Medical Microbiology for the New Curriculum: A Case-Based Approach encompasses twenty-three cases of the most clinically important and frequently encountered infectious diseases and the organisms that cause them. This text integrates basic microbiology principles with relevant pathology, pharmacology and clinical features of the diseases. Each fully illustrated case study teaches the reader how to solve cases in a consistent, systematic fashion using determinations about differential diagnosis, laboratory tests, mechanisms of pathogenesis, treatment, and infection control.
Contents: Case 1. Pharyngitis.
Case 2. UTI.

Case 3. Diarrhea.

Case 4. Travelers Diarrhea.

Case 5. Ringworm.

Case 6. Anthrax.

Case 7. Post-Op Wound.

Case 8. Osteomyelitis.

Case 9. STD.

Case 10. Pneumonia Bacterial.

Case 11. Pneumonia Viral.

Case 12. Pneumonia.

Case 13. Tuberculosis.

Case 14. Pneumonia Fungal.

Case 15. Pneumonia in BMT.

Case 16. Acute Meningitis.

Case 17. Aseptic Meningitis.

Case 18. Neonatal Meningitis.

Case 19. Fungal Meningitis.

Case 20. Peritonitis.

Case 21. Endocarditis.

Case 22. Hepatitis.

Case 23. FUO in Traveler.

Case 24. Acute HIV.