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999			_c294486 _d294486
020			_a9781592574988
082			_a579
100			_a Jeffrey J Byrd; Tabitha M Powledge
245			_aThe complete Idiots guide to Microbiology
260			_bAlpha Books _c2006
300			_a xxii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
505			_a A little about the tiniest life-forms : microbes and microbiology -- Microbes 101 : the two prokaryotes : bacteria and archaea -- Microbes, 101, continued : the three eukaryotes -- Viruses and prions : are they alive? -- The molecules of life -- A little about microbial genetics and genomics -- Cell structure and cell structures -- Microbial lifestyles -- The social life of microbes -- The immune system : life in the combat zone -- Dodging disease by preventing pathogens -- Dealing with disease -- Life on man, woman, and child -- Vicious viruses : viral diseases -- Bad bacteria : bacterial diseases -- Pathological protozoa and fearsome fungi : eukaryote microbial pathogens -- Food diseases and emerging diseases -- Microbes on (and in) the earth -- Microbes go to work, and to war -- Microbiology in the twenty-first century.
650			_a Microbiology. Microbiología.
942			_cBK