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Microbial transmission, the processes by which microbes transit to new environments, is a significant and broad-reaching concept with applications throughout the biological sciences. This collection of reviews, edited by an international team of experts studying and working across a range of disciplines, explores transmission not just as an idea in disease but as a fundamental biological process that acts in all domains of nature and exerts its force on disparate size scales, from the micro to the macro, and across units of time as divergent as a single bacterial replication cycle and the entire course of evolution. In five sections, this overview defines the concept of transmission and covers basic processes of transmission, including causality, control strategies, fitness costs, virulence, and selection. Anyone studying or working in microbial colonization, evolution, pathogenicity, antimicrobial resistance, or public health will benefit from a deeper understanding of Microbial Transmission.
Contents
1. Origin, History, and Meanings of the Word Transmission Joaquin Villalba, Fernando A. Navarro, Francisco Cortes 2. Causality in Biological Transmission: Forces and Energies Fernando Baquero 3. Natural and Artificial Strategies to Control the Conjugative Transmission of Plasmids Maria Getino, Fernando de la Cruz 4. Fitness Costs of Plasmids: A Limit to Plasmid Transmission Alvaro San Millan, R. Craig MacLean 5. Basic Processes in Salmonella-Host Interactions: Within-Host Evolution and the Transmission of the Virulent Genotype Mederic Diard, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt 6. Salmonella Intracellular Lifestyles and Their Impact on Host-to-Host Transmission M. Graciela Pucciarelli, Francisco Garcia-del Portillo 7. Selection and Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Dan I. Andersson, Diarmaid Hughes 8. Ecology and Evolution of Chromosomal Gene Transfer between Environmental Microorganisms and Pathogens Jose Luis Martinez 9. Food-to-Humans Bacterial Transmission Patricia Antunes, Carla Novais, Luisa Peixe 10. Insects and the Transmission of Bacterial Agents Maureen Laroche, Didier Raoult, Philippe Parola 11. Biology of Hand-to-Hand Bacterial Transmission Rosa del Campo, Laura Martinez-Garcia, Ana Maria Sanchez-Diaz, Fernando Baquero 12. Transmission Surveillance for Antimicrobial-Resistant Organisms in the Health System Johann D. D. Pitout 13. The Evolution of Genotyping Strategies to Detect, Analyze, and Control Transmission of Tuberculosis Dario Garcia de Viedma, Laura Perez-Lago 14. Breaking Transmission with Vaccines: The Case of Tuberculosis Jesus Gonzalo-Asensio, Nacho Aguilo, Dessislava Marinova, Carlos Martin 15. Transmission, Human Population, and Pathogenicity: the Ebola Case in Point Rafael Delgado, Fernando Simon 16. Quantifying Transmission Mark Woolhouse 17. Experimental Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance: Looking for an Appropriate Animal Model System Pablo Llop, Amparo Latorre, Andres Moya 18. Transmission in the Origins of Bacterial Diversity, From Ecotypes to Phyla Frederick M. Cohan 19. Tracking the Rules of Transmission and Introgression with Networks Chloe Vigliotti, Cedric Bicep, Eric Bapteste, Philippe Lopez, Eduardo Corel
