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The Microbiology Handbook Dairy products is one in a series of MedTech’s Food Sciences handbooks, others include Fish and Seafood, and Meat Products. These books provide the reader with an easy-to-use reference to microorganisms in different foodstuffs.
This handbook remains topical and features recent developments in dairy processing that can influence the nature and scope of growth and survival of microorganisms in dairy products, and hazards associated ...
Medical microbiology may overlap with parasitology, generally considered the study of diseases caused by multi-cellular parasites, where a parasite is defined as an organism that derives its nutrients from another living organisms, often but not always to the detriments of its host. Microbes are continually probing our defences and commensals that get into the wrong place can do untold damage. A very small minority of microbes are primary pathogens. These are ...
Limnology - the science concerned with the ecology, conservation and management of inland aquatic ecosystems - both freshwater and saline - has received little attention, in general, in the developing countries. Reognising the urgent need for promoting limnology in developing countries, particularly in the tropics, the International Association of Theoretical and Allied Limnology (SIL) decided as a first step to publish a series of volumes reviewing the state of ...
The highly successful IV International Wetlands Conference was organised by the International Association of Ecology (INTECOL) at Columbus (Ohio, USA) during 13-18 September 1992. This meeting was the largest ever gathering of wetland scientists with over 900 participants from over 50 countries (Mitsch 1993). More than 500 papers were presented in oral and poster sessions, in addition to 13 symposia. Seventy-two symposium papers are being published in a volume by ...
Ecology has made great strides during the past few decades. Emerging out of the shadows of a descriptive science, ecology has grown into an interdisciplinary synthetic science with great importance to the resolution of anthropogenic environmental problems. Ecology forms the backbone of natural resources conservation and management, and the restoration and rehabilitation of degraded landscapes. Ecology has expanded its scope and influence by taking benefit of ...