Practical Medical Microbiology For Clinicians

Infectious diseases constitute a major portion of illnesses worldwide, and microbiology is a main pillar of clinical infectious disease practice. Knowledge of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites is integral to practice in clinical infectious disease.

Practical Medical Microbiology for Clinicians is an invaluable reference for medical microbiology instructors. Drs. Berkowitz and Jerris are experienced teachers in the fields of infectious diseases and microbiology respectively, and provide expert insight into microorganisms that affect patients, how organisms are related to each other, and how they are isolated and identified in the microbiology laboratory. The text also is designed to give clinicians the knowledge they need to facilitate communication with the microbiologist in their laboratory.

The text takes a systematic approach to medical microbiology, describing taxonomy of human pathogens and consideration of organisms within specific taxonomic groups. The text tackles main clinical infections caused by different organisms, and supplements these descriptions with clinical case studies, in order to demonstrate the effects of various organisms.

Practical Medical Microbiology for Clinicians is an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and researchers studying clinical microbiology, medical microbiology, infectious diseases, and virology.

Comprehensive in scope and written in a style to help readers understand both the organisms that infect their patients and what occurs in the microbiology laboratory

Includes many high-quality photographs, as well as drawings, diagrams, and maps, to enhance content comprehension

Includes illustrative cases associated with the discussion of the different organisms, and a section of case scenarios illustrating microbiology laboratory work-up

Frank E. Berkowitz is an Infectious Diseases Specialist in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, USA.
Robert C. Jerris is the Director of Clinical Microbiology at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta in Atlanta, GA, USA.