Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
I. Man, his Microbes and the Health Environment in the Prevention and
Cure of Diseases
Chapter 1. Modes and Consequences of the Microbial Interactions
(Elias Hakalehto, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, and others)
Chapter 2. Microbial Environment on Our Skin, Epithelial Surfaces and Tissues Links Us with the Surrounding Milieu
(Elias Hakalehto, Urho Väätäinen, Anneli Heitto, Mirva Ikonen, Sisko Tuomainen, Jouni Pesola, Kaarlo Jaakkola, Osmo Hänninen and Finnoflag Oy, Kuopio and Siilinjärvi, Finland, and others)
Chapter 3. Joint Effects of Microbiological and Environmental Factors on Ocular Health and Host Defenses
(Annamari Immonen, Jouni Pesola and Elias Hakalehto, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, and others)
Chapter 4. The Battle for Life in the Pediatric Wards of Cancer Patients: The High Relevance of a Microbiological Environment on the Treatment Results
(Jouni Pesola, Ilkka Pesola, Markus Hell and Elias Hakalehto, Department of Pediatrics, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland)
Chapter 5. Anti-Infective Effects of Wild Berries: Novel Anti-Bacterial Biomolecules may Protect against Infections
(Marko Toivanen and Carina Tikkanen-Kaukanen, University of Eastern Finland, School of Pharmacy, Kuopio, Finland, and others)
Chapter 6. Repulsion and Anti-Microbial Properties of Different Materials and Surface Coatings
(Markus Hell, Tarmo Humppi, Jouni Pesola, Osmo Hänninen and Elias Hakalehto, Medilab, Medizinisch-Chemisches Labor, Dr. Mustafa, Dr. Richter OG, Salzburg, Austria, and others)
II. Water Microbiology and Human Activities
Chapter 7. Hospital Wastewaters and the Distribution of Water- and Gut-Related Microbes Including Multi-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria
(Markus Hell, Jouni Pesola and Elias Hakalehto, Medilab, Medizinisch-Chemisches Labor, Dr. Mustafa, Dr. Richter OG, Academic Teaching Laboratories of the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, and others)
Chapter 8. Economic Considerations for the Hygienic Surveillance of Water: Some Finnish Estimations
(Ari Jääskeläinen and Elias Hakalehto, Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Kuopio, Finland, and others)
Chapter 9. The Polaris Project in the Microbiological Monitoring at Waterworks
(Anneli Heitto, Jouni Pesola, Ari Jääskeläinen, Anna-Maria Hokajärvi, Tarja Pitkänen, Elias Hakalehto and Finnoflag Oy, Kuopio and Siilinjärvi, Finland)
Chapter 10. Survival of Wastewater Viruses in the Environment
(Robert Armon, Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Technicion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
Chapter 11. Tracing Wastewaters with Fecal and Effluent Enterococci: The Distribution of the Industrial Strains within a Treatment System
(Anneli Heitto, Lauri Heitto, Elias Hakalehto, Finnoflag Oy, Kuopio and Siilinjärvi, Finland, and others)
Chapter 12. The Occurrence of Escherichia coli and Enterococci in Lake Water and Lake Bottom Sediments in Lake Kallavesi, Finland
(Lauri Heitto, Anneli Heitto, Elias Hakalehto, Savo-Karjalan, and Ympäristötutkimus Oy, Kuopio, Finland, and others)
Chapter 13. Hygiene Indicators in the Waterways
(Elias Hakalehto, Anneli Heitto and Lauri Heitto, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
Chapter 14. Different Microbial and Other Pollution Effects of the Sulfite and Kraft Processes in Pulp Making
(Ari Jääskeläinen, Anssi Suhonen, Eero Antikainen, Lauri Heitto, Anneli Heitto and Elias Hakalehto, Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Kuopio, Finland)
III. Microbes of Soil and the Atmosphere
Chapter 15. Environmental Effects of the Management of Municipal Waste, Including the Impact of Organic Recycling
(Emilia den Boerand Jan den Boer, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego, Wroclaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 16. Microbiological Circulation of Strains and Substances in Soil Management
(Elias Hakalehto, Anneli Heitto, and Jukka Kivelä, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, and others)
Chapter 17. Microbiological Treatment of Plastics and Mixed Wastes
(Elias Hakalehto, Finnoflag Oy, Kuopio, Finland, and others)
Chapter 18. Some Microbiological Solutions for the Energy Production by Combustion
(Elias Hakalehto, Pauli Ojala, and Ari Jääskeläinen, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, and others)
Chapter 19. Monitoring Microbes in the Ambient Air
(Elias Hakalehto and Tarmo Humppi, Finnoflag Oy, Kuopio and Siilinjärvi, Finland, and others)
Chapter 20. Microbiology in Traffic Systems and Vessels
(Elias Hakalehto, Eero Sauramäki, Nina Sauramäki, Jukka Sauramäki, Jouni Pesola, and Tarmo Humppi, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)
IV. The Biosphere and Its Microbes
Chapter 21. A Microbiological Approach to the Ecosystem Services
(Elias Hakalehto and E. Dahlquist, Finnoflag Oy, Kuopio and Siilinjärvi, Finland; Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, and others)
Chapter 22. Some Connections and “Meeting Points” of Microbial Ecology with Zoological Ecology – What Can We Learn?
(E. Hakalehto, P. Godia, R. del Amo, and Y. Ziv, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, and others)
Chapter 23. Environmental Hygiene Challenges of Travelers: Preparation for Exotic or Changing Climate Conditions
(Jouni Pesola, Erkki Antila, Ilkka Pesola, and Elias Hakalehto, Department of Pediatrics, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland, and others)
Chapter 24. Microalgal Biorefineries: Solutions of Neutral Industries
(Mikko Immonen and Anneli Heitto, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, and others)
Chapter 25. The Role of the Plankton and Microbe Communities in the Northern Pelagic Ecosystems and the Effects of Climate Change
(Susanna Jernberg, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki, Finland)
Chapter 26. The Effects of Bioprocess Scale, Intracellular Milieu and Environmental Parameters
(Elias Hakalehto, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Epilogue
Index
