Cell Wall Deficient FormsStealth Pathogens

By Lida H. Mattman

Book Overview

Cell Wall Deficient Forms: Stealth Pathogens, 2nd Edition, is a comprehensive text-reference that covers major aspects of cell wall deficient microbes (L forms). The book discusses protoplasts as efficient genetic tools, L forms essential to the food chain for their ability to reclaim nitrogen in the air, an L form pathogenic to a flowering plant, and new information on male sterility caused by streptococcal L forms in drosophila.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849344050
• ISBN13: 9780849344053
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 7.5" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Bring it to the Lab with you!

This excellent book covers history (e.g. Almquist's significant contributions) and nomenclature (the boon/bane of the working biologist!) and tons and tons and tons of lab technique, "what ifs", "gotchas", and scanning electron microscopy. I am still reading it, and I can already tell this is going to be a "re-read". It's dense with information, yet retains readability. Perhaps this reviewer is prejudiced by his pre-existing preference for science that balances the synthetic with the analytic, and the integrative with the logical/reductionist, but I would think any working virologist, bacteriologist, pathologist would find this (admittedly pricey!) book a "Must Have". I truly hope you enjoy this book as much as I am!

Essential Reading

This is an historic textbook on one of the most important aspects of microbiology ever written!