Product Description

A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from AIDS to "flesh-eating bacteria" to ebola, mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, etc. Excellent Board review.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1386 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Released on: 2007-02-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

Book Info
Synopsis of medical microbiology and antimicrobial therapy. For medical students. Conversational writing style. Abundant cartoon-like illustrations. Concentrates on clinical and infectious disease issues that are both interesting and vital to contemporary medicine. Previous edition: c1995. Softcover.

About the Author
Chief, Vascular Medicine Branch and Director of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Functional Genomics Core of the National Institutes of Health

Customer Reviews

Pretty Much delivers what it claims
If you're intimidated by Microbiology, then this book serves as a great introduction. I was called to teach a graduate level microbiology course, which is very different than the specialties I normally teach. I'd never taken a microbiology course and textbook assigned to the course was daunting and too heavy to travel with on the airplane. So I ordered this book and read it over the weekend prior to jumping into the textbook. It's impossible to cover all areas of this vast topic in one, "simple" and concise text. In retrospect many concepts were oversimplified, but I do still it's a good buy, plus but it can even be amusing at times, considering it's a microbiology text.
Lastly, this book is among the best on this topic in the "idiot" or "dummies" series, and it orders of magnitudes better than the "Demystified: Microbiology " by Betsy and Keogh. That book contained nearly as many errors and typos as it did facts!

Clinical Microbilogy made ridiculously simple
This book keeps upto it's promise. The title says it all. The authors really make the subject interesting and clear.
Sarath Jayawardana

Good if you learn well with humor
An excellent book to review microbiology as well as antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals. The illustrations are great and some are quite humorous. This text book would also make a good supplement for learning microbiology during normal course work. Highly recommended.