Certainly, we live in a microbial-dependent world; without microbes, important geochemical cycles such as those of nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus would collapse, decomposition would stop, and no animal (including humans) would be able to produce and digest its food, and life as we know it ...
"Mims' Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease" has been the landmark book in the field. This revised edition provides an up-to-date picture of the global burden of infectious disease. It explains principles clearly and completely, using examples from various infections. It covers the mechanisms ...
microbiology in mind [38,39,40]. Hypothetically, these designs would acknowledge the impossibility of ridding the built environment of microorganisms indoors and instead learn to carefully use selective pressures and microbial sourcing to cultivate a healthy, symbiotic microbiome [41]. Examples of curren...
Examples of pandemics are the influenza pandemic (Spanish flu) in 1918 and the current SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. Epidemics are products of civilization, whose origins date back to the appearance of the first cities and the agglomeration of people about 5000 years ago, as deduced from ...