By Nafees Ahmad, W. Lawrence Drew, Paul Pottinger, Charles R. Sterling, Michael Lagunoff, L. Barth Reller
ISBN-10: 0071818219
ISBN-13: 9780071818216
Author note: Kenneth Ryan (Editor), C George Ray (Editor)
Publish 12 months note: initially released January eleventh 2010
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The so much dynamic, complete, and student-friendly textual content at the nature of microorganisms and the attention-grabbing tactics they hire in generating infections disease.
For greater than a quarter-of-a-century, no different textual content has defined the hyperlink among microbiology and human sickness states greater than Sherris scientific Microbiology. via a colourful, attractive procedure, this vintage delivers a superb seize of the importance of etiologic brokers, the pathogenic tactics, epidemiology, and the foundation of remedy for infectious diseases.
Part I of Sherris scientific Microbiology opens with a non-technical bankruptcy that explains the character of an infection and the an infection brokers. the next 4 chapters offer extra aspect in regards to the immune reaction to an infection and the prevention, epidemiology, and prognosis of infectious ailment. elements II via V shape the middle of the textual content with chapters at the significant viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic illnesses. every one of those sections opens with chapters on simple biology, pathogenesis, and antimicrobial agents.
Features and studying Aids:
• fifty seven chapters that easily and obviously describe the traces of viruses, micro organism, fungi, and parasites which may result in infectious illnesses
• motives of host-parasite dating, dynamics of an infection, and host reaction
• A scientific circumstances with USMLE-style questions concludes every one bankruptcy at the significant viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic illnesses
• All tables, photos, and illustrations are in complete colour
• scientific tablets conceal the essence of the disease(s) as a result of significant pathogens
• Margin Notes spotlight key issues inside a paragraph to facilitate evaluate
• as well as the chapter-ending case questions, a suite of a hundred perform questions is additionally included
Sometime sooner or later, a more robust realizing of present world wide infectious affliction scourges will result in their keep watch over. with a bit of luck, you will discover the root for that figuring out provided within the pages of this ebook.