Microbiology: The Human Experience

Foster, John W.; Aliabadi, Zarrintaj; Slonczewski, Joan L.

ISBN 10: 0393906086 ISBN 13: 9780393906080

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2017

Synopsis

Microbiology: The Human Experience

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I would definitely love to use this chapter to teach the diseases of the urinary system in that it is very well laid out and the material is presented how I like it to present it.--Charles Vo, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith

Excellent, practical, stimulating, and definitively the book for allied health care students.--Lanh Bloodworth, Florida State College at Jacksonville

Very readable, and excellent for allied health majors.--Meghan May, Towson University

I think the level of discussion is spot-on for pre-health students, especially for a chapter that occurs early on in the text.... Easily read in narrative form.--Meghan May, Towson University

The greatest strength of this text is that it is simply very well written. The information delivered is clear, detailed, and without excess verbiage.--Melissa Lail-Trecker, Western New England University

I think this text speaks with the student as opposed to at the student."--Michael E. Shea, Hudson Valley Community College

The chapters provide a clear and simple introduction to the microbial world and contain a nice balance among examples, case studies, and the concepts discussed.--Sayna A. Jahangiri, Folsom Lake College

About the Author

John W. Foster received his BS from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (now the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia) and his PhD from Hahnemann University (now Drexel University School of Medicine), also in Philadelphia, where he worked with Albert G. Moat. After postdoctoral work at Georgetown University, he joined the Marshall University School of Medicine in West Virginia. He is currently teaching in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. Dr. Foster has coauthored three editions of the textbook Microbial Physiology and has published more than 100 journal articles describing the physiology and genetics of microbial stress responses. He has served as Chair of the Microbial Physiology and Metabolism division of the American Society for Microbiology and as a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Molecular Microbiology.

Edition details

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393906086
• ISBN 13: 9780393906080
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Number of pages: 1072