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Infectious fungal diseases continue to take their toll in terms of human suffering and enormous economic losses. Invasive infections by opportunistic fungal pathogens are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immuno-compromised individuals. At the same time, plant pathogenic fungi have devastating effects on crop production and human health. New strategies for antifungal control are required to meet the challenges posed by these agents, and such approaches can only be developed through the identification of novel biochemical and molecular targets. However, in contrast to bacterial pathogens, fungi display a wealth of “lifestyles” and modes of infection. This diversity makes it extremely difficult to identify individual, evolutionarily conserved virulence determinants and represents a major stumbling block in the search for common antifungal targets. In order to activate the infection programme, all fungal pathogens must undergo appropriate developmental transitions that involve cellular differentiation and the introduction of a new morphogenetic programme. How growth, cell cycle progression and morphogenesis are co-ordinately regulated during development has been an active ar

Who reads Morphogenesis and Pathogenicity in Fungi (Topics in Current Genetics Book 22)?

Author

Steven D. Harris (auth.), José Pérez Martín, Antonio Di Pietro (eds.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9783642428340

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Medical