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Medical and Dental Aspects of Anaerobes Edited by B.I.
Duerden, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, ISBN 0-905927-59-1 436+vi pages Hardback The activity and effects of anaerobic bacteria are of special interest to medical and dental microbiology. The contents of this volume are based on peer reviewed papers assembled from the Eighth Biennial International Symposium of the Society for Anaerobic Microbiology Jointly with the Oral Microbiology and Immunology Group. Topics addressed ranged from anaerobes as causes of clinical infection, through their role In the normal flora of man and animals and the impact of antibiotics (both beneficial and damaging), to molecular studies opening up new understanding of the taxonomy of anaerobes and providing new approaches to clinical diagnosis. Contents • Difficult and Uncultivable Anaerobes in Periodontal Disease • 16 chapters on: Eubacterium. Propiombacterium.Spuochaietes, unculturable micro-organisms.RNA sequences, black pigmented anaerobes, temperate bacteriophages,, Bacteroides gracilis.Porphyronomos gingivalis, DNA probes, lethal photosensitisation, anaerobic cocci, Peptostreptococcus micros. • Anaerobic Intestinal Ecosystems • 7 chapters on-.Microbial ecology and metabolism, probiotics, H, disposal, dietary oligosaccharides, intestinal recolomsation, cyst-like structure, Serpulina hyodysenterlae • Ecology and Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile • 18 chapters on: Clostridium difficile, infection, and associated disease, chronic care facilities.associated diarrhoea, laboratory response, ELISA kits, surveillance, rapid detection by PCR, purification of toxins, adherence to mammalian cells, isolation, sporulation, isolation rates, typing methods, chemotaxis, Bacteroides wigatus, Bacteroides fragilis. • Antibiotics, Anaerobes and Clinical Infections • 20 chapters on: antimicrobials, oral infections, 5-nitroimidazole resistance, B. ureolyticus, vancomycin, E test, Prevotella bivia, spyramycin gel, outer membrane analysis, plasmids in B. ureolyticus, morphological characteristics, animal model pathogenecity, recurrent tonsillitis, eye infections, chronic malodorous celluhtis, intra-uterine fusobacteria infection, gram-positive rods in mixed wound infections, Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens, genital nucroplasmas, the Oxoid Anaerogen system • DNA Technology and Anaerobes • 10 chapters on: molecular variations of toxins, C. perfringens, gram-negative anaerobes, DNA probes, conjugative transposon, molecular cloning, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis, typing fusobacteria, SDS-PAGE, Bilophila wadsworthia |