A unique, encyclopaedic reference work covering the whole field of pure and applied microbiology and microbial molecular biology. This latest edition contains a vast amount of new and updated material - often to research level, and well beyond the coverage of current textbooks - making the dictionary even more valuable to lecturers, students, researchers and others in the biosciences and medicine.

•  Updates and extends current textbooks

•  18,000 entries, from concise definitions to review-length articles

•  Extensive cross-referencing between topics

•  Thousands of references from mainstream journals and other specialist sources

•  Over 5000 taxa: algae, archaeans, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses; prions

•  A 30-page Appendix of detailed metabolic pathways

•  A classic book with a lifetime's use!