The Tenth Edition of Jeffrey Pommerville's best-selling, award-winning classic text Fundamentals of Microbiology provides nursing and allied health students with a firm foundation in microbiology. Updated to reflect the Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Microbiology as recommended by the American Society of Microbiology, the fully revised tenth edition includes all-new pedagogical features and the most current research data. This edition incorporates updates on infectious disease and the human microbiome, a revised discussion of the immune system, and an expanded Learning Design Concept feature that challenges students to develop critical-thinking skills.

 

Accesible enough for introductory students and comprehensive enough for more advanced learners, Fundamentals of Microbiology encourages students to synthesize information, think deeply, and develop a broad toolset for analysis and research. Real-life examples, actual published experiments, and engaging figures and tables ensure student success. The texts's design allows students to self-evaluate and build a solid platform of investigative skills. Enjoyable, lively, and challenging, Fundamentals of Microbiology is an essential text for students in the health sciences.

 

•  New Investigating the Microbial World feature in each chapter encourages students to participate in the scientific investigation process and challenges them to apply the process of science and quantitative reasoning through related actual experiments.

•  All-new or updated discussions of the human microbiome, infectious diseases, the immune system, and evolution

•  Redesigned and updated figures and tables increase clarity and student understanding

•  Includes new and revised critical thinking exercises included in the end-of-chapter material

•  Incorporates updated and new MicroFocus and MicroInquiry boxes, and Textbook Cases

•  The Companion Website includes a wealth of study aids and learning tools, including new interactive animations

 

•  Updated to reflect the Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Microbiology as recommended by the American Society of Microbiology

•  Expanded and updated pedagogical features throughout

•  Chapter Challenges and objectives emphasize key concepts and promote material absorption

•  Study Smart notes help ensure student success

•  Accompanied by a full suite of instructor resources, including PowerPoint Lecture Outlines, PowerPoint Image Bank, LMS-ready Test Bank, and a comprehensive Instructor's Manual containing learning objectives and key concepts, teaching points and tips, essay questions, and more

 

Fundamentals of Microbiology is written for introductory microbiology courses and is geared toward students in health and allied health science curricula such as nursing, dental hygiene, medical assistance, sanitary science, agriculture, environmental science, and health administration.

Jeffrey C. Pommerville, PhD-Glendale Community College

 

Congratulations to Dr. Pommerville who was recently awarded the 2008 Carski Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award!

 

Jeffrey Pommerville has a Ph.D. in Cell and Organismal Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After serving as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Georgia, he was an assistant professor of biology at Texas A&M University. For the past 14 years, he has been Professor of Biology at Glendale Community College where he teaches introductory biology and microbiology. He has 20 years of research experience in cell biology and microbiology and has authored over 35 peer-reviewed papers in national and international research journals. For the past three years, he was the principal investigator for Systemic Reform In Science (SyRIS), a project funded by the National Science Foundation that was designed to improve student outcomes in science through changes in curriculum and pedagogy that align with national systemic reform initiatives. In 2003, he was awarded the Gustav Ohaus Award (College Division) for Innovations in Science Teaching from the National Science Teachers Association. Over the past three years, he has presented numerous seminars and workshops to colleges, universities, business, medical, and service organizations on understanding and responding to bioterrorism. 

Part  1  Foundations of Microbiology

  Chapter  1  Microbiology: Then and Now

  Chapter  2  The Chemical Building Blocks of Life

  Chapter  3  Concepts and Tools for Studying Microorganisms

  Chapter  4  Structure of Bacterial and Archaeal Cells

  Chapter  5  Microbial Growth and Nutrition

  Chapter  6  Metabolism of Microorganisms

  Chapter  7  Control of Microogranisms: Physical and Chemical Methods

Part  2  The Genetics of Microorganisms

  Chapter  8  Microbial Genetics

  Chapter  9  Gene Transfer, Genetic Engineering, and Genomics

Part  3  Bacterial Diseases of Humans

  Chapter  10  Airborne Bacterial Diseases

  Chapter  11  Foodborne and Waterborne Bacterial Diseases

  Chapter  12  Soilborne and Arthropodborne Bacterial Diseases

  Chapter  13  Sexually Transmitted and Contact Transmitted Bacterial Diseases

Part  4  Viruses and Eukaryotic Microorganisms

  Chapter  14  The Viruses and Virus-Like Agents

  Chapter  15  Viral Infections of the Respiratory Tract and Skin

  Chapter  16  Viral Infections of the Blood, Lymphatic, Gastrointestinal, and Nervous Systems

  Chapter  17  Eukaryotic Microogranisms: The Fungi

  Chapter  18  Eukaryotic Microorganisms: The Parasites

Part  5  Interactions and Impact of Microorganisms with Humans

  Chapter  19  Infection and Disease

  Chapter  20  Resistance and the Immune System: Innate Immunity

  Chapter  21  Resistance and the Immune System: Acquired Immunity

  Chapter  22  Immunity and Serology

  Chapter  23  Immune Disorders and AIDS

  Chapter  24  Antimicrobial Drugs

Part  6  Environmental and Applied Microbiology

  Chapter  25  Microbiology of Foods

  Chapter  26  Environmental Microbiology

  Chapter  27  Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology