Bookedited by Vincenzo Savini.
Summary: Pet-to-Man Travelling Staphylococci: A World in Progress explores Staphylococci, a dangerous pathogen that affects both humans and animals with a wide range of infection states. This bacteria can spread rapidly as a commensal organism in both humans and pets, and is an agent of disease. Staphylococci are potentially highly virulent pathogens which require urgent medical attention. In addition, Staphylococci remain a threat within hospital environments, where they can quickly spread across a patient population. This book explores the organisms' resistance to many compounds used to treat them, treatment failure and multidrug resistant staphylococci, amongst other related topics.
Contents:
1. Staphylococcal taxonomy
2. Staphylococcal ecology and epidemiology
3. Coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative staphylococci human diseases
4. Coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative staphylococci animal diseases
5. Transfer of staphylococci and related genetic elements
6. Food-borne transmission of staphylococci
7. The staphylococcal coagulases
8. The stafphylococcal hemolysins
9. The staphylococcal panton-valentine leukocidin (PVL)
10. The staphylococcal exfoliative toxins
11. Extracellular proteases of Staphylococcus spp.
12. Staphylococcal lipases
13. Staphylococcal bacteriocins
14. Phage-associated virulence determinants of Staphylococcus aureus
15. Diagnostics: routine identification on standard and chromogenic media, and advanced automated methods
16. Molecular identification and genotyping of Staphylococci: genus, species, strains, clones, lineages, and interspecies exchanges
17. Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
18. In vivo resistance mechanisms: Staphylococcal biofilms
19. Autovaccines in individual therapy of Staphylococcal infections
20. Experimental animal models in evaluation of Staphylococcal pathogenicity
21. Application of staphylococci in the food industry and biotechnology
Index.