1st Edition

Microbial Ecology Microbiomes, Viromes, and Biofilms

Edited By Bhagwan Narayan Rekadwad Copyright 2025
228 Pages 9 Color & 14 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

228 Pages 9 Color & 14 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

228 Pages 9 Color & 14 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book highlights the hidden world of microbiomes, viromes, and biofilms on and inside humans. Our bodies have microbiomes, which contain various bacterial communities, and viromes, which contain viruses. These invisible residents are vital to health and sickness. Infections often result from microbiome imbalances. Pathogenic bacteria can outcompete beneficial ones, causing gut dysbiosis and... Read more

Preface

Introduction of Microbiomes, Viromes and Biofilms

Murad Muhammad, Wen-Jun Li, Li Li, Yong-Hong Liu, Kashif Ali and Iftikhar Ahmed

Microbiomes and Viromes in Infection

Shanmuga Sundar S., Kannan N., Devika R., Karma Gyurmey Dolma and Veeranoot Nissapatorn

The Gut-Brain Axis and the Human Microbiome

Chamma Gupta, Abhishek Byahut, Chandrali Deka, Arundhati Bag and Bidita Khandelwal

Diabetes Mellitus and the Microbiome

Helena P. Felgueiras

The Role of Microbiome in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)

Wesam Bahitham, Arwa Alghmdi, Elana Hakeem, Foad Sendi, Abdullah Boubsit, Eyad Alkhayat, Ibrahim Omer, Sharif Hala and Alexandre Rosado

Cancer and Microbiome

Ayman H. Farran, Hanaa S. Allehaibi and Alexandre S. Rosado

Microbiomes and Probiotics

Firasat Hussain, Shafeeq Ur Rehman, Muhammad Naveed Nawaz, Kashif Rahim, Ahmed Abdelmoneim, Kamal Niaz, Murad Muhammad and Wen-Jun Li

The Effect of Microbiome Exchange on Humans and Animals

Karma G. Dolma, Shanmuga Sundar S., Chamma Gupta and Veeranoot Nissapatorn

Unravelling Gut Microbiomes, Viromes, and Biofilm: Investigations in the Developing Next-generation Sequencing Era

Bhagwan Narayan Rekadwad, Narayan Dattatraya Totewad, Nanditha Pramod and Mangesh V. Suryavanshi

Index

Biography

Dr. Bhagwan Narayan Rekadwad conferred a PhD for his research on "the prokaryotic diversity of hot springs" in 2014. After his postdoc at DBT-NCCS, Pune, he joined "the Oxford of the East”, the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, as an Assistant Professor. He currently serves as an Associate Professor, Yenepoya Research Centre, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, India. Dr. Bhagwan also serves as an expert on international and national grant panels. In the years 2022, 2023, and 2024, he was thrice ranked on the AD World Scientific Ranking. He is an expert in genome based Microbial Systematics, Evolutionary Microbiology, Sequencing, and Bioinformatics.