Bacterial Stress Responses

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This book reviews and summarizes the current knowledge in the field of bacterial stress responses, synthesizing information from different organisms and systems. Bacterial Stress Responses focuses attention on problems, questions, and opportunities and will stimulate further research in this important area. Divided into five sections, Bacterial Stress Responses covers specific stress responses such as heat shock and oxidative stress, general stress responses, the connections between stress responses and pathogenesis, the stress responses in bacteria that thrive in extreme environments, and general methods applied to the study of stress responses