has been substantially expanded and rewritten by an international team of authors and editors.

Graduate students, researchers, and clinicians as well as students will find this new edition valuable in study and practice.

Contents:

1. Introduction

1. About the meanings of the Word "transmission" in natural sciences.

Fernando Navarro, Joaquin Villalba, Francisco Cortes

2. The Basic Process of Transmission

2. Transmission, Introgression, Spinning, and Evolution

Fernando Baquero

3. Genetic transmission from bacteria-to-bacteria

Fernando de la Cruz

4. Basic processes in bacteria-host-interactions: within host evolution and the transmission of the virulent genotype

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt

5. The extracelular-intracellular transition and the transmission of Salmonella

Francisco Garcia del Portillo

6. Drivers of plasmid mediated transmission of resistance: what we think we know!

Tim Walsh

7. Transmission of high-risk bacterial clones

Teresa M. Coque

8. Antimicrobial Selection and Transmission

Dan A. Andersson

3. The Scenarios of Transmission

9. Ecology and evolution of chromosomal gene transfer between environmental microorganisms and pathogens

Jose Luis Martinez

10. Animal-to-human bacterial transmission

Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn

11. Food-to-humans bacterial transmission

Luisa Peixe, Patricia Antunes, Carla Novais

12. Transmission from hosts to the environment

Elizabeth Wellington

13. Sewage-to-water and food bacterial transmission

Kornellia Smalla

14. Inter-hospital transmission of bacterial pathogens: biogeographical surveillance

Hajo Grundmann

15. Microbial transmission in wild life

Peter Daszak

4. Patient-to-Patient Transmission

16. Hospital vehicles for transmission: who and what to blame?

Andreas F. Widmer

17. Transmission of antibiotic resistance: from outbreaks to endemicity

Rafael Canton

18. Fecal transplantation: when transmission is healthy. The case of Clostridium difficile infection

Mark Wilcox.

19. Biology of hands transmission of microorganisms

Rosa del Campo

20. Transmission surveillance in the Health System

Johann Pitout

21. The evolution of genotyping strategies to detect, analyze and control tuberculosis transmission

Dario Garcia de Viedma

22. The environment as a vehicle of fungal disease transmission in hospitals: the Aspergillus and Candida models

Jesus V. Guinea

23. Breaking transmission with vaccines: the case of tuberculosis

Carlos Martin

24. Transmission, human population, and pathogenicity: the EBOLA case-in-point

Rafael Delgado

5. Experimental and Theoretical Modes of Transmission

25. Infectious transmission and the evolution and epidemiology of antibiotic resistance

Bruce Levin

26. Approaches to quantify and analyze microbial transmission

Mark Woolhouse

27. Experimental epidemiology of antibiotic resistance: looking for an appropriate animal model system

Amparo Latorre

28. The units of biodiversity and the units of transmission

Frederick M. Cohan

29. Tracking the rules of transmission and introgression with networks

Eric Bapteste

30. New tools for characterizing transmission in complex populations

Willem van Shaik