Strict and Facultative Anaerobes: Medical and Environmental Aspects
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Strict and Facultative Anaerobes: Medical and Environmental Aspects reviews all aspects of anaerobic bacteria, highlighting their environmental and medical importance. The first three chapters focus on taxonomy, anaerobic metabolism and the genetic regulation of anaerobic processes in strict and facultative anaerobes. The next section includes an examination of the physiological traits of anaerobic bacteria that enable them to be beneficial in one situation but hazardous to human and animal health in others. Other topics include the anaerobic nature of infections, latency, anaerobic biofilms, and toxin production. The final section reviews iron, selenate, and arsenate reduction, as well as oxidation of halogenated organics, ammonium oxidation, and acetogenesis.
This important book provides detailed coverage of the wide-ranging capabilities of anaerobic bacteria. It examines their basic biology and chemistry, medical importance, and applications in biotechnology and environmental science. It is an essential reference for everyone interested in anaerobic bacteria, environmental biology, medical microbiology, and industrial bacteriology.
Table of Contents
Overview
The Phylogeny and Classification of Anaerobic Bacteria, E. Stackebrandt
An Overview of Anaerobic Metabolism, M.J. McInerney and L.M. Greg
Redox (Oxygen)-Dependent Gene Regulation in Facultative Anaerobes, R.G. Sawers and M.M. Nakamo
Medical Aspects
Anaerobic Metabolism by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Cystic Fibrosis Airway Biofilms: Role of Nitric Oxide, Quorum Sensing, and Alginate Production, D.J. Hassett, S.V. Lymar, J.J. Rowe, M.J. Schurr, L. Passador, A.B. Herr, G.L. Winsor, F.S.L. Brinkman, S.S. Yoon, G.W. Lau, and S.H. Hwang
Oral Microbial Communities: Genetic Analysis of Oral Biofilms, H.K. Kuramitsu
The Gut Microflora, R. Bibiloni, J. Walter, and G.W., Tannock
The Bacillus Holds its Breath - Latency and the Hypoxic Response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, D. Sherman and D.M. Roberts
Molecular Basis for Aerotolerance of the Obligately Anaerobic Bacteroides spp., A.D. Baughn and M.H. Malamy
Clostridial and Bacteroides Toxins: Structure and Mode of Action, M.R. Popoff
Toxin Gene Regulation in Clostridium, M.M. Nakamo, P. Zuber, and A.L. Sonenshein
Use of Anaerobic Bacteria for Cancer Therapy, J.M. Brown and S.C. Liu
Environmental/Industrial Aspects
Bioremediation Processes Coupled to the Microbial Reduction of Fe(III)oxides in Sedimentary Environments, R.T. Anderson
Prokaryotic Arsenate and Selenate Respiration, J.M. Santini and J.F. Stolz
Molecular and Cellular Biology of Acetogenic Bacteria, V. Müller, F. Imkamp, A. Rauwolf, K. Küsel, and H.L. Drake
Anaerobic Oxidation of Inorganic Nitrogen Compounds, I. Schmidt and M.S.M. Jetten
Reductive Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Benzenes and Dioxins, L. Adrian and U. Lechner
Biotransformation of Carbon Tetrachloride by Facultative Anaerobic Bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri, A. Paszczynski, J. Sebat, D. Erwin, and R.L. Crawford
Solventogenesis by Clostridia, P. Dürre
Clostridial Cellulosome, A. Belaich, C. Tardif, H-P. Fierobe, S. Pagès, and J-P. Belaich
Microbial Community Structure and Functions in Methane Fermentation Technology for Wastewater Treatment, Y. Sekiguchi and Y. Kamagata
