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Title Ending the war metaphor : the changing agenda for unraveling the host-microbe relationship : workshop summary / Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health
Published Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 286 pages) : illustrations
Contents Microbial communities of the gut -- Beyond the gut : insights from other host-microbe systems -- The ecology of pathogenesis -- The host response to pathogens -- Addressing complexity in microbial host communities -- Manipulating host-microbe interactions : probiotic research and regulations
Summary Infectious diseases have existed longer than us, as long as us, or are relatively newer than us. This title examines knowledge and approaches to learning about the bacterial inhabitants of the human gut, the known host-microbe system, and findings from studies of microbial communities associated with other mammals, fish, plants, soil, and insects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Host-parasite relationships -- Congresses
Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- Congresses
Microbiology -- Congresses
Host-parasite relationships.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
Host-Parasite Interactions
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- microbiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- prevention & control
MEDICAL -- Microbiology.
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Communicable diseases -- Transmission
Host-parasite relationships
Microbiology
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats.
LC no. 2006012949
ISBN 0309549043
9780309549042
1280567538
9781280567537
9786610567539
6610567530
0309180120
9780309180122