Handbook of Natural Toxins, Volume 8: Bacterial Toxins and Virulence Factors in Disease

This volume describes the structure and function of bacterial toxins and presents a comprehensive review of virulence factors, providing recent information concerning cell physiology and biochemistry, as well as new toxin tools for experimental studies and clinical therapy. A wide variety of toxic proteins, including the toxins that cause diptheria, cholera, pertussis, shigellosis, tetanus, botulism and anthrax, are discussed.;The work is aimed at microbiologists, biochemists, endocrinologists, toxicologists, infectious disease specialists, pathologists, public health officials, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Author: Joel Moss
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 03/21/1995
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.97lbs
Size: 10.18h x 7.20w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9780824793814