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| Contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| I | General Principles | |
| 1 | Fungal Molecular Pathogenesis: What Can It Do and Why Do We Need It? | 3 |
| 2 | Sex, MAT, and the Evolution of Fungal Virulence | 13 |
| 3 | Postgenomic Strategies for Genetic Analysis: Insight from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans | 35 |
| 4 | Candida albicans Hypha Formation and Virulence | 45 |
| 5 | The Conversion from Classical Studies in Fungal Pathogenesis to the Molecular Era | 49 |
| 6 | Mating and Parasexual Genetics in Candida albicans | 71 |
| 7 | The Mating-Type Locus and Mating of Candida albicans and Candida glabrata | 89 |
| 8 | Evolution of Human-Pathogenic Fungi: Phylogenies and Species | 113 |
| 9 | Establishment of Cell Identity in Pathogenic Fungi | 133 |
| 10 | Signal Transduction in the Interactions of Fungal Pathogens and Mammalian Hosts | 143 |
| 11 | Function and Regulation of Adhesin Gene Families in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans, and Candida glabrata | 163 |
| 12 | Fungal Biofilms: Agents of Disease and Drug Resistance | 177 |
| 13 | Molecular Basis of Fungal Adherence to Endothelial and Epithelial Cells | 187 |
| 14 | Molecular Principles of Antifungal Drug Resistance | 197 |
| II | Model Systems: Heterologous Hosts, Model Pathogens, and Fungal-Bacterial Interactions | |
| 15 | Heterologous Hosts and the Evolution and Study of Fungal Pathogenesis | 215 |
| 16 | Amoeba and Slime Mold: Hosts of Virulence Evolution | 227 |
| 17 | Aspergillus nidulans: a Model for Elucidation of Aspergillus fumigatus Secondary Metabolism | 235 |
| 18 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae: an Emerging and Model Pathogenic Fungus | 245 |
| 19 | Fungal-Bacterial Interactions | 261 |
| 20 | Amphibian Chytridiomycosis as an Emerging Infectious Disease of Wildlife: What Can We Learn from the Earliest Diverging Fungi? | 271 |
| III | Specific Pathogens | |
| 21 | Cryptococcus neoformans: a Sugar-Coated Killer | 281 |
| 22 | Toward a Molecular Understanding of Candida albicans Virulence | 305 |
| 23 | Molecular Determinants of Histoplasma capsulatum Pathogenesis | 321 |
| 24 | Molecular Determinants of Virulence in Aspergillus fumigatus | 333 |
| 25 | Pathogenesis of Pneumocystis | 347 |
| 26 | Virulence Mechanisms of Coccidioides | |
| 27 | Blastomyces dermatitidis Cell Surface Determinants and Their Application in Vaccine Development | 393 |
| 28 | Virulence Factors in Black Molds with Emphasis on Melanin, Chitin, and Wangiella as a Molecularly Tractable Model | 407 |
| 29 | Zygomycetes as Agents of Infectious Disease in Humans | 429 |
| 30 | Signaling Pathways in the Dimorphic Human Fungal Pathogen Penicillium marneffei | 441 |
| IV | The Host | |
| 31 | Innate Humoral Immunity to Fungi | 457 |
| 32 | Innate and Acquired Cellular Immunity to Fungi | 471 |
| 33 | Acquired Antibody-Mediated Immunity to Fungi | 487 |
| 34 | Site-Specific Mucosal Immunity to Fungi: Lessons Learned from Candida albicans Applied to Other Fungi | 505 |
| 35 | Intracellular Pathogenesis of Histoplasma capsulatum | 527 |
| 36 | Interactions of Immune Cells with the Facultative Intracellular Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans | 537 |
| 37 | Fungal Interactions with Leukocytes | 555 |
| 38 | Fungal Vaccine Development | 565 |
| 39 | Molecular Immunopathogenesis of Innate Host Defense against Chronic Disseminated (Hepatosplenic) Candidiasis | 583 |
| V | Future Directions | |
| 40 | Studying Fungal Virulence by Using Genomics | 591 |
| 41 | Future of Functional Genomics of Histoplasma capsulatum | 611 |
| 42 | Functional Genomic Approaches to Fungal Pathogenesis, Drug Target Validation, and Antifungal Drug Discovery | 627 |
| 43 | Genetic and Proteomic Analysis of Fungal Virulence | 643 |
| 44 | Genomic Perspectives on the Fungal Kingdom | 657 |
| Index | 667 |
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Susan Steckler
reviewed Molecular Principles of Fungal Pathogenesis on January 13, 2014
Molecular Principles of Fungal Pathogenesis
The book opens with the mass poisoning of thousands of people in Bangladesh by drinking water contaminated with arsenic. This book has a very important current environmental message for all of us because environmental arsenic is not just a problem facing Bangladesh. There is a USGS map on page 161 showing the states in the U.S. where acquifers used for drinking water contain dangerously high levels of arsenic. As a cancer patient, I have often wondered why I keep meeting people who are being treated for cancer but are in none of the high-risk groups. I was surprised to read in this book that years of exposure to water contaminated with non-lethal levels of arsenic causes lung cancer. Unfortunately, this surprising information is floating around in a hodge-podge of history and unrelated anecdotes.
I would have assumed that a major publishing company like Macmillan still employed editors in 2005 but, apparently, I was wrong. The author is obviously extremely knowledgeable, and the separate topics he addresses are all interesting but the book is totally disjointed.
I imagine that the author wrote a long academic article addressing the arsenic contaminated well water in Bangladesh, a medium length exposé on the history and ethics of William Morris & Company. Someone remarked "You have almost enough material for a book." The author tossed in a short popular article on the worldwide problem of environmental arsenic, and several short sensational anecdotes about murders committed using arsenic and mailed the separate articles to Macmillan. His publisher dropped the articles on the floor, told an intern to put them back in order and then published them.
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