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Contents

Introduction

I. Touching Life at Many Points

1 Disseminators Aloft?

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2 Pantoea and the Locust

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3 The MIcrobiology of Art

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4 Why Do They Do It?

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5 Out of the Blue

6 Reflections on Cellulolysis

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7 Jelly from Space?

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8 Botox and Dairy Cows

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9 Fiction, Fact, and Reality

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10 Microbiology for Gastronomes

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11 The Double Lifeof Escherichia coli

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12 Not All Cigars and Caviar

13 Microbial Versatility in Berlin

14 Whither Psychoneuroimmunology?

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II The Ecological Context

15 Communal Diversity in Biofilms

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16 Biofilm Life

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17 Our Most Abundant Coterrestrials

18 Helicobacter from the Seas?

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19 Selective Agencies

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20 Natural Disaster Microbiology

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21 Foot-and-Mouth Folly?

22 Ecology Lessons

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23 Biocides in the Kitchen

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24 Conjectures and Realities

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25 Exterminating Pathogens

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26 Learning from Denmark

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27 Protozoa and Lurking Pathogens

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28 What Is Virulence?

III. The Human Context

29 Questionable Experiments

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30 Lyme Disease: The Public Dimension

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31 Blatant Opportunism

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32 Bioscience Embattled

33 “Playing God”

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34 Microbes in the Media

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35 A Little Learning…

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36 Spotlight on Acetaldehyde

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37 Measles, Polio, and Conscience

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38 Myxomatosis: Grim Questions

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39 Rationalizing Vaccination

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40 A European Furor

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41 Bioremediation and Greenery

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42 The Citation Game

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IV. Personalia

43 Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Clifford Dobell, and Robert Hooke

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44 Robert Koch and His Postulates

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45 Hideyo Noguchi, Max Theiler, and Yellowjack

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46 René Dubos’s Mirage of Health

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47 Ferdinand Cohn, Neglected Visionary

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48 Johannes Fibiger, a Dane to Remember

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49 Frederick Twort, Codiscoverer of Phages

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50 Alick Isaacs and Interferon

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51 Dissenters: Max von Pettenkofer and Friedrich Wolter

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52 Gerhard Domagk and the Origins of Sulfa

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53 Cecil Hoare’s Eponymous Organism

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54 Ants and Fred Hoyle’s Challenge to Darwinism

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55 Pioneers of American Microbiology

V. Doing Microbiology

56 At the Level of Cowpats

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57 Fishy Business

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58 Science à la Mode?

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59 “ Wherever They Are Found…”

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60 There’s More To Do

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61 Self-Frustration

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62 Genomics and Innovation in Antibiotics

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63 The Relevance of Taxonomy

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64 Yeasts Are Complex . . .

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65 . . . And Yeasts Are Versatile

66 Resounding Banalities

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67 Microbiology Present and Future

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68 Looking Back

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69 A Global Challenge

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