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| Preface | |
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| The bacteria: an introduction | |
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| What are bacteria? | |
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| Why study bacteria? | |
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| Classifying and naming bacteria | |
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| The bacterial cell | |
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| Shapes, sizes and arrangements of bacterial cells | |
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| The bacterial cell: a closer look | |
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| Trichomes and coenocytic bacteria | |
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| Growth and reproduction | |
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| Conditions for growth | |
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| Growth in a single cell | |
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| Growth in bacterial populations | |
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| Diauxic growth | |
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| Measuring growth | |
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| Differentiation | |
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| The life-cycle of Caulobacter | |
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| Swarming | |
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| Resting cells | |
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| Akinetes, heterocysts, hormogonia | |
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| Metabolism I: energy | |
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| Energy metabolism in chemotrophs | |
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| Energy metabolism in phototrophs | |
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| Other topics in energy metabolism | |
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| Transport systems | |
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| Metabolism II: carbon | |
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| Carbon assimilation in autotrophs | |
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| Carbon assimilation in heterotrophs | |
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| Synthesis, interconversion and polymerization of carbon compounds | |
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| Methylotrophy in bacteria | |
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| Molecular biology I: genes and gene expression | |
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| Chromosomes and plasmids | |
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| Nucleic acids: structure | |
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| DNA replication | |
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| DNA modification and restriction | |
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| RNA synthesis: transcription | |
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| Proteins: synthesis and other aspects | |
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| DNA monitoring and repair | |
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| Regulation of gene expression | |
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| RNA | |
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| Molecular biology II: changing the message | |
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| Mutation | |
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| Recombination | |
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| Transposition | |
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| Gene transfer | |
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| Genetic engineering/recombinant DNA technology | |
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| Bacteriophages | |
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| Virulent phages: the lytic cycle | |
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| Temperate phages: lysogeny | |
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| Androphages | |
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| Phage conversion | |
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| Transduction | |
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| How does phage DNA escape restriction in the host bacterium? | |
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| Bacteria in the living world | |
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| Microbial communities | |
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| Saprotrophs, predators, parasites, symbionts | |
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| Bacteria and the cycles of matter | |
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| Ice-nucleation bacteria | |
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| Bacteriology in situ - fact or fiction? | |
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| The greenhouse effect | |
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| Recombinant bacteria in the environment | |
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| Uncultivable/uncultured bacteria | |
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| Bacteria in medicine | |
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| Bacteria as pathogens | |
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| The routes of infection | |
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| Pathogenesis | |
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| The body's defences | |
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| The pathogen: virulence factors | |
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| Pathogen-host interactions: a new perspective | |
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| The transmission of disease | |
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| Laboratory detection and characterization of pathogens | |
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| Prevention and control of bacterial diseases | |
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| Notes on chemotherapy; phage therapy; biologicals | |
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| Some bacterial diseases | |
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| Applied bacteriology I: food | |
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| Bacteria in the food industry | |
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| Food preservation | |
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| Food poisoning and food hygiene | |
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| Applied bacteriology II: miscellaneous aspects | |
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| Feeding animals, protecting plants | |
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| Biomining (bioleaching) | |
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| Biological washing powders | |
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| Sewage treatment | |
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| Water supplies | |
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| Putting pathogens to work | |
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| Plastics from bacteria: 'Biopol' | |
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| Bioremediation | |
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| Biomimetic technology | |
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| Some practical bacteriology | |
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| Safety in the laboratory | |
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| Bacteriological media | |
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| Aseptic technique | |
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| The tools of the bacteriologist | |
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| Methods of inoculation | |
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| Preparing a pure culture from a mixture of organisms | |
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| Anaerobic incubation | |
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| Counting bacteria | |
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| Staining | |
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| Microscopy | |
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| Man against bacteria | |
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| Sterilization | |
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| Disinfection | |
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| Antisepsis | |
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| Antibiotics | |
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| The identification and classification of bacteria | |
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| Identification | |
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| Classification (taxonomy) of prokaryotes | |
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| Minidescriptions of some genera, families, orders and other categories of bacteria | |
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| Index | |