Oral Microbiology and Immunology

Howard F. Jenkinson, George N. Hajishengallis, Richard J. Lamont and Hyun koo

1. Introduction


1. About the meanings of the Word "transmission" in natural sciences.


Fernando Navarro, Joaquin Villalba, Francisco Cortes


2. The Basic Process of Transmission


2. Transmission, Introgression, Spinning, and Evolution


Fernando Baquero


3. Genetic transmission from bacteria-to-bacteria


Fernando de la Cruz


4. Basic processes in bacteria-host-interactions: within host evolution and the transmission of the virulent genotype


Wolf-Dietrich Hardt


5. The extracelular-intracellular transition and the transmission of Salmonella


Francisco Garcia del Portillo


6. Drivers of plasmid mediated transmission of resistance: what we think we know!


Tim Walsh


7. Transmission of high-risk bacterial clones


Teresa M. Coque


8. Antimicrobial Selection and Transmission


Dan A. Andersson


3. The Scenarios of Transmission


9. Ecology and evolution of chromosomal gene transfer between environmental microorganisms and pathogens


Jose Luis Martinez


10. Animal-to-human bacterial transmission


Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn


11. Food-to-humans bacterial transmission


Luisa Peixe, Patricia Antunes, Carla Novais


12. Transmission from hosts to the environment


Elizabeth Wellington


13. Sewage-to-water and food bacterial transmission


Kornellia Smalla


14. Inter-hospital transmission of bacterial pathogens: biogeographical surveillance


Hajo Grundmann


15. Microbial transmission in wild life


Peter Daszak


4. Patient-to-Patient Transmission


16. Hospital vehicles for transmission: who and what to blame?


Andreas F. Widmer


17. Transmission of antibiotic resistance: from outbreaks to endemicity


Rafael Canton


18. Fecal transplantation: when transmission is healthy. The case of Clostridium difficile infection


Mark Wilcox.


19. Biology of hands transmission of microorganisms


Rosa del Campo


20. Transmission surveillance in the Health System


Johann Pitout


21. The evolution of genotyping strategies to detect, analyze and control tuberculosis transmission


Dario Garcia de Viedma


22. The environment as a vehicle of fungal disease transmission in hospitals: the Aspergillus and Candida models


Jesus V. Guinea


23. Breaking transmission with vaccines: the case of tuberculosis


Carlos Martin


24. Transmission, human population, and pathogenicity: the EBOLA case-in-point


Rafael Delgado


5. Experimental and Theoretical Modes of Transmission


25. Infectious transmission and the evolution and epidemiology of antibiotic resistance


Bruce Levin


26. Approaches to quantify and analyze microbial transmission


Mark Woolhouse


27. Experimental epidemiology of antibiotic resistance: looking for an appropriate animal model system


Amparo Latorre


28. The units of biodiversity and the units of transmission


Frederick M. Cohan


29. Tracking the rules of transmission and introgression with networks


Eric Bapteste


30. New tools for characterizing transmission in complex populations


Willem van Shaik