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Author / Creator:Cornelissen, Cynthia Nau, author.
Edition:Fourth edition.
Imprint:Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2020]
Description:450 pages ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Series:Lippincott illustrated reviews
Lippincott's illustrated reviews.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12538961
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Other authors / contributors:Hobbs, Marcia Metzgar, author.
ISBN:9781496395856
1496395859
Notes:Includes index.
Summary:Enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information about medical microbiology. The book has the hallmark features for which Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews volumes are so popular: an outline format, full-color illustrations, end-of-chapter summaries, review questions, plus an entire section of clinical case studies with full-color illustrations.
Table of Contents:
  • Unit I: The microbial world :
  • Introduction to microbiology
  • Normal flora
  • Pathogenicity of mciroogranisms
  • Diagnostic microbiology
  • Vaccines and antimicrobial agents
  • Unit II: Bacteria :
  • Bacterial structure, growth, and metabolism
  • Bacterial genetics
  • Staphlococci
  • Streptococci
  • Gram-positive rods
  • Neisseriae
  • Gastrointestinal gram-negative rods
  • Other gram-negative rods
  • Clostridia and other anaerobic rods
  • Spirochetes
  • Mycoplasma
  • Chlamydiae
  • Mycobacteria and actinomycetes
  • Rickettsia, ehrlichia, anaplasma, and coxiella
  • Unit III: Fungi and parasites :
  • Fungi
  • Protozoa
  • Helminths
  • Unit IV: Introduction to the viruses :
  • Nonenveloped DNA viruses
  • Enveloped DNA viruses
  • Hepatitis B and hepatitis D (Delta) viruses
  • Positive-strand RNA viruses
  • Retroviruses
  • Negative-strand RNA viruses
  • Double-stranded RNA viruses: reoviridae
  • Unconventional infectious agents
  • Unit V: Clinical microbiology review :
  • Quick review of clinically important microogranisms
  • Disease summaries
  • Illustrated case studies.