Foundations in microbiology / Kathleen Talaro, Arthur Talaro
Imprint
Dubuque, Ia. : Wm. C. Brown Publishers, c1996
Edition
2nd ed
Descript
xxvi, 861, [48] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm
CONTENT
Main themes of microbiology -- From atoms to cells -- Tools of the laboratory -- Procaryotic profiles -- Eucaryotic profiles -- Eucaryotic cells -- Introduction to the viruses -- Elements of microbial nutrition, ecology, and growth -- Microbial metabolism -- Microbial genetics -- Genetic engineering -- Physical and chemical control of microbes -- Drugs, microbes, host-the elements of chemotherapy -- Microbe-human interactions -- Nature of host defenses