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Notes on Medical Microbiology: Including Virology, Mycology and Parasitology - Softcover

Timbury, Morag C.; McCartney, A. Christine; Ward, Katherine N.; Thakker, Bishan

 
9780443071645: Notes on Medical Microbiology: Including Virology, Mycology and Parasitology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0443071640 ISBN 13: 9780443071645
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2002

Synopsis

This book gives an introduction to medical microbiology for medical students. Its contents reflect the current medical curriculum with the whole emphasis on the clinical effect of infection. The book is the successor to the highly successful Notes on Medical Bacteriology and Notes on Medical Virology. The text is illustrated throughout with colour clinical photographs.

  • Combined treatment of bacteriology and virology
  • More emphasis on evidential medicine and accepted protocols.
  • Increased number of colour illustrations.
  • Changes to reflect diseases of topical interest (eg CJD).
  • Changes to reflect molecular diagnostic techniques (eg PCR).
  • Updated and expanded section on HIV/AIDS.

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    About the Author

    Morag C Timbury, Formerly Director, Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale, London, UK; Christine McCartney, Deputy Director, Central Public Health Laboratories, Colindale, UK; Bishan Thakker, Consultant Bacteriologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK; and Kate Ward, Senior Lecturer, Department of Virology, University College London, London, UK

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    Publisher
    Churchill Livingstone
    Publication date
    2002
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    0443071640
    ISBN 13 
    9780443071645
    Binding
    Paperback
    Edition number
    1
    Number of pages
    608