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A theoretical analysis of plant host-pathogen interactions in a gene-for-gene system / by Czochor, Ronald John.(CARDINAL)167784; University of North Carolina (System).Institute of Statistics.(CARDINAL)165205;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-119).

Subjects: Phytopathogenic microorganisms;

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A gardener's guide to composting techniques : for home, the allotment or a community garden / by Weston, Rod,author.(CARDINAL)889367;

Introduction -- Composting: history, climate change, sites and principles -- Composting techniques -- Composting: process and the required conditions -- Phases of hot composting: microorganisms, macroorganisms and pathogens -- Entry-level composting -- Mid- and higher-range compost bins -- Composting for the enthusiast and the professional -- Potential problems -- Compost activators -- Vermiculture: composting with worms -- Bokashi fermentation -- Using compost -- Compost teas and liquid feeds."It is widely accepted that composting benefits both the environment and the garden, as a means of reducing waste while contributing to a healthy soil. This practical guide offers a host of composting techniques for the home, allotment and community gardener, as well as indoor and balcony composting for those without access to a garden. It explains the processes behind aerobic composting and anaerobic fermentation, and the conditions necessary to compost effectively without mess or smell"--Publisher's description.

Subjects: Compost.; Compost; Compost.;

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Microbes : discover an unseen world with 25 projects / by Burillo-Kirch, Christine,author.(CARDINAL)622579; Casteel, Tom,illustrator.(CARDINAL)597373;

Includes bibliographical references (page 119) and index.Timeline -- Introduction Microbes Everywhere! -- Chapter 1 the World of Microbes -- Chapter 2 Microbes in Your Body -- Chapter 3 Microbes in Water -- Chapter 4 Microbes on Land and in the Air -- Chapter 5 Pathogens: Microbes on the Dark Side -- Chapter 6 Our Fight Against Pathogens -- Glossary -- Metric Conversions -- Resources -- Essential Questions -- Index."If our vision improved one million times, we would be able to see microbes in the air, on our skin, in the soil, in water, and on food! In Microbes: Discover an Unseen World, readers journey through microscopic worlds that collide with our own on a daily basis to encounter bacteria, viruses, fungi, protists, and archaea,"--page [4] of cover.960L

Subjects: Microbiology; Microorganisms;

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Biography of resistance : the epic battle between people and pathogens / by Zaman, Muhammad H.(Muhammad Hamid),author.(CARDINAL)832805;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Superbugs, born of antibiotic resistance, are a growing global health crisis. Award-winning educator and researcher at Boston University Muhammad Zaman, Ph. D. tells the story about how we got here and what we must do to combat this threat that connects us all"--What we're up against -- Fifty million dead -- Time and space -- Friends in far places -- Near the seed vault -- Keys to Karachi -- War and peace -- From the phages of history -- Sulfa and the war -- Mold juice -- Tablets from tears -- The new pandemic -- The man in the blue Mustang -- Honeymoon -- Mating bacteria -- S is for Soviet -- The Navy boys -- From animals to humans -- The Norwegian salmon -- Closer to Sydney than to Perth -- A classless problem -- The stubborn wounds of war -- Counting the dead -- Clues in the sewage -- X is for extensive -- Too much or too little? -- Visa not required -- The dry pipeline -- New ways to do old business -- A three-hundred-year-old idea -- Spoonful of sugar -- Conflict inside the cells -- Security or service? -- One world, one health -- Bankers, doctors, and diplomats.

Subjects: Popular works.; Drug resistance in microorganisms; Antibiotics;

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Microbe science for gardeners : secrets to better plant health / by Pavlis, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)833391;

Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. The world under the microscope -- 3. Bacteria -- 4. Fungi -- 5. Yeast -- 6. Nematodes -- 7. Protozoa -- 8. Viruses -- 9. More microbes -- 10. Microbe communities -- 11. Plants love microbes -- 12. Manipulating microbes -- 13. Bioinoculants for the garden -- 14. Pathogens."Microscopic organisms are as important to plant growth as water and light. Microbe Science for Gardeners highlights the essential role of microbes in plant biosystems and soil health, provides practical how-to gardening advice for enhancing plant microbiomes and preventing disease, and debunks common gardening myths."--

Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Gardening.; Microorganisms.; Plant-microbe relationships.; Plants;

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Sick! : the twists and turns behind animal germs / by Montgomery, Heather L.,author.(CARDINAL)496029; Leigh, Lindsey,illustrator.(CARDINAL)872889;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-142) and index.Warning -- Introduction: Animals under attack -- A chimpanzee pharmacy -- A frog and a fever -- Awesome ant adaptations -- Gator aid -- Buzzard buddies? -- One hump -- Bat bodies -- Aphid magic -- Conclusion: Pathogen or pal? -- More super symbionts"Follow the scientists, around the world and into their labs, who are studying animals and the germs that attack them."--Ages 8-12Grades 4-6

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Health behavior in animals; Animal health; Immune system; Microbiology; Microorganisms; Zoologists;

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Plagues upon the earth : disease and the course of human history / by Harper, Kyle,1979-author(CARDINAL)504014;

Introduction: microorganisms and macrohistory -- Fire. Mammals in a microbe's world ; Prometheus among the pirates ; Where the bloodsuckers aren't -- Farms. Dung and death ; The sneezing ape ; The ends of the old world -- Frontiers. Conquests and contagions ; The unification of the tropics ; Of lice and men -- Fossils. The wealth and health of nations ; Disease and global divergence ; The disinfected planet -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: checklist of major identified species of human pathogens."Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric times. We can now begin to reconstruct the natural history of human disease at the molecular level, tracing the biographies of the viruses, bacteria, and protozoa that have haunted our species. The story reveals, Harper will show, the continuing importance of the deep past in determining the patterns of global divergence today. Plagues upon the Earth puts the dynamic two-way relationship between humanity and its germs in the foreground. The takeover and transformation of the planet by Homo sapiens has been the most powerful force shaping the evolution of microbial pathogens, and in turn, pathogen evolution has been a decisive influence on the destiny of human societies. From humanity's dispersal out of Africa to the rise of agriculture and complex civilizations, from the great pandemics of the medieval world to the age of global expansion and industrialization, from the modern increase in life expectancy to the ongoing threats of microbial resistance and emerging pathogens like HIV and Ebola, disease evolution has been and remains a primary, powerful, and unpredictable factor in human history. This will be the story of how we made our germs, and how our germs made the world as we know it. Harper aims to cover the entire timespan of Homo sapiens and to set the history of our species in deep perspective. The pathogens that exist today are the heirs of millions of years of evolution. Similarly, the patterns of economic development, and the roots of global inequality, have distant origins. Thus, Harper aims to bring together two bodies of literature: the history of disease and the study of geography and social development. The book is global in coverage, insisting on the importance of understanding how the tropics and temperate zones, the Old World and the New World, differ and interact throughout the course of history. Viruses, bacteria, and protozoa - in all their peculiarity and specificity - have played an enormous part in shaping the different outcomes experienced by human societies. Plagues upon the Earth combines biology, geography, and economics to understand these differences but emphasizes the central importance of evolution as a source of constant change. The past is always present in the history of disease, and the future is always unpredictable. The story continues right up to our own world. The book closes with a reflection on antibiotic resistance as a form of evolution that continues the ancient molecular antagonism between pathogens and host immune systems, and the importance of seeing this struggle in a broader environmental framework. Freedom from infectious disease remains an unachieved goal for our species, which is more interconnected than ever. The biology of infectious disease has been one of the great forces shaping the patterns of global development, but only with a sense of history - of the interplay of change, conjunction, and chance - can we begin to understand the intertwined story of human societies and their germs"--"How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning-and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a speciesPlagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity's uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. He shows that the story of disease is entangled with the history of slavery, colonialism, and capitalism, and reveals the enduring effects of historical plagues all around us, in patterns of wealth, health, power, and inequality. He also tells the story of humanity's escape from infectious disease-a triumph that makes life as we know it possible, yet destabilizes the environment and fosters new diseases.Panoramic in scope, Plagues upon the Earth traces role of disease in the transition to farming, the spread of cities, the advance of transportation, and the stupendous increase in human numbers. Harper offers a new interpretation of humanity's path to control over infectious disease-one where rising evolutionary threats constantly push back against human progress, and where the devastating effects of modernization contribute to the great divergence between societies. The book reminds us that human health is globally interdependent-and inseparable from the well-being of the planet itself.Putting the COVID-19 pandemic in perspective, Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how we got here as a species, and it may help us decide where we want to go"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-670) and index.

Subjects: Epidemics; Plague; Diseases and history.;

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Ending epidemics : a history of escape from contagion / by Conniff, Richard,1951-author.(CARDINAL)327385;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface: The healing -- What the draper saw -- Deadly preconceptions -- Foreign bodies -- Precursors -- Ridiculous diseases, inconceivable ideas -- Buying the pox -- Slaying the speckled monster -- An angel's trumpet -- The great sanitary awakening -- Finding Pathogens -- The Semmelweis reflex -- Making sense of cholera -- The Broad Street pump -- Louis Pasteur: the rising -- The subtle foe -- The mystery of the cursed meadows -- A new vaccine -- The bible of bacteriology -- Defining the indefinable something -- (Re)discovering cholera -- A sacred delirium -- Immunity and the strangling angel -- Deadly carriers -- The beast in the mosquito -- Fit for duty -- A pathogen too far -- Midnight work -- The antibacterial revolution -- Penicillin -- Race to the vaccine -- Zero pox -- Epilogue: The plague next time"From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious diseases that once killed us & how we might escape such diseases in the future"

Subjects: Epidemics;

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Missing microbes : how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues / by Blaser, Martin J.(CARDINAL)727407;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-256) and index.Modern plagues -- Our microbial planet -- The human microbiome -- The rise of pathogens -- The wonder drugs -- The overuse of antibiotics -- The modern farmer -- Mother and child -- A forgotten world -- Heartburn -- Trouble breathing -- Taller -- --and fatter -- Modern plagues revisited -- Antibiotic winter -- Solutions."A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert. Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now, this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances--antibiotics--threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences. Taking us into both the lab and deep into the fields where these troubling effects can be witnessed firsthand, Blaser not only provides cutting edge evidence for the adverse effects of antibiotics, he tells us what we can do to avoid even more catastrophic health problems in the future. "--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Antibiotics.; Antibiotics; Drug resistance in microorganisms.;

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Microbiology for dummies / by Stearns, Jennifer C.(CARDINAL)789179; Kaiser, Julie.(CARDINAL)789181; Surette, Michael G.(CARDINAL)789180;

pt. I. Getting started with microbiology -- 1. Microbiology and you -- Why microbiology? -- Introducing microorganisms -- Deconstructing microbiology -- 2. Microbiology : the young science -- Before microbiology : misconceptions and superstitions -- Discovering microorganisms -- Debunking the myth of spontaneous generation -- Improving medicine, from surgery to antibiotics and more -- Looking at microbiology outside the human body -- The future of microbiology -- Frontiers -- Challenges -- 3. Microbes : they're everywhere and the can do everything -- Habitat diversity -- Metabolic diversity -- Getting energy -- Capturing carbon -- Making enzymes -- Secondary metabolism -- The intersection of microbes and everyone else --pt. II. Balancing the dynamics of microbial life -- Seeing the shapes of cells -- Life on a minute scale : considering the size of prokaryotes -- The cell : an overview -- Scaling the outer membrane and cell walls -- Examining the outer membrane -- Exploring the cell wall -- Other important cell structures -- Divining cell division -- Tackling transport systems -- Passive transport -- Active transport -- Keeping things clean with efflux pumps -- Getting around with locomotion -- 5. Making sense of metabolism -- Converting with enzymes -- In charge of energy : oxidation and reduction -- Donating and accepting electrons -- Bargaining with energy-rich compounds -- Storing energy for later -- Breaking down catabolism -- Digesting glycolysis -- Stepping along with respiration and electron carriers -- Moving with the proton motive force -- Turning the citric acid cycle -- Stacking up with anabolism -- Creating amino acids and nucleic acids -- Making sugars and polysaccharides -- Putting together fatty acids and lipids -- 6. Getting the gist of microbial genetics -- Organizing genetic material -- DNA : the recipe for life -- Perfect plasmids -- DNA replication -- Assembling the cellular machinery -- Making messenger RNA -- Other types of RNA -- synthesizing protein -- DNA regulation -- Regulating protein function -- Changing the genetic code -- Slight adjustments -- Major rearrangements -- 7. Measuring microbial growth -- Getting growth requirements right -- Physical requirements -- Chemical requirements -- Culturing microbes in the lab -- Observing microbes -- Counting small things -- Seeing morphology -- Calculating cell division and population growth -- dividing cells -- Following growth phases -- Inhibiting microbial growth -- Physical methods -- Disinfectants --pt. III. Sorting out microbial diversity -- 8. Appreciating microbial ancestry -- Where did microbes come from? -- Tracing the origins of life -- Diversifying early prokaryotes -- The impact of prokaryotes on the early earth -- Hitching a ride : endosymbiosis -- Understanding evolution -- Studying evolution -- Choosing marker genes -- Seeing the direction of gene transfer in prokaryotes -- Classifying and naming microbes -- Climbing the tree of life -- 9. Harnessing energy, fixing carbon -- Forging ahead with autotrophic processes -- Fixing carbon -- Using the energy in light -- Harvesting light : chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls -- Helping photosynthesis out : carotenoids and phycobilins -- Generating oxygen (or not) : oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis -- Getting energy from the elements : chemolithotrophy -- Harnessing hydrogen -- Securing electrons from sulfur -- Pumping iron -- Oxidizing nitrate and ammonia -- 10. comparing respiration and fermentation -- Lifestyles of the rich and facultative -- Digging into respiration -- Spinning the citric acid cycle -- Stepping down the electron transport chain -- Respiring anaerobically -- Figuring out fermentation -- 11. Uncovering a variety of habitats -- Defining a habitat -- Understanding nutrient cycles -- Carbon cycling -- Nitrogen cycling -- Sulfur cycling -- Phosphorous cycles in the ocean -- Microbes socializing in communities -- Using quorum sensing to communication -- Living in biofilms -- Exploring microbial mats -- Discovering microbes in aquatic and terrestrial habitats -- Thriving in water -- Swarming soils -- Getting along with plants and animals -- Living with plants -- Living with animals -- Living with insects -- Living with ocean creatures -- Tolerating extreme locations -- Detecting microbes in unexpected places --pt. IV. Meeting the microbes -- 12. Meet the prokaryotes -- Getting to know the bacteria -- The gram-negative bacteria : proteobacteria -- More gram-negative bacteria -- The gram-positive bacteria -- Acquainting yourself with the archaea -- Scalding : extreme thermophiles -- Acidic : extreme acidophiles -- Salty : extreme halophiles -- Not terribly extreme archaea -- 13. Say hello to eukaryotes -- Fun with fungi -- Figuring out fungal physiology -- Itemizing fungal diversity -- Interacting with plant roots -- Ascomycetes -- MUshrooms : basidiomycetes -- Perusing the protists -- Making us sick : apicoplexans -- Making plants sick : oomycetes -- chasing amoeba and ciliates -- Encountering the algae -- 14. Examining the vastness of viruses -- Hijacking cells -- Frugal viral structure -- Simplifying viral function -- Making heads or tails of bacteriophage -- Lytic phage -- Temperate phage -- Transposable phage -- Discussing viruses of eukaryotes -- Infecting animal cells -- Following plant viruses -- How host cells fight back -- Restriction enzymes -- CRISPR -- Interfering with RNA viruses : RNAi --pt. V. Seeing the impact of microbes -- 15. Understanding microbes in human health and disease -- Clarifying the host immune response -- Putting up barriers to infection -- Inflammation -- Innate immunity -- Adaptive immunity -- Antibodies -- Relying on antimicrobials for treating disease -- Fundamental features of antibiotics -- Targets of destruction -- Unraveling microbial drug resistance -- Discovering new antibiotics -- Searching out superbugs -- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci -- Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus -- Clostridium difficile -- Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases -- Prebiotics and probiotics -- Antiviral drugs -- 16. Putting microbes to work : biotechnology -- Using recombinant DNA technology -- Making the insert -- Employing plasmids -- Restriction enzymes -- Getting microbes to take up DNA -- Using promoters to drive expression -- Expression vectors -- Folding proteins -- Metabolic load -- Long, multigene constructs -- Providing therapies -- Improving antibiotics -- Developing vaccines -- Using microbes industrially -- Protecting plants wit microbial insecticides -- Making biofuels -- Bioleaching metals -- Cleaning up with microbes -- 17. Fighting microbial diseases -- Protecting public health : epidemiology -- Tracking diseases -- Investigating outbreaks -- Identifying a microbial pathogen -- characterizing morphology -- Using biochemical tests -- Typing strains with phage -- Using serology -- Testing antibiotic susceptibility -- Understanding vaccines -- How vaccines work -- Ranking the types of vaccines --pt. VI. New frontiers in microbiology -- 18. Teasing apart communities -- Studying microbial communities -- Borrowing from ecology -- Seeing what sets microbial communities apart from plants and animals -- Observing communities : microbial ecology methods -- Selecting something special with enrichment -- Seeing cells through lenses -- Measuring microbial activity -- Identifying species using marker genes -- Getting the hang of microbial genetics and systematics -- Sequencing whole genomes -- Using metagenomics to study microbial communities -- Reading microbial transcriptomics -- Figuring out proteomics and metabolomics -- Looking for microbial dark matter -- 19. Synthesizing life -- Regulating genes : the lac operon -- Using a good natural system -- Improving a good system -- Designing genetic networks -- Switching from one state to another -- Oscillating between states -- Keeping signals short -- The synthetic biologist's toolbox -- Making it modular -- Participating in iGEM competition --pt. VII. The part of tens -- 20. Ten (or so) diseases caused by microbes -- Ebola -- Anthrax -- Influenza -- Tuberculosis -- HIV -- Cholera -- Smallpox -- Primary amoebic menigoencephalitis -- The unknown -- 21. Ten great uses for microbes -- Making delicious foods -- Growing legumes -- Brewing beer, liquor, and wine -- Killing insect pests -- Treating sewage -- Contributing to medicine -- Setting up your aquarium -- Making and breaking down biodegradable plastics -- Turning over compostable waste -- Maintaining a balance -- 22. Ten great uses for microbiology -- Medical care -- Dental care -- Veterinary care -- Monitoring the environment -- Making plants happy -- Keeping fish swimming strong -- Producing food, wine, and beer -- Science hacking -- Looking for microbes in clean rooms -- Producing pharmaceuticals.Does microbiology make your head spin? The authors make the subject accessible and fun, to help you grasp life at the cellular level. Whether you need to score big at exam time, or just want to satisfy your curiosity, this guide will help you discover the main types of microorganisms and the benefits of their microbial communities.--

Subjects: Microbiology;

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