8.0 Environmental Ecology and Molecular Pathogenesis

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5.6.3 Stationary-Phase Gene Regulation in Escherichia coli^? (Regine Hengge) (12-16-2011)

7.2.6 Homologous Recombination-Experimental Systems, Analysis, and Significance (Andrei Kuzminov) (12-01-2011)

1.1.2 Escherichia coli and the Emergence of Molecular Biology (AGNES ULLMANN) (07-15-2011)

4.4.7 The DNA Exonucleases of Escherichia coli (Susan T. Lovett) (06-10-2011)

4.2.2 Translation Initiation (Yves Méchulam, Sylvain Blanquet, and Emmanuelle Schmitt) (06-10-2011)

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	8.0 Environmental Ecology and Molecular Pathogenesis

8.0	Environmental Ecology and Molecular Pathogenesis	[Executive Editor, Kaper]

8.1	Introduction and Overview

8.2	Ecology of Soil, Water, Animal and Plant Habitats	[Section Editor, John Threlfall]

8.3	Adhesins, Colonization, and Biofilms	[Section Editor, James P. Nataro]

8.3.1	Colonization by Escherichia coli

8.3.1.1	Overview of Colonization by E. coli
	James Nataro

8.3.1.2	The Life of Commensal Escherichia coli in the Mammalian Intestine	[SECTION EDITOR: JAMES P. NATARO]
	TYRELL CONWAY, KAREN A. KROGFELT, AND PAUL S. COHEN

8.3.1.3	Colonization of Abiotic Surfaces	[SECTION EDITOR: JAMES P. NATARO]
	CHRISTOPHE BELOIN, SANDRA DA RE, AND JEAN-MARC GHIGO

8.3.2	E. coli Adhesins

8.3.2.1	Adhesins of Enterotoxigenic E. coli

8.3.2.1.1	Human ETEC
	Frederick Cassels

8.3.2.1.2	Adhesins of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Strains That Infect Animals	[SECTION EDITOR: JAMES P. NATARO]
	DIETER M. SCHIFFERLI

8.3.2.2	Adhesins of Diffusely Adherent and Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli	[SECTION EDITOR: JAMES P. NATARO]
	CHANTAL le BOUGUÉNEC AND JAMES P. NATARO

8.3.2.3	Adhesins of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	[SECTION EDITOR: JAMES P. NATARO]
	MARK P. STEVENS AND TIMOTHY S. WALLIS

8.3.2.4	Adhesins of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli	[SECTION EDITOR: JAMES P. NATARO]
	ALFREDO G. TORRES

8.3.2.5	Adhesins of Uropathogenic E. coli
	Catherina Svanborg

8.3.2.6	Type 1 Fimbriae, Curli, and Antigen 43: Adhesion, Colonization, and Biofilm Formation	[SECTION EDITOR: JAMES P. NATARO]
	PER KLEMM AND MARK SCHEMBRI

8.4	Entry into Host Cells and Tissues	[Section Editor, Jorge Galán, Philippe Sansonetti]

8.5	Intestinal Infections	[Section Editor, James Kaper]

8.5.1	Overview of Escherichia coli as an Intestinal Pathogen
	James Kaper

8.5.2	Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
	James Kaper

8.5.3	Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

8.5.3.1	Human Infections

8.5.3.2	Animal Infections
	Dieter Schifferli

8.5.4	Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	[Section Editor, Timothy S. Wallis and M.P. Stevens]

8.5.5	Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli	[Section Editor, James Nataro]

8.5.6	Diffusely Adherent Escherichia coli	[Section Editor, C. LeBouguenec]

8.5.7	Salmonella Intestinal Infections	[Section Editor, Timothy S. Wallis and Andreas Baumler]

8.5.8	Shigella Infections

8.6	Extraintestinal Infections	[Section Editor, Harry Mobley]

8.6.1	Escherichia coli	[Section Editor, R. Curtiss]
	Harry Mobley

8.6.1.1	Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli
	Charles M. Dozois

8.6.1.2	Meningitis-Associated Escherichia coli	[SECTION EDITORS: GORDON DOUGAN AND HARRY MOBLEY]
	KWANG SIK KIM

8.6.1.3	Uropathogenic Escherichia coli	[SECTION EDITOR: HARRY MOBLEY]
	HARRY L. T. MOBLEY, MICHAEL S. DONNENBERG, AND ERIN C. HAGAN

8.6.1.4	Molecular Epidemiology of Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli	[SECTION EDITOR: JAMES KAPER]
	JAMES R. JOHNSON AND THOMAS A. RUSSO

8.6.2	Salmonella	[Section Editor, Gordon Dougan]
	John Wain, Paul Barrow, Donald Guiney

8.6.2.1	Salmonella Epidemiology and Pathogenesis in Food-Producing Animals	[SECTION EDITOR: GORDON DOUGAN]
	TIMOTHY S. WALLIS AND PAUL A. BARROW

8.6.2.2	Invasive Salmonellosis in Humans	[SECTION EDITOR: GORDON DOUGAN]
	GEMMA C. LANGRIDGE, JOHN WAIN, AND SATHEESH NAIR

8.7	Toxins and Toxigenicity	[Section Editor, Alison O'Brien]

8.7.1	Introduction
	Alison O'Brien

8.7.2	The Escherichia coli Hemolysin	[SECTION EDITOR: ALISON O'BRIEN]
	RODNEY A. WELCH

8.7.3	Autotransporter Proteins	[SECTION EDITOR: ALISON O'BRIEN]
	IAN R. HENDERSON AND JAMES P. NATARO

8.7.4	Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factors: Rho-Activating Toxins from Escherichia coli	[SECTION EDITOR: ALISON O'BRIEN]
	GUDULA SCHMIDT AND KLAUS AKTORIES

8.7.5	Heat-Labile Enterotoxins	[SECTION EDITOR: ALISON O'BRIEN]
	MICHAEL G. JOBLING AND RANDALL K. HOLMES

8.7.6	Heat-Stable Enterotoxins (ST)
	Lawrence Dreyfus

8.7.7	Cytolethal Distending Toxin
	Carol Pickett

8.7.8	Shiga Toxins: Potent Poisons, Pathogenicity Determinants, and Pharmacological Agents	[SECTION EDITOR, A. D. O'BRIEN]
	A. R. MELTON-CELSA, M. J. SMITH, AND A. D. O'BRIEN

8.8	Host Responses	[Section Editor, Ferric Fang, Martin Kagnoff]

8.8.1	Chemokines and Host Cell Responses
	Lars Eckmann

8.8.2	Toll-Like Receptors
	Neal Silverman, Doug Golenbock

8.8.3	NLRs: Nucleotide-Binding Domain and Leucine-Rich-Repeat-Containing Proteins	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	LETICIA A. M. CARNEIRO, JÖRG H. FRITZ, THOMAS A. KUFER, LEONARDO H. TRAVASSOS, SZILVIA BENKO, AND DANA J. PHILPOTT

8.8.4	Salmonella and Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Interactions with Host Cells: Signaling Pathways	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	DANIKA L. GOOSNEY, SONYA L. KUJAT CHOY, AND B. BRETT FINLAY

8.8.5	Cytokines in Salmonellosis	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	PIETRO MASTROENI AND CLARE BRYANT

8.8.6	Host Cell Death
	Donald Guiney

8.8.7	NADPH Phagocyte Oxidase
	Henry Rosen

8.8.8	Nitric Oxide in Salmonella and Escherichia coli Infections	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ-TORRES AND FERRIC C. FANG

8.8.9	Antimicrobial Peptides
	Nina Salzman, Charles Bevins

8.8.10	Modulation of Iron Availability at the Host-Pathogen Interface in Phagocytic Cells	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	JOHN FORBES, STEVEN LAM-YUK-TSEUNG, AND PHILIPPE GROS

8.8.11	Adaptive Immune Responses during Salmonella Infection	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	LISA A. CUMMINGS, BROOKE L. DEATHERAGE, AND BRAD T. COOKSON

8.8.12	Mucosal Immune Responses to Escherichia coli and Salmonella Infections	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	ODILIA L. C. WIJBURG AND RICHARD A. STRUGNELL

8.8.13	Salmonella as an Inducer of Autoimmunity	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	MARK J. SOLOSKI AND ELEANOR S. METCALF

8.8.14	Vaccines against Infections Caused by Salmonella, Shigella, and Pathogenic Escherichia coli	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	CARLOS A. GUZMAN, STEFAN BORSUTZKY, DIDIER FAVRE, AND GUIDO DIETRICH

8.8.15	Cytokines and Escherichia coli Sepsis	[SECTION EDITORS: FERRIC FANG AND MARTIN KAGNOFF]
	CHLOÉ KAECH, PIERRE-YVES BOCHUD, AND THIERRY CALANDRA

8.9	Regulation of Virulence Attributes	[Section Editor, Eduardo Groisman and James B. Kaper]

8.9.1	Virulence Gene Regulation in Escherichia coli	[SECTION EDITORS: EDUARDO GROISMAN AND JAMES B. KAPER]
	JAY L. MELLIES AND ALEX M. S. BARRON

8.9.2	Salmonella
	Eduardo Groisman

8.9.3	Virulence Gene Regulation in Shigella	[SECTION EDITORS: EDUARDO GROISMAN AND JAMES B. KAPER]
	CHARLES J. DORMAN