Product Description

Prescott, Harley and Klein's 5th edition provides a balanced, comprehensive introduction to all major areas of microbiology. It was first published in the 1980s and defined the Microbiology course. It is known for its excellent coverage of medical microbiology, but also for its balanced approach. There are 11 parts to the book; the first 6 look at the foundations of microbiology, then it moves on to survey the microbial world and focuses on how microorganisms relate to other organisms and the environment. The book then turns to look at disease and pathogenecity. The final part of the book looks at food and industrial microbiology. It has a new chapter on Genomics (15).

It has been updated with the most modern coverage of microbiology and the reorganized sections and chapters give a better flow and give greater emphasis to microbial ecology. The illustration program has been revised - every piece of line art has been re-evaluated.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #825488 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Basic Microbiology for the undergraduate
I bought this book whild doing undergraduate microbiology. I prefer Brock's biology of Microorganisms personally. But it is a personal choice. This books is more comprehensive than Brock, and it covers certain topics in more detail than Brock, which you will realise if you are doing 2nd microbiology as well. However, Brock also has topics which are better and all in all, I think the two books compliment each other.