High-Yield™ Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (High-Yield Series) [Paperback]

Louise Hawley (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781760321 | ISBN-13: 978-0781760324 | Publication Date: July 2, 2006 | Edition: Second

This new edition extracts the most important information on microbiology and infectious diseases and presents it in a concise, succinct fashion to prepare students for the USMLE. The book also serves as an excellent course review, with illustrations, review questions, and high-yield case study sections. This edition features 70 new images. High-Yield™ means exactly that...readers reap maximum benefits from very focused study.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Second edition (July 2, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781760321
• ISBN-13: 978-0781760324
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #408,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the High Yield Series, November 16, 2006

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IntCards (Tulsa, OK United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: High-Yield™ Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (High-Yield Series) (Paperback)

What it does right: This is the only book in the HY series the give sufficient detail to clinical cases and treatments. If you know this book, you know micro sufficient for USMLE. Goljan path has some other angles to integrate into you micro studying, but this covers the bulk of the classic microorganism, case presentations, and treatments. Concise and easily readable. The section of Q/A is priceless and sorely lacking in most of the HY titles.

What is does wrong: The book does not flow as well as I would like, but I don't like micro, so that might be part of it lol. Really, I do not have any critical complaints.

Conclusion: Great review for micro. Very good book to acclimate yourself with material before utilizing first aid. You might even find yourself using this book as a reference for more detail in areas that are not clear to you from FA.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best for reviewing, July 25, 2008

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Joao Miguel Oliveira (Portugal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High-Yield™ Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (High-Yield Series) (Paperback)

Before buying this book I had four others on microbiology. The most difficult thing was to decide which approach was better to learn this science - bug parade or according to site of infection?

Well, High-Yield Microbiology removes this problem - it analyzes bugs in both ways and plus another "Comparative Microbiology", in which it compares microbes according to several characteristics. The repetition alone improves learning.

This book is clear and well written, with helpful tables and charts. It is the best to review microbiology. Note REVIEW, you will have to have a textbook and/or go to classes if you actually want to learn.

Thus, in what it aims to be, it is the best.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Review Book, October 27, 2007

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This review is from: High-Yield™ Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (High-Yield Series) (Paperback)

Excellent review book for microbiology class or board study. Hits all the high points. Good charts, few helpful diagrams. Nicely organized and easy to read.