Dormancy and Low Growth States in Microbial Disease

-St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.
-Discusses the scientific aspects of bacterial growth, non-
growth, culturability, and viability.
-Focuses on antibiotic resistance arising in stationary phase,
biofilms, tuberculosis, and the bacteria causing gastric ulcers.
-For researchers.


Contributors
Preface
1 Physiological and molecular aspects of growth, non-growth,
culturability and viability in bacteria 1
2 Survival of environmental and host-associated stress 37
3 Surviving the immune response: an immunologist's perspective
75
4 Quantitative and qualitative changes in bacterial activity
controlled by interbacterial signalling 101
5 Mechanisms of stationary-phase mutagenesis in bacteria and
their relevance to antibiotic resistance 131
6 Biofilms, dormancy and resistance 161
7 Tuberculosis 181
8 Gastritis and peptic ulceration 209
9 Resumption of yeast cell proliferation from stationary phase
223
10 Resting state in seeds of higher plants: dormancy,
persistence and resilience to abiotic and biotic stresses 235

Index 265