Bacteria

The Bacteria - An Introduction; The Bacterial Cell; Growth and Reproduction; Differentiation; Metabolism I: Energy; Metabolism II: Carbon; Molecular Biology I: Genes and Gene Expression; Molecular Biology II: Changing the Message; Bacteriophages; Bacteria in the Living World; Bacteria in Medicine; Applied Bacteriology I: Food; Applied Bacteriology II: Miscellaneous Aspects; Some Practical Bacteriology; Man Against Bacteria; The Identification and Classification of Bacteria; Appendix: Mini Descriptions of Some Genera, Families, Orders and Other Categories of Bacteria. Additions to fourth edition: biology - Cell wall (e.g. new model of PG synthesis); Flagellar structure (the new C-ring); Update on motility; Cell interaction with the enviroment (e.g. quorum sensing); Circadian rhythm in proks; Growth-temp relationship; Update anaerobic respiration; Expand carbon biosynthesis; Expand nitrogen cycle; Expand methylotrophy/methanotrophy; Update/expand DNA replication, recombination and repair; Update protein synthesis; New techniques for staining and sterilization; Update/expand nucleic-acid-based typing; Expand nucleic-acid-based taxonomy; Biotechnology/applied aspects: PCR-related topics; Mutagenesis (including a new technique for site-specific mutagenesis); Nucleic acid amplification techniques other than PCR; "Talk through" of an actual example of recombinant DNA technology; Expanded treatment of biomining; Nitrogen-fixing modulation of cereals (e.g. rice); New major section on water supplies; Medicine: Blood culture; Cystic fibrosis; Conjugate vaccines (e.g. that for meningitis); Enterotoxins; Siderophores in medicine; Bacterial virulence factors; Antibiotic resistance; "Gas plasma" sterilization.