By
David Greenwood, BSc, PhD, DSc, FRCPath, Emeritus Professor of Antimicrobial Science, University of Nottingham Medical School
Richard Slack, MA, MB, BChir, FFPHM, MRCPath, DRCOG, Senior Lecturer, Division of Microbiology, University of Nottingham Medical School, Nottingham,
UK; Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, Nottingham Health Authority; Honorary Consultant, Public Health Laboratory Service, Nottingham,
UK
John Peutherer, BSc, MB, ChB, MD, FRCPath, FRCPE, Formerly Senior Lecturer, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh Medical School;
Honorary Consultant, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust, Edinburgh, UK
Michael Barer, MBBS, PhD, FRCPath, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester Medical School, Leicester, UK
Description
"...reaches the high standards set by previous editions and should be a required purchase for all medical and biomedical students."
British
Journal of Biomedical Science (review of 16th edition)
Now in full colour, this new edition of the bestselling
Medical
Microbiology covers Microbial biology; Infection and immunity; Bacterial pathogens and associated diseases; Viral pathogens and
associated diseases; Fungal pathogens and parasitic infections; and Diagnosis, treatment and control of infection. The major portion
gives an organism-based systematic coverage of microbiology. Each organism is considered under a standard set of headings: Description,
Pathogenesis, Clinical features, Laboratory diagnosis, Treatment, and Epidemiology. The section on immunology covers that part of the
subject that is of direct relevance to the understanding of microbial infection.
