Bookedited by Matthew A. Mulvey, David J. Klumpp, Ann E. Stapleton.
Contents:
1. Anatomy and physiology of the urinary tract: relation to host defense and microbial infection
2. Clinical presentations and epidemiology of urinary tract infections
3. Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of urinary tract infection
4. Urinary tract infections in infants and children
5. The vaginal microbiota and urinary tract infection
6. Asymptomatic bacteriuria and bacterial interference
7. Bacterial prostatitis: bacterial virulence, clinical outcomes, and new directions
8. Urosepsis: overview of the diagnostic and treatment challenges
9. Reservoirs of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli
10. Origin and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance among uropathogenic Escherichia coli
11. Population phylogenomics of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli
12. Virulence and fitness determinants of uropathogenic Escherichia coli
13. Uropathogenic Escherichia coli-associated exotoxins
14. Structure, function, and assembly of adhesive organelles by uropathogenic bacteria
15. Pathoadaptive mutations in uropathogenic Escherichia coli
16. Invasion of host cells and tissues by uropathogenic bacteria
17. Proteus mirabilis and urinary tract infections
18. Epidemiology and virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae
19. Gram-positive uropathogens, polymicrobial urinary tract infection, and the emerging microbiota of the urinary tract
20. Integrated pathophysiolog of pyelonephritis
21. Susceptibility to urinary tract infection: benefits and hazards of the antibacterial host response
22. Innate immune responses to bladder infection
23. Host responses to urinary tract infections and emerging therapeutics: sensation and pain within the urinary tract
24. Drug vaccine development for the treatment and prevention of urinary tract infections
Index.