The human microbiota and microbiome /

Thousands of different microbial species colonize the human body, and are essential for our survival. This book presents a review of the current understanding of human microbiomes, the functions that they bring to the host, how we can model them, their role in health and disease and the methods used...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: C.A.B. International, ProQuest ebook central
Other Authors: Marchesi, Julian (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wallingford : CABI, [2014]
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA, USA : [2014]
Series:Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ; 25
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Table of Contents:
  • The stomach and small and large intestinal microbiomes / Christian U. Riedel, Andreas Schwiertz, and Markus Egert
  • The oral microbiome / Egija Zaura, Jessica E. Koopman, Mercedes Fernandez y Mostajo and Wim Crielaard
  • The human urogenital microbiome / Erika Bengtson, Larry J. Forney and David E. Nelson
  • The lung microbiome / Geraint B. Rogers, Mary P. Carroll and Kenneth D. Bruce
  • The human skin microbiome / Jia Tong and Huiying Li
  • Function of the human gut microbiota / Takahiro Matsuki and Ryuichiro Tanaka
  • Models of the human microbiota and microbiome in vitro / Massimo Marzorati, Pieter Van den Abbeele, Charlotte Grootaert, Rosemarie De Weirdt, Ane Marcos Carcavilla, Joan Vermeiren, and Tom Van de Wiele
  • In vivo and animal models of the human gut microbiome / Andrew L. Goodman
  • The gut microbiota in health and disease / Marco Ventura, Francesca Turroni, Francesco Strati, and Douwe van Sinderen
  • Next generation sequencing methods to investigate the human microbiome / Liang Xiao, Junjie Qin, Dongqian Shen, Chenming Jiang, Wanting Chen, Chuan Liu and Jun Wang
  • Metabonomics for understanding gut microbiome and host metabolic interplay / Jia V. Li and Elaine Holmes