Microbial Inhabitants of Humans
Subtitle: Their Ecology and Role in Health and Disease
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780521841580
Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); Personal & public health; Medical microbiology; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Microbiology; Medical / Microbiology; Body, Human; Microbial ecology
First sentence: The first 9 months of our existence - the time we spend in our mother's womb - is the only period of our life during which we are free of microbes.