Medical Microbiology, Updated Edition: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

by Ivan Roitt MA DSc(Oxon) Hon FRCP(Lond) FRCPath (Author), Cedric Mims BSc MD FRCPath (Author), Derek Wakelin BSc PhD DSc FRCPath (Author), Hazel Dockrell MD (Author), Mark Zuckerman MB BS(London) MSc BSc MRCP MRC (Author), Richard Goering MD PhD (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.28

  This title is presented now with access to full text online plus many other extras - posted on our associated website. Access is via unique pin number in front of book. Medical Microbiology has been improved and updated to keep it at the forefront of microbiological teaching practice. The clinically relevant, systems-based approach has been retained so as to emphasise the microbiology of the agents causing disease and the diseases affecting individual organ systems. Over 250 color diagrams explain difficult concepts while color clinical photographs appear alongside the microbiology, stressing the clinical relevance of the science. This book opens with an expanded basic introduction to viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. Then the immunology of the host is considered (again in more detail than in previous editions) before looking at the complex conflicts between host and invading agent. The clinical manifestations of these conflicts are explored within a systems-based context before concluding with a re-organised survey of microbiological diagnosis and control. Throughout, attractive design features are used to highlight core information and make study and review that bit easier: Chapter Introductions, Key Facts Boxes, Case-based Review Questions, New Microbiology Lessons and Summary Headings throughout make Medical Microbiology a pleasure to read.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.28

  Discussing each of the organ systems of the human body in turn, this microbiology textbook addresses the diseases caused by invading microbes within each of these systems. The first two of the four sections in this book describe infectious diseases in terms of the bodily conflict between the host and the parasite. The third section is a full, factual, clinically-based account on infectious diseases, with the necessary attention to core medical microbiology. The fourth and final section is devoted to prevention and treatment of microbiological infections and includes a chapter on epidemiology. Some of the principle features of this textbook are: the inclusion of integrated case-studies to reinforce the clinical relevance of the material; summary headings throughout each chapter to support important concepts; a key facts review box at the end of each chapter to enable students to prepare for course exams more effectively; and the use of review questions to encourage students to assess their knowledge.