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Modern Medical Microbiology - The Fundamentals Stuart Clarke

Modern Medical Microbiology - The Fundamentals By Stuart Clarke

Modern Medical Microbiology - The Fundamentals by Stuart Clarke


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This work describes in a chapter-by-chapter analysis, a vast range of common diseases and the micro-organisms that cause them, as well as covering such issues as health and safety, molecular biology and bio-terrorism.

Modern Medical Microbiology - The Fundamentals Summary

Modern Medical Microbiology - The Fundamentals by Stuart Clarke

Modern Medical Microbiology - The Fundamentals is a unique text reference that represents the culmination of more than 70 articles written over eight years and brought together in one, easy-to-read volume. It describes in a chapter-by-chapter analysis, a vast range of common diseases and the micro-organisms that cause them as well as covering issues such as health and safety, molecular biology and bio-terrorism. The book is set apart from others in the field by its easy accessibility to the core information and fills the niche left by larger texts.



Key features:

A*covers all major diseases - each with its own concise chapter

A*up to date - articles have been rewritten or revised

A*handy, non-bulky format - easy to use

A*written specifically for biomedical science students



This book will prove to be an essential text for students of microbiology, trainee scientists and undergraduate medical students involved in any aspect of microbiology. Its easy to follow style will also appeal to those with a general interest in microbiology and the impact it has on the modern world.

Modern Medical Microbiology - The Fundamentals Reviews

Excellent reading for those who need an authoritative overview of a topic or for introductory or revision purposes.
Every library that serves biomedical scientists should purchase a copy of this book immediately because I am not lending mine to anybody!
The Biomedical Scientist

..gives an interesting overview of many infectious diseases and provides the important basic facts regarding acquisition of an infection, clinical signs and treatment.
Microbiology Today

All the articles are written in very clear English and are referenced in a conventional scientific manner. Consequently, they make excellent reading for those who need an authoritative overview of a topic for introductory or revision purposes. The appendix that lists relevant websites is also useful.
CAB Abstracts

About Stuart Clarke

Stuart Clarke trained as a biomedical scientist at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough between 1988 and 1995 before undertaking a PhD in the School of Medicine at Leicester University. There he specialised in the molecular virulence of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. He then took up the post of Senior Clinical Scientist at the Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory (SMPRL) in Glasgow in 1998. He has been the Director of the SMPRL since 2000 and holds two Honorary positions at Glasgow University as a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine and as a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences. Dr Clarke's main interests lie in the fields of bacterial virulence, bacterial typing and molecular epidemiology. He has published over 40 research papers and over 90 articles.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1.Health and safety in the laboratory
General
2.Emerging and re-emerging diseases
3.Disease in the developing world
4.Food poisoning
5.Evasion of the immune response by bacteria
6.DNA vaccination
7.Antibiotics
8.The microbiology of catheters
9.Monoclonal antibodies in medicine
10.Lactic acid bacteria and human health
11.Clinical application of leeches and maggots
12.The applications of molecular biology
13.Bioterrorism
14.Plague and other yersinia infections
15.Anthrax infection
16.Botulism
17.Tetanus
18.Other anaerobic infections
19.Tuberculosis
20.Leprosy
21.Traveller's diarrhoea
22.Diarrhoeal disease in childhood
23.Salmonella
24.Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli
25.Campylobacter enteritis
26.Shigellosis
27.Cholera
28.Helicobacter pylori
29.Listeriosis
30.Syphilis
31.Chlamydia
32.Gonorrhoea
33.Whooping cough
34.Acute bacterial meningitis
35.Meningococcal disease
36.Pneumococcal disease
37.Haemophilus influenzae
38.Lyme disease
39.Q fever
40.Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
41.Brucellosis
42.Mycoplasma infection
43.Bacterial urinary tract infections
44.Cyanobacteria
Virology
45.Viral hepatitis
46.The common cold
47.Respiratory syncytial virus
48.Rubella
49.Filoviruses
50.Smallpox
51.Influenza
52.Epstein-Barr virus
53.Rabies
54.HIV and AIDS
55.Herpes simplex viruses I and II
56.Dengue fever
57.Human papillomavirus infection
58.Polio
59.Parvovirus infection
60.Chickenpox and shingles
Parasitology
61.Toxoplasma
62.Malaria
63.Cyclosporiasis
64.Cryptosporidiosis
65.Microsporidia
66.Schistosomiasis
67.Onchocerciasis
68.Acanthamoeba infection
69.Parasitic cestodes
Mycology
70.Candidiasis
71.Ringworm
72.Aspergillosis
73.Histoplasma
Appendix

Additional information

GOR005281544
9780340810446
0340810440
Modern Medical Microbiology - The Fundamentals by Stuart Clarke
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20030926
224
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