This book contains multiple chapters discussing some of the hot topics of Microbiology, including the role of the gut microbiota on allergies, the variety of man-related microbial activities, such as attenuated bacterial strains and vaccines, diseases and several syndromes conducting to obesity, as well as how microbiology can help in oil prospection and how this offers many opportunities for microbiologists. This text is for students of Microbiology, microbiologists themselves, and is written in a way that anyone less familiar with the field, but still interested in the topics it explores, can access the information in this book.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
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Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5275-0247-5 (9781527502475)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Dr. T. G. Villa is Emeritus Professor of the University of Santiago de Compostela. He received his PhD in Microbiology in 1976, in the University of Salamanca, and worked as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology there at the Faculties of Science and Pharmacy from September 1978 to April 1983. As of May 1983, he was a full Professor of Microbiology at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) until the thirty-first of August 2020, which was when he retired. Dr. Ana G. Abril is a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the identification and characterization of dairy food spoiling strains, by classical culture-based methods and molecular methods such as genomics and proteomics. She received her international Ph.D. in Biology with Honors at the Santiago de Compostela University (2019). She has worked at the CYTMA (ANFACO-CECOPESCA) and is currently working at the department of Food Technology from IIM-CSIC and, the Department of Microbiology from Santiago de Compostela University.
