The human microbiota and microbiome [

Thousands of different microbial species colonize the human body, and are essential for our survival. This book presents a review of the current understanding of human microbiomes, the functions that they bring to the host, how we can model them, their ole in health and disease and the methods used...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marchesi, Julian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI , c2014
Series:Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology 25
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Online Access:https://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/FullTextPDF/2014/20143165354.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The stomach, small and large intestinal microbiome
  • 2. The oral microbiome
  • 3. The human urogenital microbiome
  • 4. The lung microbiome
  • 5. The human skin microbiome
  • 6. Function of human gut microbiota
  • 7. Models of the human microbiota ad microbiome in vitro
  • 8. In vivo and animal models of the human gut microbiome
  • 9. The gut microbiota in health and disease
  • 10. Next generation sequencing methods to investigate the human microbiome
  • 11. Metabonomics for understanding gut microbiome and host metabolic interplay