Description
For courses in introductory microbiology.
Invest in your future: Microbiology Matters.
Known for its unique and effective art program, conversational writing style, and author-created Video Tutors, the Fifth Edition of Robert Bauman’s Microbiology with Diseases by Taxonomy consistently emphasizes why microbiology matters, especially in health care. The text provides a mobile-friendly, multimedia learning experience, from new in-text Disease in Depth visual explorations to interactive tutorials. In text QR codes allow instant access to an expanded collection of videos, including 15 new Video Tutors and 6 new Micro Matters animated video cases. The widely used MasteringMicrobiology homework and assessment program offers a greater variety of assignment options such as new Interactive Microbiology tutorials, MicroBooster video tutors, Connecting Concepts coaching activities, and more.
MasteringMicrobiologyTM is not included. Students, if MasteringMicrobiology is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN. MasteringMicrobiology should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.
MasteringMicrobiology an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts.
Features
This title is a Peaon Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to students outside the United States.
Motivate students using compelling healthcare applications.
- NEW! Micro Matters animated cases connect concepts across chapters and help students recognize the clinical importance of foundational material. Micro Matters videos are accessible via QR codes in select chapters and are also assignable in MasteringMicrobiology.
- NEW! Interactive Microbiology is a dynamic suite of interactive tutorials and animations that teach key microbiology concepts including Operons, Biofilms and Quorum Sensing, Complement, and Antibiotic Resistance. Interactive Microbiology actively engages students with each topic, enabling them to learn from manipulating variables, predicting outcomes, and answering formative and summative assessment questions. Each tutorial presents the concept within a real healthcare scenario in order to emphasize problem solving and interest students from the beginning.
- Interactive Microbiology coaching activities are assignable in MasteringMicrobiology, and each is presented in two parts: one for basic concepts, and one as a “scientific thinking” exercise that requires students to apply what they’ve learned to a novel scenario.
- NEW! Disease in Depth 2-page spreads feature important and representative diseases. These highly visual spreads contain illustrations, micrographs and info-graphics, providing in-depth overviews of selected diseases for comprehensive study and review.
- NEW! MasteringMicrobiology Disease in Depth coaching activities provide guidance through each disease using personalized hints and feedback and conclude with a prompt for students to complete independent research.
- Clinical Case Study and Emerging Disease Case Study features discuss a patient’s experience with a microbial disease and conclude with questions for the student to consider.
- MasteringMicrobiology Clinical Case Study Coaching Activities help students connect microbiological theory to real-world diagnosis and treatment, allowing them to put their knowledge into practice and think like a nurse.
- Microbe-at-a-Glance boxes showcase representative microbes in each of the disease chapters by combining an illustration of a microbe with concise information about its taxonomy, morphology, virulence factors, resulting diseases, and disease treatment and prevention. Students can download these “snapshots” as handy flashcards for study and review on the go.
- MasteringMicrobiology activities allow instructors to assess students’ understanding and recognition of these important diseases.
- MasteringMicrobiology MicroCareers Coaching Activities provide students an opportunity to investigate microbiology principles and diseases from the perspective of various careers, like a pharmaceutical quality control technician, wastewater laboratory technician, or an environmental health specialist.
- The taxonomic organization of the disease chapters (Chapters 19—25) presents microbial diseases by type of pathogenic microbe, helping students recognize shared characteristics among categories of microbes. For instructors who prefer to organize diseases by body system, Pearson publishes Robert Bauman’s other text, Microbiology with Diseases by Body System.
Help students succeed at every stage, from getting up-to-speed with science basics to applying new, unfamiliar microbiology concepts.
New to this Edition
Motivate students using compelling healthcare applications.
- Micro Matters animated cases connect concepts across chapters and help students recognize the clinical importance of foundational material. Micro Matters videos are accessible via QR codes in select chapters and are also assignable in MasteringMicrobiology.
- Interactive Microbiology is a dynamic suite of interactive tutorials and animations that teach key microbiology concepts including Operons, Biofilms and Quorum Sensing, Complement, and Antibiotic Resistance. Interactive Microbiology actively engages students with each topic, enabling them to learn from manipulating variables, predicting outcomes, and answering formative and summative assessment questions. Each tutorial presents the concept within a real healthcare scenario in order to emphasize problem solving and interest students from the beginning.
- Interactive Microbiology coaching activities are assignable in MasteringMicrobiology, and each is presented in two parts: one for basic concepts, and one as a “scientific thinking” exercise that requires students to apply what they’ve learned to a novel scenario.
- Disease in Depth 2-page spreads feature important and representative diseases. These highly visual spreads contain illustrations, micrographs and info-graphics, providing in-depth overviews of selected diseases for comprehensive study and review.
- MasteringMicrobiology Disease in Depth coaching activities provide guidance through each disease using personalized hints and feedback and conclude with a prompt for students to complete independent research.
Help students succeed at every stage, from getting up-to-speed with science basics to applying new, unfamiliar microbiology concepts.
- MasteringMicrobiology MicroBoosters are a suite of brief video tutorials that cover key concepts that some students may need to review or re-learn.
- MicroBooster topics include Study Skills, Math, Scientific Terminology, Basic Chemistry, Cell Biology, and Basic Biology.
- MicroBoosters can be assigned in the MasteringMicrobiology Item Library.
- EXPANDED! Dr. Bauman’s Video Tutors, developed and narrated by the author, carefully teach key concepts using textbook art bringing the illustrations to life and helping students visualize and understand complex topics and important processes.
- Fifteen new Video Tutors are available with the Fifth Edition and include new Disease in Depth walk-throughs as well as explorations of additional tough topics, such as Glycolysis and Antigen Processing.
- QR codes in the text allow students to access the Video Tutors using a mobile device.
- Assignable through MasteringMicrobiology, video tutors include personalized coaching and feedback.
- MasteringMicrobiology Adaptive Follow-Up Assignments can be assigned based on each student’s performance on the original homework assignment and provide additional coaching and practice as needed.
- An effective, visually engaging art program presents concepts and structures at an appropriate level of detail.
- Half-illustration/half-micrograph 3D cellular art sets a new standard for teaching cellular structure.
- Superior text-art integration allows students to connect the narrative with related illustrations and photos on the same page, without needing to flip back and forth through the material.
- Colors and icons are used throughout the text to make it easier for students to recognize structures and processes from chapter to chapter.
Table of Contents
1. A Brief History of Microbiology
2. The Chemistry of Microbiology
3. Cell Structure and Function
4. Microscopy, Staining, and Classification
5. Microbial Metabolism
6. Microbial Nutrition and Growth
7. Microbial Genetics
8. Recombinant DNA Technology
9. Controlling Microbial Growth in the Environment
10. Controlling Microbial Growth in the Body: Antimicrobial Drugs
11. Characterizing and Classifying Prokaryotes
12. Characterizing and Classifying Eukaryotes
13. Characterizing and Classifying Viruses, Viroids, and Prions
14. Infection, Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology
15. Innate Immunity
16. Adaptive Immunity
17. Immunization and Immune Testing
18. Immune Disorders
19. Pathogenic Gram-Positive Bacteria
20. Pathogenic Gram-Negative Cocci and Bacilli
21. Rickettsias, Chlamydias, Spirochetes, and Vibrios
22. Pathogenic Fungi
23. Parasitic Protozoa, Helminths, and Arthropod Vectors
24. Pathogenic DNA Viruses
25. Pathogenic RNA Viruses
26. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
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