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    Cynthia Nau Cornelissen, Marcia Metzgar Hobbs.
    Summary: Enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information about medical microbiology. The book has the hallmark features for which Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews volumes are so popular: an outline format, full-color illustrations, end-of-chapter summaries, review questions, plus an entire section of clinical case studies with full-color illustrations.

    Contents:
    Unit I: The microbial world :
    Introduction to microbiology
    Normal flora
    Pathogenicity of mciroogranisms
    Diagnostic microbiology
    Vaccines and antimicrobial agents
    Unit II: Bacteria :
    Bacterial structure, growth, and metabolism
    Bacterial genetics
    Staphlococci
    Streptococci
    Gram-positive rods
    Neisseriae
    Gastrointestinal gram-negative rods
    Other gram-negative rods
    Clostridia and other anaerobic rods
    Spirochetes
    Mycoplasma
    Chlamydiae
    Mycobacteria and actinomycetes
    Rickettsia, ehrlichia, anaplasma, and coxiella
    Unit III: Fungi and parasites :
    Fungi
    Protozoa
    Helminths
    Unit IV: Introduction to the viruses :
    Nonenveloped DNA viruses
    Enveloped DNA viruses
    Hepatitis B and hepatitis D (Delta) viruses
    Positive-strand RNA viruses
    Retroviruses
    Negative-strand RNA viruses
    Double-stranded RNA viruses: reoviridae
    Unconventional infectious agents
    Unit V: Clinical microbiology review :
    Quick review of clinically important microogranisms
    Disease summaries
    Illustrated case studies.
    Digital Access LWW Health Library 2020