02142nam a2200301 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902000220006010000200008224500660010226000230016830000230019149000400021450000580025452013380031265000170165065000140166765000180168165000140169965000180171365300150173165300140174665300150176065300130177565300150178870000160180370000210181915427742008-04-17       2007    bl uuuu      00u1 u    #d  a978-2-87614-651-81 aCHARBONNIER, G.  aLa planète des bactériesbce petit monde qui nous gouverne.  aParis: CIRADc2007  a78 p.cil., color.  a(Collection Les Savoirs Partagés).  aFormato compilivre® (multiple-entry hypertext book).  aIf all the bacteria on Earth were to die out, man would soon follow suit. Patrice Debré, Professor of Immunology and Chair of the CIRAD Board of Trustees, sets the tone in the preface. You are on Planet Bacteria (La Planète des bactéries), the latest work produced and published by CIRAD's SAVOIRS team. What are bacteria for? How do they live? How do they reproduce? How pathogenic are they for man, animals and plants? This work not only answers those questions, but also summarizes the information currently available on what the authors call the "bactereality". For instance, it points out that bacteria can resist an internal osmotic pressure of up to 20 times atmospheric pressure, and that a gram of fertile agricultural soil contains a billion bacteria. It also tells us that some bacteria found in the stomachs of all ruminants are very similar to primitive bacteria that appeared well before plants and animals, and that the spread of banana fusarium wilt, a fungal disease, is hampered by a specific bacterium.  La Planète des bactéries takes the form of a multiple-entry book as per the compilivre® concept. It is as different from an encyclopaedia as it is from a microbiology handbook, and folds out to some 18 metres long, with 178 blocks of information connected by 440 educational links, and 123 illustrations.  aMicrobiology  aBactéria  aBacteriologia  aHistória  aMicrobiologia  aBactérias  aEstrutura  aEvolução  aFunção  aPathogenic1 aLAUNOIS, M.1 aLAVEISSIÈRE, G.