Microbiology
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People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying InvadersDickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the...
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Human VirologyViruses are some of the simplest infectious agents on the planet, yet can cause severe and even life-threatening diseases in all forms of life - including humans. Despite relying on host cells in order to replicate, viruses can be capable of extremely rapid reproduction...
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Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and PathogensAward-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the...
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Metagenomics to Bioremediation: Applications, Cutting Edge Tools, and Future OutlookMetagenomics to Bioremediation: Applications, Cutting Edge Tools, and Future Outlook provides detailed insight into metagenomics approaches to bioremediation in a comprehensive manner, thus enabling the analysis of microbial behavior at a community level under different environmental stresses during degradation and detoxification of environmental pollutants....
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Application of Biofilms in Applied MicrobiologyApplication of Biofilms in Applied Microbiology gives a complete overview on the structure, physiology and application of biofilms produced by microbes, along with their potential application in biotechnology. Sections cover new technologies for biofilm study, physiology of microorganisms in biofilms, bacterial biofilms, biofilm development,...
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Degradation of Antibiotics and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from Various SourcesThe excessive use of antibiotics has given rise to an increase in microbial resistance, threatening our ability to treat infectious diseases. The growth in resistance to antimicrobials and antibiotics threatens to reverse almost a century of medical progress. urgent action plans to tackle the...
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Natural Organic Matter in Water: Characterization, Treatment Methods, and Climate Change ImpactNatural Organic Matter in Water: Characterization, Treatment Methods, and Climate Change Impact, Second Edition focuses on advanced filtration and treatment options, as well as processes for reducing disinfection by-products, making it an essential resource on the latest breakthroughs in the characterization, treatment and removal...
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What Is Regeneration?Two historians and philosophers of science offer an essential primer on the meaning and limits of regeneration. In punishment for his stealing fire, the Greek gods chained Prometheus to a rock, where every day an eagle plucked out his liver, and every night the...
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Human Parasites: From Organisms to Molecular BiologyWhy does the World Health Organization (WHO) put emphasis on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)? What are the NTDs? Are NTDs found in the United States? Is there any relationship between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and NTDs? These are some of the questions being addressed...
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Snyder and Champness Molecular Genetics of BacteriaThe single most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on bacterial molecular genetics Snyder & Champness Molecular Genetics of Bacteria is a new edition of a classic text, updated to address the massive advances in the field of bacterial molecular genetics and retitled as homage to...
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The Whole-Body Microbiome: How to Harness Microbes--Inside and Out--For Lifelong HealthLearn the secret to total, lifelong health: the teeming world of microbes inside and all around us Modern-day science has allowed us to prolong and improve life in astonishing ways, often by fending off germs and other invisible foes. But there's no "immunity" to...
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The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification, and Guide to the Literaturedistances between groups of ciliates were as vast as significant hurdles to obtain copyright permissions the genetic distances between plants and animals for the over 1,000 required illustrations, and I put - THE major eukaryotic kingdoms at that time the publication schedule ahead of...
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Molecular Virology: A Clinical ApproachThe branch of enquiry which studies viruses at the molecular scale is called molecular virology. Viruses have a considerable level of biological diversity, and are able to parasitize and infect all kinds of life forms. On the basis of their replication strategy, viruses can...
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Principles of Soil MicrobiologyA microorganism is a microscopic organism that may exist in single-celled form or in colony of cells. The study of microorganisms that are present in the soil is known as soil microbiology. It is also concerned with the study of the functions of microorganisms...
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Bechamp or Pasteur?: A Lost Chapter in the history of biologyThis volume contains new editions of two books. R. Pearson's Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter, originally published in 1942, serves as the introduction. It details some of the reasons for the rancorous relationship between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Béchamp. Pearson points out many of the problems...
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Interdependence: Biology and BeyondFrom biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of interdependence has become...
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Encounters in VirologyEncounters in Virology, by author and educator Teri Shors, engages readers with 14 fascinating and thought-provoking case studies pulled from headline news. Each account describes an individual viral disease, along with the signs and symptoms that accompany it, and asks students to become medical...
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Origins of LifeHow did life on Earth originate? Did replication or metabolism come first in the history of life? In the second edition of the acclaimed Origins of Life, distinguished scientist and science writer Freeman Dyson examines these questions and discusses the two main theories that...
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10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and HappinessNow in paperback, evolutionary biologist and science writer Alanna Collen's stunning alarm call concerning the widely-ignored role our gut microbes play in our health and well-being."Fascinating.... Everything you wanted to know about microbes but were afraid to ask."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)You are just...
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A bacteriological study of ham souringA bacteriological study of ham souringSir: I have the honor to transmit and to recommend for publication as a bulletin of this Bureau a paper entitled A Bacteriological Study of Ham Souring, by Dr. C. N. McBryde, senior bacteriologist in the Biochemic Division of...
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