Download or read book Bacterial Virulence Factors and Rho GTPases written by Patrice Boquet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathogenic bacteria for human and animals have developed sophisticated weapons, termed virulence factors, to ensure their replication and persistence into their hosts. The authors in this volume show a synthesis on how the various host cellular Rho GTPases activities are manipulated by bacteria to fulfil their virulence.