The Human Microbiota: How Microbial Communities Affect Health And Disease

The Human Microbiota offers a comprehensive review of all human-associated microbial niches in a single volume, focusing on what modern tools in molecular microbiology are revealing about human microbiota, and how specific microbial communities can be associated with either beneficial effects or diseases. An excellent resource for microbiologists, physicians, infectious disease specialists, and others in the field, the book describes the latest research findings and evaluates the most innovative research approaches and technologies. Perspectives from pioneers in human microbial ecology are provided throughout.

Preface David N. Fredricks, MD
Chapter 1. The NIH Human Microbiome Project Lita M Proctor, PhD, Shaila Chhibba, Chris Wellington, Jean McEwen, JD, PhD, Jane Peterson, PhD, Maria Giovanni, PhD, Pamela McInnes, DDS MSc, and Carl Baker, MD, PhD, R. Dwayne Lunsford, PhD
Chapter 2. Methods for Characterizing Microbial Communities Associated with the Human Body Vincent Young, MD PhD, Christine Bassis, PhD, and Thomas Schmidt, PhD
Chapter 3. Phyloarrays Eoin L. Brodie, PhD, and Susan V. Lynch, PhD
Chapter 4. Mathematical Approaches for Describing Microbial Populations: Practice and Theory for Extrapolation of Rich Environments Manuel E. Lladser, PhD, and Rob Knight, PhD
Chapter 5. Tension at the Border: How Host Genetics and the Enteric Microbiota Conspire to Promote Crohn’s Disease Daniel N. Frank, PhD, and Ellen Li, MD, PhD
Chapter 6. The Human Airway Microbiome Edith T. Zemanick, MD and J. Kirk Harris, PhD
Chapter 7. The Microbiota of the Mouth: Benefits and Malefits Angela H. Nobbs, PhD, David Dymock, PhD, and Howard F. Jenkinson, PhD
Chapter 8. The Microbiota of the Genitourinary Tract Laura Sycuro, PhD, MSc and David N. Fredricks, MD
Chapter 9. Functional Structure of Intestinal Microbiota in Health and Disease Alexander Swidsinski, MD, PhD and Vera Loening-Baucke, MD
Chapter 10. From Fly to Man: Understanding How Commensal Microorganisms Influence Host Immunity and Health June L. Round, PhD
Chapter 11. Insights into the Human Microbiome from Animal Models Bethany A. Rader, PhD, and Karen Guillemin, PhD
Chapter 12. To Grow or Not to Grow: Isolation and Cultivation Procedures in the Genomic Age Karsten Zengler, PhD
Chapter 13. New Approaches to Cultivation of Human Microbiota Slava S. Epstein, PhD, Maria Sizova, PhD, and Amanda Hazen, MS
Chapter 14. Manipulating the Indigenous Microbiota in Humans: Prebiotics, Probiotics and Synbiotics George T. Macfarlane, PhD, and Sandra Macfarlane PhD