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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Microbiology: What, Why and How? | |
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| What is microbiology? | |
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| Why is microbiology important? | |
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| How do we know? Microbiology in perspective: to the golden age and beyond | |
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| Light microscopy | |
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| Electron microscopy | |
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| Biochemical Principles | |
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| Atomic structure | |
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| Acids, bases and pH | |
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| Biomacromolecules | |
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| Cell Structure and Organization | |
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| The procaryotic cell | |
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| The eucaryotic cell | |
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| Cell division in procaryotes and eucaryotes | |
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| Microbial Nutrition, Growth and Metabolism | |
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| Microbial Nutrition and Cultivation | |
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| Nutritional categories | |
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| How do nutrients get into the microbial cell? | |
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| Laboratory cultivation of microorganisms | |
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| Microbial Growth | |
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| Estimation of microbial numbers | |
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| Factors affecting microbial growth | |
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| The kinetics of microbial growth | |
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| Growth in multicellular microorganisms | |
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| Microbial Metabolism | |
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| Why is energy needed? | |
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| Enzymes | |
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| Principles of energy generation | |
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| Anabolic reactions | |
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| The regulation of metabolism | |
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| Microbial Diversity, a Few Words About Classification | |
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| Procaryotic Diversity | |
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| Domain: Archaea | |
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| Domain: Bacteria | |
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| Bacteria and human disease | |
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| The Fungi | |
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| General biology of the Fungi | |
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| Classification of the Fungi | |
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| Fungi and disease | |
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| The Protista | |
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| 'The Algae' | |
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| 'The Protozoa' | |
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| The slime moulds and water moulds (the fungus-like protists) | |
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| Protistan taxonomy: a modern view | |
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| The Viruses | |
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| What are viruses? | |
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| Viral structure | |
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| Classification of viruses | |
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| Viral replication cycles | |
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| Viroids | |
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| Prions | |
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| Cultivating viruses | |
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| Viral diseases in humans | |
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| Microbial Genetics | |
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| Microbial Genetics | |
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| How do we know genes are made of DNA? | |
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| DNA replication | |
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| What exactly do genes do? | |
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| Regulation of gene expression | |
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| The molecular basis of mutations | |
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| Genetic transfer in microorganisms | |
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| Microorganisms in Genetic Engineering | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Plasmid cloning vectors | |
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| Bacteriophages as cloning vectors | |
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| Expression vectors | |
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| Eucaryotic cloning vectors | |
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| Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) | |
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| Control of Microorganisms | |
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| Control of Microorganisms | |
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| Sterilization | |
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| Disinfection | |
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| The kinetics of cell death | |
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| Antimicrobial Agents | |
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| Antibiotics | |
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| Resistance to antibiotics | |
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| Antibiotic susceptibility testing | |
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| Antifungal and antiviral agents | |
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| The future | |
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| Microorganisms in the Environment | |
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| Microbial Associations | |
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| Microbial associations with animals | |
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| Microbial associations with plants | |
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| Microbial associations with other microorganisms | |
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| Microorganisms in the Environment | |
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| The carbon cycle | |
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| The nitrogen cycle | |
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| The sulphur cycle | |
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| Phosphorus | |
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| The microbiology of soil | |
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| The microbiology of freshwater | |
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| The microbiology of seawater | |
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| Detection and iso | |