The human indigenous microbiota
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Henry Stewart Talks,
2010
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| Series: | Henry Stewart talks Biomedical & life sciences collection. Microbiota
Henry Stewart talks Biomedical & life sciences collection. Molecular basis of bacterial infection |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Benefits derived from our microbiota
- Clinical problems associated with the indigenous microbiota
- Degradation of fitness landscape
- Phylogenetic surveys
- Patterns of microbial diversity in the human body
- Site-specific distributions of bacterial phyla in healthy humans
- Skin microenvironments
- Ecological boundaries
- Rarefaction curves
- What are the factors that regulate or restrict human indigenous microbial diversity?
- What are the features of early microbial colonization in the human body?
- Early days: evidence of opportunistic exposures
- Later days: emergence of individuality
- Features of indigenous microbial diversity in mammals
- Families have more functionally similar microbiomes
- Challenges and future directions