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Microbiologyby L.M.Prescott et al. 4th Ed (1998). The BEST all-round microbiology textbook, bar none.
"...first-class collection of up-to-date, detailed, well-presented articles...covers every aspect of bacterial protein toxins..." - Science.
The Essential Data Series provides the scientific community with up-to-the-minute research data on specified topics in life science at an affordable price. Conveniently pocket-sized for use in the laboratory, data is easily accessed, saving valuable time for today's busy research scientist. This volume provides the scientist with a single source of information on how to culture microorganisms and an up-to-date account of how to isolate and grow bacteria from different environments.
From the top of today's news, where reports of Ebola and HIV loom large, comes the story of microbes, bacteria, and how disease shaoes our everyday lives and society thrives. The superheroes in this scheme are the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who wage active war against bacteria. The new Introduction to this book places this history in a thoroughly modern context.
"Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love."
Portrays the diverse and sometimes unexpected activities of microbes through a series of 75 vignettes, each focusing on one particular organism and its characteristic behavior, leaving no doubt that microbes, not macrobes, rule the world. Covers microbes' role in food, soil, disease, antibiotics, and modern biotechnology.
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