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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Swanson, Michele (Author), Joyce, Elizabeth A. (Author), Horak, Rachel E. A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Hoboken, N.J. : ASM Press ; Wiley, [2022]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Microbiology.
Microbiological Phenomena.
Table of Contents:
  • A microbial planet
  • Microbial cell exterior : envelopes and appendages
  • Microbial cell interior
  • Microbial cell growth and division
  • Microbial metabolism
  • Bioenergetics of fueling
  • Synthesis of building blocks
  • Building macromolecules
  • Building the cell envelope
  • Inheritance and information flow
  • Coordination of cell processes
  • Succeeding in the environment
  • Differentiation and development in bacteria
  • Bacteria and archaea
  • The fungi
  • Protists
  • The viruses
  • Viral latency
  • Microbial communities
  • Cycles of elements
  • Microbial interactions
  • The human gut microbiome
  • Infection : the vertebrate host
  • Opportunistic infections by microbiota : MRSA
  • Intracellular pathogens : listeria and mycobacterium
  • Toxins and epidemic cholera : phage giveth, and phage taketh away
  • Zoonoses : how plague emerged from a foodborne illness.