(eBook PDF) Krasner’s Microbial Challenge 4th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 1284139182
- ISBN-13 : 978-1284139181
- Author: Teri Shors (Author)
Krasner’s Microbial Challenge: A Public Health Perspective is a unique resource unlike any other introductory microbiology textbook. Combining strong scientific grounding with a conversational writing style, it covers the subject through a public health lens and uses current events students encounter in the media, such as disease outbreaks, to engage and educate. The essentials to a foundational understanding of microbiology are fully covered, including bacteria, viruses and prions, microbial genetics, the human microbiome, and immunity combined with a focus on epidemiology and current challenges faced in public health. Now in a modernized fourth edition and featuring the voice of new lead author, Dr. Shors’ research and extensive virology knowledge complements the late Dr. Krasner’s student-friendly approach crafted from 50 years of teaching microbiology. The ideal introductory text for nursing programs, non-majors microbiology, allied health, and public health programs, Krasner’s Microbial Challenge: A Public Health Perspective, Fourth Edition is user-friendly, dynamic, and humorous. Its conversational style is certain to engage students and enhance their understanding of the ongoing interactions between microbes and their human hosts.
Table contents:
- Pre-germ theory, microbiology, and medicine
- Post-germ theory, microbiology, and medicine
- Sanitation, clean water, and food safety
- Identifying the challenge
- The microbial world
- Beneficial aspects of microbes : the other side of the coin
- Bacteria
- Viruses and prions
- Bacterial genetics
- Concepts of microbial disease
- Epidemiology and cycle of microbial disease
- Bacterial diseases
- Viral and prion diseases
- Protozoan, helminthic, and fungal diseases
- The immune response
- Control of microbial diseases
- Biological weapons, innovations, and technology
- Partnerships in the control of infectious diseases and the unfinished agenda
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