Microbiology: The Human Experience, 2nd Edition

Part I: Fundamentals of Microbiology and Infectious Disease

1. Microbes Shape Our History
2. Basic Concepts of Infectious Disease
3. Observing Microbes
4. Living Chemistry: From Atoms to Cells
5. Cell Biology of Bacteria and Eukaryotes
6. Bacterial Growth, Nutrition, and Differentiation


Part II: Essential Biology and Control of Infectious Agents

7. Bacterial Metabolism
8. Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
9. Bacterial Genomes and Evolution
10. Bacterial Diversity
11. Eukaryotic Microbes and Invertebrate Infectious Agents
12. Viruses
13. Sterilization, Disinfection, and Antibiotic Therapy


Part III: The Immune System

14. Normal Human Microbiota: A Delicate Balance of Power
15. The Immune System: Inflammation and Innate Immunity
16. The Immune System: Adaptive Immunity


Part IV: Infectious Diseases

17. Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Immune Disorders
18. Microbial Pathogenesis
19. Infections of the Skin and Eye
20. Infections of the Respiratory Tract
21. Systemic Infections
22. Infections of the Digestive System
23. Infections of the Urinary and Reproductive Tracts
24. Infections of the Central Nervous System
25. Diagnostic Clinical Microbiology
26. Epidemiology: Tracking Infectious Diseases
27. Environmental and Food Microbiology