
Bacterial Survival in the Hostile Environment
- 1st Edition - September 28, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- 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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- 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
Chapter 1. Mycobacterium tuberculosis adaptation to host environment
Chapter 2. Modulation of host pathways by Mycobacterium tuberculosis for survival
Chapter 3. Signaling nucleotides in bacteria
Chapter 4. The fish immune armaments in response to pathogen invasion—a tour inside the macrophages
Chapter 5. Essential proteins for the survival of bacteria in hostile environment
Chapter 6. Kinases and phosphatases in bacterial survival in hostile environment
Chapter 7. Antimicrobial resistance—a serious global threat
Chapter 8. Combination of virulence and antibiotic resistance: a successful bacterial strategy to survive under hostile environments
Chapter 9. Mechanisms of biofilm-based antibiotic resistance and tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Chapter 10. Biofilms: cities of microorganisms
Chapter 11. Biofilm: a coordinated response of bacteria against stresses
Chapter 12. The bacterial communication system and its interference as an antivirulence strategy
Chapter 13. Microbial adaptations in extreme environmental conditions
Chapter 14. Adaptation strategies of piezophilic microbes
Chapter 15. Survival and adaptation strategies of microorganisms in the extreme radiation
Chapter 16. Adaptation strategies of thermophilic microbes
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 28, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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