Afterword
Daniel M. Musher and Ronald F. Schell
from: Pathogenic Treponema: Molecular and Cellular Biology (Edited by: Justin D. Radolf and Sheila A. Lukehart). Caister Academic Press, U.K. (2006)
Abstract
If our book, Pathogenesis and Immunology of Treponemal Infections, brought to mind the medieval metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants, the current work, Pathogenic Treponema: Molecular and Cellular Biology, makes us think that a new generation of giants has arisen. In our work of 1983, we tried to bring together what was known about treponemes - their biology and immunology, the pathogenesis of diseases that they cause, and the host response to them - all the time painfully aware that Hollander and Turner, in 1957, had stated, or at least hinted at, many of the same conclusions. It is exciting now to see what a new generation of scientists has done for the challenging, and now enlarged, field of treponemal research read more ...
