Mycobacteria : molecular biology and virulence / edited by Colin Ratledge and Jeremy Dale.

Oxford : Blackwell Science, 1999.

x, 406 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Recombination / Graham R. Stewart & Johnjoe McFadden -- Mobile genetic elements and plasmids : tools for genetic studies / Christophe Guilhot, Mary Jackson & Brigitte Gicquel -- Mycobacteriophages / Graham F. Hatfull -- Gene expression and regulation / Juliano Timm, Manuel Gomez & Issar Smith -- Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae / Stephen V. Gordon ... [et al.] -- Molecular epidemiology : human tuberculosis / Paul van Helden -- Molecular epidemiology : Mycobacterium bovis / Desmond M. Collins -- Molecular epidemiology : other mycobacteria / Joseph O. Falkinham, III -- Molecular diagnotics / Kathleen D. Eisenach -- Immunodiagnosis of mycobacterial infection / Graham H. Bothamley ... [et al.] -- Mycobacterial growth and dormancy / M. Joseph Colston & Robert A. Cox -- Cell wall : physical structure and permeability / Jun Liu, Clifton E. Barry, III & Hiroshi Nikaido -- The cell-wall core of Mycobacterium : structure, biogenesis and genetics / Alain R. Baulard, Gurdyal S. Besra & Patrick J. Brennan -- Iron metabolism / Colin Ratledge -- Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in mycobacteria / Vera Webb & Julian Davies -- Immunotherapy for mycobacterial diseases / John L. Stanford & Graham A.W. Rook -- Vaccines / Douglas B. Lowrie -- Mycobacterial antigens / Jelle Thole, Riny Janssen & Douglas Young -- Mycobacterium and the seduction of the macrophage / David G. Russell -- Cytokines in immunity to tuberculosis / Andrea M. Cooper & Ian M. Orme.

Includes bibliographical references and index.