Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Physiological and molecular aspects of growth, non-growth, culturability and viability in bacteria Mike Barer; 2. Survival of environmental and host-associated stress Petra Dersch and Regine Hengge-Aronis; 3. Surviving the immune response: an immunologist's perspective David R. Katz and Gabriele Pollara; 4. Quantitative and qualitative changes in bacterial activity controlled by interbacterial signaling Simon Swift; 5. Mechanisms of stationary-phase mutagenesis in bacteria and their relevance to antibiotic resistance Digby F. Warner and Valerie Mizrahi; 6. Dormancy, biofilms and resistance Anthony W. Smith and Michael R. W. Brown; 7. Tuberculosis Yanmin Hu and Anthony R. M. Coates; 8. Gastritis and peptic ulceration Stewart Goodwin; 9. Resumption of yeast cell proliferation from stationary phase Gerald C. Johnston; 10. Resting state in seeds of higher plants; dormancy, persistence and resilience to abiotic and biotic stresses Hugh W. Pritchard.