The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic
This volume focuses on those instances when benign and even beneficial relationships between microbes and their hosts opportunistically change and become detrimental toward the host. It examines the triggering events which can factor into these changes, such as reduction in the host’s capacity for...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Series: | Advances in Environmental Microbiology,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- How well do surrogate hosts serve as model systems for understanding pathogenicity
- Host-symbiont relationships: understanding the change from guest to pest
- Opportunistic infections in elasmobranchs
- Bacterial opportunistic pathogens of fish
- Fungal secondary invaders of fish
- Opportunistic pathogens of marine mammals
- Opportunistic pathogens of terrestrial plants
- Non-spore-forming bacterial entomopathogens – their toxins, hosts and the environment: why be a pathogen
- Opportunistic infections of avians
- Opportunistic algae, fungi, and ichthyosporea associated with mammalian livestock disease
- Opportunisitic pathogens of humans.
