Microbiology: A Clinical Approach (Paperback)

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.

"[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

PART I FOUNDATIONS

1. What Is Microbiology and Why Does It Matter?

2. Fundamental Chemistry for Microbiology

3. Essentials of Metabolism

4. An Introduction to Cell Structure and Host–Pathogen Relationships

PART II DISEASE MECHANISMS

5. Requirements for Infection

6. Transmission of Infection, the Compromised Host, and Epidemiology

7. Principles of Disease

8. Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases

PART III CHARACTERISTICS OF DISEASE-CAUSING MICROORGANISMS

9. The Clinical Significance of Bacterial Anatomy

10. Bacterial Growth

11. Microbial Genetics and Infectious Disease

12. The Structure and Infection Cycle of Viruses

13. Viral Pathogenesis

14. Parasitic and Fungal Infections

PART IV HOST DEFENSE

15. The Innate Immune Response

16. The Adaptive Immune Response

17. Failures of the Immune Response

PART V CONTROL AND TREATMENT

18. Control of Microbial Growth with Disinfectants and Antiseptics

19. Antibiotics

20. Antibiotic Resistance

PART VI MICROBIAL INFECTIONS

21. Infections of the Respiratory System

22. Infections of the Digestive System

23. Infections of the Genitourinary System

24. Infections of the Central Nervous System

25. Infections of the Blood

26. Infections of the Skin and Eyes

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

27. Biotechnology

28. Bioterrorism

Answers to Questions

Glossary

Pathogen List

Anthony J. Strelkauskas, PhD

After earning a PhD 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, DVM

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 DVM from Auburn University, Alabama, and is currently practicing veterinary medicine in Hood River, Oregon.

Danielle Moszyk-Strelkauskas, MD

Danielle Strelkauskas earned her MD 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.

Microbiology

Microbiology

A Clinical Approach

By Anthony Strelkauskas, Jennifer Strelkauskas, Danielle Moszyk-Strelkauskas

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