Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology.

ous edition. The book is divided into three sections. The first covers general principles of microbiology, bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. The second section discusses specific microbial agents, with a brief review of general response to infection. The third section reviews the clinical infectious disease syndromes by organ system. A subsection on infections acquired from animals and factitious illness is provided. As with any textbook of this type, where the same subject matter is covered in two or possibly three sections, there is a tendency toward repetition. However, for the most part this has been avoided, since the initial section covers the characteristics of the organisms, eg, morphology, antigenic composition, physiology, immunity, and laboratory diagnosis, while the third section focuses much