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At the beginning of the year, new non-fiction books on the subject of bacteria were published, some of them marketed to children. Regrettably, titles such as “Monster Microbes” trigger negative impressions and fail to do justice to the great importance and the marvellously healthy way in which bacteria do their job. Rather more fitting is