Advances in applied microbiology. Volume 80 /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sariaslani, Sima, Gadd, Geoffrey M.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, ©2012.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed.
• Σειρά: Advances in applied microbiology, v. 80
• Θέματα: Microbiology.; Industrial microbiology.; MEDICAL > Microbiology.; Electronic books.

Published since 1959, Advances in Applied Microbiology continues to be one of the most widely read and authoritative review sources in microbiology. The series contains comprehensive reviews of the most current research in applied microbiology. Recent areas covered include bacterial diversity in the...

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• Front Cover; Advances in Applied Microbiology; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Bacterial Etiology of Preterm Birth; 1. Preterm Birth and Associated Morbidity and Mortality; 1.1. Populations at risk; 2. Intrauterine Invasion by Vaginal Bacteria; 2.1. Source of infection; 2.2. Healthy vaginal flora; 2.3. Bacterial vaginosis; 2.4. Aerobic vaginitis; 3. The Pathogenesis of Infectious Preterm Birth; 3.1. Bacterial species identified; 3.2. Invasion of the uterine cavity; 3.3. Invasion of the amniotic sac; 3.4. Inflammatory response; 3.5. Matrix metalloproteinases.
• 4. Prevention and Treatment4.1. Metronidazole; 4.2. Macrolides; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2: The Future of Taxonomy; Introduction; The Past; The Present; The Future; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 3: Mathematics Make Microbes Beautiful, Beneficial, and Bountiful; 1. Introduction: Bacterial ``Blooms ́ ́; 2. Counting, Measuring, and Calculating; 2.1. Image analysis: Colonies and variegation; 2.2. Fractal dimension: Simple rules, complex patterns; 2.3. Graph theory: Viral capsids; 3. Graphing, Mapping, and Ordering; 3.1. Graphing: Linear, exponential, logistic.
• 3.2. Mapping: Snows map re-visited: Cholera3.3. Ordering: Complementation mapping, deletion mapping, food webs, and microarray heatmaps; 4. Problem-Solving; 4.1. Gene mapping and experimental design; 4.2. Boolean models of operons; 5. Analysis of the ``Bacterial Bonanza ́ ́; 5.1. Bioinformatics; 5.2. Phylogenetic analysis; 6. Hypothesis Testing; 6.1. Phylogenetic hypothesis testing; 6.2. The Luria-Delbrück fluctuation test; 7. Modeling; 7.1. Biological diversity and evolutionary stable strategies; 7.2. Epidemiology: ``Viral storms ́ ́ and global forecasting.
• 7.3. Swimming upstream or motility in multiple dimensions: ``Life at low Reynolds numbers ́ ́7.4. From one to many: Quorum sensing and pattern formation; 8. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4: Pleiomorphism in Mycobacterium; 1. Introduction; 2. Morphological Variations in Bacteria; 2.1. E. coli and some other Gram-negative bacteria; 2.1.1. E. coli; 2.1.2. Legionella pneumophila and Helicobacter pylori; 2.1.3. Myxococcus xanthus and Rhodobacter johrii sp. nov.-Spore-forming Gram-negative bacteria; 2.1.4. Streptobacillus moniliformis.
• 2.2. Gram-positive bacteria-Actinomycetes and Firmicutes2.2.1. Corynebacterium spp.; 2.2.2. Streptomyces spp., Salinispora gen. nov., Nocardia spp., Rhodococcus spp., and Micromonosporaceae; 2.2.3. Firmicutes-Bacillus halodurans and Bacillus subtilis; 3. Mycobacterium spp.-Morphology and Pleiomorphism; 3.1. Overview of different morphologies among Mycobacterium spp.; 3.2. Sporulation in Mycobacterium spp.; 4. Symmetric Versus Asymmetric Cell Division; 4.1. Control of septum formation in the rod-shaped bacteria E. coli and B. subtilis.