Animalcules : the activities, impacts, and investigators of microbes
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Animalcules : the activities, impacts, and investigators of microbes
ASM Press, c2009
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Microbe
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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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