TY - BOOK ID - 14305376 TI - The ecology of mycobacteria : impact on animal's and human's health PY - 2009 SN - 1402094124 9786612924149 1402094132 1282924141 PB - Dordrecht ; London : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Ecology. KW - Mycobacteria -- Ecology. KW - Mycobacteria. KW - Mycobacteria KW - Actinomycetales Infections KW - Mycobacteriaceae KW - Earth Sciences KW - Public Health KW - Microbiology KW - Biology KW - Mycobacterium KW - Ecology KW - Environmental Microbiology KW - Mycobacterium Infections KW - Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods, Regular KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections KW - Biological Science Disciplines KW - Natural Science Disciplines KW - Actinomycetales KW - Health Care KW - Actinobacteria KW - Bacterial Infections KW - Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Bacterial Infections and Mycoses KW - Gram-Positive Rods KW - Gram-Positive Bacteria KW - Bacteria KW - Diseases KW - Organisms KW - Microbiology & Immunology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Microbial ecology. KW - Environmental microbiology KW - Microorganisms KW - Mycobacterial ecology KW - Life sciences. KW - Infectious diseases. KW - Epidemiology. KW - Veterinary medicine. KW - Microbiology. KW - Bacteriology. KW - Life Sciences. KW - Infectious Diseases. KW - Microbial Ecology. KW - Veterinary Medicine. KW - Microbial ecology KW - Emerging infectious diseases. KW - Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science. KW - Public health KW - Emerging infections KW - New infectious diseases KW - Re-emerging infectious diseases KW - Reemerging infectious diseases KW - Communicable diseases KW - Farriery KW - Large animal medicine KW - Large animal veterinary medicine KW - Livestock medicine KW - Veterinary science KW - Medicine KW - Animal health KW - Animals KW - Domestic animals KW - Livestock KW - Microbial biology KW - Losses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14305376 AB - The Ecology of Mycobacteria principally emphasizes the ecological characteristics of the environmental mycobacteria. It is now well understood that the incidence and prevalence of potentially pathogenic mycobacteria is increasing in humans and animals. Further, proof that mycobacteria are normal inhabitants of drinking water distribution systems and household water systems, indicates that humans and animals are surrounded by mycobacteria and thus at risk. It is anticipated that the emphasis on ecology and routes of infection will result in a text of widespread use for clinicians and for research scientists in medicine, academia, and industry. In addition to identifying habitats and thereby sources of mycobacteria infecting humans and animals, the text identifies those mycobacterial characteristics that determine its range of habitats. Additionally, the text comments critically on the available methods to identify those protocols with values in mycobacterial research. In that manner, although there are no chapters specifically devoted to methods, superior methods for mycobacteria will be identified. A new text is needed for the mycobacteria because the prevalence of disease caused by the environmental potentially pathogenic mycobacteria is increasing. This increase is due to a number of factors. Host factors contribute to an increasing population of individuals more susceptible to mycobacterial infection. For example, the aging of the human population and the increasing frequency of immunosuppressed individuals as a result of infection (e.g. HIV), chemotherapy, and transplant-associated immunosuppression are all factors leading to increased susceptibility of infection with environment derived mycobacteria. Moreover, the role of mycobacteria as triggers in different autoimmune diseases is more and more evident. It is highly probable that peptidoglycans, lipoglycans, lipoproteins, heat shock proteins and some other structures from the mycobacterial cell wall, participate in different pathways of non-specific inflammatory reactions in humans, namely those with a specific genetic disposition. In such events mycobacteria in drinking water and food, even devitalized, have to be considered as a public health risk. Second, human-engineered systems such as drinking water distribution systems are creating a habitat for the selection and proliferation of the potentially pathogenic mycobacteria. In as much as drinking water brings together overlapping habitats of both mycobacteria and humans and animals, a review of mycobacterial ecology is timely. The ecology of mycobacteria helps to understand the circulation of mycobacteria into the respective disciplines such as epidemiology, epizootology, immunology, environmental ecology, animal husbandry and environment conservation. ER -