Cave Microbiomes: A Novel Resource for Drug Discovery [electronic resource] /
Cheeptham, Naowarat.editor.
This book details recent findings in the field of cave microbiology and builds on fast-paced efforts to exploit an unconventional and underexplored environment for new microorganisms which may provide an untapped source of drugs: microorganisms from caves.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Advances and Challenges in Studying Cave Microbial Diversity -- Cave Biofilms and Their Potential for Novel Antibiotic Discovery -- Cave Conservation: A Canadian caver's Perspective -- Cave Conversation: A Microbiologist's Perspective -- Microbial Ecology: Caves as an Extreme Habitat -- Studies of Antibiotic Production by Cave Bacteria.  .
This book details recent findings in the field of cave microbiology and builds on fast-paced efforts to exploit an unconventional and underexplored environment for new microorganisms which may provide an untapped source of drugs: microorganisms from caves.
Medical microbiology.
Immunology.
Environment.
Medicine.
Medical Microbiology.
Immunology.
Environment, general.
Biomedicine, general.
SpringerBriefs in Microbiology