| Contributors | |
| Preface to second edition | |
| Preface to first edition | |
| 1 | Plasmids, phages and pathogenicity islands: lesson on the evolution of bacterial toxins | 3 |
| 2 | The Ras superfamily of small GTP-binding proteins as targets for bacterial toxins | 27 |
| 3 | Molecular, functional and evolutionary aspects of ADP-ribosylating toxins | 45 |
| 4 | Binding, uptake, routing and translocation of toxins with intracellular sites of action | 73 |
| 5 | Regulation of diphtheria toxin production: characterization of the role of iron and the diphtheria toxin repressor | 94 |
| 6 | Cholera toxin and Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin | 104 |
| 7 | Bordetella pertussis protein toxins | 130 |
| 8 | Clostridial toxins acting on the cytoskeleton | 147 |
| 9 | Structural and genomic features of clostridial neurotoxins | 174 |
| 10 | Pathophysiological properties of clostridial neurotoxins | 202 |
| 11 | The family of Shiga toxins | 229 |
| 12 | The bifactorial Bacillus anthracis lethal and oedema toxins | 243 |
| 13 | Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin and associated pathogenic factors | 264 |
| 14 | Biophysical methods and model membranes for the study of bacterial pore-forming toxins | 287 |
| 15 | Membrane-damaging and cytotoxic phospholipases | 310 |
| 16 | The family of the multigenic encoded RTX toxins | 330 |
| 17 | The family of Serratia and Proteus cytolysins | 349 |
| 18 | The channel-forming toxin aerolysin | 362 |
| 19 | Haemolysins of Vibrio cholerae and other Vibrio species | 373 |
| 20 | [delta]-Toxin, related haemolytic toxins and peptidic analogues | 386 |
| 21 | The bi-component staphylococcal leucocidins and [gamma]-haemolysins (toxins) | 402 |
| 22 | Enterococcus faecalis cytolysin and Bacillus cereus bi- and tri-component haemolysins | 419 |
| 23 | Clostridium septicum pore-forming and lethal [alpha]-toxin | 435 |
| 24 | Introduction to the family of the structurally related cholesterol-binding cytolysins ('sulfhydryl-activated' toxins) | 443 |
| 25 | Streptolysin O | 457 |
| 26 | Pneumolysin: structure, function and role in disease | 476 |
| 27 | Perfringolysin O | 490 |
| 28 | Listeriolysin, the thiol-activated haemolysin of Listeria monocytogenes | 511 |
| 29 | Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli heat-stable toxins | 525 |
| 30 | Heat-stable enterotoxins of Vibrio and Yersinia species | 545 |
| 31 | Bacteroides fragilis toxins | 557 |
| 32 | Superantigenic Streptococcus pyogenes erythrogenic/pyrogenic exotoxins | 567 |
| 33 | Properties of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins and toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 | 589 |
| 34 | Yersinia pseudotuberculosis superantigenic toxins | 611 |
| 35 | The pathogenesis of shock and tissue injury in Clostridia gas gangrene | 623 |
| 36 | Toxin-induced modulation of inflammatory processes | 637 |
| 37 | Staphylococcal epidermolytic toxins: structure, biological and pathophysiological properties | 657 |
| 38 | Bacterial toxins as food poisons | 669 |
| 39 | Diphtheria toxin-based interleukin-2 fusion proteins | 682 |
| 40 | Native and genetically engineered toxin-based vaccines for cholera and Escherichia coli diarrhoeas | 691 |
| Index | 709 |
Format: Hardcover, 2nd ed., 736 pages
