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Author:   Kathleen Park Talaro
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Professional
Edition:   5th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 28.20cm
Weight:   2.259kg
ISBN:  

9780072951707

ISBN 10:   0072951702
Publication Date:   16 March 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1 The Main Themes of Microbiology2 From Atoms to Cells: A Chemical Connection3 Tools of the Laboratory: The Methods for Studying Microorganisms4 Procaryotic Profiles: The Bacteria and Archaea5 Eucaryotic Cells and Microorganisms6 An Introduction to the Viruses7 Elements of Microbial Nutrition, Ecology, and Growth8 Microbial Metabolism: The Chemical Crossroads of Life9 Microbial Genetics10 Genetic Engineering: A Revolution in Molecular Biology11 Physical and Chemical Control of Microbes12 Drugs, Microbes, Host -- The Elements of Chemotherapy13 Microbe-Human Interactions: Infection and Disease14 The Nature of Host Defenses15 The Acquisition of Specific Immunity and Its Applications16 Immunization and Immune Assays17 Disorders in ImmunityIntroduction to Identification Techniques in Medical Microbiology18 The Cocci of Medical Importance19 The Gram-Positive Bacilli of Medical Importance20 The Gram-Negative Bacilli of Medical Importance21 Miscellaneous Bacterial Agents of Disease22 The Fungi of Medical Importance23 The Parasites of Medical Importance24 Introduction to the Viruses of Medical Importance: The DNA Viruses25 The RNA Viruses of Medical Importance26 Environmental and Applied Microbiology

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Kathleen Park Talaro is a microbiologist, educator, author, and artist. She has been nurturing her love of microbiology since her youth growing up on an Idaho farm where she was first fascinated by tiny creatures she could just barely see swimming in a pond. This interest in the microbial world led to a biology major at Idaho State University, where she worked as a teaching assistant and scientific illustrator for one of her professors. This was the beginning of an avocation that she continues todaythat of lending her artistic hand to interpretation of scientific concepts. She continued her education at Arizona State University, Occidental College, California Institute of Technology, and California State University. She has taught microbiology and majors biology courses at Pasadena City College for 30 years, during which time she developed new curricula and refined laboratory experiments. She has been an author of, and contributor to, several publications of the William C. Brown Company and McGraw-Hill Publishers since the early 1980s, first illustrating and writing for laboratory manuals and later developing this textbook. She has also served as a coauthor with Kelly Cowan on the first two editions of Microbiology: A Systems Approach. Kathy continues to make microbiology a major focus of her life and is passionate about conveying the significance and practical knowledge of the subject to students, colleagues, family, friends, and practically anyone who shows interest. In addition to her writing and illustration, she keeps current attending conferences and participating in the American Society for Microbiology and its undergraduate educational programs. She is gratified by the many supportive notes and letters she has received over the years from devotees of microbiology and users of her book. She lives in Altadena, California, with husband Dave Bedrosian, and son David. Whenever she can, she visits her family in Idaho. In her spare time, she enjoys photography, reading true crime books, music, crossword puzzles, and playing with her rescued kitties.

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