Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- PART 1: OXIDATIVE AND NITROSATIVE STRESS -- 1 Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress Defence Systems in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A Model Organism of Study Versus a Human Opportunistic Pathogen -- 2 Coordinated Regulation of Stress and Virulence Adaptations in Stages of Haemophilus Pathogenesis -- 3 Nitric Oxide Stress in Escherichia coli and Salmonella -- 4 Nitric Oxide and Gram-positive Pathogens: Host Triggers and Bacterial Defence Mechanisms -- PART 2: NOVEL GENE REGULATION IN RESPONSE TO HOST DEFENCES -- 5 Novel Regulation in Response to Host-generated Stresses: The MerR Family of Regulators in Pathogenic Bacteria -- 6 Stress Responses in the Pathogenic Neisseria: Overlapping Regulons and sRNA Regulation -- PART 3: ACID STRESS, PH CONTROL AND SURVIVAL IN THE HUMAN HOST -- 7 Acid Survival Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens of the Digestive Tract -- 8 Urease and the Bacterial Acid Stress Response -- PART 4: NUTRIENT STRESS -- 9 Secretion Systems and Metabolism in the Pathogenic Yersiniae -- 10 Response of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to Oxygen Limitation and Excess -- PART 5: METAL LONS AND PATHOGENIC BACTERLA -- 11 Copper and Zinc Stress in Bacteria -- 12 Metal Ion Sensing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis -- 13 Salmonella and the Host in the Battle for Iron -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.