Jeffrey C. Pommerville - Fundamentals of Microbiology

Fundamentals of

MICROBIOLOGY

TWELFTH EDITION

Fundamentals of

MICROBIOLOGY

Jeffrey C. Pommerville, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Biology and Microbiology Glendale Community College

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Names: Pommerville, Jeffrey C., author.

Title: Fundamentals of microbiology / Jeffrey C. Pommerville.

Description: Twelfth edition. | Burlington, Massachusetts : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2021] | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020044798 | ISBN 9781284240535 (paperback)

Subjects: MESH: Microbiological Phenomena

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PART I Microbial Cell Biology

PART II Microbial Growth, Metabolism, and Genetics

PART III The Control of Microorganisms

PART IV Microbial and Viral Diseases of Humans

PART V Interactions and Impact of Microorganisms with Humans

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PART I Microbial Cell Biology

PART II Microbial Growth, Metabolism, and Genetics

PART III The Control of Microorganisms

PART IV Microbial and Viral Diseases of Humans

PART V Interactions and Impact of Microorganisms with Humans

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Clinical Cases

Investigating the Microbial World

Microfocus (by Chapter)

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Teaching and Learning in the Time of COVID-19

What a difference an edition makes. In the preface to the previous edition of Fundamentals of Microbiology, I remarked that

Today despite extraordinary advances to eliminate or lessen the development and spread of infectious disease, their appearance continuesand indeed, it is inevitable. I went on to say that more than 60% percent of new human infections originate in, or are transmitted by, wild animals, [including] AIDS (apes and monkeys to humans), SARS and Ebola (bats [to other animals] to humans), and Zika (monkeys to mosquitoes to humans). Consequently unknown infectious microbes in wild animals will jump to humans as these interacting species make contact adding to these factors is the globalized world we live in today. Airline travel makes an infectious disease outbreak in one corner of the world only a days plane ride from almost any other destination on the globe. Accordingly, infectious diseases can pop up from seemingly nowhere.

Many disease experts around the world for decades have said that it is not if a disease pandemic will happen, but rather when it will happen. And, so it has in the form of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

I went on to echo the thoughts of numerous health experts that

Each new emerging disease brings unique challenges, forcing the medical community to continually adapt to these ever-shifting threats. The battle against emerging infectious diseases is a continual process in trying to get ahead and stay ahead of the next infectious agent before it can explode on the world scene.