Microbiology

Description

Microbiology: A Clinical Approach is a new and unique microbiology textbook for pre-nursing and allied health students. It is clinically-relevant and uses the theme of infection as its foundation,covering all standard topics taught in a pre-nursing/allied health microbiology course. The book follows a novel sequence and includes innovative chapters on emerging infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, and bioterrorism not seen in other textbooks. Microbiology is student-friendly: its text, figures and electronic resources have been carefully designed to help students understand difficult concepts and to keep them interested in the material. The textbook is supported with a robust ancillary package for instructors which will easily allow them to incorporate the book’s new approach into their lectures. Students working towards careers in the healthcare professions will achieve success with Microbiology: A Clinical Approach.

Reviews

"[Microbiology: A Clinical Approach] is true to its title, providing an up-to-date overview of infection from a clinical perspective….The main advantage of this book is that it is organized by systems: linking the clinical syndrome to its microbiology….The easily navigable chapters are enriched with outstanding illustrations and informative tables, and finished with salient summary points. In fact, the learning aids presented far exceeded my expectations for a textbook….The opening pages of the book contain a wealth of guidance on how to use these features, with further complimentary resources available on-line and in the form of accompanying software for those who wish to apply for them….it is an interesting book that has been well researched and the format makes it fun to read. In addition, it is relatively inexpensive as far medical textbooks go and thus it would be appropriate for individual purchase as well as library collections."

Microbiology Today, June 2010

Contents

Learning Skills: Using Your Brain Effectively

PART I FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 1: What Is Microbiology and Why Does It Matter?

Chapter 2: Fundamental Chemistry for Microbiology

Chapter 3: Essentials of Metabolism

Chapter 4: An Introduction to Cell Structure and Host–Pathogen Relationships

PART II DISEASE MECHANISMS

Chapter 5: Requirements for Infection

Chapter 6: Transmission of Infection, the Compromised Host, and Epidemiology

Chapter 7: Principles of Disease

Chapter 8: Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases

PART III CHARACTERISTICS OF DISEASE-CAUSING MICROORGANISMS

Chapter 9: The Clinical Significance of Bacterial Anatomy

Chapter 10: Bacterial Growth

Chapter 11: Microbial Genetics and Infectious Disease

Chapter 12: The Structure and Infection Cycle of Viruses

Chapter 13: Viral Pathogenesis

Chapter 14: Parasitic and Fungal Infections

PART IV HOST DEFENSE

Chapter 15: The Innate Immune Response

Chapter 16: The Adaptive Immune Response

Chapter 17: Failures of the Immune Response

PART V CONTROL AND TREATMENT

Chapter 18: Control of Microbial Growth with Disinfectants and Antiseptics

Chapter 19: Antibiotics

Chapter 20: Antibiotic Resistance

PART VI MICROBIAL INFECTIONS

Chapter 21: Infections of the Respiratory System

Chapter 22: Infections of the Digestive System

Chapter 23: Infections of the Genitourinary System

Chapter 24: Infections of the Central Nervous System

Chapter 25: Infections of the Blood

Chapter 26: Infections of the Skin and Eyes

PART VII THE BEST AND THE WORST; IMPORTANT ISSUES IN MICROBIOLOGY

Chapter 27: Biotechnology

Chapter 28: Bioterrorism　

Glossary

Pathogen List

Multiple Choice Answers

Author Bio

Anthony J. Strelkauskas, Ph.D.

After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Tony Strelkauskas completed postdoctoral research at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, before becoming a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he taught immunology and microbiology to medical students. He is now the lead instructor for the microbiology course at Trident Technical College, Charleston, South Carolina, where his students have repeatedly nominated him for the Who's Who Among American Teachers.

Jennifer E. Strelkauskas, D.V.M.

Jennifer Strelkauskas is pictured here with a 6 day old baby Alpaca (called a Cria) after giving the newborn its first examination. She earned her D.V.M. from Auburn University, Alabama, and is currently practicing veterinary medicine in Hood River, Oregon.

Danielle Moszyk-Strelkauskas, M.D.

Danielle Strelkauskas earned her M.D. from the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences and then completed an internal medicine internship at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California. She is currently the Chief Academic Resident in Emergency Medicine at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California.

Related Subjects

1. Microbiology
2. Microbiology
3. Infectious Diseases
4. Nursing