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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
* Presents numerous combinations of transmission scenarios across the bacterial, animal, and human interface
* Examines transmission as the defining characteristic of infectious disease
* Presents methods for experimentally verifying and quantifying transmission episodes
* Concludes with important theoretical and modeling approaches
Anyone studying or working in microbial colonization, evolution, pathogenicity, antimicrobial resistance, or public health will benefit from a deeper understanding of Microbial Transmission.
List of contents
Contributors vii Preface: Transmission and Interaction xiii
About the Editors xvii
I. INTRODUCTION 1 Origin, History, and Meanings of the Word Transmission 3
Joaquín Villalba, Fernando A. Navarro, and Francisco Cortés II. BASIC PROCESS OF TRANSMISSION
2 Causality in Biological Transmission: Forces and Energies 17
Fernando Baquero 3 Natural and Artificial Strategies to Control the Conjugative Transmission of Plasmids 33
María Getino and Fernando de la Cruz 4 Fitness Costs of Plasmids: A Limit to Plasmid Transmission 65
Alvaro San Millan and R. Craig MacLean 5 Basic Processes in Salmonella-Host-Interactions: Within-Host Evolution and the Transmission of the Virulent Genotype 81
Médéric Diard and Wolf-Dietrich Hardt 6 Salmonella Intracellular Lifestyles and Their Impact in Host-to-Host Transmission 95
M. Graciela Pucciarelli and Francisco García-del Portillo 7 Selection and Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria 117
Dan I. Andersson and Diamaid Hughes III. SCENARIO OF TRANSMISSION 8 Ecology and Evolution of Chromosomal Gene Transfer between Environmental Microorganisms and Pathogens 141
José Luis Martínez 9 Food-to-Humans Bacterial Transmission 161
Patrícia Antunes, Carla Novais, and Luísa Peixe 10 Insects and the Transmission of Bacterial Agents 195
Maureen Laroche, Didier Raoult, and Philippe Parola IV. PATIENT-TO-PATIENT TRANSMISSION 11 Biology of Hand-to-Hand Bacterial Transmission 205
Rosa del Campo, Laura Martínez-García, Ana María Sánchez-Díaz, and Fernando Baquero 12 Transmission Surveillance for Antimicrobial-Resistant Organisms in the Health System 215
Johann D. D. Pitout 13 The Evolution of Genotyping Strategies to Detect, Analyze and Control Transmission of Tuberculosis 229
Darío García de Viedma and Laura Pérez-Lago 14 Breaking Transmission with Vaccines: The Case of Tuberculosis 249
Jesus Gonzalo-Asensio, Nacho Aguilo, Dessislava Marinova, and Carlos Martin 15 Transmission, Human Population, and Pathogenicity: the EBOLA Case in Point 263
Rafael Delgado and Fernando Simón V. EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL MODES OF TRANSMISSION 16 Quantifying Transmission 281
Mark Woolhouse 17 Experimental Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance: Looking for an Appropriate Animal Model System 291
Pablo Llop, Amparo LaTorre, and Andrés Moya 18 Transmission in the Origins of Bacterial Diversity, from Ecotypes to Phyla 311
Frederick M. Cohan 19 Tracking the Rules of Transmission and Introgression with Networks 345
Chloé Vigliotti, Cédric Bicep, Eric Bapteste, Philippe Lopez, and Eduardo Corel Index 367
About the author
Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain.
Summary
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
* Presents numerous combinations of transmission scenarios across the bacterial, animal, and human interface
* Examines transmission as the defining characteristic of infectious disease
* Presents methods for experimentally verifying and quantifying transmission episodes
* Concludes with important theoretical and modeling approaches
Anyone studying or working in microbial colonization, evolution, pathogenicity, antimicrobial resistance, or public health will benefit from a deeper understanding of Microbial Transmission.
