Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction to Pathogenomics -- 2. Understanding the Model and the Menace: a Postgenomic View of Escherichia coli -- 3. The Mycobacteria: a Postgenomic View -- 4. Neisseria: a Postgenomic View -- 5. The Staphylococci: A Postgenomic View -- 6. Comparative Pathogenomics of Spirochetes -- 7. Campylobacter Pathogenomics: Genomes and Beyond -- 8. Genomic Signatures of Intracellularity: Evolutionary Patterns and Paces in Bacterial Mutualists and Parasites -- 9. Modeling Microbial Virulence in a Genomic Era: Impact of Shared Genomic Tools and Data Sets -- 10. Pathogenomics of Bacterial Biothreat Agents -- 11. Impact of Phages on Evolution of Bacterial Pathogenicity -- 12. What Genomics Has Taught Us about Gram-Positive Protein Secretion and Targeting -- 13. What Genomics Has Taught Us about Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis -- 14. What Genomics Has Taught Us about Intracellular Pathogens: the Example of Listeria monocytogenes -- 15. Genomic Analysis of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria -- 16. Photorhabdus: Genomics of a Pathogen and Symbiont -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.