Geoff Brooks, MD, is head of the Clinical Microbiology lab at UCSF.
Janet Butel, PhD, is Distinguished Services Professor and Head, Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor University College of Medicine.
Stephen A. Morse, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
Preface | |
The science of microbiology | |
Cell structure | |
Classification of bacteria | |
The growth, survival, & death of microorganisms | |
Cultivation of microorganisms | |
Microbial metabolism | |
Microbial genetics | |
Immunology | |
Pathogenesis of bacterial infection | |
Antimicrobial chemotherapy | |
Normal microbial flora of the human body | |
Spore-forming gram-positive bacilli : bacillus & clostridium species | |
Non-spore-forming gram-positive bacilli : corynebacterium, propionibacterium, listeria, erysipelothrix, actinomycetes, & related pathogens | |
The staphylococci | |
The streptococci | |
Enteric gram-negative rods (enterobacteriaceae) | |
Pseudomonads, acinetobacters, & uncommon gram-negative bacteria | |
Vibrios, campylobacters, helicobacter, & associated bacteria | |
Haemophilus, bordetella, brucella, & francisella | |
Yersinia & pasteurella | |
The neisseriae | |
Infections caused by anaerobic bacteria | |
Legionellae, bartonella, & unusual bacterial pathogens | |
Mycobacteria | |
Spirochetes & other spiral microorganisms | |
Mycoplasmas & cell wall-defective bacteria | |
Rickettsia & ehrlichia | |
Chlamydiae | |
General properties of viruses | |
Pathogenesis & control of viral diseases | |
Parvoviruses | |
Adenoviruses | |
Herpesviruses | |
Poxviruses | |
Hepatitis viruses | |
Picornaviruses (enterovirus & rhinovirus groups) | |
Reoviruses, rotaviruses, & caliciviruses | |
Arthropod-borne & rodent-borne viral diseases | |
Orthomyxoviruses (influenza viruses) | |
Paramyxoviruses & rubella virus | |
Coronaviruses | |
Rabies, slow virus infections, & prion diseases | |
Human cancer viruses | |
AIDS & lentiviruses | |
Medical mycology | |
Medical parasitology | |
Principles of diagnostic medical microbiology | |
Cases & clinical correlations | |
Index | |
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