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Microorganisms

Autor: Mona Shaaban, Abdelaziz Elgaml
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: IntechOpen
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The recent breakthrough in microbial studies has applied next-generation sequencing (NGS), a massive...

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Autor
Mona Shaaban, Abdelaziz Elgaml
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2020
Pagini
318
EAN
9781838801878
ISBN
1838801871
Enbook ID
33196601
Editura
IntechOpen
Greutate
901
Dimensiuni
180 x 260 x 26

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The recent breakthrough in microbial studies has applied next-generation sequencing (NGS), a massive omics analysis, to the composition and structure of microbial communities. NGS can identify microbes without the need for their cultivation. Their mere presence can be ascertained and often quantitated, and even their metabolic capabilities of microbial constituents predicted. This breakthrough led to an explosive growth in research on microbes. Many important advances have been made in human health-related studies. Indeed, gut microbial communities have been extensively analyzed and differences between healthy and diseased microbiomes have been determined. Studies of the effects of changes of diet, of antibiotic treatments, and of probiotics have been published. Specific attention has been devoted to human pathogens, their mechanisms of causing disease, and the potentials for their management and treatment. Microbiome studies of natural habitats, terrestrial and aquatic, have also benefited from NGS methodology. Increased understanding of the microbial communities has led to the use microbes as antagonists of pathogens, i.e. as treatments. Moreover, novel uses of microbes in industrial processes, either for synthesis of important compounds or for degradation and handling of waste, are being devised. In this volume, chapters dealing with the cutting-edge research in all these fields are presented.