Baker S., Nicklin J., Griffiths C. Microbiology

4th Edition. — Garland Science, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2011. — 362 p. — (BIOS Instant Notes Series). — ISBN: 0415607701.The Fourth Edition of Instant Notes in Microbiology builds on the changes made in the third edition, and this edition integrates more fully with other books in the series. We have chosen to omit sections on the biochemistry of central metabolic pathways and general DNA metabolism (which can be found in much more detail in other Instant Notes texts). Notes on the biochemistry
of the Bacteria and Archaea have been expanded to compensate, but for the moment we have chosen to avoid detailed discussions on the next generations of molecular techniques. While high throughput genome sequencing, microarrays, and other nucleic acid techniques have a huge impact on microbiology, we felt that these are general methods that would be better discussed in other texts. We also decided to remove the section on Bacterial infections, since again this is better dealt with in more detail in a companion Instant Notes text. However, we have still referred to human pathogenesis in all sections, as microbiology cannot be divorced from medicine entirely. This is especially true of the virology section, which has been updated to reflect changes in nomenclature and practice in the field.The microbial world
Systematics
Microbiology
Microbial growth
Microbial metabolism
Prokaryotic DNA and RNA metabolism
Industrial microbiology
Eukaryotic microbes: an overview
The fungi and related phyla
Archaeplastida, Excavata, Chromalveolata, and Amoebozoa
The viruses