Missing Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues
Martin J. Blaser investigates the vital role bacteria play in human health and considers what may happen when they are eliminated. Missing Microbes explores the possible connection between lost microbial diversity and modern plagues, offering an accessible look at medicine, microbes, and the changing biological world.
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Missing Microbes examines the relationship between human health and the bacteria that live in and on the body.
Martin J. Blaser considers how practices that eliminate bacteria may also reduce important microbial diversity.
The book explores possible connections between disappearing microbes and the health challenges described as modern plagues.
It offers a science-focused discussion of bacteria, medicine, and the changing relationship between microbes and people.
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