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Environmental microbiology is the study of mirobial fate and activity in the air, water, and soil and the resulting impact on human health and welfare. This study encompasses a variety of areas including microbial ecology, molecular genetics, and environmental science. This book offers a comprehensive discussion of this field as a discipline which has grown in recent years to include practical issues such as bioremediation, waterborne pathogens, microbial risk assessment, and environmental biotechnology. New chapters include ecology, urban environmental microbiology, and chapters specific to aquatic and extreme environments. Latest methodologies presented with emphasis on phytsiological methods. Instructor website includes lecture notes, questions, projects and activities, and downloadable figures.

ISBN 9780123705198Edition 02Binding Cloth