Browsing: Microbiology

All healthy animals carry a complex microbial flora, part of which may be very specialized and adapted to growth and survival on its host, and part…

Perhaps one of the most hostile environments for many micro-organisms is the atmosphere. Suspended in the air, the tiny microbial propagule may be subjected to desiccation,…

The foods that we eat are rarely if ever sterile, they carry microbial associations whose composition depends upon which organisms gain access and how they grow,…