Description

Medical Microbiology for Health Professionals presents the reader with new up-to-date information about recent advances in our understanding of health and disease. The knowledge we now have about the role of biofilms in infection helps us understand how infections can become chronic and difficult to treat. Biofilms are part of what we describe as the human microbiome. The microorganisms within our microbiome are revealing themselves as integral to human development, and new information has come to light which may give us more control and allow us to manipulate human health.

New to this version of the book is a set of multiple choice and short answer questions for each chapter which will allow students to increase and practice the knowledge acquired, and a chapter on biofilms and the human microbiome.