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PREFACE
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PART I: New Concepts in Microbiology
CHAPTER 1: Bacteria: Many Friends, Few Enemies
CHAPTER 2: Bacteria: Highly Organized Unicellular Organisms
CHAPTER 3: The RNA Revolution
CHAPTER 4: From the CRISPR Defense System to the CRISPR/Cas9 Method for Modifying Genomes
CHAPTER 5: Antibiotic Resistance
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PART II: Sociomicrobiology: The Social Lives of Bacteria
CHAPTER 6: Biofilms: When Bacteria Gather Together
CHAPTER 7: How Bacteria Communicate: Chemical Language and Quorum Sensing
CHAPTER 8: When Bacteria Kill Each Other
CHAPTER 9: Human-Animal Symbioses: The Microbiotas
CHAPTER 10: Bacterium-Plant Symbioses: Microbiotas of Plants
CHAPTER 11: Endosymbiotic Relationships
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PART III: The Biology of Infections
CHAPTER 12: Pathogenic Bacteria, Major Scourges, and New Diseases
CHAPTER 13: The Multiple Strategies of Pathogenic Bacteria
CHAPTER 14: Pathogenic Bacteria in Insects
CHAPTER 15: Plants and Their Pathogenic Bacteria
CHAPTER 16: New Visions in Infection Defense
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PART IV: Bacteria as Tools
CHAPTER 17: Bacteria as Tools for Research
CHAPTER 18: Bacteria: Old and New Health Tools
CHAPTER 19: Bacteria as Environmental Tools
CHAPTER 20: Conclusion
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APPENDIX: Major Figures in Microbiology
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GLOSSARY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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