"Cases in Human Parasitology focuses solely on parasites that adversely affect humans. Intended as a supplement to textbooks in human parasitology for undergraduate and medical school courses, this book of 62 case studies is also an important educational reference source for hea…
Accompanying Digital Learning Guide CD-ROM is an interactive, automated program that organizes key information from the textbook, paces you through learning the material, and then allows you to quiz yourself and assess your progress.
Offers an examination of epidemic diseases within a historical context. This volume presents the science of plagues in an understandable and accessible manner, describing the nature and evolution of diseases and conveying their significance in shaping Western culture and civiliz…
From Hippocrates to Lillian Wald, the stories of scientists whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection. Describes the genesis of the germ theory of disease by a dozen seminal thinkers such as Jenner, Lister, and Ehrlich. Presents the "inside stories" of these …
Sequencing Microbial Genomes / Christoph W. Sensen -- Statistical Predictions of Coding Regions in Prokaryotic Genomes by Using inhomogeneous Markov Models / Mark Borodosky -- Bacterial Genomes-All Shapes and sizes / Stewart T. Cole -- Archaea: Whose Sister Lineage? / Robert L. …
"Outbreak: Cases in Real-World Microbiology is a fascinating new textbook aimed at introductory microbiology instructors and students. Generously illustrated with color photographs, the book integrates headline-making disease outbreaks into the microbiology coursework and is the…
