The Microbiome in Health and Disease: Advances and Practical Aspects provides a unique perspective on the human microbiome by focusing on the complete microbiome (including bacteria, fungi and viruses) in healthy individuals as well as disease-related changes in microbiome, and practical aspects of performing microbiome analyses.

Secton I focuses on Microbiota in Health, providing an overview of microbes in biofilm and various sites of the body. Section II covers Microbiome and Disease, including periodontitis, gingivitis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), inflammatory bowel disease, prostate cancer, leukemia, and various skin diseases.  The final section describes Practical Aspects and Methods such as metagenomics, pyrosequencing, RNA sequencing, animal models, and typical workflow for microbiome analysis.

Written by experts in the field, The Microbiome in Health and Disease will be a comprehensive resource for researchers and students interested in conducting new research in the field and in applying emerging insights from the microbiome to their own research in health and disease.