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Antisepsis, disinfection, and sterilization; types, action, and resistance.

Targeting an audience that includes microbiologists, chemists, facilities managers, health care professionals, infection and contamination control practitioners, and application engineers, McDonnell (vice president of research and European Medicines Agency affairs, STERIS Limited, UK) intends this work to give a basic understanding of microbial control methods and technologies of chemical and physical antisepsis, disinfection, and sterilization. He opens with a discussion of general microbiology, subsequently describing methods of physical and chemical contamination control and disinfection, antiseptics and antisepsis, physical and chemical sterilization, mechanisms of action, and mechanisms of microbial resistance. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Archaea; molecular and cellular biology.

Biochemists, microbiologists, and other researchers synthesize what is known about the molecular and cellular biology of a group of organisms that are different from both Bacteria and the Eucarya, have played a central role in the evolution of life, and often thrive in places previously thought to be totally inimical to life. They write for practitioners and teachers in the field, and for graduate and advance students who might be induced into it. The topics include DNA replication and cell cycle, central metabolism, protein translocation into and across archaeal cytoplasmic membranes, and archaeosome vaccines. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Food microbiology; fundamentals and frontiers, 3d ed.

Intending to provide research microbiologists, graduate students, and professors of food microbiology with a state-of-the-science guide to the field that emphasizes molecular and mechanistic aspects, editors Doyle and Beuchat (both of the U. of Georgia's Center for Food Safety) have avoided those topics they feel are adequately covered in introductory food microbiology texts. They have organized the 47 chapters in the text into ten sections covering factors of special significance to food microbiology, microbial spoilage and public health concerns, foodborne pathogenic bacteria, mycotoxigenic molds, viruses, prions, foodborne and waterborne parasites, preservatives and preservation methods, fermentations and beneficial microorganisms, and advanced techniques in food microbiology. New to this edition are chapters discussing Enterobacter sakazakii, prions, genomics and poteomics, molecular source tracking/molecular subtyping, nuts and cereals, and biodefense. The chapters are written at a level that presupposes a general background in microbiology and biochemistry. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Manual of clinical microbiology, 9th ed.; 2v.

Changes marking the 9th edition of this authoritative resource include the omission of the chapter on pathogenic and indigenous microorganisms of humans (now discussed in individual organism chapters), and the addition of chapters on coronaviruses, Hendra and Nipah viruses, metapneumoviruses, parechoviruses, mycotoxins, as well as new chapters on the topics of anaerobes, helminths, and parasitology. Material retained from the previous edition has been updated, thousands of new references have been added, and a number of new editors and authors were hired to offer a more international scope. Extensive practical information is provided on the design, management, and operation of a diagnostic lab. Assuring that the most current knowledge and practice would be included, fifteen subject specialists edited the text's various sections and over a third of the authors who contributed chapters are new to this edition. Murray is with the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)