TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1) About the meanings of the Word "transmission" in natural sciences. Fernando Navarro, Joaquín Villalba, Francisco Cortés Dictionary of Medical Terms, Royal Academy of Medicine of Spain; Department for Latin Philology, Extremadura University, and Greek Philology, Salamanca University, Spain Edited by Fernando Baquero 2. The Basic Process of Transmission 2) Transmission, Introgression, Spinning, and Evolution Fernando Baquero Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain Edited by Teresa M. Coque 3) Genetic transmission from bacteria-to-bacteria Fernando de la Cruz Cantabrian Institute for Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Cantabria University, Santander, Spain Edited by Teresa M. Coque 4) Basic processes in bacteria-host-interactions: within host evolution and the transmission of the virulent genotype Wolf-Dietrich Hardt Institute of Microbiology (D-BIOL), ETH Zürich. Zürich, Switzerland Edited by Teresa M. Coque 5) The extracelular-intracellular transition and the transmission of Salmonella Francisco García del Portillo Department of Microbial Biotechnology, National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain Edited by Fernando Baquero 6) Drivers of plasmid mediated transmission of resistance: what we think we know! Tim Walsh Cardiff Institute of Infection & Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine Edited by Teresa M.

Coque 7) Transmission of high-risk bacterial clones Teresa M. Coque Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain Edited by Fernando Baquero 8) Antimicrobial Selection and Transmission Dan A. Andersson Department of Biochesmistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Edited by Fernando Baquero 3. The Scenarios of Transmission 9) Ecology and evolution of chromosomal gene transfer between environmental microorganisms and pathogens José Luis Martínez Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Center for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain Edited by Fernando Baquero 4:00UNCH 10) Animal-to-human bacterial transmission Bruno González-Zorn Unit for Food Zoonosis and Antibiotic Resistance. Center for Veterinarian Health Surveillance (VISAVET), Complutensis University, Madrid, Spain Edited by Teresa M. Coque 11) Food-to-humans bacterial transmission Luisa Peixe, Patricia Antunes, Carla Novais National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Edited by Teresa M. Coque 12) Transmission from hosts to the environment Elizabeth Wellington School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick. Warwick, UK Edited by Fernando Baquero 13) Sewage-to-water and food bacterial transmission Kornellia Smalla Julius Kuhn Institute.

Institute of Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics Braunschweig, Germany Edited by Fernando Baquero 14) Inter-hospital transmission of bacterial pathogens: biogeographical surveillance Hajo Grundmann Department of Medical Microbiology. University of Groningen. The Netherlands Edited by Jose Antonio Gutiérrez-Fuentes 15) Microbial transmission in wild life Peter Daszak Consortium for Conservation Medicine, Wildlife Trust, New York, USA Edited by Teresa M. Coque 4. Patient-to-Patient Transmission 16) Hospital vehicles for transmission: who and what to blame? Andreas F. Widmer Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel. Basel, Switzerland Edited by Emilio Bouza 17) Transmission of antibiotic resistance: from outbreaks to endemicity Rafael Cantón Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain Edited by Teresa M. Coque 18) Fecal transplantation: when transmission is healthy.

The case of Clostridium difficile infection Mark Wilcox. Leeds Institute of Biomedical & Clinical Sciences. Old Medical School, LGI. Leeds, UK Edited by Emilio Bouza 19) Biology of hands transmission of microorganisms Rosa del Campo Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain Edited by Jose Antonio Gutiérrez-Fuentes 20) Transmission surveillance in the Health System Johann Pitout Dept of Pathology and Lab Medicine University of Calgary, Canada Edited by Emilio Bouza 21) The evolution of genotyping strategies to detect, analyze and control tuberculosis transmission Darío García de Viedma Department of de Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, IISGM, Gregorio Marañon General University Hospital, Madrid, Spain Edited by Emilio Bouza 22) The environment as a vehicle of fungal disease transmission in hospitals: the Aspergillus and Candida models Jesús V. Guinea Department of de Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, IISGM, Gregorio Marañon General University Hospital, Madrid, Spain Edited by Emilio Bouza 23) Breaking transmission with vaccines: the case of tuberculosis Carlos Martín Department of Microbiology, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health, Unit for Bacterial Genetics, Zaragoza University, Zaragoza, Spain Edited by Emilio Bouza 24) Transmission, human population, and pathogenicity: the EBOLA case-in-point Rafael Delgado, Fernando Simón Department of Microbiology, 12 de Octubre University Hospital, and Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies Coordination, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain Edited by Jose Antonio Gutiérrez-Fuentes 5. Experimental and Theoretical Modes of Transmission 25) Infectious transmission and the evolution and epidemiology of antibiotic resistance Bruce Levin Department of Biology, Emory University. Atlanta, USA Edited by Fernando Baquero 26) Approaches to quantify and analyze microbial transmission Mark Woolhouse Epidemiology Group, Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK Edited by Jose Antonio Gutiérrez-Fuentes 27) Experimental epidemiology of antibiotic resistance: looking for an appropriate animal model system Amparo Latorre, Andres Moya Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (ICBiBE), Valencia University, Valencia, Spain Edited by Fernando Baquero 28) The units of biodiversity and the units of transmission Frederick M. Cohan Department of Biology, Wesleyan University.

Middletown, Connecticut, USA Edited by Teresa M. Coque 29) Tracking the rules of transmission and introgression with networks Eric Bapteste Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine. UMR 7138 CNRS-UPMC Evolution. Paris, France Edited by Fernando Baquero 30) New tools for characterizing transmission in complex populations Willem van Shaik University of Utrecht. Utrecht, The Netherlands. Edited by Fernando Baquero.