Instant Notes in Microbiology

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Instant Notes in Microbiology , Fifth Edition, is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with a summary of essential facts - an ideal revision checklist - followed by a description of the subject that focuses on core information, with clear, simple diagrams that are easy for students to... Read more

Instant Notes in Microbiology, Fifth Edition, is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with a summary of essential facts - an ideal revision checklist - followed by a description of the subject that focuses on core information, with clear, simple diagrams that are easy for students to understand and recall in essays and exams.

This edition has been thoroughly updated. There is new material about food microbiology and water safety, biofuels, and the essentials of environmental microbiology, and more reference to archaea and yeasts and the human microbiome. Molecular techniques such as metagenomics, next generation sequencing, and CRISPR are briefly explained. Updated nomenclature of bacteria, archaea and viruses have been used throughout, but reference to pre-2022 nomenclature has been included to enable students to recognize how the new names relate to the older nomenclature. There are new tables available online of infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses (including dengue fever and COVID-19) and eukaryotic microorganisms as well as a table of applications of microbiology, including key microbial products and processes.

Key Features

Beautifully illustrated to elucidate key concepts and mechanisms
Covers a broad range of topics from eukaryotic and prokaryotic microorganisms, the human microbiome, to viruses that infect humans, plants and bacteria.
New to this edition: new nomenclature for bacteria, archaea and viruses is used throughout. The section on metabolic pathways section has been rewritten in a more accessible format. Sections on environment, human health, products and applications have been extended and there is more about archaea and yeasts.
Each subsection begins with a concise list of key concepts
A free-to-access companion website features useful resources, including interactive questions, detailed further reading, and additional tabular content.

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Preface.
A. The microbial world.
B. Prokaryotic Microorganisms.
C. DNA and Prokaryotic Genomes.
D. Transcription and Control.
E. Microbial Metabolism.
F. Eukaryotic Microorganisms
G. Human Health.
H. The Viruses
I. Viruses and Human Health
J. Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Microbes.
K. Industrial Microbiology.
L. Microbes and Their Environmental.
Further Reading
Abbreviations
Index

Author(s)

Biography

Dr Caroline Griffiths has been teaching microbiology to bioscience undergraduates for over 25 years and her research in virus biotechnology has involved antiviral drug research, the use of viruses for pest control and as gene expression vectors. She serves as an academic expert on degree accreditation panels for the Institute for Biomedical Science and as an external examiner for foundation, undergraduate and Master’s degrees within the biosciences.

Dr Shirley McCready is currently an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and has taught undergraduates and postgraduate students in California, Nigeria and Oxford, UK. Her research over many years has focused on microbial and molecular genetics, including DNA damage and repair in budding and fission yeasts and in archaea.

Instant Notes in Microbiology

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