Microbiology

This book reflects the different efforts made by veterinary and medical doctors for better knowledge of the disease. It shows how much we depends on each other to understand better the clinical features, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of campylobacter infections and other diseases...

This is the first book ever to be published on this topic! Comprehensively packed with up-to-date research information, this volume is written with both the beginner and the established research expert in mind...

For many idiopathic diseases, the etiologies become clear when certain techniques are applied to the patient's blood or other tissues. This volume describes these techniques, examining a plethora of issues and highlighting significant aspects of microbiology, which tend to go unrecognized in the cli..

Detailing the consequences of microbiological contamination as well as what microorganisms are, how microorganisms grow, and how they can be controlled, this book introduces the types, sources, control, and elimination of organisms encountered in the manufacture of sterile products. Highlighting new..

This text brings together the information available on established clostridial diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, including the more recent observations with respect to the mechanisms of action, and critically reviews the data available which implicate clostridia in the gastrointestinal disease..

This monograph has been written with the notion that it may be read by complementologists relatively untrained in microbiology and infectious diseases and by microbiologists and infectious diseases specialists relatively untrained in complementology...

All the information available on various cyanobacterial symbioses/symbiotic cyanobacteria is collated and compiled into this one accessible source. Comprehensive data on structure, physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of the cyanobiont in various cyanobacterial symbioses is included, and i..

Handbook of the Zoology of Amphistomes provides a comprehensive survey on the morphology, ecology, systematics, and zoogeography of amphistomes, which are a group of digenetic trematodes parasitic in vertebrates...

This text on electron microscopy in viral diagnosis is an invaluable reference investigators interested in the detection of viruses or viral subcomponents in liquid preparations or in thin sectioned cells...

Over the last few years our understanding has increased considerably due to the development of new technology and the emergence of new paradigms which have enabled the microbiologist to view the microbial world, and its significance to life, with new eyes. Combining the basics of science with the mo..

Food Biopreservatives of Microbial Origin provides basic and applied information regarding how antimicrobial metabolites of safe, food-grade bacteria (used in food fermentation) can be utilized as food preservatives...

This book places greater emphasis on the practical problems of epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and pathological aspects of the two principle types of free-living amoebic infection: the acute disease produced by Naegleria fowleri and the chronic, subacute and opportunistic form, produced by acan..