Cell Wall Deficient Forms: Stealth Pathogens

by Lida H. Mattman

Numerous infectious diseases are described as idiopathic, meaning that "the cause is a complete mystery." For many idiopathic diseases, the causes become clear when certain techniques are applied to the patient's blood or other tissues. Cell Wall Deficient Forms: Stealth Pathogens, Third Edition describes these techniques. In the case of tuberculosis, a disease that has recently regained importance because the strains have acquired antibiotic resistance,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849387671
• ISBN13: 9780849387678
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Bring it to the Lab with you!

This excellent book covers history (e.g. Almquist's significant contributions) and nomenclature (the boon/bane of the working biologist!) and tons and tons and tons of lab technique, "what ifs", "gotchas", and scanning electron microscopy. I am still reading it, and I can already tell this is going to be a "re-read". It's dense with information, yet retains readability. Perhaps this reviewer is prejudiced by his pre-existing preference for science that balances the synthetic with the analytic, and the integrative with the logical/reductionist, but I would think any working virologist, bacteriologist, pathologist would find this (admittedly pricey!) book a "Must Have". I truly hope you enjoy this book as much as I am!

Essential Reading

This is an historic textbook on one of the most important aspects of microbiology ever written!