Molecular and cell biology have a great deal to offer tropical medicine in the future. As well as helping to understand the population genetics and dynamics. Cellular microbiology is revealing how pathogenic bacteria interact with host cells in what is turning out to be a complex evolutionary battle of competing gene products. The application of molecular and cell biology to the study of human disease, or molecular medicine as it is rather optimistically called, has developed on the back of the technical advances of molecular biology. Focusing on the interaction of microorganisms and the host cell, presenting detailed experimental techniques for modern microbiological research, this book will serve as comprehensive examination of this burgeoning area of important research.