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The Lactic Acid Bacteria:Volume 1

The Lactic Acid Bacteria in Health and Disease

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  1. Brian J. B. Wood

    1. Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Lactic Microflora

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Lactic Microflora of Fowl

      • P. G. Sarra, L. Morelli, V. Bottazzi
      Pages 3-19

    3. The Lactic Microflora of Pigs, Mice and Rats

      • Gerald W. Tannock
      Pages 21-48

    4. Lactic Acid Bacteria in the Rumen

      • C. S. Stewart
      Pages 49-68

    5. The Human Gastrointestinal Tract

      • Tomotari Mitsuoka
      Pages 69-114

    6. The Lactic Microflora of the Oral Cavity

      • Stephen D. Hogg
      Pages 115-148

  3. Lactic Acid Bacteria and Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Probiotics: A General View

      • Robert Havenaar, Jos H. J. Huis In’t Veld
      Pages 151-170

    4. Lactic Acid Bacteria in the Control of Plant Pathogens

      • R. Visser, Wilhelm H. Holzapfel
      Pages 193-210

    7. Lactic Acid Bacteria in the Support of Immuno-compromised Hosts

      • Haruaki Tomioka, Hajime Saito
      Pages 263-296

    8. Fermented Dairy Products and Health

      • Custy F. Fernandes, R. C. Chandan, K. M. Shahani
      Pages 297-339

  4. Agriculture and Ecology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 341-341
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    2. Spoilage in the Sugar Industry

      • Donal F. Day
      Pages 343-361

    3. Lactic Acid Bacteria in Plant Silage

      • R. M. Brookes, A. E. Buckle
      Pages 363-386

    4. Storage of Waste Products for Animal Feed

      • Sven Lindgren
      Pages 387-407
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About this book

Historical Background lowe my interest in the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) to the late Dr Cyril Rainbow, who introduced me to their fascinating world when he offered me a place with him to work for a PhD on the carbohydrate meta­ bolism of some lactic rods isolated from English beer breweries by himself and others, notably Dr Dora Kulka. He was particularly interested in their preference for maltose over glucose as a source of carbohydrate for growth, expressed in most cases as a more rapid growth on the disaccharide, but one isolate would grow only on maltose. Eventually, we showed that maltose was being utilised by 'direct fermen­ tation' as the older texts called it, specifically by the phosphorolysis which had first been demonstrated for maltose by Doudoroff and his associates in their work on maltose metabolism by a strain of Neisseria meningitidis. I began work on food fermentations when I came to Strathclyde University, and I soon found myself involved again with the bacteria which I had not touched since completing my doctoral thesis. In 1973 lG. Carr, C. V. Cutting and G. c. Whiting organised the 4th Long Ashton Symposium Lactic Acid Bacteria in Beverages and Food and from my participation in that excellent conference arose a friendship with Geoff Carr. The growing importance of these bacteria was subsequently confirmed by the holding, a decade later, of the first of the Wageningen Conferences on the LAB.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

    Brian J. B. Wood

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Lactic Acid Bacteria:Volume 1

  • Book Subtitle: The Lactic Acid Bacteria in Health and Disease

  • Editors: Brian J. B. Wood

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3522-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd 1992

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3522-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 486

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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