Bacteriology (Non-medical)

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. As such, they have many potential uses for promoting health and combating disease. This book cover...

Molecular Biology has proved to be one of the more fruitful technological approaches to science, being both very powerful and able to generate valu...

The monograph summarises the literature data and the author''''s results concerned with the physiology and biotechnology of chemolithautotrophic hy...

Bacteriocins are a heterogeneous group of peptides or proteins with antimicrobial activity synthesised ribosomally and released extracellularly by ...

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is...

Drug-resistant bacteria known as superbugs are one of the biggest medical threats of our time. Here, a doctor, researcher, and ethics professor t...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development is striving to protect human health and the environment from adve...

Did You Just Eat That? provides the answers to perennial questions about food and germs, such as whether electric hand dryers spread fewer germs th...

Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, blue-green bacteria or cyanophyta, is a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosyn...

In this book the authors present current research in the study of meningitis. Topics discussed in this compilation include the drug induced aseptic...

Antiseptics and disinfectants are extensively used at home, in occupied buildings, recreational areas, industries (the water industry, food process...

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is...

Bacteria are a large group of unicellular micro-organisms. Most bacteria have a single circular chromosome that can range in size. DNA is organised...

Common to many bacteria is the ability to establish a symbiotic relationship or to evade innate immune responses of an animal, plant, fish or insec...

Salmonella are ubiquitous enteric bacteria, responsible for thousands of deaths world-wide. In this book, the authors present current research in t...

During bacteriology's Golden Age (roughly 1870-1890) European physicians focused on the role of bacteria as causal agents of disease. Advances in m...