Of Microbes and Men. War and Peace on the Mucosal Surfaces

• Tác giả: Philippe Sansonetti
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-2722602724
• Thông tin xuất bản: Collège de France, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 203635

Tóm tắt

Our bodies contain ten times more bacteria than cells and their activity is essential for our organisms. A true symbiosis exists between humans and microbes, the complex mechanisms of which can only be decoded using molecular genetics. However these bacteria can also cause infectious and parasitic diseases which kill over 15 million people a year throughout the world. To develop effective treatments and vaccines for such diseases, scientists need to know how bacteria outmanoeuvre the body's d...