Medical Microbiology: A Guide to Microbial Infections : Pathogensis, Immunity, Laboratory Diagnosis, and Control
- 15th ed.
- london churchill livingstone 1997
- 690 pages Includes bibliographies and index.
The book is divided into six sections, with the bulk of the text giving an organism-based systematic coverage of microbiology. Each organism is considered under a standard set of headings: description/pathogenesis/clinical features/laboratory diagnosis/treatment/epidemiology. Immunology is covered where it is of direct relevance to the understanding of microbial infection. The book has been fully updated to keep upwith this rapidly changing subject; for example, in relation to viruses (such as HIV), antiviral drugs, and immunology