The microbial challenge
By: Robert I. Krasner
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Burlington, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781449673338
Subjects: Emerging Communicable Diseases; Microbiological Phenomena
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Identifying the challenge; title: The microbial world; title: The beneficial aspects of microbes: the other side of the coin; title: Bacteria; title: Viruses; title: Bacterial genetics; title: Concepts of microbial disease; title: Epidemiology and cycle of microbial disease; title: Bacterial diseases; title: Viral and prion diseases; title: Protozoans and helminths, fungi and the diseases they cause; title: The immune response; title: Control of microbial diseases; title: Partnerships in the control of infectious diseases; title: Biological weapons; title: Current plagues; title: The unfinished agenda.