The Role of Microbes in Common Non-Infectious Diseases

• Main Author: Fong, I.W (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century ; 1
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Infectious diseases.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Infectious Diseases.

This new volume in the series Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century is a novel book on the role of microbes in the pathogenesis of common and disabling non-infectious diseases. New insights have emerged over the past several years suggesting that our commensal microflora of the gut is ext...

Table of Contents:

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Microbial Pathogenesis
• Microbes in Colon Cancer and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• The Role of Microbes in Obesity
• Microbes in the Pathogenesis of Diabetes Mellitus
• Asthma and Microbes: a New Paradigm
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Searching for a Microbial Etiology
• Can Microbes Play a Role in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer Disease?- Multiple Sclerosis and Microbes
• The Role of Infections and Microbes in Atherosclerosis.