The New Microbiology : From Microbiomes to CRISPR.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PART I: New Concepts in Microbiology -- CHAPTER 1. Bacteria: Many Friends, Few Enemies -- CHAPTER 2. Bacteria: Highly Organized Unicellular Organisms -- CHAPTER 3. The RNA Revolution -- CHAPTER 4. From the CRISPR Defense System to the CRISPR/Cas9 Method for Modifying Genomes -- CHAPTER 5. Antibiotic Resistance -- The discovery of antibiotics -- Sulfonamides enter the game -- Mode of action of antibiotics -- Antibiotics in animals -- From the first cases of resistance to a global panic -- Potential solutions and hopes -- Phage therapy -- Bdellovibrio: why not? -- PART II: Sociomicrobiology: The Social Lives of Bacteria -- CHAPTER 6. Biofilms: When Bacteria Gather Together -- CHAPTER 7. How Bacteria Communicate: Chemical Language and Quorum Sensing -- CHAPTER 8. When Bacteria Kill Each Other -- Contact-dependent inhibition of growth -- Type VI secretion: attack and counterattack -- CHAPTER 9. Human-Animal Symbioses: The Microbiotas -- The paradigm of Euprymna scolopes and Vibrio fischeri -- The intestinal microbiota -- Products of the intestinal microbiota -- Evolution of the intestinal microbiota over a lifetime -- Obesity and metabolism -- Microbiota and the immune system -- Microbiota, pathogenic bacteria, and dysbiosis -- Dysbiosis and fecal transplants -- Microbiota and the human diet -- Microbiota and circadian rhythms -- Skin microbiota -- Vaginal microbiota -- Intestinal microbiota of termites -- Composition of microbiotas: signaling molecules and quorum sensing -- Longevity and microbiota -- CHAPTER 10. Bacterium-Plant Symbioses: Microbiotas of Plants -- Microbes and roots: the underground -- Nitrogen fixation: an example of facultative symbiosis -- Bacterial communities and the phyllosphere -- Bacteria and plant growth.

CHAPTER 11. Endosymbiotic Relationships -- A close-knit couple: the pea aphid and Buchnera bacterium -- Other insects and other symbioses -- When bacteria control fertility -- Bacteria and worms -- Bacteria in cell nuclei and mitochondria -- PART III: The Biology of Infections -- CHAPTER 12. Pathogenic Bacteria, Major Scourges, and New Diseases -- The great scourges of humanity -- Plague and other yersinioses -- Leprosy and Mycobacterium leprae -- Tuberculosis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis -- Childhood diseases -- Pertussis and Bordetella pertussis -- Tetanus and Clostridium tetani -- Streptococci -- Haemophilus influenzae -- Meningococci and meningitis -- Listeriosis and Listeria -- Intestinal infections -- Cholera and Vibrio cholerae -- Salmonellae: gastroenteritis and typhoid fever -- Escherichia coli and other coliform bacilli -- Health care-related infections -- Enterococci -- Staphylococci -- Pseudomonas: burns and cystic fibrosis -- Klebsiella species -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Gonorrhea and Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Chlamydia trachomatis -- Diseases of armies -- Agents of bioterrorism -- Bacillus anthracis -- New diseases -- Helicobacter pylori -- Diseases prevalent in developing countries -- Clostridium botulinum -- Shigellosis and diarrheain the tropics -- CHAPTER 13. The Multiple Strategies of Pathogenic Bacteria -- Contributions of molecular and cellular biology -- Bacteria that adhere to cells but do not enter them -- Invasive bacteria -- The benefits of genomics -- CHAPTER 14. Pathogenic Bacteria in Insects -- CHAPTER 15. Plants and Their Pathogenic Bacteria -- Agrobacterium tumefaciens and genetically modified organisms -- Phytoplasmas: pathogenic bacteria in plants and insects -- CHAPTER 16. New Visions in Infection Defense -- Genetic theory of infectious diseases -- Health security in the age of globalizing risks.

PART IV: Bacteria as Tools -- CHAPTER 17. Bacteria as Tools for Research -- Restriction enzymes -- PCR -- Bacteria and optogenetics -- The CRISPR/Cas9 revolution -- Using pathogenic bacteria to understand eukaryotic cells -- CHAPTER 18. Bacteria: Old and New Health Tools -- Bacteria in food -- Probiotics -- Fecal transplants -- The intestinal microbiota of insect vectors -- CRISPR/Cas9 and gene therapy -- Synthetic biology -- CHAPTER 19. Bacteria as Environmental Tools -- Bacillus thuringiensis as a biopesticide -- Bacillus subtilis to protect plant roots -- Wolbachia and biocontrol of mosquito-borne infectious diseases -- CHAPTER 20. Conclusion -- APPENDIX: Major Figures in Microbiology -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PHOTO CREDITS -- INDEX -- EULA.

In The New Microbiology, Pascale Cossart tells a splendid story about the revolution in microbiology, especially in bacteriology.

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