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Microbial Inhabitants of Humans: Their Ecology and Role in Health and Disease
By Michael Wilson. 455 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005. $65. ISBN 0-521-84158-5.

Colonization of Mucosal Surfaces
Edited by James P. Nataro, Paul S. Cohen, Harry L.T. Mobley, and Jeffrey N. Weiser. 456 pp., illustrated. Washington, D.C., ASM Press, 2005. $119.95. ISBN 1-55581-323-2.

In the past few years, interest in the bacteria that inhabit normal mucosal surfaces and skin has truly ignited. These colonized sites are conveniently referred to as "external," in that they have direct contact with the environment and are continually bathed by food, water, and air. Aside from costly and wrong-headed attempts to cleanse the bowel of noxious microbes (it is remarkable how many rational patients still go in for this practice), there has always been a group of enthusiastic academics — microbiologists, dentists, physicians, cell biologists, nutritionists . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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