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_qoBook)
020 _a1683671376
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_qoBook)
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024 7 _a10.1128/9781555817442
_2doi
040 _aNz
_beng
_erda
_epn
_cZ5A
082 7 4 _a579
_223
_bD621
100 1 _aDixon, Bernard
_c(Science writer),
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAnimalcules :
_bthe activities, impacts, and investigators of microbes /
_cBernard Dixon.
246 3 0 _aActivities, impacts, and investigators of microbes
264 1 _aWashington, DC :
_bASM Press,
_c[2009]
300 _axiii, 343 pages ;
_c24cm .
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _a ( Textbook, ASM Press )
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _gI :
_tTouching life at many points --
_tDisseminators aloft? --
_tPantoea and the locust --
_tThe Microbiology of art --
_tWhy do they do it? --
_tOut of the blue --
_tReflections on cellulolysis --
_tJelly from space? --
_tBotox and dairy cows --
_tFiction, fact, and reality --
_tMicrobiology for gastronomes --
_tThe Double life of escherichia coli --
_tNot all cigars and caviar --
_tMicrobial versatility in Berlin --
_tWhither psychoneuroimmunology? --
_gII :
_tThe Ecological context --
_tCommunal diversity in biofilms --
_tBiofilm life --
_tOur most abundant coterrestrials --
_tHeliobacter from the seas? --
_tSelective agencies --
_tNatural disaster microbiology --
_tFoot-and-mouth folly? --
_tEcology lessons --
_tBiocides in the kitchen --
_tConjectures and realities --
_tExterminating pathogens --
_tLearning from Denmark --
_tProtozoa and lurking pathogens --
_tWhat is virulence --
_gIII :
_tThe Human context --
_tQuestionable experiments --
_tLyme disease : the public dimension --
_tBlatent opportunism --
_tBioscience embattled --
_t"Playing God" --
_tMicrobes in the media --
_tA Little learning ... --
_tSpotlight on acetaldehyde --
_tMeasles, polio, and conscience --
_tMyxomatosis : grim questions --
_tRationalizing vaccination --
_tA European furor --
_tBioremediation and greenery --
_tThe Citation game --
_gIV :
_tPersonalia --
_tAntony van Leeuwenhoek, Clifford Dobell, and Robert Hooke --
_tRobert Koch and his postulates --
_tHideyo Noguchi, Max Theiler, and Yellowjack --
_tRen�e Dubos's mirage of health --
_tFerdinand Cohn, neglected visionary --
_tJohannes Fibiger, a Dane to remember --
_tFrederick Twort, codiscoverer of phages --
_tAlick Isaacs and interferon --
_tDissenters : Max von Pettenkofer and Friedrich Wolter --
_tGerhard Domagk and the origins of sulfa --
_tCecil Hoare's eponymous organism --
_tAnts and Fred Hoyle's challenge to Darwinism --
_tpioneers of American microbiology --
_gV :
_tDoing microbiology --
_tAt the level of cowpats --
_tFishy business --
_tScience �a la mode? --
_t"Wherever they are found ..." --
_tThere's more to do --
_tSelf-frustration --
_tGenomics and innovation in antibiotics --
_tThe Relevance of taxonomy --
_tYeasts are complex ... --
_t... and yeasts are versatile --
_tResounding banalities --
_tMicrobiology present and future --
_tLooking back --
_tA Global challenge.
588 0 _aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (ASM, viewed September 15, 2014).
650 4 _aMicrobiology.
655 2 _aCollected Work
710 2 _aAmerican Society for Microbiology,
_eissuing body.
730 0 _aMicrobe.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aDixon, Bernard.
_tAnimalcules.
_dWashington, DC : ASM Press, �2009
_z9781555815004
_w(DLC) 2008040223
_w(OCoLC)253188767
830 0 _aTextbook, ASM Press.
910 _asaja
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