This book discusses important bacterial diseases and suggestive prevention strategies based on progress in this field. It includes four sections and five chapters that provide the most common diseases and an overview of the essential methods for their prevention and control.
Designed for associate-degree MLT CLT programs and baccalaureate MT CLS programs, this textbook presents the essentials of clinical microbiology. It provides balanced coverage of specific groups of microorganisms and the work-up of clinical specimens by organ system, and also discusses the role of the microbiology laboratory in regard to emerging infections, healthcare epidemiology, and bioterr…
This book gives a comprehensive overview of recent trends in infectious diseases, as well as general concepts of infections, immunopathology, diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology and etiology to current clinical recommendations in management of infectious diseases, highlighting the ongoing issues, recent advances, with future directions in diagnostic approaches and therapeutic strategies. The boo…
This photographic atlas will give the students of dental medicine and anthropology an insight into the anthropological analysis and enable them to distinguish the human skeletal remains from archaeological sites from more recent skeletal remains which are subject to forensic analyses. Forensic procedures, like archaeological research, include collecting skeletal remains (e.g. mass grave exhumat…
This book represents an exciting revision of The Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders, Second Edition. In addition to updating the previous edition, Facts On File asked Carol Turkington and me to update and incorporate the content from our The Encyclopedia of Memory and Memory Disorders into this book. The rapid pace at which researchers are advancing our understanding of these subject…
The underlying assumption of this book is that every woman wants to take responsibility for her own health. The only way she can act intelligently and safely in her own best interest is to understand the workings of her body and to know what kinds of care and treatment are available. Medicine is not yet a “hard” science; indeed, it may never be one, and certainly not for many years to come.…
The digestion of food is necessary to sustain life. This fact is as true today, in the 21st century era of high technology and a dazzling array of newly approved medications and therapeutic medical devices, as it was millennia ago when humans actively hunted or farmed for the basic food that they needed in order to survive. Modern computerized equipment even the most remarkable medical discover…