The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic
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Beschreibung
This volume focuses on those instances when benign and even beneficial relationships between microbes and their hosts opportunistically change and become detrimental toward the host. It examines the triggering events which can factor into these changes, such as reduction in the host’s capacity for mounting an effective defensive response due to nutritional deprivation, coinfections and seemingly subtle environmental influences like the amounts of sunlight, temperature, and either water or air quality. The effects of environmental changes can be compounded when they necessitate a physical relocation of species, in turn changing the probability of encounter between microbe and host. The change also can result when pathogens, including virus species, either have modified the opportunist or attacked the host’s protective natural microflora. The authors discuss these opportunistic interactions and assess their outcomes in both aquatic as well as terrestrial ecosystems, highlighting the impact on plant, invertebrate and vertebrate hosts.
Enables readers to understand the conditions that facilitate opportunistic pathogenicity Written by eminent scientists Richly illustrated throughout Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Christon J. Hurst
Themen in »The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic«
Commensalism Host-symbiont relationships Opportunistic pathogens Parasitism Symbiosis Opportunistic pathogenicity Opportunistic infections Bacterial opportunistic pathogens Fungal secondary invaders Bacterial entomopathogens Opportunistic algae Opportunistic fungi Opportunistic ichthyosporea Opportunistic human pathogens
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“Overall the three book series is an excellent resource that describes a new vision for microbial ecology based upon the guiding principles of evolution, habitat, and niche. The series provides a rich set of examples that emphasize all three aspects of these guiding principles along with the interaction of microbial species within the context of these guiding principles. The series is a must read that provides a new look at how the microbial world works.” (Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, Ph.D, P.E., Professor of Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA)
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