Therapeutic Microbiology

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ISBN: 9781555814038 | 1555814034
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/1/2008

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Texas Childrens Hospital, Houston. Explores potential and actual uses of the many methods for altering the microbiotas of humans and animals. Topics include biology of effector organisms for probiotic and replacement therapy and therapeutic microbiology in veterinary medicine. For medical, dental, and veterinary practitioners. DNLM: Probiotics--therapeutic use.

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Introduction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Basic Biology	p. 7
The Indigenous Microbiota	p. 9
Role of the Indigenous Microbiota in Health and Disease	p. 9
Biology of Effector Organisms for Probiotic and Replacement Therapy	p. 19
Lactobacilli	p. 19
Bifidobacteria: the Model Human Gut Commensal	p. 35
Saccharomyces spp.	p. 51
Streptococci as Effector Organisms for Probiotic and Replacement Therapy	p. 61
Escherichia coli	p. 83
Formulation, Administration, and Delivery of Probiotics	p. 97
Prebiotics and Functional Carbohydrates	p. 119
Introduction to Prebiotics	p. 119
Human Milk Oligosaccharides as Prebiotics	p. 131
Inulin-Type Fructans	p. 147
Resistant Starch as a Prebiotic	p. 159
Effects of Prebiotic Supplementation on Bone Mineral Metabolism and Weight in Humans	p. 175
Prebiotics and Lipid Metabolism	p. 183
Genomics of Lactic Acid Bacteria	p. 193
Functional Genomics of Lactic Acid Bacteria	p. 193
Proteomics of Lactic Acid Bacteria	p. 205
Proteomic Approaches To Study Lactic Acid Bacteria	p. 205
Therapeutic Microbiology in Human Medicine	p. 223
Probiotics	p. 225
Probiotics in Human Medicine: Overview	p. 225
Probiotics and Other Organisms in Allergy and Autoimmune Diseases	p. 231
Probiotics in Oral Biology and Dentistry	p. 249
Probiotics in Gastrointestinal Diseases	p. 255
Probiotics and Diseases of the Genitourinary Tract	p. 271
Probiotics in Neurology and Psychiatry	p. 285
Prebiotics	p. 299
Prebiotics in Human Medicine	p. 299
Synbiotics	p. 307
Synbiotics in Human Medicine	p. 307
Therapeutic Microbiology in Veterinary Medicine	p. 323
Strategies for Altering the Intestinal Microbiota of Animals	p. 325
Probiotics in Veterinary Medicine	p. 341
Prebiotics and Synbiotics in Companion Animal Science	p. 357
Viral Strategies	p. 371
Phage Therapy	p. 373
Future Prospects	p. 391
The Road Ahead: a Look at the Future	p. 393
Index	p. 397
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