
Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple
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Description
NEW COLOR EDITION!!!
Excellent for USMLE Board Review!
A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable updated approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from Ebola to AIDS to flesh-eating bacteria; to mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, Clostridium difficile diagnosis and treatment; treatment of gonorrhea in light of growing antimicrobial resistance; Tuberculosis diagnostics, drugs for treatment of latent TB infection and MDR TB; the latest antibiotics; pandemic flu, including H7N9; SARS-like coronavirus; the latest hepatitis C treatment options; the latest HIV diagnostics and approved HIV meds; Zika virus; Measles and a new chapter on the latest emerging infectious diseases and drug resistant bacteria.
*What makes this world renowned, best-selling Microbiology book so unique?
Our Approach has been to:
1) Write in a conversational style for easy, rapid assimilation
2) Include numerous, humorous illustrations serving as "visual memory tools" and summary charts at the end of each chapter. These can be used for "cram sessions" after the concepts have been studied in the text
3) Concentrate more on clinical and infectious disease issues that are both interesting and vital to the actual practice of medicine
4) Create a conceptual, organized approach to the organisms studied so the student relies less on memory (unlike Sketchy which is only memory based) and more on logical pathophysiology.
This last point is CRUCIAL!!! If there were no tests that required memorization in medical school, Sketchy would be obsolete as they are based on memorization, NOT understanding. This leads to a real life problem: When you need to conceptually and logically understand a patient's illness and speak to this patient or their family, a cute little memory trick from Sketchy will not get you very far.
Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple trains you early on in your medical career how to THINK, not how to memorize!
Companion Digital Download of Atlas of Microbiology program (Win/Mac).
Author(s)
Mark T. Gladwin, M.D.
Mark T. Gladwin, M.D. is Jack D. Myers Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine and Director, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
William Trattler, M.D.
William Trattler, M.D. is Director of Cornea Center For Excellence In Eye Care Miami, FL, Volunteer Faculty Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Miami, FL.
C. Scott Mahan, M.D.
C. Scott Mahan, M.D. is Division Head of Infectious Disease at Charles George VA in Asheville, NC.
Details
Pages: 448
Publication: Edition 9 (May 25, 2022)
Language: English
Digital: Includes interactive Atlas of Microbiology download
ISBN: 9781935660491 eISBN: 9781935660606
Table of contents
PART 1. BACTERIA
1. Bacterial Taxonomy
2. Cell Structures, Virulence Factors, and Toxins
3. Bacterial Genetics (Sex)
GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA
4. Streptococcus
5. Staphylococcus
6. Bacillus and Clostridium (Spore-Forming Rods)
7. Corynebacterium and Listeria (Non-Spore-Forming Rods)
GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA
8. Neisseria
9. The Enterics
10. Hospital-Acquired Gram Negatives
11. Haemophilus, Bordetella, and Legionella
12. Yersinia, Francisella, Brucella, and Pasteurella
13. Chlamydia, Rickettsia, and Friends
14. Spirochetes
ACID-FAST BACTERIA
15. Mycobacterium
BACTERIA WITHOUT CELL WALLS
16. Mycoplasma
ANTI-BACTERIAL MEDICATIONS
17. Penicillin Family Antibiotics
18. Anti-ribosomal Antibiotics
19. Anti-Tb and Anti-leprosy Antibiotics
20. Miscellaneous Antibiotics
PART 2. FUNGI
21. The Fungi
22. Anti-fungal Medications
PART 3. VIRUSES
23. Viral Replication and Taxonomy
24. Orthomyxo and Paramyxoviridae
25. Hepatitis Viridae
26. Retroviridae, HIV, and AIDS
27. Herpseviridae
28. Rest of the DNA Viruses
29. Rest of the RNA Viruses
30. Anti-viral Medications
PART 4. PARASITES
31. Protozoans
32. Helminths
PART 5. VERY STRANGE CRITTERS
33. Prions
PART 6. THE END
34. Antimicrobial Resistance: One Step Toward the Post-antibiotic Era
35. The Agents of Bioterrorism
36. Emerging Infectious Diseases
37. SARS-2 COV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Disease