Bacterial adhesion to animal cells and tissues / Itzhak Ofek, David L. Hasty, Ron J. Doyle

Updates: Bacterial adhesion to cells and tissues / Itzhak Ofek and Ronald J. Doyle, 1994

Basic concepts in bacterial adhesion -- Methodological approaches to analysis of adhesins and adhesion -- Target tissues for bacterial adhesion -- Adhesins as bacterial cell surface structures: general concepts of structure, biogenesis, and regulation -- Emerging concepts in bacterial adhesion and its consequences -- Diversification of receptor specificity and its biological consequences -- Entry of bacteria into nonphagocytic cells -- Postadhesion events induced in nonphagocytic cells -- Adhesion-dependent upregulation of bacterial genes -- Role of adhesion in biofilm formation -- Antiadhesion therapy -- Adhesins, receptors and target substrata involved in the adhesion of pathogenic bacteria to host cells and tissues.