Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2002) 49, 884
© 2002 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Glycomicrobiology
Biomaterials-Related Infection Group, University of Nottingham, c/o City Hospital Nottingham, NG5 1PB, UK
Ron J. Doyle, Ed.
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Pubs, New York, NY, USA, 2000.
ISBN 0-306-46239-7. 549 pp.
The concept of glycosylated proteins of microbiological origin is relatively new, the glycoproteins previously being considered to be mainly of animal origin. Recently, glycoproteins have frequently been reported in bacteria. An interesting example is the lipoproteins, which were not considered to be glycosylated until recently.
From the clinical microbiologists point of view, the interest in