Microbiology is the study of organisms that at some point in their life exist as single cells and contain a nucleic acid genome that can…
Learning Objectives After reading this section, students will be able to… In the early part of the 20thcentury techniques were developed to examine the inner…
Learning Objectives After reading this section, students will be able to… The power of vaccination is discovered As soon as physicians realized that microbes cause…
Learning Objectives After reading this section, students will be able to… Many philosophers and physicians long suspected that living things were the agents of disease.…
Learning Objectives After reading this section, students will be able to… Spontaneous generation hypothesizes that some vital force contained in or given to organic matter…
Learning Objectives After reading this section, students will be able to… Before we begin the adventure that we call learning microbiology (it is an adventure!…
Learning Objectives After reading this section, students will be able to… Whether measured by the number of organisms or by total mass, the vast majority…
Learning Objectives After reading this section, students will be able to… If you ask the average person how microbes (or germs) impact their lives, they…
This book will focus on the biology of small things, but what is microbiology? Microbiology could be defined as the study of organisms too small…
Writing a textbook is never an individual effort, and I would like to take a moment to thank all the people who helped along the…