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Medical Microbiology: With Student Consult Online Access [With Access Code]
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A succinct, easy-to-use, and engaging way to study microbiology Clear discussions explain how microbes cause disease in humans, and review the updated vaccines and new antibiotics currently available to treat these diseases. Expert coverage of basic principles, the immune response, laboratory diagnosis, bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology ensures that you'll understand all the facts vital to the practice of medicine today.Focuses on why the biologic properties of organisms are important to disease in humans, equipping you with a practical understanding of microbiology.
Examines etiology, epidemiology, host defenses, identification, diagnosis, prevention, and control for each microbe in consistently organized chapters, enabling you to find the information you need fast.
Features summary tables and text boxes that emphasize essential concepts and learning issues, enabling you to make your exam review more efficient.
Correlates basic science with clinical practice through review questions at the end of each chapter to help you understand the clinical relevance of the organisms examined.
Uses clinical cases from literature reports to illustrate the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases.Covers current refinements in vaccines - as well as the newest antibiotics - to provide you with the latest guidance in managing diseases such as community-acquired and opportunistic fungal infections, which pose increasing challenges in treatment
Provides more clinical photographs throughout that help you better understand the clinical applications of microbiology
Features revised artwork - more than 635 brilliant images, nearly all in full colour-that offers a more consistent and modern approach to the study of medical microbiology
Offers expanded use of summary boxes for bacteria throughout all organism chapters to further enhance your review and learning
Includes enhanced Student Consult features - self-assessment questions, clinical cases, animations showing the actions of various important toxins, and a PowerPoint presentation with supplemental images of organisms and stains
Examines etiology, epidemiology, host defenses, identification, diagnosis, prevention, and control for each microbe in consistently organized chapters, enabling you to find the information you need fast.
Features summary tables and text boxes that emphasize essential concepts and learning issues, enabling you to make your exam review more efficient.
Correlates basic science with clinical practice through review questions at the end of each chapter to help you understand the clinical relevance of the organisms examined.
Uses clinical cases from literature reports to illustrate the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases.Covers current refinements in vaccines - as well as the newest antibiotics - to provide you with the latest guidance in managing diseases such as community-acquired and opportunistic fungal infections, which pose increasing challenges in treatment
Provides more clinical photographs throughout that help you better understand the clinical applications of microbiology
Features revised artwork - more than 635 brilliant images, nearly all in full colour-that offers a more consistent and modern approach to the study of medical microbiology
Offers expanded use of summary boxes for bacteria throughout all organism chapters to further enhance your review and learning
Includes enhanced Student Consult features - self-assessment questions, clinical cases, animations showing the actions of various important toxins, and a PowerPoint presentation with supplemental images of organisms and stains
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0323054706
ISBN13:9780323054706
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:Mosby
Length:960 Pages
Weight:4.42 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 8.5" x 10.9"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Fantastic book ...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I used this book for my undergrad class and luckily my med school also uses this. As well as my husband has a previous copy that he used in med school. The text is very thorough, although it was lacking in a basic classification of bacteria, that would have been nice. (Like a chart of all gram - on one side and all gram +). Just gave a previous edition to a physician for reference and he loves it! I used this book in conjunction with clinical micro made simple and I have to say, I love both these books. Diagrams are clear, sometimes some of the topics are a bit jumbled (like immunology). There aren't alot of images either so you may need to supplement. That shouldn't be a problem though. This text is better if you have a basics of micro already down, definitely a higher level micro book or grad book. I would recommend!
How pathogens cause disease
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The first thing to understand about this book is that it is a textbook and a difficult one. The difficulty for the beginning student or general reader is not a fault of the authors. Rather it is because medical microbiology itself is a daunting subject full of organisms that can only be seen fuzzily with an electron microscope, if at all, organisms involved in processes and behaviors that are foreign to our everyday experience. Add the fact that most of the material covered here is not part of a non-specialist curriculum either in high school or college, and effectively speaking the untrained reader is starting from scratch.Well, why do that? First of all, because the material itself--how viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other infectious organisms enter the body, replicate, and cause disease--is fascinating and of immediate relevance to our lives. Second because (to my knowledge) there is little or nothing else available to the general reader that goes beyond a sketchy introduction to the subject. One is forced to read a text book. Fortunately this is a good one and it is thorough.The text covers the range of infectious disease from viruses to tapeworms. The amount of technical information presented is daunting, and the sheer expanse of terminology a challenge (why is there no glossary?). The text is lavishly illustrated with photos and electron micrographs of the pathogens, as well as numerous schematic drawings showing how microorganisms cause disease, how they replicate, their chemical structure, their morphology, etc. The instructional schematic drawings I found less valuable than the electron micrographs, but I suspect for the student of microbiology it might be the other way around.What you'll get out of this handsome book depends on how much time and energy you are able to devote to it. I started reading this in the hope that I would, perhaps by osmosis, pick up some feel for life at the micron level, and I did. Obviously if I had been able to study the text with the help of an instructor, I would have learned a lot more.
IT'S SUPERLATIVE!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Without questions, this superlative text ranks among the finest and the most up-to-date package on medical microbiology. It demonstrates that this interesting branch of medicine can be both versatile and concise. The book is full of valuable illustrations which students can depend on for quick revisions. Ubiquitous tables, colourful charts and figures all help to accelerate comprehension. Also, there are two additional sections whose chapters handled Immunology and Parasitology in significant detail.No single textbook may be without shortcomings, but I sincerely recommend this one.
Wonderful book on Medical Microbiology! A++
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Title says it all. Excellent book for the microbiology student looking at infectious diseases. This book also comes with good use of pictures to describe diseases and their effects. I also would recommend Sherris Medical Microbiology - probably is slightly better, but has no pictures of what infectious disease symptoms look like, would need Atlas of Infectious Diseases the co-inside with that book.
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