Bacteriology category: 97 books
by Charles Bradfield Morrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
PART I. MORPHOLOGY.
PART II. PHYSIOLOGY.
PART III. THE STUDY OF BACTERIA.
PART IV. GENERAL PATHOGENIC BACTERIOLOGY.
About the Author
CHARLES BRADFIELD MORREY, B.A., M.D.
PROFESSOR OF BACTERIOLOGY AND HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT IN THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Invertebrate Bacteriology
Function, Evolution and Biological Ties
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This compendium reviews different processes acting on bacterial groups that evolved one or more relationships with members of the most important invertebrate Phyla. Starting from principles of basic bacteriology the book provides data on bacteria interactions with pests, animal or human diseases....
Keeping Your Dairy Healthy
An Outline of Bateriology
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Modern dairying is attempting to build its more accurate knowledge upon a broader and surer foundation, and in doing this is seeking to ascertain the cause of well-established processes. In this, bacteriology is playing an important rôle. Indeed, it may be safely predicted that future progress...
by David Quammen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.
The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS,...
The Demon Under the Microscope
From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine.
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics....
Bacteria and Bayonets
The Impact of Disease in American Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
For hundreds of years men have fought and died to expand and protect the United States relying on martial skill and patriotism. Various powerful enemies, from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier....
The New Killer Diseases
How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The strange new disease SARS erupted apparently out of nowhere and has spread at an astonishing rate. Scary as SARS itself is, the disease is also a warning of many possible such outbreaks to come. Featuring the disturbing story of SARS—where it came from, what it is, and how to protect yourself...
by Sebastian G.B. Amyes
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Bacteria form a fundamental branch of life. They are the oldest forms of life as we know it, and they are still the most prolific living organisms. They inhabit every part of the Earth's surface, its ocean depths, and even terrains such as boiling hot springs. They are most familiar as agents of disease,...
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point : New Directions for the Physics of Time
New Directions for the Physics of Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1996
Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics...
Tuberculose
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Le terme tuberculose englobe toutes les manifestations pathologiques susceptibles d'être provoquées dans l'organisme par un agent pathogène bactérien spécifique, le bacille de Koch (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). De toutes les localisations de cette affection, la tuberculose pulmonaire (cf...
Healthy Living on a Small Farm
A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
What a pity it is that the young will not learn from the experience of those who have gone before them!
Could they only do so, how much suffering and woe could be avoided in this world. Unfortunately, however, there are few men so constituted that they are willing to be guided by the experience...
by Tom Betsy, Jim Keogh
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Demystified is your vaccine for tricky subjects like microbiology
If you don't know your prokaryotes from your protozoa, or learning about fungi puts you in a funk, look no further--Microbiology Demystified, Second Edition is your cure for learning this topic's fundamental concepts and theories at...
The New Plagues
Pandemics and Poverty in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The threat from infectious diseases has increased with globalization. Throughout the history of mankind, epidemics have eradicated whole regions, started the migration of peoples and decided wars. They continue to leave their mark on societies, as well as influencing politics and economies. The New...
Antibiotic Resistance
The End of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In ten years’ time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?
In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this...