The microbial challenge :

Krasner, Robert I.

The microbial challenge : science, disease, and public heatlh / Robert Krasner. - 2nd ed. - Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010. - xx, 476 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Includes index.

Identifying the challenge -- The microbial world -- The beneficial aspects of microbes : the other side of the coin -- Bacteria -- Viruses -- Bacterial genetics -- Concepts of microbial disease -- Epidemiology and cycle of microbial disease -- Bacterial diseases -- Viral diseases -- Protozoans and helminths and the diseases they cause -- The immune response -- Control of microbial diseases -- Partnerships in the control of infectious diseases -- Biological weapons -- Current plagues -- The unfinished agenda.

9780763756895 (alk. paper)

2009013469


Medical microbiology.
Communicable Diseases, Emerging.
Microbiology.

QR46.K7 2010

616.9/041


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