Essential Microbiology for Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science

Pharmaceutical microbiology is a fundamentally different subject from clinical or biomedical microbiology. Whilst it has at its heart the science of microbiology and requires a full understanding of microbial structure and function, the applications are unique to the subject and include topics such as the manufacture of microbiologically sterile medicines, their subsequent protection against microbial contamination and spoilage, detection of hazardous microorganisms in medicines and antibiotics’ manufacture and assay.

Essential Microbiology for Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science is not intended to give a comprehensive coverage of the whole subject of microbiology but instead to be an easily digestible outline of the most important features as applied to pharmacy and pharmaceutical science. Concepts are explained using colour diagrams, tables and figures wherever possible. 

It is an essential study guide for undergraduates studying microbiology modules on degree courses in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences. Written by two pharmacists each with over 30 years’ experience of teaching, research and publishing in pharmaceutical microbiology, it distils the subject down into the essential elements that pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists need to know in order to practice their profession, and covers all the microbiology components of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s indicative syllabus that is at the core of every pharmacy degree.

• Essential study guide for pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students
• Information displayed in easy to assimilate format with numerous explanatory diagrams
• Full colour throughout
• Companion website with further reading, MCQs and further information to expand the text.
• Written by highly regarded academics with over 30 years each in research, teaching and publishing
• Covers all the microbiology components of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s indicative syllabus