The third edition of the highly acclaimed Bacterial Pathogenesis draws together the latest research to help students explore the mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens cause infections in humans and animals. Readers will discover the strategies that bacterial pathogens use to survive and multiply within their hosts as well as the strategies that hosts use to fend off infections.

Completely revised and updated, this third edition features a new organization that dispenses with separate chapters dedicated to individual bacterial pathogens. Instead it focuses on core principles based on the growing understanding of the underlying similarities among pathogens and their mechanisms of action. In addition, readers familiar with the previous edition will find much new material. For example, there is new coverage of key findings on the mechanisms of bacterial secretion, toxins, and regulation.

Study questions at the end of each chapter challenge students to probe more deeply into the issues covered. These problems present actual research data, asking students to interpret the data and then devise new experiments that would help build their understanding.

New to the Third Edition:

• New paradigms that unify concepts in the field of bacterial pathogenesis
• Challenges to students to interpret actual research data and design new experiments
• Latest findings on the mechanisms of bacterial secretion, toxins, and regulation
• Expanded coverage of the role of normal microbial populations of the human body in health and disease
• Two new authors offering additional perspectives and points of view