Contributors examine the family of bacterial pathogens from such perspectives as epidemiology, animal ecology, food safety, clinical microbiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, infectious disease, toxicology, bacterial pathogenesis, cell biology, and immunology, and draw on experiences ranging from managing farm livestock to managing end-stage renal disease in the clinic. They and their topics reflect rather than present those at a June 1997 symposium and workshop in Baltimore. Among the specific topics are infections in Canada, the bacteria's ecology in cattle and the impact on management practices, interaction with intestinal epithelial cells, cytokine responses, toxicity in human cerebral endothelial cells, various strategies in the immunoprophylaxis of infection and disease, and public health. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
