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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298397203321

Titolo

The Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease / / edited by Dirk Haller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-90545-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 356 p. 59 illus., 57 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

612.32

Soggetti

Medical microbiology

Immunology

Bacteriology

Medical Microbiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The book provides an overview on how the gut microbiome contributes to human health. The readers will get profound knowledge on the connection between intestinal microbiota and immune defense systems. The tools of choice to study the ecology of these highly-specialized microorganism communities such as high-throughput sequencing and metagenomic mining will be presented. In addition the most common diseases associated to the composition of the gut flora are discussed in detail. The book will address researchers, clinicians and advanced students working in biomedicine, microbiology and immunology.