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  title info:
    title: Microbes
    sub title: an invisible universe
  name:
    name part: Gest, Howard
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    place:
      place term: Washington, D.C
    publisher: ASM Press
    date issued: ©2003
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Introduces the general public to the microbial universe, stressing the essential role microbes play in our daily lives.
  table of contents: Leeuwenhoek discovers a new galaxy of organisms -- Microbial kingdom has many subjects -- Some microbes prefer life without air -- Important molecules in microbes, plants, and animals -- Where do microbes come from? -- How microbes are isolated and identified -- Care and feeding of microbes -- Hardy survivors in the microbial kingdom -- Microbes and the carbon cycle -- Bacteria that produce and use methane -- Microbes recycle nitrogen -- Bacteria spin the sulfur cycle -- Extraordinary ecology: an amazing diversity of life styles -- Fungi -- Bioenergetics: energy currency -- Roles of vitamins -- Microbes and sewage treatment -- Infectious diseases: history of the germ theory -- Three giants of infectious disease research: Pasteur, Koch, and Jenner -- Infection and immunity -- Viruses confound microbe hunters -- Killing unwanted microbes -- Central role of DNA: new vistas in microbial biotechnology -- Microbes: Earth's first inhabitants.
  note: Howard Gest.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-213) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Biology
  subject:
    topic: Biological Science Disciplines
  subject:
    topic: Natural Science Disciplines
  subject:
    topic: Disciplines and Occupations
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  classification: QR41.2 .G468 2003
  classification: 579
  classification: 2003 J-659
  classification: QW 4 G393m 2003
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    title info:
      title: Microbes
    name:
      name part: Gest, Howard.
    origin info:
      publisher: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, ©2003
    identifier: (DLC) 2003004278
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  identifier: 1555817858
  identifier: 9781683672241
  identifier: 1683672240
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  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 030220
    record change date: 20260214205201.2
    record identifier: in00004689026
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng