Animalcules : the activities, impacts, and investigators of microbes

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    • Dixon, Bernard

書誌事項

Animalcules : the activities, impacts, and investigators of microbes

Bernard Dixon

ASM Press, c2009

  • : hbk

統一タイトル

Microbe

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

An entertaining and informative overview on microbiology and its heroes, dissenters, and discoveries. Presents the field of microbiology in its widest context. Brings a historical perspective to the field: its heroes, dissenters, and discoveries. Profiles the first microbiologists and speculates about those of the future. Offers insight into the pivotal role of microbes at the center of terrestrial life. Details the unexpected influences of microorganisms on humans. This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

目次

Table of Contents I. Touching Life at Many Points 1. Disseminators Aloft? 2. Pantoea and the Locust 3. The Microbiology of Art 4. Why Do They Do It? 5. Out of the Blue 6. Reflections on Cellulolysis 7. Jelly From Space? 8. Botox and Dairy Cows 9. Fiction, Fact, and Reality 10. Microbiology for Gastronomes 11. The Double Life of Escherichia coli 12. Not All Cigars and Caviar 13. Microbial Versatility in Berlin 14. Whither Psychoneuroimmunology? II. The Ecological Context 15. Communal Diversity in Biofilms 16. Biofilm Life 17. Our Most Abundant Coterrestrials 18. Helicobacter from the Seas? 19. Selective Agencies 20. Natural Disaster Microbiology 21. Foot-and-Mouth Folly? 22. Ecology Lessons 23. Biocides in the Kitchen 24. Conjectures and Realities 25. Exterminating Pathogens 26. Learning from Denmark 27. Protozoa and Lurking Pathogens 28. What Is Virulence? III. The Human Context 29. Questionable Experiments 30. Lyme Disease: the Public Dimension 31. Blatant Opportunism 32. Bioscience Embattled 33. "Playing God" 34. Microbes in the Media 35. A Little Learning... 36. Spotlight on Acetaldehyde 37. Measles, Polio, and Conscience 38. Myxomatosis: Grim Questions 39. Rationalizing Vaccination 40. A European Furor 41. Bioremediation and Greenery 42. The Citation Game IV. Personalia 43. Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Clifford Dobell, and Robert Hooke 44. Robert Koch and His Postulates 45. Hideyo Noguchi, Max Theiler, and Yellowjack 46. Rene Dubos's Mirage of Health 47. Ferdinand Cohn, Neglected Visionary 48. Johannes Fibiger, a Dane to Remember 49. Frederick Twort, Codiscoverer of Phages 50. Alick Isaacs and Interferon 51. Dissenters: Max von Pettenkofer and Friedrich Wolter 52. Gerhard Domagk and the Origins of Sulfa 53. Cecil Hoare's Eponymous Organism 54. Ants and Fred Hoyle's Challenge to Darwinism 55. Pioneers of American Microbiology V. Doing Microbiology 56. At the Level of Cowpats 57. Fishy Business 58. Science a La Mode? 59. "Wherever They Are Found..." 60. There's More To Do 61. Self-Frustration 62. Genomics and Innovation in Antibiotics 63. The Relevance of Taxonomy 64. Yeasts Are Complex... 65. ...And Yeasts Are Versatile 66. Resounding Banalities 67. Microbiology Present and Future 68. Looking Back 69. A Global Challenge

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