Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part I Bacterial adhesins and adhesive structures 1 -- 1 Surface protein adhesins of staphylococci 3 -- Timothy. Foster -- 2 Mechanisms of utilization of host signalling molecules by -- respiratory mucosal pathogens 27 -- Mumtaz Viji -- 3 Adhesive surface structures of oral streptococci 59 -- Roderick McNab, Pauline S. Handley and Howard F. Jenkinson -- 4 Regulation and function of phase variation in Escherichia coli 89 -- lan Blomfield and Marjan van der Woude -- 5 Regulation of capsule expression 115 -- Clare Taylor and lan S. Roberts -- 6 Role of pili in Haemophilus influenzae adherence, colonization -- and disease 139 -- Janet R. Gilsdorf -- Part II Effect of adhesion on bacterial structure and function 163 -- 7 Transcriptional regulation of meningococcal gene expression upon -- adhesion to target cells 165 -- Muhamed-Kheir Taha -- 8 Induction of protein secretion by Yersinia enterocolitica through -- contact with eukaryotic cells 183 -- Dorothy E. Pierson -- 9 Functional modulation of pathogenic bacteria upon contact with -- host target cells 203 -- Andreas U. Kresse, Frank Ebel and Carlos A. Guzman -- Part III Consequences of bacterial adhesion for the host 221 -- 10 Adhesion, signal transduction and mucosal inflammation 223 -- Catharina Svanborg, Goran Bergsten, Hans Fischer, Bjorn Frendtus, Gabriela -- Godaly, Erika Gustafsson, Long Hang, Maria Hedlund, Ann-Charlotte Lundstedt, -- Martin Samuelsson, Patrik Samuelsson, Majlis Svensson and Bjorn Wullt -- 11 Adhesion of oral spirochaetes to host cells and its cytopathogenic -- consequences 247 -- Richard P. Ellen -- 12 Interactions between enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and -- epithelial cells 277 -- Elizabeth L. Hartland, Gad Frankel and Stuart Knutton -- 13 Host cell responses to Porphyromonas gingivalis and -- Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans 299 -- RichardJ. Lamont.

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