microbiology books

	Microbiology with Diseases by Taxonomy (2nd Edition) (The Microbiology Place Series)
	By: Robert W. Bauman ISBN: 080537678X Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Release Date: 13 January, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 55646	This text is very helpful with its readable language and diagrams. It provides a sufficient review of basic biology and is written so that one could technically skip chapters and still understand the topics. The text's website and CD provide excellent review tests, flashcards, and animations. <br /> <br />However in some sections and chapters, the author has not organized the flow very well, especially the immunity chapters, and the text goes a little too deep for a 1-term microbiology class. Its strengths outway the negatives enough to give it 5 stars.
	Microbiology Flash Cards (Board Review Series)
	By: Todd Swanson, Sandra I. Kim ISBN: 078174427X Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: June, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 123125	The cards are an asset for USMLE Step 1. Helped me a lot to memorize important info that you must know. They break the monotony of just reading. Use them with a friend and pretend you are playing!!!Excellent!! Good luck!!! Cards are great for reviewing for microbiology USLME Step 1. Parasites, nematodes, etc provide a great review to let them stick to my brain. It helped me along with <br /> <br />Microbiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick Leonardi <br /> <br />and <br /> <br />Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple
	Microbiology: A Human Perspective w/ARIS
	By: Eugene W Nester, Denise G. Anderson, Jr., C. Evans Roberts, Martha T Nester ISBN: 0073305367 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Release Date: 13 November, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 72698	very nicely designed with good diagrams and clear wording. The recommended web site in the book is not bad but could have a lot more information.
	Microbiology the Easy Way (Barron's Easy Way Series)
	By: Rene Kratz Ph.D. ISBN: 0764128450 Publisher: Barron''s Educational Series Release Date: 01 September, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 193518	I do NOT recommend what some others have here -- using this book as your sole source of information for a class without reading your textbook is not going to cut it. Your teacher teaches out of the textbook assigned to your class, so the information covered on your test will be from that specific textbook. <br /> <br />This book, however is a fantastic supplement if you are having a hard time understanding what your textbook is saying on the difficult microbiological concepts. It raised my test scores by an entire letter grade on the very first test I took after purchasing it! Highly recommended, as well as Anatomy and Physiology The Easy Way. For those of you who are taking a microbiology class and need a solid textbook on the concepts of introductory microbiology this is worth a look. The book is great at laying the foundation of understanding for the ideas of microbiology. If you are a evcc student this book is strongly recommended if taking micro with Dr. Kratz. You will be happy that you purchased this book. The author's flow, and paragraph structure makes it simple to understand and easy to grasp. I have found this book essential in studying with my school text. Information thay may have stymied one now brings the information forward in a new light.
	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microbiology (Complete Idiot's Guide to)
	By: Ph.D., Jeffrey J. Byrd, Tabitha M. Powledge ISBN: 159257498X Publisher: Alpha Release Date: 07 November, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 54384	This book really helps me comprehend the concepts that are so difficult to decipher in the text book. Thought this would be a good supplement to my sophomore level Microbiology text, but so far, I have not used it at all. When I've needed a simpler explanation (an overview) of a particular subject, I've looked in the table of contents of the book and not found what I'm looking for. I've received much more use out of the "Essentials" book (~$7) that I bought at the same time. <br /> <br />The author of C.I.G. to Microbiology seems to have been more interested in being "cutesy" with the content rather than focusing on necessary information. I would not recommend this to anyone.
	Lange FlashCards Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Lange Flash Cards)
	By: Timothy J. Bos, Kenneth D. Somers ISBN: 0071451528 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Release Date: 27 September, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 207989	I must disagree with the previous reviews. These cards are great. FA covers the bare necessities, and these will help associated case presentations/pathology with the microorganisms. Micro can be a tough area for some, just bc of all the obscure names and associations. I recommend reading High Yield Micro, then moving to FA to re-emphasize the HY info. Finally, use these cards as continual refreshers as you move through other areas (like pathology - where they come in handy). These cards are not at all what flash-cards should be. It is more like a text with the information placed on cards. Not good for memorizing the facts associated with each organism. <br /> <br />Furthermore, the cards are "titled" by the pathological disease NOT by microorganism. For instance if you wanted a card for Staph aureus, with the morphology, normal flora, toxins, etc ... it doesn't have it. Instead it will have a card for the most common pathology that staph will be associated with. <br /> <br />The Lange card series are excellent for Path and Pharm (both of which I have), but they missed the boat on this one. <br /> <br />For your info, I have finished 2nd year and studying for step 1. <br /> too much info...or say more than one needs for steps....just returned it... <br />kaplan micro with 1st aid is enough for USMLE step 1.... <br />
	Medical Microbiology, 24th edition (Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology)
	By: Geo. F. Brooks ISBN: 0071476660 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Release Date: 20 April, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 89929	I purchased this text to help review for the FNP examination. It is an excellent resource--one that I frequently pull off the shelf to review. I would strongly recommend it for your medical library. <br />The only criticism I have is that the layoutof topics and headings is a bit awkward, but the index does allow for quick access to topics. Interesting read, and great resource.
	Microbiology (Cliffs Quick Review)
	By: I. Edward Alcamo ISBN: 0822053330 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Release Date: 19 July, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 25845	I'd imagine most microbiology courses for biology or science majors is going to require knowledge at a much higher level than what is on here. So maybe it would be good for a basic introductory course but for most it won't help and your time would be spent on better material. I'm in a very fast paced micro class. Our class is only 5 weeks long and we get the same amount of info as a normal length term. This book is going to be a life saver! I'm so glad I got it. And spending the extra $1 to see it and print some pages out on line while waiting for it to come in was a huge help, too. These are great flashcards unless you actually want to learn and pass your microbiology class. Not only is the content poor, several of the cards in my pack were improperly printed with half the text cut off. No wonder they come sealed in plastic at the bookstore, if I had had the chance to look at them before I bought them i would have known better. They do work well for leveling a wobbly table though.
	Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology (Diagnostic Microbiology (Bailey & Scott's))
	By: Betty A. Forbes, Daniel F. Sahm, Alice S. Weissfeld ISBN: 0323030653 Publisher: Mosby Release Date: 10 January, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 140741	This book holds a lot of useful information from safety to bacteria. Some of the parasitology was lacking and all of the tables can be useful or a menace depending on how well you can learn from them. The pictures were very useful and everything is easy to understand. The great pictures and tables in this book keep it interesting, the only bad thing about it is that there are no end-of-chapter reviews or questions. The eleventh edition is good in many aspects. But it cannot be denied that it is not as good as Koneman's book. Bailey and Scott is more suitable only for the bench technicians and not for researchers and graduate students. The book churns out table after table, in the name of comparative analysis. A student's mind will have difficulty in memorising and reproducing tables in the exam. In that sense, the lucid style of presentation in Koneman is commendable. Probably, the author of B&S did not have 'the student' in their mind when they wrote it. Another grossly lacking area is Parasitology. When compared to books written by Indian authors like SC Parija and Chatterjea, Bailey and Scott lags far behind. Probably, it is because parasitic infections are less in the US, which is why this area has been under emphasised. <br />As a gradute student in India, I would strongly encourage my friends and fellow microbiologists to singularly follow Koneman alone. Trying to use Koneman with Bailey and Scott or trying to substitute Koneman with Bailey and Scott is an exercise in futility. <br />These are my personal views only. Perhaps, students who want to finish studying clinical microbiology quickly because of the proximity of the exam dates, can go for Bailey and Scott. For MD students like me, we all in our college unanimously vote for the <br />Koneman.
	Alcamo's Laboratory Fundamentals of Microbiology, Eighth Edition
	By: Jeffrey C. Pommerville ISBN: 0763743038 Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers Release Date: February, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 50936