"Graduate students, faculty, researchers, and specialists in microbiology, pathology, and infectious diseases will benefit from this detailed and expanded edition of a popular and well-read veterinary text."--Jacket.

Themes in bacterial pathogenic mechanisms / C.L. Gyles and J.F. Prescott -- Evolution of bacterial virulence / Patrick Boerlin -- Streptococcus / J.F. Timoney -- Staphylococcus / K. Hermans, L.A. Devriese, and F. Haesebrouck -- Bacillus anthracis / Matthew A. Weiner and Terry C. Dixon -- Mycobacterium / Charles O. Thoen and Raul G. Barletta -- Corynebacterium and arcanobacterium / B.H. Jost and S.J. Billington -- Rhodococcus / J.F. Prescott, J. Ren, and C. Dupont -- Listeria / C. Czuprynski -- Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae / Yoshihiro Shimoji -- Neurotoxigenic clostridia / Robert H. Whitlock. Histotoxic clostridia / Glenn Songer -- Enteric clostridia / Glenn Songer -- Salmonella / S.J. Libby [and others] -- E. coli shigella / Thomas Adam -- Escherichia coli / C.L. Gyles and J.M. Fairbrother -- Actinobacillus / Jan I. MacInnes and Janine T. Boss$ae$ -- Haemophilus / Thomas J. Inzana and Lynette Corbeil -- Bordetella / David A. Bemis and Brad Fenwick --Pasteurella and mannheimia / J.D. Boyce, R.Y.C. Lo, I. Wilkie, and B. Adler --Yersinia / Joan Mecsas and Rebecca Chafel -- Brucella / S.C. Olsen, C.O. Thoen, and N.F. Cheville -- Pseudomonas / Mauricia Matewish and Joseph S. Lam -- Moraxella / Wojtek P. Michalski and Jacinta L. Farn -- Campylobacter and helicobacter / L. Joens -- Lawsonia intracellularis / Connie J. Gebhart and Roberto M.C. Guedes. Gram-negative anaerobes / D.J. Hampson, T.G. Nagaraja, and N.B. Buller -- Leptospira / Ben Adler and Alejandro de la Pe$nt$a Moctezuma -- Mycoplasma / Kevin L. Whithear and Glenn F. Browning -- Chlamydia / Arthur A. Andersen -- Rickettsiales / Shimon Harrus [and others].