Medical Microbiology: with STUDENT CONSULT Access (Medical Microbiology) 
asked by alexis on November 4, 2006 10:56 PM
ASM News called the 4th Edition of Dr. Murrays best-selling book the most colorful and fun text to read in medical microbiology. Now its back in an updated New Editionand its as succinct, user-friendly, and authoritative as ever. Readers will continue to enjoy its lucid discussions of how microbes cause disease in humans. Expert coverage of basic principles, the immune response, laboratory diagnosis, bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology ensures they understand all the facts vital to the practice of medicine today. More than 550 brilliant full-color images make complex information easy to understand and illustrate the appearance of disease.
The smart way to study!
Elsevier titles with STUDENT CONSULT will help you master difficult concepts and study more efficiently in print and online! Perform rapid searches. Integrate bonus content from other disciplines. Download text to your handheld device. And a lot more. Each STUDENT CONSULT title comes with full text online, a unique image library, case studies, USMLE style questions, and online note-taking to enhance your learning experience.
The smart way to study!
Elsevier titles with STUDENT CONSULT will help you master difficult concepts and study more efficiently in print and online! Perform rapid searches. Integrate bonus content from other disciplines. Download text to your handheld device. And a lot more. Each STUDENT CONSULT title comes with full text online, a unique image library, case studies, USMLE style questions, and online note-taking to enhance your learning experience.
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the book is in perfect conditions, and arrived in good time.
Was a good choise to buy with them.
Was a good choise to buy with them.
reviewed by bigchad on November 22, 2006 7:34 AM
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I am a medical student and I want to dis-recommend this book, especially to medical students. What makes a biology textbook good in my opinion is above all the quality of the pictures. And since the pictures in this book are poorly designed and poorly laid out, I can only dis-recommend it.
"A picture says a thousand words", especially so in biology and medical science. Before you read the details of some molecular structure or mechanism, you want to see the basic idea in visual form. This requires that the figures be planned out well by people who know the material, that they be executed by good artists; and that the figures be laid out well on the page (big enough, near enough to the relevant text, with good captions, etc.). None of these things have been done competently in this book.
I would give it less than three stars if it wasn't for the writing, which is generally pretty clear and not overly intricate.
"A picture says a thousand words", especially so in biology and medical science. Before you read the details of some molecular structure or mechanism, you want to see the basic idea in visual form. This requires that the figures be planned out well by people who know the material, that they be executed by good artists; and that the figures be laid out well on the page (big enough, near enough to the relevant text, with good captions, etc.). None of these things have been done competently in this book.
I would give it less than three stars if it wasn't for the writing, which is generally pretty clear and not overly intricate.
reviewed by markymark on November 23, 2006 1:30 PM
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I purchased this book for my own use and found it to be rather invaluable.
This is very direct-to-the-point and concise. The only problem I noticed was as others have mentioned, the pictures are not very clear, sometimes difficult to make out what you are looking at, but the value of this book overall makes that easy to overlook.
This is an easy book to get into, very informative, I guess some might consider it bland because it is indeed in textbook form, it still remains a valuable learning and resource tool. I'd recommend this to anyone!
This is very direct-to-the-point and concise. The only problem I noticed was as others have mentioned, the pictures are not very clear, sometimes difficult to make out what you are looking at, but the value of this book overall makes that easy to overlook.
This is an easy book to get into, very informative, I guess some might consider it bland because it is indeed in textbook form, it still remains a valuable learning and resource tool. I'd recommend this to anyone!
reviewed by vicky123 on November 29, 2006 11:47 AM
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It was excellent throughout but it needs to have arrows on many of the pictures to help you figure out what you are looking at and some of the diagrams are so simplified that its hard to figure out what is a happening.
reviewed by learner on November 29, 2006 3:06 PM
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This book covers every medical microbiology topic that is needed for class exams or the USLME. The book is intensely filled with very elaborated information that any medical student needs to pass his or her exams. My study group and I also used the following for class exams and the USLME and found it extremely helpful. I also purchased this book on amazon which is the following:
Microbiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick Leonardi (ISBN: 0971999635)
The questions in this study guide were on target with my class exams and was an excellent reference for the USLME. Buy both books. Most definitely!!
Microbiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick Leonardi (ISBN: 0971999635)
The questions in this study guide were on target with my class exams and was an excellent reference for the USLME. Buy both books. Most definitely!!
reviewed by porsche on November 29, 2006 6:07 PM