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Antimicrobial Agents

Aminoglycosides, Bioactive Bacterial Metabolites
Antibiotic Production
Antifungal Agents
Antiviral Agents
Bacteriophage Therapy: Past and Present
Bacteriophage Therapy: Potential and Problems
Beta-lactam Antibiotics
Fungicides and other Chemical Approaches for use in Plant Disease Control
Macrolides
Quinolones

Applied Microbiology: Agro / Food

Agrobacterium and Plant Cell Transformation
Aquaculture
Beer/Brewing
Dairy Products
Fermented Foods
Food Spoilage, Preservation and Quality Control
Forrest Products: Biotechnology in Pulp and Paper Processing
Insecticides, Microbial
Pesticides, Microbial
Water, Drinking
Wine

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Applied Microbiology: Industrial

Acetic Acid Production
Amino Acid Production
Amylases
Biodeterioration - Including Cultural Heritage
Bioreactors
Biotransformations Catalyzed by Whole Cells
Cellulases
Clostridia
Corrosion, Microbial
Cosmetics Microbiology
Enzymes, Industrial (overview)
Ethanol
Flavor Compounds
Heavy Metal Pollutants: Environmental and Biotechnological Aspects
Industrial Biotechnology, (overview)
Lactic Acid, Microbially Produced
Lignin, Lignocellulose, Ligninase
Lipases
Lipids, Production
Metal Extraction and Biomining
Organic and Fatty Acid Production, Microbial
Petroleum Microbiology
Pigments,Microbial
Polyketides
Polysaccharides, Industrial Microbial
Proteases, Production
Solvent Production
Sterilization and Disinfection
Vitamins and Vitamin-Like Compounds: Microbial Production
Wastewater Treatment (Non-Infectious) Hazards
Water Treatment, Industrial
Water Treatment, Municipal
Xylanases
Industrial Fermentation Processes

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Cell Morphology, Chemical Composition

Chromosome, Bacterial
Cell Membrane, Prokaryotic
Cell Structure, Organization, Bacteria and Archaea
Development, Prokaryotic: Variety and Versatility
Flagella, Prokaryotic
Intracellular Structures of Prokaryotes: Inclusions, Compartments and Assemblages
Localization, Macromolecular, Intracellular
Outer Membrane, Gram-Negative Bacteria
Peptidoglycan. (Murein)
Pili, Fimbriae

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Fungi

Clavicipitaceae: Free-Living and Saprotrophs to Plant Endophytes
Endophytic Microbes: Ecology and Impacts on Host Plants
Entomogenous Fungi

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Genetics, Genomics

Chromosome Replication and Segregation in Bacteria
Conjugation, Bacterial
DNA Mismatch Repair in Bacteria
DNA Restriction and Modification
Evolution, Theory and Experiments with Microorganisms
Genetically Modified Organisms: Guidelines and Regulations for Research
Horizontal Transfer of Genes between Microorganisms
Metabolic Reconstruction
Metagenomics
Microbial Genetics, General
Phylogenomics
Plasmids, Bacterial
Transduction: Host DNA Transfer by Bacteriophages
Transposable Elements

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History and Culture

AIDS, Historical
Biographies - Single Pages for each Person
History of Microbiology
Methods, Philosophy of

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History and culture, (and Biographies)

Cholera, Historical
Plague, Historical
Smallpox, Historical
Spontaneous Generation
Syphilis, Historical
Typhoid (Historical)
Typhus Fevers and Other Rickettsial. Diseases, Historical

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Microbial Ecology

Aeromicrobiology/ Air Quality
Algal Blooms
Biofilms, Microbial
Deep Sub-Surface
Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
Ecology, Microbial
Extremophiles: Acidic Environments
Extremophiles: Hot Environments
Extremophiles:Cold Environments
Extremophiles:Dry Environments (incl. Cryptoendoliths)
Food Webs, Microbial
Freshwater Habitats
Heavy Metals Cycle (Arsenic, Mercury, Selenium, Others)
Heavy Metals, Bacterial Resistance
High-Pressure Habitats
Low-Nutrient-Flux Aquatic Environments
Marine Habitats
Mats, Microbial
Microbial Adhesion
Nitrogen Cycle
Phosphorus Cycle
Picoeukaryotes and their Role in Marine Ecology
Sediment Habitats, including Watery
Sulfur Cycle
The Aerobic Methane Oxidising Bacteria
The Rhizosphere
Viral Pool, Environmental

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Microbiology and Society

Biological Warfare
Careers in Microbiology
Microbial Forensics
Patenting of Microorganisms
Space Microbiology: Planetary Protection, Burden, Diversity and Significance of Spacecraft Associated Microbes

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Model Systems

Dictyostelids

Mutualism and Commensalism

Host Behavior, Control by Microbes
Endosymbionts and Intracellular Parasites
Lichens
Mycorrhizae
Rumen
Airborne Infectious Microorganisms

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Pathogenesis

Antibiotic Resistance
Arboviruses
Chlamydia
Cyanobacterial Toxins
Diagnostic Microbiology
DNA Viruses: Plant Pathogenic
Emerging Infections
Enteropathogenic Infections
Epidemiological Concepts and Historical Examples
Exotoxins
Food and Waterborne Illnesses
Fungal Infections, Cutaneous
Fungal Infections, Systemic
Fungi: Plant Pathogenic
Gastrointestinal Microbiology in the Normal Host
Global Burden of Infectious Diseases
Glycopeptides, Antimicrobial
Gram Negative Opportunistic Anaerobes: Friends and Foe
Gram-Negative Cocci, Pathogenic
Haemophilus Influenzae
Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses
Hepatitis Viruses
Herpesviruses
HIV/AIDS
Immune Evasion, Microbial
Immune Suppression, T-Cell Mediated
Immunity, Adaptive
Infectious Waste Management
Influenza
Legionella, Bartonella, Haemophilus
Leishmania
Lipopolysaccharides (Endotoxins)
Listeria
Lyme Disease
Mycotoxins
Oncogenic Viruses
Oomycetes (Water Moulds), Plant Pathogenic
Oral Microbiology
Phytoplasmas
Plant Disease Resistance: Natural, Non-Host Innate or Inducible
Plant Disease Resistance: Breeding and Transgenic Approaches
Plant Pathogens and Disease: General Introduction
Plant Pathogens and Disease: New and Emerging Diseases
Plant Pathogens, Bacterial
Poliovirus
Polyomaviruses and Papillomaviruses
Prions
Protozoan, Intestinal
Pseudomonas
Rabies and Other Neurovirulent Viruses
Respiratory Viruses
Retroviruses
RNA Viruses: Plant Pathogenic
Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Diseases
Skin Microbiology
Sleeping Sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis)
Staphylococcus
Streptococcus Pneumoniae Evolving - Impact of Antibiotics and Vaccines
Surveillance of Infectious Diseases
Toxoplasmosis
Trypanosomes
Tuberculosis: Molecular Basis of Pathogenesis
Vaccine Development: Avian Influenza
Vaccines for Human Use
Vaccines, Viral
Viral Pathogens of Domestic Animals and Their Impact on Biology, Medicine and Agriculture
Viroids/Virusoids
Virus Infection
Zoonoses

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Physiology

Amino Acid Synthesis
Autotrophic CO2 Metabolism
Bacteriocins, Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
Bioluminescence, Microbial
Carbon and Nitrogen, Assimilation, Regulation of
Cell Cycles and Division, Bacterial
Central (Intermediary) Metabolism
Chemotaxis
Coenzyme and Prosthetic Group Biosynthesis
Crystalline Cell Surface Layers (S Layers)
DNA Repair
DNA Replication
Energy Transduction Processes
Fermentation
Glycogen Biosynthesis
Glyoxylate Cycle
Growth Kinetics, Microbial
Heme Biosynthesis in Prokaryotes
Iron Metabolism
Lipid Biosynthesis in Bacteria
Magnetotaxis
Methanogenesis
Methylation and Other Modifications of Nucleic Acids and Proteins
Nucleotide Metabolism
Nutrition, Microbial
Photosynthesis: Microbial
Posttranscriptional Regulation
Quorum-Sensing in Bacteria
RNA Processing
RNAs, Small etc.
Secondary Endosymbiosis and the Complex History of Plastids
Sensory Transduction in Bacteria
Stress Responses: Heat
Stress Responses: pH
Stress, Bacterial:General and Specific
Transcriptional Regulation in Bacteria
Translational Control and Fidelity
Transport, Solute

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Systematics, Evolution

Actinobacteria, Systematics, Evolution and Characteristics
Amitochondriate Protists (Diplomonads, Parabasalids and Oxymonads)
Amoebae, Naked Lobose (Gymnamoebae)
Archaea (overview)
Aspergillus
Bacillus Subtilis
Bacteriophage (overview)
Bacteriophage Ecology
Caulobacter
Ciliates (Phylum Ciliophora). Evolution and Systematics
Coccolithophores
Corynebacteria (incl, Diphtheria)
Cyanobacteria
Dinoflagellates
Escherichia Coli
Euglenozoa
Foraminifera
Helicobacter Pylori
Horizontal Gene Transfer:Uptake of Extracellular DNA by Bacteria
Mycoplasma and Spiroplasma
Myxococcus
Origin and Evolution of Viruses
Paleontology, Microbial
Rhizobia
Spirochetes
Stramenopiles, Evolution and Diversity
Streptomyces
Yeasts

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Techniques

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methods for Bacterial Pathogens
Biosensors
Collection and Handling of Clinical Microbiological Specimens
Continuous Cultures (Chemostats)
DNA Sequencing and Genomics
Freeze-Drying of Microorganisms
Genome Sequence Databases: Annotation
Genome Sequence Databases: Genomic, Construction of Libraries
Genome Sequence Databases: Sequencing and Assembly
Genome Sequence Databases: Types of Data and Bioinformatic Tools.
Gnotiobiotic and Axenic Animals
Microbial Biodegradation Database and Prediction Tool
Phylogenetic Methods and Inferences in Microbial Evolution
Preservation, Storage and Transport of Microorganisms
Recombinant DNA, Basic Procedures
Stable Isotopes in Microbial Ecology
Strain Improvement
Teaching Resources, Microbiology
Type Culture Collections and their Databases

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