PATRICK R. MURRAY 2018 What is the bigger challenge—for a student or the instructor to understand what is important in medical microbiology? Many years ago when I took my first graduate course in medical microbiology, I read thousands of pages of text, listened to 5 hours of lectures a week, and performed lab exercises 6 hours a week for 1 year.

Patricia M. Tille 2017 This, the fourteenth edition of Bailey and Scott’s Diagnostic Microbiology, is the second edition that I have had the great pleasure to edit and author with some amazing colleagues. The dynamics of infectious disease trends, along with the technical developments available for diagnosing, treating, and controlling these diseases, continues to present major challenges in the laboratory and […]

Fritz H. Kayser Kurt A. Bienz Johannes Eckert Rolf M. Zinkernagel 2005 Medical Microbiology comprises and integrates the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology, each of which has seen considerable independent development in the past few decades. The common bond between them is the focus on the causes of infectious diseases and on the reactions of the […]

Prati Pal Singh • Vinod Sharma Editors 2014 Water has a tremendous bearing on health, development and quality of human life. Water provides a range of ecosystem services. These services provided by water are thus fundamental constituents of the economy. With each passing day, however, water availability is shrinking and water quality is deteriorating, acquiring challenging proportions.