Medical microbiology and infectiology

This textbook presents medical microbiology, covering general fundamentals, immunology, diagnostics, and chemotherapy. The chapters on individual pathogens are particularly well-organized. To emphasize the clinical relevance, there is a dedicated large section on disease patterns. A well-thought-out concept makes learning easy:

• Pathogen profiles for quick learning
• Case studies
• Summaries at the end of each chapter
• Numerous clinical illustrations
• Close interconnection between pathogen chapters and disease patterns through many cross-references

All areas of the field are included:

Fundamentals, immunology, diagnostics, epidemiology, prevention, hygiene, bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology, chemotherapy, important disease patterns.

The editors:
Professor Sebastian Suerbaum is the head of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Professor Gerd-Dieter Burchard works at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. Professor Thomas Schulz is the director of the Institute of Virology at the Hannover Medical School. Professor Stefan H.E. Kaufmann is the director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.