A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from AIDS to flesh-eating bacteria to ebola, mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, etc. Significant updates.

pt. 1. Bacteria : Bacterial taxonomy ; Cell structures, virulence factors, and toxins ; Bacterial genetics -- Gram-positive bacteria : Streptococcus ; Staphylococcus ; Bacillus and Clostridium (spore-forming rods) ; Corynebacterium and Listeria (non-spore-forming rods -- Gram-negative bacteria : Neisseria ; The enterics ; Hospital-acquired gram negatives ; Haemophilus, Bordetella, and Legionella ; Yersinia, Francisella, Brucella, and Pasteurella ; Chlamydia, Rickettsia, and friends ; Spirochetes -- Acid-fast bacteria : Mycobacterium -- Bacteria without cell walls : Mycoplasma -- Anti-bacterial medications : Penicillin family antibiotics ; Anti-ribosomal antibiotics ; Anti-TB and anti-leprosy antibiotics ; Miscellaneous antibiotics -- pt. 2. Fungi : The fungi ; Anti-fungal medications -- pt. 3. Viruses : Viral replication and taxonomy ; Orthomyxo and Paramyxoviridae ; Hepatitis Veridae ; Retroveridae, HIV, and AIDS ; Herpesviridae (contributing author: John Beigel) ; Rest of the DNA viruses ; Rest of the RNA viruses (contributing authors: Amy Guillet Agrawal and John Beigel ; Anti-viral medications -- pt. 4. Parasites : Protozoans ; Helminths -- pt. 5. Very strange critters : Prions (contributing author: Hans Henrik Larsen)-- pt. 6. The end : Antimicrobial resistance: one step toward the post-antibiotic era? (contributing author: Earnest Alexander) ; The agents of bioterrorism (contributing authors: Luciana Borio and Clarence Lam) -- Bioterrorism defense updates : http://www.medmaster.net/BioterrorismDefense.html -- Atlas of microbiology : http://www.medmaster.net (free download).