The Pathogenic Spirochetes: strategies for evasion of host immunity and persistence

1.
Treponema pallidum Dissemination; Facilitating Immune Evasion and Bacterial Persistence
Simon Houston, Caroline E. Cameron

2. Immunoseclusion and Chronic Infection by Borrelia burgdorferi

Robert D. Gilmore

3.
Treponema denticola: FhbB, Dentilisin, Complement Evasion and the Paradox of Factor H Cleavage
John V. McDowell, Daniel P. Miller, Katherine L. Mallory, Richard T. Marconi

4. Borrelial Complement-Binding Proteins
Peter Kraiczy, Reinhard Wallich

5.
Treponema pallidum Repeat (tpr) Genes and Antigenic Variation
Lorenzo Giacani, Arturo Centurion-Lara

6. Antigenic Variation of VlsE in Borrelia burgdorferi

Troy Bankhead

7. Modulation of Cytokine Signaling by B. burgdorferi

Vida A. Dennis, Aarti Gautam, Saurabh Dixit

8.
Leptospira: Invasion, Pathogenesis and Persistence
Syed M. Faisal, Sean P. McDonough, Yung-Fu Chang

9. Immune Resistance by Relapsing Fever Spirochetes
Monica E. Embers, Job E. Lopez

10. Neuroborreliosis Caused by Borrelia burgdorferi: Possible Role of Glial Cells
Mario T. Philipp, Geeta Ramesh, Geetha Parthasarathy

11. Antibiotic Resistance in Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, the Syphilis Agent
Lola V. Stamm

12.
Borrelia burgdorferi Persistence Post-antibiotic Treatment
Monica E. Embers, Stephen W. Barthold

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Immunology, Antibodies, Medical Microbiology