including Index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to medical microbiology -- Bacterial classification, structure, and replication -- Bacterial metabolism and genetics -- Viral classification, structure, and replication -- Fungal classification, structure, and replication -- Parasitic classification, structure, and replication -- Commensal and pathogenic microbial flora in humans -- Steriliaztion, disinfection, and antisepsis -- Elements of host protective responses -- Humoral immune responses -- Cellular immune responses -- Immune responses to infectious agents -- Antimicrobial vaccines -- Microscopic principles and applications -- In vitro culture: principles and applications -- Molecular diagnosis -- Serologic diagnosis -- Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis -- Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial diseases -- Antibacterial agents -- Staphylococcus and related gram-positive cocci -- Streptococcus -- Enterococcus and other gram-positive cocci -- Bacillus -- Listeria and erysipelothrix -- Corynebacterium and other gram-positive rods -- Nocardia and related bacteria -- Mycobacterium -- Neisseria and related bacteria -- Enterobacteriaceae -- Vibrio and aeromonas -- Campylobacter and helicobacter -- Pseudomonas and related bacteria -- Haemophilus and related bacteria -- Bordetella -- Francisella and brucella -- Legionella -- Miscellaneous gram-negative rods -- Clostridium -- Anaerobic, non-spore-forming, gram-positive bacteria -- Anaerobic gram-negative bacteria -- Treponema, borrelia, and leptospira -- Mycoplasma and ureaplasma -- Rickettsia and orientia -- Ehrlichia, anaplasma, and coxiella.

Chlamydia and chlamydophila -- Role of bacteria in disease -- Mechanisms of viral pathogenesis -- Antiviral agents -- Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases -- Papillomaviruses and polyomaviruses -- Adenoviruses -- Human herpesviruses -- Poxviruses -- Parvoviruses -- Picornaviruses -- Coronaviruses -- Paramyxoviruses -- Orthomyxoviruses -- Rhabdoviruses, filoviruses, and bornaviruses -- Reoviruses -- Togaviruses and flaviviruses -- Bunyaviridae and arenaviridae -- Retroviruses -- Hepatitis viruses -- Unconventional slow viruses: prions -- Role of viruses in disease -- Pathogenesis of fungal disease -- Laboratory diagnosis of fungal diseases -- Antifungal agents -- Superficial and cutaneous mycoses -- Subcutaneous mycoses -- Systemic mycoses due to dimorphic fungi -- Opportunistic mycoses -- Fungal and fungal-like infections of unusual or uncertain etiology -- Mycotoxins and mycotoxicoses -- Role of fungi in disease -- Pathogenesis of parasitic diseases -- Laboratory diagnosis of parasitic disease -- Antiparasitic agents -- Intestinal and urogenital protozoa -- Blood and tissue protozoa -- Nematodes -- Trematodes -- Cestodes -- Arthropods -- Role of parasites in disease.

This fully revised new edition provides a balanced, up-to-date and clinically relevant introduction to microbiology. Case studies with questions teach students to think like a doctor and key information is summarised in boxes.