Tuberculosis, leprosy and mycobacterial diseases of man and animals : the many hosts of mycobacteria /

• Other Authors: Mukundan, Harshini, (Editor), Chambers, Mark, (Editor), Waters, Ray, (Editor), Larsen, Michelle H., (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2015.
• Subjects: Mycobacterial diseases.; Tuberculosis.; Mycobacterium Infections > veterinary.; Mycobacterium Infections.; Tuberculosis > veterinary.; Zoo Animals.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Pathogens, Parasites and Infectious Diseases (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Animal models.; Bacterial diseases.; Disease transmission.; Domestic animals.; Human diseases.; Laboratory animals.; Leprosy.; Zoo animals.; Zoonoses.
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Mycobacteria have been associated with human and animal disease for millennia. This book is founded on a principle of cross-disciplinary inclusion and the belief that by bringing together all members of the mycobacterial research community we could achieve a better understanding of mycobacteria and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Humans / Isdore C. Shamputa, Sang Nae Cho, Janette Lebron and Laura E. Via
• Comparative Mycobacteriology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex / Stephen V. Gordon and Marcel A. Behr
• Immunopathogenesis of Tuberculosis in Humans / Jyothi Rengarajan, Jonathan K. Sia and Cheryl L. Day
• Current Methods for Diagnosis of Human Tuberculosis and Considerations for Global Surveillance / Rama Murthy Sakamuri, Prashini Moodley, Karina Yusim, Shihai Feng, A. Willem Sturm, Bette T.M. Korber and Harshini Mukundan
• Development of Next-generation TB Vaccines : Comparative Approaches in Humans and Animals / Michael J. Brennan, Salma Samad and R. Glyn Hewinson
• The Continuing Co-evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Homo sapiens / Clifton E. Barry III
• The Global Distribution of Mycobacterium bovis / Noel H. Smith
• Immunopathogenesis of Mycobacterium bovis Infection of Cattle / W. Ray Waters, Jayne C. Hope, Carly A. Hamilton, Mitchell V. Palmer, James McNair, Robin A. Skuce, Adrian R. Allen, Bryce M. Buddle, Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos and H. Martin Vordermeier
• Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Cattle / Bryce M. Buddle, Geoffrey W. de Lisle, W. Ray Waters and H. Martin Vordermeier
• Vaccination of Cattle Against Tuberculosis / H. Martin Vordermeier, Bryce M. Buddle, Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos, Gareth. J. Jones, R. Glyn Hewinson and W. Ray Waters
• Mycobacterium bovis/M. caprae Infection in Goats and Sheep : Introduction, Epidemiology and Control Measures / Alicia Aranaz
• Mycobacterial Infections in Camelids / Shelley Rhodes, Tim Crawshaw, Ricardo de la Rua-Domenech, Sue Bradford, Konstantin P. Lyashchenko, Gezahegne Mamo, Di Summers, Ulli Wernery and Patrik Zanolari
• Tuberculosis in Companion Animal Species / Danièlle A. Gunn-Moore and Stephanie Lalor
• Mycobacterial Infections in Elephants / Susan K. Mikota, Konstantin P. Lyashchenko, Linda Lowenstine, Dalen Agnew and Joel N. Maslow
• Mycobacterial Infections in Other Zoo Animals / Michele A. Miller and Konstantin P. Lyashchenko
• Tuberculosis in Badgers (Meles meles) / Mark A. Chambers, Eamonn Gormley, Leigh A.L. Corner, Graham C. Smith and Richard J. Delahay
• Tuberculosis in Pigs and Wild Boar / Christian Gortázar, Joaquín Vicente, José de la Fuente, Graham Nugent and Pauline Nol
• Australian Brushtail Possum : A Highly Susceptible Host for Mycobacterium bovis / Bryce M. Buddle, Geoffrey W. de Lisle and Leigh A.L. Corner
• Tuberculosis in Wild and Captive Deer / Mitchell V. Palmer, Daniel J. O'Brien, J. Frank Griffin, Graham Nugent, Geoffrey W. de Lisle, Alastair Ward and Richard J. Delahay
• Tuberculosis in South African Wildlife : Lions, African Buffalo and Other Species / Anita L. Michel, Lin-Mari de Klerk-Lorist, Peter Buss, Markus Hofmeyr, Dave Cooper and Roy G. Bengis
• Novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex spp. in Group-living African Mammals / Kathleen A. Alexander, Claire E. Sanderson and Peter N. Laver
• Rabbit Model of Mycobacterial Diseases / Selvakumar Subbian, Petros C. Karakousis and Gilla Kaplan
• Laboratory Models of Tuberculosis : Guinea Pigs / Brendan K. Podell, Ann Williams, Angelo Izzo and Randall Basaraba
• Of Mice and Mycobacteria : Lessons from a Manipulatable Model / Andrea M. Cooper and John E. Pearl
• Non-human Primate Laboratory Models of Tuberculosis / Sally Sharpe, Laura E. Via, Frank A.W. Verreck and P. Ling Lin
• Mycobacterium leprae in Humans / John S. Spencer, William H. Wheat, Patrick J. Brennan, Josafá G. Barreto and Claudio G. Salgado
• Animal Models for Leprosy Research / Linda B. Adams, Maria T. Pena, Rahul Sharma, Ramanuj Lahiri and Richard W. Truman
• Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Infection, Immunology and Pathology of Livestock / Judy R. Stabel, John P. Bannantine and Jesse Hostetter
• Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections / Joseph O. Falkinham III.