Cellular microbiology

Cellular microbiology attempts to use pathogenic microbes as tools for cell-biology research, and to employ cell-biology methods to understand the pathogenicity of microbes. Toxins and virulence factors from microbes have been used for decades to influence processes in eukaryotic cells and to study them. Recently, the field of cellular microbiology has been expanded to incorporate investigation of the cell biology of microbes themselves. This book focuses on host-microbe interactions from a molecular, biochemical, cell biological or immunological perspective as well as studies that address microbial pathogenic evolution and adaptation.