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... Chytrids are unloved microbes. One kind of chytrid, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis , is destroying the worlds of amphibians. Hundreds or thousands of species of frogs, salamanders, and legless amphibians called caecilians are on the brink of extinction as a result. Other chytrid species perform...

... The chapter focuses on how health professionals declared a monopoly on producing knowledge about a remarkably tricky microbe. Even as scientists, physicians, and public health professionals struggled to understand the virus and its effects, they clung to a long-standing linear, hierarchically...

... In this short fiction, the narrator partakes in a synthetic fecal microbial transplant called SynGut, where colonies of gut microbes are curated and selected for a particular gut profile and disease type. She has not anticipated the protracted time commitment and psychological drain involved...

... for multispecies resurgence. Churro sheep and Navajo weaving, orchids and extinct bees, lemurs and their farming and scientific people, jellyfish and coral polyps with their art science allies, seals and their Inuit relatives, and microbes in their myriad holobiomes play leading roles. Artists, biologists...

... 500 deaths to an “indigenous culture” whose focus on spirits rather than microbes supposedly precluded participation in biomedicine. When the 2007–2008 rabies epidemic began, Conrado and Enrique Moraleda decided to confront this narrative by producing knowledge that they themselves could take...

...Communicable Contours of the COVID-19 Pandemic The chapter focuses on how health professionals declared a monopoly on producing knowledge about a remarkably tricky microbe. Even as scientists, physicians, and public health professionals struggled to understand the virus and its effects...

... focus on spirits rather than microbes supposedly precluded participation in biomedicine. When the 2007–2008 rabies epidemic began, Conrado and Enrique Moraleda decided to confront this narrative by producing knowledge that they themselves could take to the national and international press...