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Microbes : an invisible universe / Howard Gest

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington, DC : ASM Press, 2003Edition: Rev. edDescription: xiii, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1555812643
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • QW4
Contents:
Leeuwenhoek discovers a new galaxy of organisms -- The 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 -- The 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' -- The 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 -- The central role of DNA: new vistas in microbial biotechnology -- Microbes: Earth's first inhabitants.
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AM PERPUSTAKAAN DR ABDUL LATIFF PERPUSTAKAAN DR ABDUL LATIFF KOLEKSI AM-P. DR ABDUL LATIFF - QW4.G393m 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00001426810

Rev. ed. of: The world of microbes / Howard Gest. 1987

Bibliographical : p. 209-213

Leeuwenhoek discovers a new galaxy of organisms -- The 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 -- The 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' -- The 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 -- The central role of DNA: new vistas in microbial biotechnology -- Microbes: Earth's first inhabitants.

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