Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple

NEW COLOR EDITION!!!

Excellent for USMLE Board Review!

A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable updated approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from Ebola to AIDS to flesh-eating bacteria; to mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, Clostridium difficile diagnosis and treatment; treatment of gonorrhea in light of growing antimicrobial resistance; Tuberculosis diagnostics, drugs for treatment of latent TB infection and MDR TB; the latest antibi,otics; pandemic flu, including H7N9; SARS-like coron,avirus; the latest hepatitis C treatment options; the latest HI,V diagnostics and approved HI,V meds; Zika virus; Measles and a new chapter on the latest emerging infectious diseases and drug resistant bacteria.

*The major update to this book is the addition of a brand new chapter on the SA,RS-COV-2 Vir,us and COV,ID-19 disease. This chapter delves into the nature of the virus such as:

SAR,S-COV-2 Virus genetic makeup

SAR,S-COV-2 Virus structural components

Infectivity within the body

Transmission between individuals

Timeline of infectivity

Symptoms

Risk factors

Different laboratory testing methods

Radiology findings in the infected

Different PPE and their usefulness

Therapeutics for COV,ID-19 such as: antiviral therapies, plasma treatment, monoclonal antibody therapy, anticoagulation and anti-inflammatory therapy

Names and method of actions of all vaccines approved for use.