Environmental Microbiology, 2nd Edition

Key Features

WHY ADOPT THIS EDITION?
New chapters on:
• Urban Environmental Microbiology
• Bacterial Communities in Natural Ecosystems
• Global Change and Microbial Infectious Disease
• Microorganisms and Bioterrorism
• Extreme Environments (emphasizing the ecology of these environments)
• Aquatic Environments (now devoted to its own chapter- was combined with Extreme Environments)

Updates to Methodologies:
• Nucleic Acid -Based Methods: microarrays, phyloarrays, real-time PCR, metagomics, and comparative genomics
• Physiological Methods: stable isotope fingerprinting and functional genomics and proteomics-based approaches
• Microscopic Techniques: FISH (fluorescent in situ hybridization) and atomic force microscopy
• Cultural Methods: new approaches to enhanced cultivation of environmental bacteria
• Environmental Sample Collection and Processing: added section on air sampling

Readership

Advanced students, technicians, researchers, and consultants in environmental sciences, microbiology, environmental engineering, public health, biology, chemistry, and civil engineering

Environmental Microbiology, 2nd Edition

SECTION 1 - REVIEW OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
1. Introduction to Environmental Microbiology (Maier, Pepper, Gerba)
2. Microorganisms (Roane, Maier)
3. Bacterial Growth (Maier)

SECTION 2 - MICROBIAL ENVIRONMENTS
4. Earth Environments (Maier, Pepper)
5. Aeromicrobiology (Pepper, Dowd)
6. Aquatic Environments (Maier, Sandrin, Dowd, Herman)
7. Extreme Environments (Maier)

SECTION 3 - DETECTION, ENUMERATION, AND INDENTIFICATION
8. Environmental Sample Collection & Processing (Pepper, Gerba, Maier)
9. Microscopic Techniques (Roane, Pepper, Maier)
10. Cultural Methods (Gerba, Pepper)
11. Physiological Methods (Sandrin, Herman, Maier)
12. Immunological Methods (Dowd, Maier)
13. Nucleic Acid-Based Methods of Analysis(Newby, Maier)

SECTION 4 - MICROBIAL COMMUNICATION, ACTIVITIES, AND INTERACTIONS WITH ENVIRONMENT AND NUTRIENT CYCLING
14. Biogeochemical Cycling (Maier)
15. Consequences of Biogeochemical Cycles Gone Wild (Maier, Herman)
16. Microbial Communication: Bacteria/Bacteria and Bacteria/Host (Pierson)
17. Bacterial Communities in Natural Ecosystems (Maier, Pepper)
18. Global Change and Microbial Infectious Disease (Pepper, Gerba)
19. Microbial Transport (Newby, Pepper, Maier)

SECTION 5 - REMEDIATION OF ORGANIC AND METAL POLLUTANTS
20. Microorganisms and Organic Pollutants (Maier)21. Microorganisms and Metal Pollutants (Roane, Rensing, Pepper, Maier)

SECTION 6 - WATER- AND FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS
22. Environmentally Transmitted Pathogens (Gerba)
23. Indicator Microorganisms (Gerba)
SECTION 7 - WASTE TREATMENT AND DISINFECTION
24. Wastewater Treatment and Biosolids Reuse (Gerba, Pepper)
25. Drinking Water Treatment (Gerba)
26. Disinfection (Gerba)


SECTION 8 - URBAN MICROBIOLOGY
27. Domestic and Indoor Microbiology (Gerba, Pepper)
28. Microorganisms and Bioterrorism (Pepper, Choi, Gerba)
30. Risk Assessment(Gerba)