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Front Matter -- BACTERIAL INVASION, COLONIZATION, AND SURVIVAL. Bacterial Adherence, Colonization, and Invasion of Mucosal Surfaces / John H Brumell, B Brett Finlay -- Bacterial Evasion of Host-Derived Antimicrobial Peptides on Mucosal Surfaces / Kim Alan Brogden -- Consequences of Bacterial Invasion into Nonprofessional Phagocytic Cells / Jeffrey B Lyczak, Gerald B Pier -- Ecological Aspects of Host Colonization: Coaggregation, Osmoadaptation, and Acid Tolerance or Resistance / Thad Stanton -- Relationships between Community Behavior and Pathogenesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Matthew R Parsek, E P Greenberg -- Antibiotic Resistance and Survival in the Host / Emma L A Macfarlane, Robert E W Hancock -- BACTERIAL EVASION OF HOST DEFENSE MECHANISMS. What Is the Very Model of a Modern Macrophage Pathogen? / David G Russell -- Bacterial Resistance to Antibody-Dependent Defenses / Lynette B Corbeil -- Mechanisms of Resistance to Norelated Antibacterial Activity / Andrés Vazquez-Torres, Ferric C Fang -- DNA Repair and Mutators: Effects on Antigenic Variation and Virulence of Bacterial Pathogens / Thomas A Cebula, J Eugene LeClerc -- BACTERIAL EFFECTS ON HOST CELL FUNCTION. Bacterial Toxins in Disease Production / Joseph T Barbieri, Kristin J Pederson -- Exploitation of Mammalian Host Cell Function by Shigella spp. / Larean D Brandon, Marcia B Goldberg -- Bacterial Induction of Cytokine Secretion in Pathogenesis of Airway Inflammation / Alice Prince -- The Type III Secretion Pathway: Dictating the Outcome of Bacterial-Host Interactions / Raymond Schuch, Anthony T Maurelli -- IDENTIFICATION, REGULATION, AND TRANSFER OF VIRULENCE GENES. Impact of Horizontal Gene Transfer on the Evolution of Salmonella Pathogenesis / Robert A Kingsley, Renée M Tsolis, Stacy M Townsend, Tracy L Norris, Thomas A Ficht, L Garry Adams, Andreas J Bumler -- Regulation of Virulence Gene Expression in Vivo / James M Slauch -- Identification of Virulence Genes in Silico: Infectious Disease Genomics / George M Weinstock, Steven J Norris, Erica J Sodergren, David Smajs -- CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVE. State and Future of Studies on Bacterial Pathogenicity: Impact of New Methods of Studying Bacterial Behavior in Vivo / H Smith -- Index