Loose Leaf for Prescott's Principles of Microbiology

by Willey, Joanne; Sandman, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9781260805635
• ISBN10: 1260805638
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2020-01-06
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Table of Contents

Part One  Introduction to Microbiology
1  The Evolution of Microorganisms and Microbiology
2  Microscopy
3  Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Structure
4  Eukaryotic Cell Structure
5  Bacterial and Archaeal Growth

Part Two  Microbial Metabolism
6  Introduction to Metabolism
7  Catabolism: Energy Release and Conservation
8  Anabolism: The Use of Energy in Biosynthesis

Part Three  Microbial Molecular Biology and Genetics
9  Genome Replication
10  Gene Expression
11  Regulation of Cellular Processes
12  Mechanisms of Genetic Variation

Part Four  The Diversity of the Microbial World
13  Gram-Positive Bacteria
14  Proteobacteria
15  Nonproteobacterial Gram-Negative Bacteria
16  Archaea
17  Eukaryotic Microbes
18  Viruses and Other Acellular Infectious Agents
 
Part Six  Host Defense and Pathogenicity
22  Innate Host Resistance
23  Adaptive Immunity
24  The Human Microbiome and Host Interactions
25  Infection and Pathogenicity

Part Seven  Applied Microbiology
26  Epidemiology and Public Health Microbiology
27  Control of Microorganisms in the Environment
28  Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
29  Microbiology of Food
30  Industrial and Environmental Microbiology

Part Eight  Methods in Microbiology
31  Microbial DNA Technologies
32  Microbial Genomics
33  Methods in Microbial Biology
34  Clinical Microbiology and Immunology