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Moonlighting Cell Stress Proteins in Microbial Infections: 7 Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013 Edition
Author(s): Brian Henderson
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: 6 Aug. 2015
- Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 423 pages
- ISBN-10: 9401783055
- ISBN-13: 9789401783057
Book Description
Microbial infection is increasingly seen as a problem as we begin to run out of antibiotics. Understanding how microbes cause disease is essential. In recent years it has begun to emerge that bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses can use their cell stress proteins to cause infection. This volume brings together the world’s leading experts in the study of the microbial and human cell stress proteins that are involved in enabling microorganisms to infect humans and cause serious disease.
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Microbial infection is increasingly seen as a problem as we begin to run out of antibiotics. Understanding how microbes cause disease is essential. In recent years it has begun to emerge that bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses can use their cell stress proteins to cause infection. This volume brings together the world’s leading experts in the study of the microbial and human cell stress proteins that are involved in enabling microorganisms to infect humans and cause serious disease.
