The 9th International Symposium on Yersinia was held in Lexington,
Kentucky, USA on October 10-14, 2006. Over 250 Yersinia researchers from
18 countries gathered to present and discuss their research. In addition
to 37 oral presentations, there were 150 poster presentations. This
Symposium volume is based on selected presentations from the meeting and
contains both reviews and research articles. It is divided into six
topic areas: 1) genomics; 2) structure and metabolism; 3) regulatory
mechanisms; 4) pathogenesis and host interactions; 5) molecular
epidemiology and detection; and 6) vaccine and antimicrobial therapy
development. Consequently, this volume covers a wide range of current
research areas in the Yersinia field.