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The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Advances in Environmental Microbiology, 3
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This volume focuses on those instances when benign and even
beneficial relationships between microbes and their hosts
opportunistically change and become detrimental toward the host. It
examines the triggering events which can factor into these changes,
such as reduction in the host's capacity for mounting an effective
defensive response due to nutritional deprivation, coinfections and
seemingly subtle environmental influences like the amounts of
sunlight, temperature, and either water or air quality. The effects
of environmental changes can be compounded when they necessitate a
physical relocation of species, in turn changing the probability of
encounter between microbe and host. The change also can result when
pathogens, including virus species, either have modified the
opportunist or attacked the host's protective natural microflora.
The authors discuss these opportunistic interactions and assess
their outcomes in both aquatic as well as terrestrial ecosystems,
highlighting the impact on plant, invertebrate and vertebrate
hosts.
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