Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2. Basic Biology -- 2.1. The Indigenous Microbiota -- 2 Role of the Indigenous Microbiota in Health and Disease -- 2.2. Biology of Effector Organisms for Probiotic and Replacement Therapy -- 3 Lactobacilli -- 4 Bifidobacteria: the Model Human Gut Commensal -- 5 Saccharomyces spp. -- 6 Streptococci as Effector Organisms for Probiotic and Replacement Therapy -- 7 Escherichia coli -- 8 Formulation, Administration, and Delivery of Probiotics -- 2.3. Prebiotics and Functional Carbohydrates -- 9 Introduction to Prebiotics -- 10 Human Milk Oligosaccharides as Prebiotics -- 11 Inulin-Type Fructans -- 12 Resistant Starch as a Prebiotic -- 13 Effects of Prebiotic Supplementation on Bone Mineral Metabolism and Weight in Humans -- 14 Prebiotics and Lipid Metabolism -- 2.4. Genomics of Lactic Acid Bacteria -- 15 Functional Genomics of Lactic Acid Bacteria -- 2.5. Proteomics of Lactic Acid Bacteria -- 16 Proteomic Approaches To Study Lactic Acid Bacteria -- 3. Therapeutic Microbiology in Human Medicine -- 3.1. Probiotics -- 17 Probiotics in Human Medicine: Overview -- 18 Probiotics and Other Organisms in Allergy and Autoimmune Diseases -- 19 Probiotics in Oral Biology and Dentistry -- 20 Probiotics in Gastrointestinal Diseases -- 21 Probiotics and Diseases of the Genitourinary Tract -- 22 Probiotics in Neurology and Psychiatry -- 3.2. Prebiotics -- 23 Prebiotics in Human Medicine -- 3.3. Synbiotics -- 24 Synbiotics in Human Medicine -- 4. Therapeutic Microbiology in Veterinary Medicine -- 25 Strategies for Altering the Intestinal Microbiota of Animals -- 26 Probiotics in Veterinary Medicine -- 27 Prebiotics and Synbiotics in Companion Animal Science -- 5. Viral Strategies -- 28 Phage Therapy -- 6. Future Prospects -- 29 The Road Ahead: a Look at the Future -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D.

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