This fully revised and updated third edition features fourteen new authors and three entirely new chapters on bacterial resistance - Clostridium difficile, and Helicobacter pylori. Other highlights include an outline of all chapters for easy reference and details of changes made since the last edition.
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About previous editions:
Practically faultless ... recommended for purchase by all major hospital libraries.'
The Lancet
Remarkable consistency... well written... a wealth of information... admirably fills the niche for which it was intended.'
Journal of American Medical Association
About the New Edition:
Overall, this is a fine text, current, and concise, a useful reference that truly complements the more traditional textbooks of microbiology...This volume will find a place on many physicians bookshelves ...I hope that Dr. Brachman, his colleagues...will continue Bacterial Infections in Humans and its companion Viral Infections in Humans for many editions to come.'
Journal of American Medical Association, 281: 23 (1999)
All in all, the third edition of Bacterial Infections of Humans' is a highly recommendable book and worth its price.'
Zentralblatt fA1/4r Bakteriologie, 289: 5-7 (1999)
Practically faultless ... recommended for purchase by all major hospital libraries.'
The Lancet
Remarkable consistency... well written... a wealth of information... admirably fills the niche for which it was intended.'
Journal of American Medical Association
About the New Edition:
Overall, this is a fine text, current, and concise, a useful reference that truly complements the more traditional textbooks of microbiology...This volume will find a place on many physicians bookshelves ...I hope that Dr. Brachman, his colleagues...will continue Bacterial Infections in Humans and its companion Viral Infections in Humans for many editions to come.'
Journal of American Medical Association, 281: 23 (1999)
All in all, the third edition of Bacterial Infections of Humans' is a highly recommendable book and worth its price.'
Zentralblatt fA1/4r Bakteriologie, 289: 5-7 (1999)
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As Alfred S. Evans and Harry A. Feldman indicated in the preface to the first edition of Bacterial Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control, the aim of the text was to bridge "the gap between texts on basic microbiology and those on clinical infectious diseases...." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oculogenital diseases, positive tuberculin reactors, nontuberculous mycobacterial disease, nosocomial risk, congenital syphilis cases, clinical pertussis, tuberculosis case rates, ulceroglandular disease, aureus disease, pvlori infection, endemic treponematoses, lepromatous cases, nosocomial bacterial infections, tularemic pneumonia, extrapulmonary cases, influenzae disease, infecting serovar, serious pneumococcal infections, circulating antitoxin, charide vaccine, syphilis control programs, endemic diarrhea, priori infection, staphylococcal disease, diphtheria incidence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rocky Mountain, World Health Organization, United Kingdom, South Africa, Latin America, North America, Advisory Committee, Boca Raton, Expanded Programme, North Carolina, Oxford University Press, Year Figure, Agents Chemother, South America, Southeast Asia, Soviet Union, South Carolina, African Americans, Great Britain, Academic Press, American Academy of Pediatrics, Boston City Hospital, National Institutes of Health, Papua New Guinea New!
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As Alfred S. Evans and Harry A. Feldman indicated in the preface to the first edition of Bacterial Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control, the aim of the text was to bridge "the gap between texts on basic microbiology and those on clinical infectious diseases...." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oculogenital diseases, positive tuberculin reactors, nontuberculous mycobacterial disease, nosocomial risk, congenital syphilis cases, clinical pertussis, tuberculosis case rates, ulceroglandular disease, aureus disease, pvlori infection, endemic treponematoses, lepromatous cases, nosocomial bacterial infections, tularemic pneumonia, extrapulmonary cases, influenzae disease, infecting serovar, serious pneumococcal infections, circulating antitoxin, charide vaccine, syphilis control programs, endemic diarrhea, priori infection, staphylococcal disease, diphtheria incidence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rocky Mountain, World Health Organization, United Kingdom, South Africa, Latin America, North America, Advisory Committee, Boca Raton, Expanded Programme, North Carolina, Oxford University Press, Year Figure, Agents Chemother, South America, Southeast Asia, Soviet Union, South Carolina, African Americans, Great Britain, Academic Press, American Academy of Pediatrics, Boston City Hospital, National Institutes of Health, Papua New Guinea New!
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