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Microbiology of Infectious Disease - Integrating Genomics with Natural History (Hardcover)
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Microbiology of Infectious Disease - Integrating Genomics with Natural History (Hardcover)
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Prior to the advent of rapid DNA sequencing in the late 90s,
students were taught in depth about the physiology and ecology of
microorganisms. There was a generally good understanding about the
biology of each organism and how it interacted with its
environment. Since then, the focus of research has shifted towards
an analysis of nucleic acid sequences to determine possible
cellular biochemistry or phylogeny. A microbial genome can now be
sequenced in a matter of hours, and with the help of a panoply of
software programmes the inner workings of the organism can be
probed in great detail. However, there is now so much detail that
the student or researcher tends to lose any sense of the underlying
biology of their study organism. Microbiology has almost become a
branch of molecular biology, with the biology getting lost in the
molecular detail. This novel text reverses that trend by cutting
through the molecular information overload and placing the new
sequence-derived information in the context of the natural history
of the organism in question. Each concise chapter has a fascinating
and different story to tell, focussing on one pathogen or group of
closely related pathogens and highlighting a particularly
interesting and/or unusual feature. The aim is to abstract the
relevant molecular and genomic information, and then to show how it
provides insights into the biology of the organism as a whole.
Microbiology of Infectious Disease is aimed at undergraduates,
graduates, and researchers in microbiology, microbial ecology,
disease ecology, and related areas. It is intended as a
supplemental text for students to provide them with a detailed
overview of the biology and natural history of the microorganisms
they will routinely encounter and the factors that influence their
pathogenicity and infectivity.
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