Pathogenicity Islands and Other Mobile Virulence Elements

1. The Concept of Pathogenicity Islands. 2. Methods and strategies for the Detection of Bacterial Virulence Factors Associated with Pathogenicity Islands, Plasmids, and Bacteriophages. 3. Pathogenicity Islands of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli. 4. Pathogenicity Islands of Extraintestinal Escherichia coli. 5. The High-Pathogenicity Island of Yersinia. 6. The 70-kb Virulence Plasmid of Yersinia. 7. Pathogenicity Islands and the Evolution of Salmonella Virulence 8. the Virulence Plasmid of Shigella: an Archipelago of Pathogenicity Islands. 9. Pathogenicity Islands and Other Mobile Genetic Elements of Vibrio cholerae. 10. Cag, the Pathogenicity Islands of Helicobacter pylori, Triggers Host-pathogen Responses. 11. Are the Vap Regions of Dichelobacter nodosus Pathogenicity Islands? 12. Virulence Gene Clusters and Putative Pathogenicity Islands in Listeria. 13. Virulence -associated Mobile Elements in Bacilli and Clostridia. 14. Mobile Genetic Elements, Phages and Genomic Islands of staphylococci and Streptococci. 15. The Ti Virulence Plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. 16. The hrp Cluster of Pseudomonas syringae: a Pathogenicity Island Encoding a Type III Protein Translocation Complex? 17. Conjugative Transposons in Transmissible Resistance Islands.