The Enterobacteria, 2nd Edition

Edited by J Michael Janda, Sharon L Abbott. Washington: ASM Press, 2006, £87 (hardback), pp 411. ISBN 978-1-55581-342-0 As a microbiologist, having collaborated with quite a few gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons on past and current research projects, I am convinced most, if not all, have a great interest in bacterial infection. They might not care to admit it, but gastroenterologists have a common interest in the microbes that both inhabit and clinically infect the gastrointestinal tract and, in my experience, leap at the chance …