BookCynthia 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.