Microbiology (non-medical)

This second one of a two volume set will be of interest to medical microbiologists, practitioners, medical students and other health care providers who are engaged in management and treatment of pediatric viral infections.

Food-borne bacterial pathogens encounter a number of stressors during food processing and preservation.

Accessible and comprehensive, this book describes the universal cellular nature of living organisms and is an indispensable tool for anyone in the sciences who wishes to get a quick overview of molecular biology.

The SIR - model supported by a new density and its derivatives receive a statistical data background from frequency distributions, from whose parameter values over the new density distribution a quality-oriented probability of the respective infection process and its future can be concluded.

This book covers current developments in membrane-based technologies for the successful recovery of food bioactive ingredients and molecules.

Spirochetes comprise a fascinating group of bacteria.

This book outlines the currently available clinical, epidemiological and experimental data on Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) with special emphasis on studies and results achieved in Europe.

This book addresses the shelf life of foods, a key factor in determining how food is distributed and consequently where and when different food products are available for consumption.

This book reviews recent knowledge of the role of gut microbiome in health and disease.

Dysfunction of nuclear-cytoplasmic transport systems has been associated with many human diseases.

This textbook explores the complex nature of soil biological communities and their environments, and covers deserts, rainforests, seasonal tropical forests, dry deciduous forests, and island environments in the tropical zone.

This book intends to provide information about detection and health effects due to bacteria, fungi and viruses in indoor environments.

This volume begins with a short history of malaria and follows with a summary of its biology.

This volume reviews our current knowledge and novel research areas on Pochonia chlamydosporia, a cosmopolitan fungus occurring in soils as a saprophyte yet capable of colonizing the rhizosphere of crops as an endophyte and behaving as a parasite of eggs of plant-parasitic nematodes.

This monograph emphasizes the many facets of bacterial evolution as impacted by bacterial interactions with phages, as well as, to a lesser degree, the evolutionary impact of phages on other organisms, including other phages.

The book covers the microbiological, environmental and biotechnological aspects of alkane production.

Now in its 6th Edition, this highly acclaimed textbook provides sanitation information needed to ensure hygienic practices and safe food for food industry personnel as well as students.

Concise chapters, written by experts in the field, cover a wide spectrum of topics on lipid and membrane formation in microbes (Archaea, Bacteria, eukaryotic microbes).

This contributed volume sheds new light on waste management and the production of biofuels.

Infections caused by fungi have recently attracted the attention of both clinicians and basic researchers given the heavy burden they represent for any health system.

This book gives a comprehensive overview on the various aspects of Trichoderma, a filamentous fungus ubiquitously present in soil.

This book will give an overview on viruses undergoing proteolytic activation through host proteases.

A unique feature of this book is its focus on nanotechnological solutions for the production of bioenergy and biofuels.

This volume focuses on the prospects of the conversion of biomass into biofuels including ethanol, butanol, biogas, biohydrogen, biodiesel, syn-gas and other useful products.

The abundance of sulfate-reducing bacteria and archaea (SRBA) is impressive and new isolates are being reported continuously.

The authors of this contributed volume define various inclusions and supramolecular structures in prokaryotes as discrete bodies.

This pioneering book focuses on Neotropical endophytic fungi, providing a comprehensive overview of their diversity, ecology, and biotechnological applications in medicine, agriculture, and industry.

The book provides an overview on how the gut microbiome contributes to human health.

This book deals with the advantages of using artificial intelligence (AI) in the fight against the COVID-19 and against future pandemics that could threat humanity and our environment.

This textbook provides a fast-track pathway to numerical implementation of phase-field modeling-a relatively new paradigm that has become the method of choice for modeling and simulation of microstructure evolution in materials.

This book covers the current states of microbial and related technologies that have been developed for the efficient production of chemicals, fuels and materials by integrating strain and enzyme development, fermentation processes, and downstream processes.

This book is a compilation of some of the most remarkable contributions made by scientists currently working in Latin America to the understanding of virus biology, the pathogenesis of virus-related diseases, virus epidemiology, vaccine trials and antivirals development.

This book addresses issues arising from discharge of effluents from sugar industry on to surrounding land or into a water body such as physicochemical properties of soil, changes in the micro flora, quantification of soil enzyme activities as influenced by effluents.

The book uniquely covers all aspects of anaerobic biodegradation of the environmentally important hydrocarbons.

Pulmonary disorders significantly contribute to the current level of disease burden.

This book discusses the role of probiotics and prebiotics in maintaining the health status of a broad range of animal groups used for food production.

This book covers innovations  in starter culture, production of health beneficial fermented food products, technological intervention in beer, wine and spirits production, marketing of alcoholic beverages, modernization of dairy plants for production of fermented dairy products, non-diary probiotics, development of automatic fermenters, and packaging technology.

This is the first English-language book dedicated to Brazilian sand flies and their medical importance.

This book examines the commercial role of various microbial polysaccharides and recent advances in their production.

This book is a treatise on microbial ecotoxicology, discussing the effect of pollutants on microbial ecosystems and the role of microorganisms in ecosystems services.

This book covers the basics of animal manure, or animal dung, and highlights its applications in agriculture and biotechnology.

The purpose of this book is to provide a synthesis of the ever evolving field of pediatric viral infections.

Fermented foods play a major role in human nutrition and health, given the addition of flavor, improvement of texture, preservation against spoilage, and ease of digestion due to the fermentation process.

This book presents an in depth study of different aspects of pesticide use in food production.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the cell cycle regulation and development in Alphaproteobacteria.

This reference work presents an authoritative review of endophytes and their applications to human welfare.

Biological control has become an attractive alternative strategy for the control of plant diseases to reduce the excessive use of agrochemicals and its health hazards.

This book highlights the latest discoveries about the nitrogen cycle in the soil.

This book provides an authoritative overview of emerging pollutants in sewage sludge and soils.

This book focuses on the use of nanotechnology and nanomaterials in the production of biofuels.