Evolutionary biology of bacterial and fungal pathogens

 Content: Evolutionary biology of microbial-host interactions --
 Evolution of bacterial-host interactions: virulence and the immune overresponse --
 Collective traits in pathogenic bacteria --
 Epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of pathogens --
 Environmental and social influences on infectious diseases --
 Human genome diversity: a host genomic perspective of host-pathogen interactions and infectious diseases --
 Human interventions on the evolution of host-bacterium interactions --
 Effects of immune selection on population structure of bacteria --
 Evolution of normal intestinal microbiota and its pathogenic implications --
 Evolution of bacterial opportunistic pathogens --
 Multilocus models of bacterial population genetics --
 Host view of the fungal cell wall --
 Evolutionary genetics of microbial pathogens --
 Genome architecture and evolution of bacterial pathogens --
 Evolution of genomic islands and evolution of pathogenicity --
 Evolution of integrons and evolution of antibiotic resistance --
 Evolution of plasmids and evolution of virulence and antibiotic-resistance plasmids --
 Phage-shaping evolution of bacterial pathogenicity and resistance --
 Emergence, spread, and extinction of pathogenic bacterial clones --
 Specific chromosome alterations of Candida albicans: mechanisms for adaptation to pathogenicity --
 Evolution of a mating system uniquely dependent upon switching and pathogenesis in Candida albicans --
 Mechanisms of variation in microbial pathogenesis --
 Evolutionary biology of drug resistance --
 Modularization and evolvability in antibiotic resistance --
 Epidemiology and evolution of beta-lactamases --
 Epidemiology and evolution of quinolone resistance --
 Evolution of glycopeptide resistance --
 Emergence and evolution of antifungal resistance --
 Effects of antibiotic resistance on bacterial fitness, virulence, and transmission --
 Evolution of antibiotic resistance by hypermutation --
 Multiple stages in the evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus --
 Evolutionary pathogenicity of gram-negative bacteria --
 Evolution of Salmonella and Salmonella infections --
 Evolution of Vibrio cholerae and cholera epidemics --
 Evolution of Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus infections --
 Evolution of pathogenic Yersinia --
 Evolution of Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis as deduced from comparative genome analyses --
 Genomic view on the evolution of enterohermorrhagic Escherichia coli --
 Evolution of Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli --
 Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity: from acute to chronic infections --
 Evolution of Helicobacter and Helicobacter infections --
 Evolution of Legionella pneumophila Icm/Dot pathogenesis system --
 Evolution of Neisseria and Neisseria infections --
 Molecular evolution of Chlamydiales --
 Evolutionary pathogenicity of gram-positive and related bacteria --
 Evolution of Listeria monocytogenes --
 Evolutionary biology of pathogenic enterococci --
 Evolution of Bacillus anthracis, causative agent of anthrax --
 Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence and evolution --
 Evolution of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and mycoplasmal infections --
 Pneumococcus: population biology and virulence --
 Evolutionary pathogenicity of pathogenic fungi --
 Evolution of pathogenic Candida species --
 Pathogenicity of Cryptococcus neoformans: an evolutionary perspective --
 Aspergillus as a human pathogen: an evolutionary perspective.
 Abstract:             
              This volume was inspired by the 2004 Fundacion Lilly conference that focused on the series of successive events characterizing the emergence, development, spread, variation, or disappearance of the interactions between microbes and humans resulting in a reduced fitness for the human host.                 Read more...