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Medical Microbiology

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  • 5th Edition - June 3, 2005
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Patrick R. Murray, Ken S. Rosenthal, Michael A. Pfaller
  • Language: English

ASM News called the 4th Edition of Dr. Murray’s best-selling book “the most colorful and fun text to read in medical microbiology.” Now it’s back in an updated New Edition—and… Read more

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ASM News called the 4th Edition of Dr. Murray’s best-selling book “the most colorful and fun text to read in medical microbiology.” Now it’s back in an updated New Edition—and it’s as succinct, user-friendly, and authoritative as ever. Readers will continue to enjoy its lucid discussions of how microbes cause disease in humans. Expert coverage of basic principles, the immune response, laboratory diagnosis, bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology ensures they understand all the facts vital to the practice of medicine today. More than 550 brilliant full-color images make complex information easy to understand and illustrate the appearance of disease.

Key features

  • Offers readers a practical understanding of microbiology by focusing on why the biologic properties of organisms are important to disease.
  • Examines etiology, epidemiology, host defenses, identification, diagnosis, prevention, and control for each microbe in consistently organized chapters.
  • Emphasizes essential concepts and learning issues with summary tables and text boxes.
  • Correlates basic science with clinical practice through review questions at the end of each chapter.
  • Defines and explains new terms.

Readership

Medical and health professional students; undergraduate courses in Medical Microbiology.

Table of contents

1. Introduction


Basic Principles of Medical Microbiology


2. Bacterial Classification


3. Bacterial Morphology and Cell Wall Structure and Synthesis


4. Bacterial Metabolism and Growth


5. Bacterial Genetics


6. Viral Classification, Structure, and Replication


7. Fungal Classification, Structure, and Replication


8. Parasitic Classification, Structure, and Replication


9. Commensal and Pathogenic Microbial Flora in Humans


10. Sterilization, Disinfection, and Antisepsis


Basic Concepts in the Immune Response


11. Elements of Host Protective Responses


12. Cellular Immune Responses


13. The Humoral Immune Response


14. Immune Responses to Infectious Agents


15. Antimicrobial Vaccines


General Principles of Laboratory Diagnosis


16. Microscopic Principles and Applications


17. Molecular Diagnosis


18. Serologic Diagnosis


Bacteriology


19. Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenesis


20. Antibacterial Agents


2l. Laboratory Diagnosis of Bacterial Diseases


22. Staphylococcus and Related Organisms
23. Streptococcus


24. Enterococcus and Other Gram-Positive Cocci


25. Bacillus


26. Listeria and Erysipelothrix


27. Corynebacterium and Other Gram-Positive Bacilli


28. Nocardia and Related Organisms


29. Mycobacterium


30. Neisseria and Related Organisms


31. Enterobacteriaceae


32. Vibrio and Aeromonas


33. Campylobacter, Arcobacter, and Helicobacter


34. Pseudomonas and Related Organisms


35. Haemophilus and Related Bacteria


36. Bordetella, Francisella and Brucella


37. Legionella and Miscellaneous Gram-Negative Rods


38. Anaerobic, Spore-Forming Gram-Positive Bacteria


39. Anaerobic, Non-Spore-Forming Gram-Positive Bacteria


40. Anaerobic Gram-Negative Bacteria


41. Treponema, Borrelia, and Leptospira


42. Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma, and Acholeplasma


43. Rickettsia and Orientia


44. Ehrlichia and Anaplasma


45. Chlamydia and Chlamydophila


46. Role of Bacteria in Disease


Virology


47. Mechanisms of Viral Pathogenesis


48. Antiviral Agents


49. Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Diseases


50. Papovaviruses


51. Adenoviruses


52. Herpesviruses


53. Poxviruses


54. Parvoviruses


55. Picornaviruses


56. Paramyxoviruses


57. Orthomyxoviruses


58. Reoviruses


59. Rhabdoviruses and Filoviruses


60. Togaviruses and Flaviviruses


61. Coronaviruses and Noraviruses


62. Bunyaviruses and Arenaviruses


63. Retroviruses


64. Hepatitis viruses


65. Slow viruses and Prions


66. Role of viruses in Disease


Mycology


67. Mechanisms of Fungal Pathogenesis


68. Antifungal Agents


69. Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases


70. Superficial and Cutaneous Mycoses


71. Subcutaneous Mycoses


72. Systemic Mycoses


73. Opportunistic Mycoses


75. Mycotoxicoses


76. Pathogenesis of Parasitic Disease


77. Antiparasitic Agents


78. Laboratory Diagnosis of Parasitic Disease


79. Intestinal and Urogenital Protozoa


80. Blood and Tissue Protozoa


81. Nematodes


82. Trematodes


83. Cestodes


84. Arthropod

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 3, 2005
  • Language: English

About the authors

PM

Patrick R. Murray

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of Maryland, School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland, USA

KR

Ken S. Rosenthal

Ken S. Rosenthal is Professor of Immunology at Augusta University, University of Georgia Medical Partnership, Athens, Georgia; Adjunct Professor Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine; Emeritus Professor Northeastern Ohio Medical University Rootstown, Ohio, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor Infectious Diseases University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine; Professor of Immunology Augusta University, University of Georgia Medical Partnership Athens, Georgia; Emeritus Professor Northeastern Ohio Medical University Rootstown, Ohio

MP

Michael A. Pfaller

Affiliations and expertise
Consultant JMI Laboratories North Liberty, Iowa; Professor Emeritus University of Iowa College of Medicine Iowa City, Iowa