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Life in Our Phage World

We share the Earth with more than 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 phages. Everywhere they thrive, from well-fed guts to near-boiling acidic springs, from cryoconite holes to endolithic fissures. They travel from one microbial host to the next as virions, their genetic weapons packaged inside a protective protein shell. If you could lay all of these nanoscopic phage virions …

Medical Microbiology & Immunology

This is the most concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date medical microbiology and immunology review! It gives students the high-yield information they need to prepare for the USMLE Step 1 and course exams. It is completely updated throughout, the new edition covers developments in HIV, hepatitis, smallpox, SARS, and more. It features: case discussions, USMLE-style questions, and …

Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Twelfth Edition

The most concise, easy-to-use, and frequently updated review of the medically important aspects microbiology and immunology Essential for USMLE and medical microbiology course exam preparation, Review of Medical Microbiology, 12e provides a high-yield review of the basic and clinical aspects of bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology, and immunology. The book emphasizes the real-world clinical application of …

Covid-19 How it made us feel

Microbiological Clinical Hygiene

This book describes the issues of human health and healthcare from the point of view of hygiene monitoring and maintenance. Also, the perspectives on the effects of microbial cell structures, metabolism, communities and interactions on health and hygiene are included. Besides microbiological screening of patients, surfaces, air space etc. this book introduces some key bacteriological, …

SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science - Foods of Non-Animal Origin

This Brief discusses aspects of the increasingly complex production of legal and reliable food products of non-animal origin. It introduces to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in the USA (from January 2011), which requires the food industry to follow risk-based approaches with stronger self-regulation of food safety through measures such as the foreign supplier …

Deadly Feasts

In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France—and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. …

"Super-Keime" auf dem Vormarsch

Antibiotika haben die Welt verändert. Mit ihrer Entdeckung vor mehr als 80 Jahren wurden zuvor tödliche Infektionen zu kurierbaren Intermezzi, bedrohliche Krankheitserreger zu besiegbaren Feinden. Doch die Freude war nicht von langer Dauer: Immer mehr Keime sind inzwischen resistent gegen Antibiotika, die einst so scharfen Waffen der Medizin sind stumpf geworden. Droht uns ein Rückfall …

Rickettsiology and Rickettsial Diseases

This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases, in which an effort is made to address and clarify issues from clinical, diagnostic, epidemiologic, and molecular perspectives that have remained unsolved in the past.