TY - CHAP AU - Wajdi Ben Hania AU - Nathalie Ballet AU - Pascal Vandeckerkove AU - Bernard Ollivier AU - Paul W. O’Toole AU - Jean-François Brugère ED - Haitham Sghaier ED - Afef Najjari ED - Kais Ghedira Y1 - 2017-10-11 PY - 2017 T1 - Archaebiotics: Archaea as Pharmabiotics for Treating Chronic Disease in Humans? N2 - Besides the Introductory Chapter that gives a brief overview of archaeal applications, the present book contains four chapters. The first chapter, by Castro-Fernandez et al., provides an interesting depiction of the phylum Euryarchaeota and its biotechnological applications. The second chapter, by Ben Hania and coauthors, focuses on the promotion of the idea that some specific Archaea are potential next-generation probiotics. The third chapter, by Torregrosa-Crespo et al., emphasizes the main characteristics of biocompounds from haloarchaea and their potential uses in biomedicine, pharmacy, and industry. The concluding chapter, by Mizuno et al., proposes a plasmid curing approach for improving the potential of thermophiles in various biotechnological applications and opens new perspectives on industrial valorization. BT - Archaea SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.69945 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.69945 SN - 978-953-51-3570-8 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -