TY - BOOK AU - McKane,Larry AU - Kandel,Judy TI - Microbiology : essentials and applications SN - 9780070451544 U1 - 576 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Microbiology N1 - Includes index; Microbiological perspectives; introduction to procaryotes; the microbes; anti-microbial methods; infectious processes and host responses; microbial diseases, their diagnosis, treatment and prevention N2 - This edition provides students with the fundamentals of microbiology, taking full advantage of a variety of modern pedagogical techniques. The text also covers applications of microbiology to clinical, environmental, industrial and food microbiology. Each chapter begins with a real-world study that brings to life microbiological principles, and chapters conclude with a series of critical thinking and problem-solving questions ER -