E. Coli: Shiga Toxin Methods and Protocols (Hardcover, 2003)

The Medical Significance of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infections: An Overview Mohamed A. Karmali Methods for Detection of STEC in Humans: An Overview James C. Paton and Adrienne W. Paton Serological Methods for the Detection of STEC Infections Martin Bitzan and Helge Karch Detection and Characterization of STEC in Stool Samples Using PCR Adrienne W. Paton and James C. Paton Molecular Typing Methods for STEC Haruo Watanabe, Jun Terajima, Hidemasa Izumiya, and Sunao Iyoda STEC in the Food Chain: Methods for Detection of STEC in Food Samples Michael Bulte STEC as a Veterinary Problem: Diagnostics and Prophylaxis in Animals Lothar H. Wieler and Rolf Bauerfeind Cellular Microbiology of STEC Infections: An Overview Frank Ebel and Dana Philpott Analysis of Pathogenicity Islands of STEC Tobias A. Oelschlaeger, Ulrich Dobrindt, Britta Janke, Barbara Middendorf, Helge Karch, and Jorg Hacker Generation of Isogenic Deletion Mutants of STEC Soudabeh Djafari, Nadja D. Hauf, and Judith F. Tyczka Generation of Monoclonal Antibodies Against Secreted Proteins of STEC Kirsten Niebuhr and Frank Ebel Microscopic Methods to Study STEC: Analysis of the Attaching and Effacing Process Stuart Knutton Detection and Characterization of EHEC-Hemolysin Herbert Schmidt and Roland Benz Shiga Toxin Receptor Glycolipid Binding: Pathology and Utility Clifford A. Lingwood Methods for the Purification of Shiga Toxin 1 Anita Nutikka, Beth Binnington-Boyd, and Clifford A. Lingwood Methods for the Identification of Host Receptors for Shiga Toxin Anita Nutikka, Beth Binnington-Boyd, and Clifford A. Lingwood Shiga Toxin B-Subunit as a Tool to Study Retrograde Transport Frederic Mallard and Ludger Johannes Measuring pHWithin the Golgi Complex and Endoplasmic Reticulum Using Shiga Toxin Jae H. Kim Detection of Shiga Toxin-Mediated Programmed Cell Death and Delineation of Death-Signaling Pathways Nicola L. Jones Interaction of Shiga Toxin with Endothelial Cells Martin Bitzan and D. Maroeska W. M. te Loo Shiga Toxin Interactions with the Intestinal Epithelium Cheleste M. Thorpe, Bryan P. Hurley, and David W. K. Acheson Protocols to Study Effects of Shiga Toxin on Mononuclear Leukocytes Christian Menge Animal Models for STEC-Mediated Disease Angela R. Melton-Celsa and Alison D. O'Brien Gnotobiotic Piglets as an Animal Model for Oral Infection with O157 and Non-O157 Serotypes of STEC Florian Gunzer, Isabel Hennig-Pauka, Karl-Heinz Waldmann, and Michael Mengel Bovine Escherichia coli O157: H7 Infection Model Evelyn A. Dean-Nystrom Index