| Contents |
Global burden of tuberculosis : past, present, and future / Liz Corbett and Mario Raviglione -- Overview of clinical tuberculosis / Philip C. Hopewell and Robert M. Jasmer -- Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis / M. Donald Cave, Megan Murray, and Edward Nardell -- Clinical mycobacteriology (tuberculosis) laboratory : services and methods / Leonid Heifets and Edward Desmond -- Immune-based methods / Suman Laal and Yasir A.W. Skeiky -- Molecular diagnosis of mycobacterial infections / Betty A. Forbes, Gaby Pfyffer, and Kathleen D. Eisenach -- Global impact of multidrug resistance / Marcos A. Espinal and Max Salfinger -- Mechanisms of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Ying Zhang, Catherine Vilchèze, and William R. Jacobs, Jr. -- Introduction to functional genomics of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex / Priscille Brodin, Caroline Demangel, and Stewart T. Cole -- Comparative genomics and evolution of Mycobacterium bovis BCG / Roland Brosch and Marcel A. Behr -- TB or not TB: a structural genomics mission? / Celia W. Goulding, Debnath Pal, and David Eisenberg -- Gene replacement systems / Neil G. Stoker, P. Sander, and J.M. Reyrat -- Repetitive DNA in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex / Stephen V. Gordon and Philip Supply -- Mycobacteriophages and tuberculosis / Graham F. Hatfull -- Control of mycobacterial transcription / Issar Smith, William R. Bishai, and Valakunja Nagaraja -- The proteome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis / John T. Belisle ... [et al.] -- The cell envelope of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with special reference to the capsule and outer permeability barrier / Philip Draper and Mamadou Daffé -- Structure, biosynthesis, and genetics of the mycolic acid-arabinoglactan-peptidoglycan complex / Sebabrata Mahapatra ... [et al.] -- A waxy tale, by Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Laurent Kremer and Gurdyal S. Besra -- General metabolism and biochemical pathways of tubercle bacilli / Paul R. Wheeler and John S. Blanchard -- Iron metabolism in the tubercle bacillus and other mycobacteria / Luis E.N. Quadri and Colin Ratledge -- Two-component systems, protein kinases, and signal transduction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Yossef Av-Gay and Vojo Deretic -- Nucleic acid metabolism / Valerie Mizrahi, Michael Buckstein, and Harvey Rubin -- Transport processes / Jean Content ... [et al.] -- Receptor-mediated recognition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by host cells / Matthew J. Fenton, Lee W. Riley, and Larry S. Schlesinger -- Mycobacterium tuberculosis : the indigestible microbe / David G. Russell -- Intracellular models of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection / John Chan ... [et al.] -- Dendritic cells in host immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Marc Mendelson, Willem Hanekom, and Gilla Kaplan -- CD8 T cells in tuberculosis / Stefan H.E. Kaufmann and JoAnn L. Flynn -- CD1 and tuberculosis / Christopher C. Dascher and Michael B. Brenner -- TH1 and TH2 cytokines in the human immune response to tuberculosis / Peter F. Barnes and Ramakrishna Vankayalapati -- Role of antibody-mediated immunity in host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Aharona Glatman-Freedman and Arturo Casadevall -- The PE and PPE multigene families of mycobacteria / Michael J. Brennan, Nico C. Gey van Pittius, and Clara Aspitia -- Mycobacterium marinarum and fish and frog models of infection / Michele Trucksis, Christopher L. Pritchett, and Renate Reimschuessel -- Experimental infection models of tuberculosis in domestic and wild animals / Bryce M. Buddle, John M. Pollock, and R. Glyn Hewinson -- Animal models of tuberculosis / JoAnne L. Flynn, Andrea M. Cooper, and William Bishai -- Tuberculosis vaccine preclinical screening and development / Ian M. Orme and Angelo A. Izzo -- Index. |
