Foundations in microbiology
Talaro/Chess: Foundations in Microbiology is an allied health microbiology text for non-science majors with a taxonomic approach to the disease chapters. It offers an engaging and accessible writing style through the use of tools such as case studies and analogies to thoroughly explain difficult mic...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
McGraw-Hill Education
[2015]
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| Edition: | Ninth edition; McGraw-Hill international edition |
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Table of Contents:
- The main themes of microbiology
- The chemistry of biology
- Tools of the laboratory: methods of studying microorganisms
- A survey of prokaryotic cells and microorganisms
- A survey of euraryotic cells and microorganisms
- An introduction of viruses
- Microbial nutrition, ecology, and growth
- An introduction to microbial metabolism: the chemical crossroads of life
- An introduction to microbial genetics
- Genetic engineering: a revolution in molecular biology
- Physical and chemical agents for microbial control
- Drugs, mirobes, host: the elements of chemotherapy
- Microbe-human interactions: infection, disease, and epidemiology
- An introduction to host defenses and innate immunities
- Adaptive, specific immunity and immunization
- Disorders in immunity
- Procedures for identifying pathogens and diagnosing infections
- The gram-positive and gram-negative cocci of medical importance
- The gram-positive bacilli of medical impotance
- Miscellaneous bacterial agents of disease
- The fungi of medical importance
- The parasites of medical importance
- Introduction to viruses that infect humans: the DNA viruses
- The RNA viruses that infect humans
- Environmental microbiology
- Applied and industrial microbiology