Microbiology fundamentals : a clinical approach / Marjorie Kelly Cowan, Miami University Middletown, Heidi Smith, Front Range Community College, Jennifer Lusk, BSN, RN, CCRN, Clinical Advisor.

By: Cowan, M. Kelly [author.]
Contributor(s): Smith, Heidi (College teacher) [author.] | Lusk, Jennifer [author.]
Language: English Publisher: New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Education, [2019]Copyright date: c2019Edition: Third editionDescription: xix, 697, A5, G-15, I-13 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781260092165Subject(s): MicrobiologyDDC classification: 579 LOC classification: QR41.2 | .C692 2019
Contents:
Introduction to microbes and their building blocks -- Tools of the laboratory: methods for the culturing and microscopic analysis of microorganisms -- Bacteria and archaea -- Eukaryotic cells and microorganisms -- Viral structure and life cycles -- Microbial nutrition and growth -- Microbial metabolism -- Microbial genetics and genetic engineering -- Physical and chemical control of microbes -- Antimicrobial treatment -- Interactions between microbes and humans -- Host defenses I: overview and nonspecific defenses -- Host defenses II: specific immunity and immunization -- Disorders in immunity -- Diagnosing infections -- Infectious diseases affecting the skin and eyes -- Infectious diseases affecting the nervous system -- Infectious diseases affecting the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems -- Infectious diseases affecting the respiratory systems -- Infectious diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract -- Infectious diseases affecting the genitourinary system -- One health: the interconnected health of the environment, humans, and other animals.
Summary: Cowan's Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach, Third Edition, is a perfect fit for the course. The author team includes a practicing Registered Nurse who shows students how the content on each page relates to their lives and future career. Connect is aligned with the text and provides a highly reliable, easy-to-use homework and learning management solution that embeds learning science and award-winning adaptive tools to improve student results. This updated version incorporates information about the Microbiome throughout the textbook, including a separate boxed feature at the end of each chapter that walks students through how to critically analyze the onslaught of new research findings. To increase student success and critical thinking, "SmartGrid," a new end-of-chapter feature, organizes questions that assess the major curriculum guidelines outlined by the American Society for Microbiology and represent the increasing levels of Bloom's Taxonomy of learning.
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Revised edition of: Microbiology fundamentals : a clinical approach / Marjorie Kelly Cowan, Jennifer Herzog. 2013.

Includes index.

Introduction to microbes and their building blocks --
Tools of the laboratory: methods for the culturing and microscopic analysis of microorganisms --
Bacteria and archaea --
Eukaryotic cells and microorganisms --
Viral structure and life cycles --
Microbial nutrition and growth --
Microbial metabolism --
Microbial genetics and genetic engineering --
Physical and chemical control of microbes --
Antimicrobial treatment --
Interactions between microbes and humans --
Host defenses I: overview and nonspecific defenses --
Host defenses II: specific immunity and immunization --
Disorders in immunity --
Diagnosing infections --
Infectious diseases affecting the skin and eyes --
Infectious diseases affecting the nervous system --
Infectious diseases affecting the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems --
Infectious diseases affecting the respiratory systems --
Infectious diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract --
Infectious diseases affecting the genitourinary system --
One health: the interconnected health of the environment, humans, and other animals.

Cowan's Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach, Third Edition, is a perfect fit for the course. The author team includes a practicing Registered Nurse who shows students how the content on each page relates to their lives and future career. Connect is aligned with the text and provides a highly reliable, easy-to-use homework and learning management solution that embeds learning science and award-winning adaptive tools to improve student results.

This updated version incorporates information about the Microbiome throughout the textbook, including a separate boxed feature at the end of each chapter that walks students through how to critically analyze the onslaught of new research findings. To increase student success and critical thinking, "SmartGrid," a new end-of-chapter feature, organizes questions that assess the major curriculum guidelines outlined by the American Society for Microbiology and represent the increasing levels of Bloom's Taxonomy of learning.

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