Medical Microbiology, 9th Edition

• • Features significant new information on the human microbiome and its influence on the immune and other body systems, and new developments in microbial diagnosis, treatment, diseases, and pathogens.

• • Updates every chapter with state-of-the-art information and current literature citations.

• • Summarizes detailed information in tabular format rather than in lengthy text.

• • Provides review questions at the end of each chapter that correlate basic science with clinical practice.

• • Features clinical cases that illustrate the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases.

• • Introduces microbe chapters with summaries and trigger words for easy review.

• • Highlights the text with clear, colorful figures, clinical photographs, and images that help you visualize the clinical presentation of infections.

• • Offers additional study features online, including 200 self-assessment questions, microscopic images of the microbes, videos, and a new integrating chapter that provides hyperlinks between the microbes, the organ systems that they affect, and their diseases.

• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text; figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

By Patrick R. Murray, PhD, Senior Worldwide Director, Scientific Affairs, BD Diagnostics, Sparks, Maryland, Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland ; Ken S. Rosenthal, PhD, Professor of Immunology, Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, Athens, GA.; Emeritus Professor, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio and Michael A. Pfaller, MD, Chief Medical Officer, T2 Biosystems, Lexington, Massachusetts, Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa College of Medicine and College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa