| Autore |
Hogg Stuart
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| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2013
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (527 pages)
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| Disciplina |
579
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| Soggetto topico |
Microbiological Phenomena
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781118527252
9781119978909
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Essential Microbiology -- Contents -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- Acknowledgements -- About the Companion Website -- I Introduction -- 1 Microbiology: What, Why and How? -- 1.1 What is microbiology? -- 1.2 Why is microbiology important? -- 1.3 How do we know? Microbiology in perspective: to the Golden Age and beyond -- 1.4 Light microscopy -- 1.5 Electron microscopy -- 2 Biochemical Principles -- 2.1 Atomic structure -- 2.1.1 Isotopes -- 2.1.2 Chemical bonds -- 2.2 Acids, bases and pH -- 2.3 Biomacromolecules -- 2.3.1 Carbohydrates -- 2.3.2 Proteins -- 2.3.3 Higher levels of protein structure -- 2.3.4 Nucleic acids -- 2.3.5 Lipids -- 3 Cell Structure and Organisation -- 3.1 The prokaryotic cell -- 3.1.1 Prokaryotic cell structure -- 3.1.2 Genetic material -- 3.1.3 Ribosomes -- 3.1.4 Inclusion bodies -- 3.1.5 Endospores -- 3.1.6 The plasma membrane -- 3.1.7 The bacterial cell wall -- 3.1.8 Beyond the cell wall -- 3.2 The eukaryotic cell -- 3.2.1 The nucleus -- 3.2.2 Endoplasmic reticulum -- 3.2.3 Golgi apparatus -- 3.2.4 Lysosomes -- 3.2.5 Mitochondria -- 3.2.6 Chloroplasts -- 3.2.7 Vacuoles -- 3.2.8 Plasma membrane -- 3.2.9 Cell wall -- 3.2.10 Flagella and cilia -- 3.3 Cell division in prokaryotes and eukaryotes -- II Microbial Nutrition, Growth and Metabolism -- 4 Microbial Nutrition and Cultivation -- 4.1 Nutritional categories -- 4.2 How do nutrients get into the microbial cell? -- 4.3 Laboratory cultivation of microorganisms -- 4.3.1 Obtaining a pure culture -- 4.3.2 Growth media for the cultivation of bacteria -- 4.3.3 Preservation of microbial cultures -- 5 Microbial Growth -- 5.1 Estimation of microbial numbers -- 5.2 Factors affecting microbial growth -- 5.2.1 Temperature -- 5.2.2 pH -- 5.2.3 Oxygen -- 5.2.4 Carbon dioxide -- 5.2.5 Osmotic pressure -- 5.2.6 Light.
5.3 The kinetics of microbial growth -- 5.3.1 Lag phase -- 5.3.2 Log (exponential) phase -- 5.3.3 Stationary phase -- 5.3.4 Death phase -- 5.3.5 Batch culture and continuous culture -- 5.4 Growth in multicellular microorganisms -- 6 Microbial Metabolism -- 6.1 Why is energy needed? -- 6.2 Enzymes -- 6.2.1 Enzyme classification -- 6.2.2 Certain enzymes have a non-protein component -- 6.2.3 How do enzymes speed up a reaction? -- 6.2.4 Environmental factors affect enzyme activity -- 6.3 Principles of energy generation -- 6.3.1 Oxidation-reduction reactions -- 6.3.2 Why glucose? -- 6.3.3 Glycolysis -- 6.3.4 Glycolysis is not the only way to metabolise glucose -- 6.3.5 Aerobic respiration -- 6.3.6 Oxidative phosphorylation and the electron transport chain -- 6.3.7 Fermentation -- 6.3.8 Other types of fermentation -- 6.3.9 Metabolism of lipids and proteins -- 6.3.10 Anaerobic respiration -- 6.3.11 Energy may be generated by the oxidation of inorganic molecules -- 6.4 Photosynthesis -- 6.4.1 Oxygenic photosynthesis -- 6.4.2 Where does photosynthesis take place? -- 6.4.3 'Light' reactions -- 6.4.4 'Dark' reactions -- 6.4.5 Anoxygenic photosynthesis -- 6.5 Anabolic reactions -- 6.5.1 Biosynthesis of carbohydrates -- 6.5.2 Biosynthesis of lipids -- 6.5.3 Biosynthesis of nucleic acids -- 6.5.4 Biosynthesis of amino acids -- 6.6 The regulation of metabolism -- III Microbial Diversity -- 7 Prokaryote Diversity -- 7.1 Domain: Archaea -- 7.1.1 General features of the Archaea -- 7.1.2 Classification of the Archaea -- 7.2 Domain: Bacteria -- 7.2.1 Phylum: Proteobacteria -- 7.2.2 Other Gram-negative phyla -- 7.2.3 The Gram-positive bacteria: phyla Actinobacteria, Firmicutes and Tenericutes -- 8 The Fungi -- 8.1 General biology of the fungi -- 8.1.1 Morphology -- 8.1.2 Nutrition -- 8.1.3 Reproduction -- 8.2 Classification of the Fungi -- 8.2.1 Phylum Ascomycota.
8.2.2 Phylum Basidiomycota -- 8.2.3 Phylum Microsporidia -- 8.2.4 Phylum Chytridiomycota -- 8.2.5 Phylum Blastocladiomycota and phylum Neocallimastigomycota -- 8.2.6 Phylum Glomeromycota -- 8.2.7 Subphyla incertae sedis -- 9 The Protista -- 9.1 The 'algae' -- 9.1.1 Structural characteristics of algal protists -- 9.1.2 Euglenophyta -- 9.1.3 Dinoflagellata -- 9.1.4 Diatoms -- 9.1.5 Chlorophyta -- 9.1.6 Phaeophyta -- 9.1.7 Rhodophyta -- 9.2 The 'protozoa' -- 9.2.1 The zooflagellates (Mastigophora) -- 9.2.2 The amoebas (Sarcodina) -- 9.2.3 Amoebas with external shells: Foraminifera and Radiolaria -- 9.2.4 The ciliates (Ciliophora) -- 9.2.5 The Sporozoans (Apicomplexa) -- 9.3 The slime moulds and water moulds (the fungus-like protists) -- 9.3.1 Oomycota (water moulds) -- 9.3.2 Myxogastrida (Myxomycota, the plasmodial slime moulds) -- 9.3.3 Dictyostelida (cellular slime moulds) -- 9.4 Protistan taxonomy: a modern view -- 10 Viruses -- 10.1 What are viruses? -- 10.2 Viral structure -- 10.2.1 The viral genome -- 10.2.2 Capsid structure -- 10.2.3 The viral envelope -- 10.3 Classification of viruses -- 10.4 Viral replication cycles -- 10.4.1 Replication cycles in bacteriophages -- 10.4.2 Lysogenic replication cycle -- 10.4.3 Replication cycles in animal viruses -- 10.4.4 Replication of RNA viruses -- 10.4.5 Replication cycles in plant viruses -- 10.5 Viroids -- 10.6 Prions -- 10.7 Cultivating viruses -- IV Microbial Genetics -- 11 Microbial Genetics -- 11.1 How do we know genes are made of DNA? -- 11.2 DNA replication -- 11.2.1 DNA replication in prokaryotes -- 11.2.2 What happens when replication goes wrong? -- 11.2.3 DNA replication in eukaryotes -- 11.3 What exactly do genes do? -- 11.3.1 How does a gene direct the synthesis of a protein? -- 11.3.2 The genetic code -- 11.3.3 Transcription in prokaryotes -- 11.3.4 Translation.
11.4 Regulation of gene expression -- 11.4.1 Induction of gene expression -- 11.4.2 Repression of gene expression -- 11.4.3 Global gene regulation -- 11.5 The molecular basis of mutations -- 11.5.1 How do mutations occur? -- 11.5.2 Mutations can add or remove nucleotides -- 11.5.3 Mutations can be reversed -- 11.5.4 Mutations have a variety of mechanisms -- 11.5.5 Mutations also occur in viruses -- 11.5.6 Mutagenic agents increase the rate of mutations -- 11.5.7 DNA damage can be repaired -- 11.5.8 Carcinogenicity testing: the Ames test -- 11.6 Genetic transfer in microorganisms -- 11.6.1 Transformation -- 11.6.2 How does transformation occur? -- 11.6.3 Induced competence -- 11.6.4 Conjugation -- 11.6.5 Gene transfer in conjugation is one way only -- 11.6.6 Transduction -- 11.6.7 Transposable elements -- 12 Microorganisms in Genetic Engineering -- 12.1 Plasmid cloning vectors -- 12.2 Bacteriophages as cloning vectors -- 12.3 YACs, BACs and PACs -- 12.4 Expression vectors -- 12.5 Eukaryotic cloning vectors -- 12.6 Viruses as vectors in eukaryotic systems -- 12.7 Cloning vectors for higher plants -- 12.8 Applications of gene cloning in the microbial world -- 12.9 DNA microarrays -- 12.10 Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- V Microorganisms in the Environment -- 13 Microbial Associations -- 13.1 Microbial associations with animals -- 13.2 Microbial associations with plants -- 13.2.1 Plant diseases -- 13.3 Microbial associations with other microorganisms -- 14 Microorganisms in the Environment -- 14.1 The carbon cycle -- 14.2 The nitrogen cycle -- 14.3 The sulphur cycle -- 14.4 The microbiology of soil -- 14.5 The microbiology of freshwater -- 14.6 The microbiology of seawater -- 14.7 Detection and isolation of microorganisms in the environment -- 14.8 Beneficial effects of microorganisms in the environment.
14.8.1 Solid waste treatment: composting and landfill -- 14.8.2 Wastewater treatment -- 14.8.3 Bioremediation -- 14.9 Harmful effects of microorganisms in the environment -- VI Medical Microbiology -- 15 Human Microbial Diseases -- 15.1 Transmission -- 15.2 Attachment and colonisation -- 15.2.1 Skin -- 15.2.2 Mucous membranes -- 15.2.3 How do pathogens penetrate the mucosa? -- 15.3 Bacterial toxins -- 15.3.1 Exotoxins -- 15.3.2 Endotoxins -- 15.3.3 Superantigens -- 15.3.4 Siderophores -- 15.4 Bacterial diseases in humans -- 15.4.1 Waterborne transmission: cholera -- 15.4.2 Airborne transmission: 'strep' throat -- 15.4.3 Contact transmission: syphilis -- 15.4.4 Vector-borne transmission: plague -- 15.5 Viral diseases in humans -- 15.5.1 Airborne transmission: influenza -- 15.5.2 Transmission by water or food: viral gastroenteritis -- 15.5.3 Vector-borne transmission -- 15.5.4 Latent and slow (persistent) viral infections -- 15.5.5 Viruses and cancer -- 15.5.6 Emerging and re-emerging viral diseases -- 15.5.7 Virus vaccines -- 15.6 Protists and disease -- 15.6.1 Malaria -- 15.6.2 Toxoplasmosis -- 15.6.3 Cryptosporidiosis -- 15.6.4 Leishmaniasis -- 15.6.5 Amoebic dysentery -- 15.7 Fungal diseases in humans -- 15.8 Algal diseases of humans -- 16 The Control of Microorganisms -- 16.1 Sterilisation -- 16.1.1 Sterilisation by irradiation -- 16.1.2 Filtration -- 16.1.3 Sterilisation using ethylene oxide -- 16.2 Disinfection -- 16.2.1 Alcohols -- 16.2.2 Halogens -- 16.2.3 Phenolics -- 16.2.4 Surfactants -- 16.3 The kinetics of cell death -- 16.3.1 Killing by irradiation -- 17 Antimicrobial Agents -- 17.1 Antibiotics -- 17.1.1 What other properties should an antibiotic have? -- 17.1.2 How do antibiotics work? -- 17.1.3 I: Inhibitors of cell wall synthesis -- 17.1.4 II: Antibiotics that disrupt cell membranes -- 17.1.5 III: Inhibitors of protein synthesis.
17.1.6 IV: Inhibitors of nucleic acid synthesis.
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