The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic

Book Overview

This volume focuses on those instances when benign and even beneficial relationships between microbes and their hosts opportunistically change and become detrimental toward the host. It examines the triggering events which can factor into these changes, such as reduction in the host's capacity for mounting an effective defensive response due to nutritional deprivation, coinfections and seemingly subtle environmental influences like the amounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319802887
• ISBN13: 9783319802886
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"