Overview
- Enables readers to understand the conditions that facilitate opportunistic pathogenicity
- Written by eminent scientists
- Richly illustrated throughout
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Environmental Microbiology (AEM, volume 3)
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Table of contents(11 chapters)
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Understanding Interspecies Relationships
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Opportunistic Pathogenicity in the Aquatic World
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Opportunistic Pathogenicity in the Terrestrial World
Keywords
- Commensalism
- Host-symbiont relationships
- Opportunistic pathogens
- Parasitism
- Symbiosis
- Opportunistic pathogenicity
- Opportunistic infections
- Bacterial opportunistic pathogens
- Fungal secondary invaders
- Bacterial entomopathogens
- Opportunistic algae
- Opportunistic fungi
- Opportunistic ichthyosporea
- Opportunistic human pathogens
About this book
This volume focuses on those instances when benign and even beneficial relationships between microbes and their hosts opportunistically change and become detrimental toward the host. It examines the triggering events which can factor into these changes, such as reduction in the host’s capacity for mounting an effective defensive response due to nutritional deprivation, coinfections and seemingly subtle environmental influences like the amounts of sunlight, temperature, and either water or air quality. The effects of environmental changes can be compounded when they necessitate a physical relocation of species, in turn changing the probability of encounter between microbe and host. The change also can result when pathogens, including virus species, either have modified the opportunist or attacked the host’s protective natural microflora. The authors discuss these opportunistic interactions and assess their outcomes in both aquatic as well as terrestrial ecosystems, highlighting the impact on plant, invertebrate and vertebrate hosts.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Cincinnati, USA
Christon J. Hurst
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic
Editors: Christon J. Hurst
Series Title: Advances in Environmental Microbiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28170-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28168-1Published: 14 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80288-6Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28170-4Published: 05 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2366-3324
Series E-ISSN: 2366-3332
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 357
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Animal Physiology, Plant Pathology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology