Urinary tract infections : molecular pathogenesis and clinical management / edited by Matthew A. Mulvey, David J. Klumpp, Ann E. Stapleton.

Revised edition of: Urinary tract infections : molecular pathogenesis and clinical management / edited by Harry L.T. Mobley and John W. Warren. ©1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clinical aspects of urinary tract infections. Anatomy and physiology of the urinary tract: relation to host defense and microbial infection -- Clinical presentations and epidemiology of urinary tract infections -- Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of urinary tract infection -- Urinary tract infections in infants and children -- The vaginal microbiota and urinary tract infection -- Asymptomatic bacteriuria and bacterial interference -- Bacterial prostatitis: bacterial virulence, clinical outcomes, and new directions -- Urosepsis: overview of the diagnostic and treatment challenges -- Origins and virulence mechanisms of uropathogenic bacteria. Reservoirs of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli -- Origin and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance among uropathogenic Escherichia coli -- Population phylogenomics of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli -- Virulence and fitness determinants of uropathogenic Escherichia coli -- Uropathogenic escherichia coli-associated exotoxins -- Structure, function, and assembly of adhesive organelles by uropathogenic bacteria -- Pathoadaptive mutations in uropathogenic Escherichia coli -- Invasion of host cells and tissues by uropathogenic bacteria -- Proteus mirabilis and urinary tract infections -- Epidemiology and virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae -- Gram-positive uropathogens, polymicrobial urinary tract infection, and the emerging microbiota of the urinary tract -- Integrated pathophysiology of pyelonephritis -- Host responses to urinary tract infections and emerging therapeutics. Susceptibility to urinary tract infection: benefits and hazards of the antibacterial host response -- Innate immune responses to bladder infection -- Host responses to urinary tract infections and emerging therapeutics: sensation and pain within the urinary tract -- Drug and vaccine development for the treatment and prevention of urinary tract infections.

"This comprehensive and authoritative volume on infections of the urinary tract covers the range of the field, from molecular pathogenesis to the host response to clinical diagnosis and management. Written for microbiologists, clinical microbiologists, urologists, and pathologists interested in UTIs"--Publisher's description.

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