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Author: Lev Potkov
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Added Date: 2022-02-27
Language: eng
Subjects: biology, microbiology, foreign languages publishing house, mycology, industry, useful microbes, disease causing microbes, agriculture, history of microbiology
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The reading public has always been keenly interested in the world of microscopic beings. And it is not difficult to explain why this is so, for the organisms which can
be seen only through the microscope play an exceeding ly important role in Nature and in the life of man. It is micro-organisms that are responsible for the rotation of various substances in soil and to a great extent de termine its productivity. Therefore, it is only natural that microbes occupy such a prominent place i'n the works of the great Russian soil scientists V. Dokuchayev, P. Kostychev and V. Williams.
The activity of microbes in water reservoirs is also very important as they are the direct producers of fodder for aquatic fauna.
Today we know that a number of geological forma tions owe their existence to microbes, which, consequent ly, are a potent geological factor. Microbiological methods are now widely used in geological survey, par ticularly, in petroleum prospecting.
Many industries, especially those dealing with fermen tation and food processing, are based on the action of micro-organisms. Further development of such industries is wholly dependent on the progress of microbiology.
The readers hardly need being reminded of the fact that micro-organisms are the cause of various diseases
of man, animals and plants. Mankind cannot success fully control disease without a thorough study of its agents.
Recently, microbes have been discovered which
produce therapeutic substances—antibiotics—whose prac
tical application has proved highly effective, so that a
number of diseases formerlv considered incurable no
longer constitute a threat to humanity. Antibiotics can
be used for the treatment not only of humans, but also
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of animals and plants. The production of antibiotics is an extensive branch oF industrv.
We could give many more examples illustrating the importance of microbes, but even the few already mem tioned are sufficient to draw attention to this group of organisms and make them the object of thorough study. Russian scientists have made a valuable contribution
to microbiology, and the history of the science shall preserve for ever the names of I. Mechnikov, N. Gama- leya, I). Zabolotny, S. Vinogradsky, V. Omelyansky, B. Isachenko, and many other workers. Soviet microbiologists are today further developing the achievements
of their teachers on the basis of up-to-date techniques.
It is not easy to describe in popular form the development and successes of microbiology. The book by
L. Potkov is an attempt to solve this task. The author had worked long and assiduously, and we hope his effort will not prove in vain and that the book will meet the requirements of the readers.
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