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9781592574988

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microbiology

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    9781592574988

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    159257498X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-11-07
  • Publisher: Alpha Books

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Microbiology is the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans and is a key part of the curriculum in all aspects of medical training. This book is a 101 microbiology course prepared by a top professor of microbiology and an experienced popular science writer. The many students who are dreading this component of their medical training, professionals who would like to bone up on the subject, and laypersons who would just like to know about the subject will all find this book a clear and easy-to-understand introduction to the subject.In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microbiology, readers find: bull;What microbes are, what they do, and what they have in common, as well as a little about the genetic studies of them bull;Microbes and their relation to the immune system bull;Microbes and infectious diseases bull;The role of microbiology in biotechnology and bioterrorism

Table of Contents

Part 1: Microbes and Microbiology
1(48)
A Little about the Tiniest Life-Forms: Microbes and Microbiology
3(10)
So What Is Microbiology?
4(1)
So What Are Microbes?
4(4)
The Dominant Life-Forms on Earth ... Really
5(2)
Microbes and Disease
7(1)
Microbes and Science
7(1)
Types of Microbes
8(2)
Eukaryotes
8(1)
Prokaryotes
9(1)
Evolution of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
9(1)
Viruses and Prions: None of the Above
10(1)
How Microbes Live
10(1)
Microbes and Human Life
10(3)
Microbes 101: The Two Prokaryotes: Bacteria and Archaea
13(12)
Bacteria Basics
14(8)
Life Begins with Bacteria
15(1)
Pigeonholing Bacteria
15(2)
Bacterial Living
17(2)
All Together Now
19(1)
Bad Guys, Good Guys
20(2)
Archaea, the New Kids on the Block
22(3)
Many Archaea Are Extreme Sports, But Not All
23(1)
Little is Known About the Archaea
23(2)
Microbes 101, Continued: The Three Eukaryotes
25(14)
Birth of a Eukaryotic Cell
25(1)
Introducing Protozoa
26(4)
The Protozoan Lifestyle
27(2)
Protozoa and Disease
29(1)
Algae, Not Just Green Slime and Red Tide
30(4)
Algae Are Plantlike Because Most Depend on Photosynthesis
30(1)
Types of Algae
31(1)
Algae Are a Foundation of the Marine Food Chain
32(1)
The Bad News About Algae
33(1)
The Fungus Among Us
34(5)
100,000+ Species, but Only a Few Are Harmful
35(1)
Fungi Are Master Recyclers
35(1)
Fungal Lifestyles
36(3)
Viruses and Prions: Are They Alive?
39(10)
Viruses, the Skilled Hijackers
39(7)
Discovery of Viruses
40(2)
Where Did Viruses Come From?
42(1)
Viral Diseases
42(1)
Smallpox Success Story
43(1)
Some Viruses Prey on Bacteria
43(1)
Phages as Weapons Against Disease
44(1)
Some Viruses Prey on Eukaryotes
45(1)
Prions, Cannibals, and Mad Cows
46(3)
Prions Fold Other Proteins into Abnormal Shapes
47(2)
Part 2: How Microbes Make a Living
49(54)
The Molecules of Life
51(12)
A Brief Romp Through the Chemistry of Life
52(2)
Linking It All Together with Chemical Bonds
52(1)
Getting Our Feet Wet
53(1)
The Organic Molecules in All of Us
54(9)
Sweet Talk About Carbohydrates
55(1)
Lipids: Fat City
56(1)
The Big and Important Proteins
56(2)
Nucleic Acids: DNA and RNA
58(5)
A Little About Microbial Genetics and Genomics
63(18)
Genetic Basics
64(3)
What Are Genes?
64(1)
What Do Genes Do?
65(1)
How Do Genes Work?
66(1)
So How Does DNA Make Proteins?
67(6)
Genes Do the Two-Step
67(1)
Transcribing Transcription
68(1)
Translating Translation
69(1)
Differences Between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
70(1)
Don't Call It Junk
71(1)
Transposons
72(1)
Gene Sequencing: The Alphabet of Life
73(3)
Why Sequence Microbe Genomes?
73(2)
Dazzling Diversity
75(1)
Genetic Engineering of Microbes
76(1)
Genetic Engineering with Microbes
76(3)
Gene Therapy for People
76(2)
Designer Genes and Making Organisms to Order
78(1)
Genetic Engineering Controversies
79(2)
Cell Structure and Cell Structures
81(12)
Cells and Cell Structure
82(3)
What Microbial Cells Have in Common
82(2)
Membranes and Walls
84(1)
How Many Cells Make a Microbe?
84(1)
Bacterial Cell Walls and Membranes
85(4)
Bacterial Cell Walls and Osmosis
85(1)
Why Peptidoglycan Matters
85(2)
Bacterial Cell Membranes
87(2)
Archaeal Cell Walls and Membranes
89(1)
Eukaryote Cells
90(3)
Eukaryote Cell Walls
90(1)
Eukaryotes Without Cell Walls
91(2)
Microbial Lifestyles
93(10)
Microbes Are What They Eat
93(2)
Eat or Be Eaten
94(1)
How Do Microbes Eat?
94(1)
How to Grow Microbes
95(2)
Temperature
95(1)
pH: The Basics of Acid and Alkaline
96(1)
Oxygen, or None
96(1)
The Sex Lives, or Lack Thereof, of Microbes
97(6)
Reproduction Without Sex---Let's Split
97(1)
Fission and the Bacterial Growth Curve
97(2)
Swapping Genes Without Sex
99(2)
Coming Together
101(2)
Part 3: Life on Earth--and on Man, Woman, and Child
103(68)
The Social Life of Microbes
105(14)
Symbiosis and Endosymbiosis: Living Together
106(1)
The Feeling is Mutual
106(3)
Biofilm: Studying Slime
106(2)
Quorum Sensing: Communication, Coordination, and Competition
108(1)
More Mutualism
109(3)
Rhizobia: Bugs in the Beans
109(1)
Ruminating on Mutualism in Animals
110(1)
Commensalism: Is It Real?
111(1)
Parasites: The Unwanted Dinner Guest
112(2)
The Astonishing Origin of Organelles
114(5)
The Energy Organelles: Mitochondria and Plastids
115(2)
Secondary Endosymbiosis
117(1)
The Origin of the Endosymbiotic Theory of Organelle Origins
118(1)
The Immune System: Life in the Combat Zone
119(12)
The Struggle Against Disease
120(1)
The Innate Immune System
121(3)
Barrier Methods
121(1)
Calling On Defenders
122(2)
The Adaptive (Acquired) Immune System
124(4)
Lymphocytes
125(1)
Cell-Mediated Immunity
126(1)
Humoral Immunity and Antibodies
126(2)
The Immune System's Memory
128(1)
Immune System Development
129(1)
Diseases of the Immune System
129(2)
Dodging Disease by Preventing Pathogens
131(14)
Staying Away from Pathogens
131(1)
Getting Rid of Microbes---or at Least Keeping Them in Check
132(1)
Sterilization
133(4)
Sterilization with Heat
134(1)
Sterilization with Radiation
135(1)
Sterilization with Chemicals
136(1)
Sterilization with Filters
137(1)
Disinfectants
137(2)
Alcohol
138(1)
Hydrogen Peroxide
138(1)
Surfactants
138(1)
Heavy Metals
138(1)
Phenol and Phenolics
139(1)
Have We Made the World Too Clean?
139(1)
Antiseptics
139(1)
Vaccines: Preventing Infectious Diseases
140(3)
The Vaccine Success Story
141(1)
Herd Immunity and the MMR Vaccine
142(1)
Other Immunological Approaches to Pathogen Prevention
143(2)
Dealing with Disease
145(12)
Antibiotics: Weapons from the Microbe Wars
145(4)
Antibiotics from Molds: Penicillin and Friends
146(1)
Antibiotics from Man: Sulfa Drugs
147(1)
Antibiotics from Bugs: The Mycins and Tetracyclines
147(1)
Combining Forces
148(1)
Potential Harms from Antibiotics
148(1)
Therapies for Nonbacterial Diseases
149(1)
Antiviral Drugs
149(1)
Antifungal Drugs
150(1)
Resistance Is Not, Apparently, Futile
150(5)
You Can't Keep Them Down on the Farm
152(1)
Immersion in MRSA
153(1)
The Difficult Clostridium
153(1)
What Should We Do About Antibiotic Resistance?
154(1)
How to Find New Antibiotics---and Why
155(2)
Life on Man, Woman, and Child
157(14)
Normal Human Flora
158(1)
A Gut Feeling About Microbes
158(5)
The Stanford Project
160(1)
Meanwhile, In the Stomach
161(1)
The Rest of the Tract
162(1)
The Straight Poop About Farting
163(1)
Microbes on Skin
163(3)
Propionibacterium
164(1)
Herpesvirus
164(2)
The Eyes
166(1)
Big Mouth
166(3)
Caring About Caries
167(1)
Gum Disease: Plenty of Periodontitis
168(1)
Bad Breath: Halitosis
168(1)
The Future of Dental Biofilm
169(1)
Airing Out the Respiratory Tract
169(1)
Urogenital Tract
170(1)
Part 4: The Infectious Diseases
171(80)
Vicious Viruses: Viral Diseases
173(24)
Viruses and Disease
174(1)
Picornaviruses: Colds and More
175(2)
Rhinoviruses
175(1)
Enteroviruses
176(1)
Hepatovirus and Other Hepatitis Viruses
177(3)
Hepatitis A
177(1)
Hepatitis B
178(1)
Hepatitis C
179(1)
Hepatitis D and E
179(1)
Insect-Borne Viruses and Kin: Togaviruses and Flaviviruses
180(4)
Dengue
181(1)
Yellow Fever
182(1)
West Nile Virus
182(1)
Rubella
183(1)
Bunyaviruses: More Arboviruses Plus Hantavirus
183(1)
Arenaviruses and Rodents
183(1)
Another Vector-Borne Disease: Rabies
184(1)
Influenza Viruses, Old and New
184(1)
More Viruses That Cause Colds and Flu-like Illnesses
185(3)
Paramyxoviruses
186(1)
Coronaviruses and SARS
186(1)
Adenovirus: A Research Tool Causes Many Diseases
187(1)
Parvoviruses Need Help
187(1)
``Stomach Flu'': Not Flu at All
188(2)
Rotavirus: the Most Important Virus You Never Heard Of
188(2)
Norwalk Virus, a.k.a. Norovirus
190(1)
Retroviruses, HIV, and Deadly AIDS
190(3)
Endogenous Retroviruses
190(1)
Exogenous Retroviruses, Especially HIV
191(2)
More Cancer-Causing Viruses
193(2)
Papillomaviruses
193(1)
Herpesvirus
193(2)
Poxviruses: A Pox Upon Them
195(2)
Bacterial Diseases
197(18)
Bacterial Pathogens and Their Hosts
197(18)
Staphylococcus: MRSA and More
199(2)
Streptococcus: Commensals and Pathogens
201(1)
Neisseria: Gonorrhea and Meningitis
202(2)
Bacillus: Anthrax
204(1)
Infections from Our Normal Anaerobic Flora
205(1)
Clostridium: Gangrene, Tetanus, and Botulism
206(1)
Mycoplasma
207(1)
Pseudomonas: Friend and Sometimes Opportunist
207(1)
Brucella: Mostly Animal Diseases
208(1)
Yersinia pestis: Plague
208(1)
Haemophilus: Meningitis and Deafness
209(1)
Bordetella: Whooping Cough
210(1)
Corynebacterium diptheriae: Diptheria
210(1)
Mycobacterium: Tuberculosis and Leprosy
210(1)
Chlamydia: STD and Blindness
211(1)
Treponema: Syphilis
212(1)
Other Spirochaetes
213(1)
Legionella: Legionnaires' Disease
213(1)
Rickettsiae: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
213(2)
Pathological Protozoa and Fearsome Fungi: Eukaryote Microbial Pathogens
215(18)
Protozoa and Human Disease
215(1)
Protozoan Diseases: Malaria
216(3)
Malaria: The Basics
216(1)
Malaria and the Immune System
217(2)
Preventing and Curing Malaria
219(1)
Protozoan Diseases: Gastroenteritis, a.k.a. Diarrheal Disorders
219(2)
Entamoeba histolytica
220(1)
Giardia lamblia
221(1)
Cryptosporidium
221(1)
Protozoan Diseases: Trichomonas vaginalis
221(1)
Protozoan Diseases: More Ailments Carried by Insects
222(3)
Trypanosoma cruzi
222(1)
Trypanosoma brucei
223(1)
Leishmania
224(1)
Protozoan Diseases: Toxoplasma gondii
225(1)
The Parasitical Puppeteers: Can Parasites Control Your Behavior?
225(1)
Fungi and Disease
226(5)
Fungal Diseases: Pneumocystis jiroveci, formerly P. carinii
227(1)
Fungal Diseases: Candida and Candidiasis
227(2)
Fungal Diseases: Allergies, Asthma, and Mycotoxins
229(1)
Fungal Diseases: Ringworm and Other Dermafflictions
229(1)
Fungal Diseases: Aspergillosis
230(1)
Fungal Diseases: Blastomycosis
230(1)
A Few Other Fungal Diseases
231(1)
Algal Diseases
231(2)
Food Diseases and Emerging Diseases
233(18)
Foodborne Disease and Food Poisoning
234(4)
Campylobacter
235(1)
Salmonella
236(1)
Escherichia coli
236(1)
Shigella
237(1)
Clostridium and Botulism
238(1)
This Food Is Rotten
238(2)
Food Preservation
240(1)
Plants and Animals Get Diseases, Too
241(2)
Plant Pathogens
241(1)
Animal Pathogens: The Challenges
242(1)
The Emergence of Emerging Diseases
243(4)
Some Emerging Diseases
244(1)
Ebola and Marburg Hemorrhagic Fevers
245(2)
Chronic Diseases as Emerging Diseases
247(4)
Microbes and Chronic Disease
247(1)
Microbes and Cardiovascular Disease
248(3)
Part 5: More Life on Earth, and Under It, Too
251(64)
Microbes on (and in) the Earth
253(12)
The Water of Life
253(3)
Microbes Go To Sea
254(1)
Plankton, Viruses, and Sediment
255(1)
Fresh Water
256(1)
Sewage, Water, and Pollution
256(3)
Water Treatment: To You, It's Poo, but Microbes Think It's Yummy
257(2)
Toward Clean Water
259(1)
The Community of Soil
259(6)
Soil: Don't Call It Dirt!
259(1)
Meet the Soil Microbes
260(2)
Biological Soil Crusts
262(1)
Where the Soil Microbes Live
262(1)
Compost: Fine Dining for Microbes
263(2)
Microbes Go to Work--and to War
265(14)
Biotechnology: Making Microbes Work
265(8)
Fermentation: Your Basic Biotech
266(2)
``Green'' Biotech: Agriculture
268(2)
``Red'' Biotech: Medicine
270(1)
``White'' Biotech: Industry
270(2)
The Biotech Controversies
272(1)
A Different Kind of Warfare: Bioterror and Biowar
273(6)
Bioweapons, Past and Future
274(1)
What Microbes Make Good Weapons?
275(4)
Microbiology in the Twenty-First Century
279(36)
The Future of Microbiology
280(1)
New Technologies, New Microbes
280(1)
Probiotics: Edible Germs
281(2)
CSI: Microbial Forensics
283(1)
Bolstering the Immune Response
283(3)
Passive Immunity
284(1)
Active Immunity: Vaccines
285(1)
Edible Vaccines
285(1)
Virtual Microbial Cells
286(1)
Custom-Made Microbes via Synthetic Biology
286(1)
Microbiology as a Career
287(2)
Appendixes
A Glossary of Terms
289(16)
B How to Handle Microbes
305(4)
C How to Grow Microbes
309(4)
D Resources
313(2)
Index 315

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