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Medical Microbiology : a Guide to Infections : Pathogenesis, Immunity, Laboratory Diagnosis and Control
Infection in its various guises continues to influence, directly and indirectly, the day-to-day practice of all branches of medicine, surgery and public health. Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS kill milions of people each year, but represent only a fraction of the total burden of infectious, antibiotic resistance, food-borne pathogens, and fears of epidemic virus diseases like influenza fuel concern for health-care practitioners, government agencies, the media and the public alike. The need to understand the fascinating world of microbes and the issues surrounding the diagnosis, management, epidemiology and control of infectious diseases has never been more pressing.rnrnrnAs before, this new edition of Medical Microbiology aims to bridge the gap between texts that deal with microbiology in a traditional, organism-based way and those that take microbial diseases as the starting point or attempt to view the subject from an immunological or epidemiological perspective. A throught overview of microbial biology and the principles of the body?s immunological response to various types of micro-organism paves the way for a systematic consideration of individual groups of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.rn
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