Intracellular pathogens II :

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clinical disease : current treatment and new challenges / J. Stephen Dumler -- Public health : Rickettsial infections and epidemiology / Jennifer H. McQuiston and Christopher D. Paddock -- Phylogeny and comparative genomics : the shifting landscape in the genomics era / Joseph J. Gillespie ... [et al.] -- Invasion of the mammalian host : early events at the cellular and molecular levels / Juan J. Martinez -- Establishing intracellular infection : escape from the phagosome and intracellular colonization (Rickettsiaceae) / Matthew D. Welch, Shawna C. O. Reed, and Cat M. Haglund -- Establishing intracellular infection : modulation of host cell functions (Anaplasmataceae) / Jason A. Carlyon -- Rickettsial physiology and metabolism in the face of reductive evolution / Jonathon P. Audia -- Innate immune response and inflammation : roles in pathogenesis and protection (Rickettsiaceae) / Sanjeev K. Sahni, Elena Rydkina, and Patricia J. Simpson-Haidaris -- Innate immune response and inflammation : roles in pathogenesis and protection (Anaplasmataceae) / Nahed Ismail and Heather L. Stevenson -- Adaptive immune responses to infection and opportunities for vaccine development (Rickettsiaceae) / Gustavo Valbuena -- Adaptive immune responses to infection and opportunities for vaccine development (Anaplasmataceae) / Susan M. Noh and Wendy C. Brown -- Persistence and antigenic variation / Kelly A. Brayton -- Transmission and the determinants of transmission efficiency / Shane M. Ceraul -- The way forward : improving genetic systems / Ulrike G. Munderloh ... [et al.].