Microbiology with Diseases by Body System, 5e
CHAPTER 26 Microbial Ecology and Microbiomes
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Critical Thinking
1. Influenza viruses are constantly remaking themselves into antigenically new viruses, which the
bulk of the human population have no immunity (immunologic memory) against. Influen-
3. Microbial competition. The core microbiome (structure and species) is part of development,
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4. p. 249 & 250 The great advantage of next generation sequencing (NGS) is to not sequence one
piece of DNA at a time, but hundreds of millions; it is massively parallel. NGS, four-color re-
The vast diversity of genes allow microbes to adapt and survive in the special circumstances
Concept Mapping
1. Guilds