Prokaryotes: A Handbook on the Biology of Bacteria Vol. 4: Bacteria: Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria

Firmicutes (Gram-Positive Bacteria) Firmicutes with Low GC Content of DNA The Genera Staphylococcus and Macrococcus The Genus Streptococcus---Oral Medically Important Beta-Hemolytic Streptococci Streptococcus pneumoniae The Genus Enterococcus: Taxonomy Enterococcus The Genus Lactococcus The Genera Pediococcus and Tetragenococcus Genera Leuconostoc, Oenococcus and Weissella The Genera Lactobacillus and Carnobacterium Listeria monocytogenes and the Genus Listeria The Genus Brochothrix The Genus Gemella The Genus Kurthia The Genus Bacillus---Nonmedical 526 (33) The Genus Bacillus---Insect Pathogens 559 (46) The Genus Bacillus---Medical 605 (22) Genera Related to the Genus Bacillus---Sporolactobacillus, Sporosarcina, Planococcus, Filibacter and Caryophanon 627 (23) An Introduction to the Family Clostridiaceae 650 (24) Neurotoxigenic Clostridia 674 (19) Cesare Montecucco The Enterotoxic Clostridia 693 (55) Clostridium perfringens and Histotoxic Disease 748 (18) The Genera Desulfitobacterium and Desulfosporosinus: Taxonomy 766 (16) The Genus Desulfotomaculum 782 (8) The Anaerobic Gram-Positive Cocci 790 (14) The Order Haloanaerobiales 804 (14) The Genus Eubacterium and Related Genera 818 (13) The Genus Mycoplasma and Related Genera (Class Mollicutes) 831 (66) The Phytopathogenic Spiroplasmas 897 (46) Firmicutes with Atypical Cell Walls The Family Heliobacteriaceae 943 (14) Pectinatus, Megasphaera and Zymophilus 957 (17) Ilkka Helander The Genus Selenomonas 974 (9) The Genus Sporomusa 983 (11) The Family Lachnospiraceae, Including the Genera Butyrivibrio, Lachnospira and Roseburia 994 (20) The Genus Veillonella 1014 (19) Syntrophomonadaceae 1033 (12) Cyanobacteria The Cyanobacteria---Isolation, Purification and Identification 1045 (21) The Cyanobacteria---Ecology, Physiology and Molecular Genetics 1066 (25) Michael Gurevitz The Genus Prochlorococcus 1091 (12) Index 1103