Medical Microbiology, Updated Edition: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access - Softcover

Mims BSc MD FRCPath, Cedric; Dockrell BA (Mod) PhD, Hazel M.; Goering BA MSc PhD, Richard; Roitt DSc HonFRCP FRCPath FRS, Ivan; Wakelin BSc PhD DSc FRCPath, Derek; Zuckerman BSc(Hons) MBBS MRCP MSc FRCPath, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323035752 ISBN 13: 9780323035750

Publisher: Mosby Ltd., 2004

Synopsis

The latest edition of this internationally popular textbook has been substantially updated and improved to keep it at the forefront of clinical microbiology. Its systems-based approach emphasizes the microbiology of the agents responsible for the diseases that affect individual areas of the body. Over 250 full-color diagrams clarify complicated concepts―paired with color clinical photographs that demonstrate the clinical relevance of the science.

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About this title

About the Author:

Cedric Mims began as a zoologist, studying under GP Wells and JBS Haldane atUniversity College, London. He then went to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, graduating in 1952. After hospital appointments he spent threeyears in Uganda investigating tropical fevers, and then 16 years in Canberra, Australia, interspersed with two years in the USA. This was followed by a 20 year period in London as Professor of Microbiology at Guys Hospital MedicalSchool, where his enthusiasm for teaching found its outlet.

His career has focussed on virology, infectious diseases and immunology, and he has produced five books and more than a hundred scientific papers on thesesubjects. Pathogenesis has been his constant research interest, covering a broad range, from warts and scrapie to LCM and herpes viruses. He is always astounded at ordinary people's ignorance of what goes on inside their bodies when a microbiological invader gets to work, and in 2000 he published "The War Within Us; Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity".

Review:

Mims et al continue their proud tradition of delivering important and often complex material in a simple and informative style. Replete with new and colourful diagrams, impressively detailed images and totally new chapters this book is well formed for integration into the modern medical course. The new'Key Facts' boxes at the end of each chapter, concisely sum-up the preceeding information, and the MCQ-style questions test your knowledge. Undoubtedly it is a superb resource and a phenomenally written textbook. I can strongly recommend Medical Microbiology 3E as a vital resource to medical learning, and a generally interesting text about basic microbiology and immunological concepts. Mims appears to have an assured position on Medical Student bookshelves the world over.
Edinburgh Medics, a Res Medica supplement courtesy of the Royal Medical Society, July 2005

About this edition

• Publisher: Mosby Ltd.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0323035752
• ISBN 13: 9780323035750
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 648