Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology

Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology
by Geo. F. Brooks, Janet S. Butel, Stephen A. Morse, Geo. Brooks, Janet Butel, Stephen Morse

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Paperback: 704 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 23 edition (April 2, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 0071412077

Book Description
The classic text on the medical aspects of medical microbiology! This comprehensive and authoritative text covers the basic and clinical aspects of microbiology. Thoroughly updated and revised, this edition continues to focus on the microbiology concepts that are essential to the diagnosis of clinical infections. Features review questions in USMLE format at the end of each chapter as well as a clinical correlations chapter that offers case studies focusing on the differential diagnosis and management of microbial infections.

Book Info
Univ. of California, San Francisco. Brandon/Hill Medical List first-purchase selection (#365). Illuminates the association between the molecular mechanisms of microbial growth and pathogenesis and the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Features more than 300 illustrations and 20 case scenarios. Previous edition: c2001. Softcover.

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Atlas of Immunology

Atlas of Immunology,
by Julius M. Cruse, Robert E. Lewis

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Hardcover: 856 pages
Publisher: CRC; 2 edition (December 29, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN: 0849315670

Book Description:
With more than 1,250 computer-generated figures, line drawings, and photographs, the Atlas of Immunology clearly demonstrates that ...a picture is worth a thousand words...Written for students, basic scientists, and clinicians, this second edition provides a thorough and up-to-date treatment of all the concepts needed to comprehend contemporary immunology. The subject matter ranges from photographs of historical figures to molecular structures of recently characterized cytokines, major histocompatibility complex molecules, immunoglobins, and molecules of related interest. Cruse; Julius M. University of Mississippi Medical Center, Mississippi, USA,Lewis; Robert E. University of Mississippi Medical Center, Mississippi, USA,

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Clinical Immunology: Principles and Practice

Clinical Immunology Principles and Practice
by Robert R. Rich (Editor), Thomas A. Fleisher (Editor), William T. Shearer (Editor), Brian L. Kotzin (Editor), Harry W. Schroeder (Editor)

Book Description
This book is the state-of-the-art, two-volume reference source in clinical immunology, written and edited by international experts in the field of immunology. The up-to-date and fully comprehensive coverage of this subject is illustrated with numerous photographs and superb illustrations. Basic science, systemic immune diseases, organ-specific inflammatory diseases, transplantation, neoplasms of the immune system, allergic diseases, therapeutics and diagnostic immunology are all covered in a clear, concise and comprehensive manner.

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Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA. Comprehensive and authoritative reference emphasizes the diagnosis and treatment of immunological diseases. Line drawings are in a common style. Additional color plates are included. CD-ROM provides illustrative material for educators. Previous edition: c1996.

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Immunology (Roitt)

Immunology
by Ivan Roitt (Editor)

Product Details:
Paperback: 423 pages
Publisher: Mosby-Year Book; 5th edition (January 1998)
Language: English
ISBN: 0723429189

Book Description
Extensively updated, with new contributors, brilliant new illustrations and a wealth of supporting material online, this 7th edition offers you a carefully structured approach to learning the building blocks of the immune system as well as initiation and actions of the immune response. The website which accompanies this text gives access to all the images in the book, up to 20 detailed animation sequences (which link to further supporting text, illustrations, molecular models and video clips), 8 lectures which explain how the immune system responds to different infections or to tissue grafts, and a test bank of 300 USMLE-style questions. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Univ. College London Medical School, U.K. Introductory text for medical students. The fifth edition includes information on cytokines, natural killer cells, intracellular signalling in Band and T-cells THl/TH2 responses.

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Microbiology Demystified

Microbiology Demystified
by Tom Betsy, James Keogh

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (May 25, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 0071446508

When you hear the words “germ,” “bacteria,” and “virus” you might cringe, running or the nearest sink to wash your hands. These words may bring back memories of when you caught a cold or the flu—never a pleasant experience. Germs, bacteria, viruses and other microscopic organisms are called microorganisms, or microbes for short. And as you’ll learn throughout this book, some microbes cause disease while others help fight it.

Think for a moment. Right now there are thousands of tiny microbes living on the tip of your finger in a world that is so small that it can only be visited by using a microscope. In this book we’ll show you how to visit this world and how to interact with these tiny creatures that call the tip of your finger home.

The microscopic world was first visited in the late 1600s by the Dutch merchant and amateur scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. He was able to see living microorganisms by using a single-lens microscope. We’ve come a long way since Van Leeuwenhoek’s first visit. Today scientists are able to see through some microbes and study the organelles that bring them to life.

It wasn’t until the Golden Age of Microbiology between 1857 and 1914 when scientists such as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch made a series of discoveries that rocked the scientific community. During this period scientists identified microbes that caused diseases, learned how to cure those diseases, and then prevented them from occurring through the use of immunization.

Scientists were able to achieve these remarkable discoveries by using culturing techniques to grow colonies of microbes in the laboratory. Once microbes could be grown at will, scientists focused their experiments on ways to slow that growth and stop microbes in their tracks—killing the microbe and curing the disease caused by the microbe.

Culturing microbes is central to the study of microbiology. You’ll be using many of the same culturing techniques described in this book to colonize microbes in your college laboratory. We provide step-by-step instructions on how to do this.You would find it difficult to live without the aid of microbes. For example, living inside your intestines are colonies of microorganisms. Just this thought is enough to make your skin crawl. As frightful as this thought might be, however, these microbes actually assist your body in digesting food. That is, you might have difficulty digesting some foods if these microbes did not exist.

Microbes in your intestines are beneficial to you as long as they remain in your intestines. However, you’ll become very ill should they decide to wander into other parts of your body. Don’t become too concerned—these microbes tend to stay at home unless your intestines are ruptured as a result of trauma.

By the end of this book you’ll learn about the different types of microbes, how to identify them by using a microscope, and how to cultivate colonies of microbes.

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