Biochemical, serological and microbiological methods have been used to dissect pathogens
and identify the components useful for vaccine development. Although successful in many …

Intracellular parasitism by bacterial pathogens is a complex, multi-factorial process that has
been exploited successfully by a wide variety of organisms. Members of the Order …

Practical Handbook of Microbiology, 4th edition provides basic, clear and concise
knowledge and practical information about working with microorganisms. Useful to anyone …

Members of the family Chlamydiaceae are obligate intracellular gram-negative bacteria that
cause a broad spectrum of disease in man, other mammals and birds. Infection in animals …

Gram-negative bacteria possess an outer membrane layer which constrains uptake and
secretion of solutes and polypeptides. To overcome this barrier, bacteria have developed …

Phosphatidic acid (PA) is a critical phospholipid constituent in eukaryotic cell membranes,
which accounts for 1À4% of the total lipid. 1 This lipophilic glycerophospholipid has a …

Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen and the
causative agent of blinding trachoma. Although Chlamydia is protected from humoral …

Profound changes are occurring in the strategies that biotechnology-based industries are
deploying in the search for exploitable biology and to discover new products and develop …

The genome sequences of Chlamydia trachomatis mouse pneumonitis (MoPn) strain Nigg
(1 069 412 nt) and Chlamydia pneumoniae strain AR39 (1 229 853 nt) were determined …

▪ Abstract Type III secretion systems allow Yersinia spp., Salmonella spp., Shigella spp.,
Bordetella spp., and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli …