Full Description
In reviewing the immunology rather than the chemistry of the bacterial cell envelope, this multi-authored book highlights advances concerning the antigenicity of cell envelope components and their effects on the host immune response. Each major component of the outer surface is analysed in some depth, with sufficient chemical data provided to enable a non-chemist to appreciate, for example, the rationale behind the proposed development of new sub-cellular vaccines. An illustrated guide to interpreting electron micrographs at the end of the book enables the reader to obtain maximum information from the illustrative material in each chapter.
