Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- I. Evolutionary Biology of Microbial-Host Interactions -- 1. Evolution of Bacterial-Host Interactions: Virulence and the Immune Overresponse -- 2. Collective Traits in Pathogenic Bacteria -- 3. Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens -- 4. Environmental and Social Influences on Infectious Diseases -- 5. Human Genome Diversity: a Host Genomic Perspective of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Infectious Diseases -- 6. Human Interventions on the Evolution of Host-Bacterium Interactions -- 7. Effects of Immune Selection on Population Structure of Bacteria -- 8. Evolution of Normal Intestinal Microbiota and Its Pathogenic Implications -- 9. Evolution of Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens -- 10. Multilocus Models of Bacterial Population Genetics -- 11. A Host View of the Fungal Cell Wall -- II. Evolutionary Genetics of Microbial Pathogens -- 12. Genome Architecture and Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens -- 13. Evolution of Genomic Islands and Evolution of Pathogenicity -- 14. Evolution of Integrons and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance -- 15. Evolution of Plasmids and Evolution of Virulence and Antibiotic-Resistance Plasmids -- 16. Phage-Shaping Evolution of Bacterial Pathogenicity and Resistance -- 17. Emergence, Spread, and Extinction of Pathogenic Bacterial Clones -- 18. Specific Chromosome Alterations of Candida albicans: Mechanisms for Adaptation to Pathogenicity -- 19. Evolution of a Mating System Uniquely Dependent upon Switching and Pathogenesis in Candida albicans -- 20. Mechanisms of Variation in Microbial Pathogenesis -- III. Evolutionary Biology of Drug Resistance -- 21. Modularization and Evolvability in Antibiotic Resistance -- 22. Epidemiology and Evolution of Beta-Lactamases -- 23. Epidemiology and Evolution of Quinolone Resistance -- 24. Evolution of Glycopeptide Resistance.

25. Emergence and Evolution of Antifungal Resistance -- 26. Effects of Antibiotic Resistance on Bacterial Fitness, Virulence, and Transmission -- 27. Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance by Hypermutation -- 28. Multiple Stages in the Evolution of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- IV. Evolutionary Pathogenicity of Gram-Negative Bacteria -- 29. Evolution of Salmonella and Salmonella Infections -- 30. Evolution of Vibrio cholerae and Cholera Epidemics -- 31. Evolution of Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus Infections -- 32. Evolution of Pathogenic Yersinia -- 33. Evolution of Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis as Deduced from Comparative Genome Analyses -- 34. Genomic View on the Evolution of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli -- 35. Evolution of Shigella and Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli -- 36. Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pathogenicity: from Acute to Chronic Infections -- 37. Evolution of Helicobacter and Helicobacter Infections -- 38. Evolution of Legionella pneumophila Icm/Dot Pathogenesis System -- 39. Evolution of Neisseria and Neisseria Infections -- 40. Molecular Evolution of Chlamydiales -- V. Evolutionary Pathogenicity of Gram-Positive and Related Bacteria -- 41. Evolution of Listeria monocytogenes -- 42. Evolutionary Biology of Pathogenic Enterococci -- 43. Evolution of Bacillus anthracis, Causative Agent of Anthrax -- 44. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Virulence and Evolution -- 45. Evolution of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Mycoplasmal Infections -- 46. The Pneumococcus: Population Biology and Virulence -- VI. Evolutionary Pathogenicity of Pathogenic Fungi -- 47. Evolution of Pathogenic Candida Species -- 48. Pathogenicity of Cryptococcus neoformans: an Evolutionary Perspective -- 49. Aspergillus as a Human Pathogen: an Evolutionary Perspective -- Key Words in Evolutionary Biology -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D.

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