Cell Wall Deficient Forms: Stealth Pathogens

By Lida H. Mattman

Book Overview

For many idiopathic diseases, the etiologies become clear when certain techniques are applied to the patient's blood or other tissues. This volume describes these techniques, examining a plethora of issues and highlighting significant aspects of microbiology, which tend to go unrecognized in the clinical laboratory. In the case of tuberculosis, a disease that has recently regained importance because the strains have acquired antibiotic resistance, the book describes a method widely used abroad that typically renders the diagnosis within 72 hours.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849387671
• ISBN13: 9780849387678
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: CRC Press LLC
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"

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!