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Bacterial Survival in the Hostile Environment
- 1st Edition - September 28, 2022
- Editors: Ashutosh Kumar, Shivendra Tenguria
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 8 0 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 7 2 2 0 - 8
Variety of bacteria are present in our environment but only a few of these bacteria causes diseases in their hosts including humans. These bacteria face different stresses in the… Read more
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Request a sales quote- Provides in depth knowledge about pathogen biology and microbial adaptations, microbe-host interactions, impact of pathogens on host physiology, virulent factors produced by pathogens and pharmaceutical applications, mechanism of pathogenic virulent factors
- Covers all tactics and strategies adopted by bacteria for their survival under stressed conditions
- Focuses on mechanistic insights of pathogenic adaptations to host
- Includes different adaptation mechanisms of extremophiles to extreme environment
Part 1:
1. Pathogenic adaptation to host environment
2. Adaptation to acidic environment
3. Microaerobic conditions
4. Immune system stress
5. Metal stress
Part 2: Modulation of host pathways by pathogens for adaptation/survival
6. Modulation in glycolytic flux
7. Endoplasmic reticulum stress
8. Host Mitochondria
9. Apoptosis
10. Necrosis
11. Phagosome maturation
12. Autophagy regulation
Part 3: Dormancy, Drug Tolerance and Resistance
13. Growth regulation by microbes
14. Survival and reactivation strategies of pathogens in stress through heterogeneous population generation
15. Persisters
16. Antimicrobial resistance
Part 4: Proteins for stress survival
17. Chaperones
18. Ribosome associated proteins
19. Methyltransferases
20. Proteins responsible for growth regulation of bacteria during unfavourable conditions
21. Proteins involved in biofilm
Part 5: Adaptation to Extreme Environment
22. Adaptations to Ph
23. Temperature
24. Pressure
25. Halophilic adaptations
26. Radiation adaptation
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 28, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323918060
- eBook ISBN: 9780323972208
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