Patients don’t walk into their physician’s office and say, “I think I have typical pneumonia due to Streptococcus pneumoniae.” Instead, patients describe their symptoms and how they feel. Physicians then complete a physical examination and draw upon their knowledge about pneumonia and the likely causes of the disease to develop a treatment plan. In other words, physicians must recognize disease and then determine causes.
Most microbiology professors don’t live in a clinical world. Microbiologists know a lot about the microorganisms that cause human disease, and they go into great detail talking about them. They will then briefly tell you what diseases these pathogens cause. You then learn all these microbial characteristics and organize them by bacterial shape and Gram stain, viral family, fungal classification, or parasitic class, leaving the diseases to hang at the end of each microbial knowledge set.
This approach to teaching medical microbiology creates a dilemma when an attending physician says to his student physicians,“Dr. Chamberlain’s chest radiograph indicates that he has pneumonia. Tell me the most common cause of typical pneumonia in this middle-aged male?” The way you learned microbiology requires that you recall a catalog of organism by organism to see which ones cause pneumonia. This takes several minutes and before you can answer, your attending says,“Don’t you know that bacteria are the most likely cause of typical pneumonia and that the most common cause of this pneumonia is Streptococcus pneumoniae?” You walk away saying to yourself, “How did my attending get the answer so quick?” What the attending physician did was relearn medical microbiology. Instead of learning the microorganisms and recalling the diseases they cause, this physician learned how to identify a disease and then created lists of the microorganisms that caused that disease.
In the past, this reorienting of the students’ medical microbiology knowledge was occurring while medical students were completing their clinical rotations. Unfortunately, case-based questions on USMLE and COMLEX, clinically oriented medical school course work, and recently revised medical school curricula require most medical students to reorient or organize their microbiology knowledge in a clinically relevant way even before they begin their clinical years. The Big Picture Medical Microbiology book was written to help you reorient or obtain medical microbiology knowledge in a clinically oriented way and to help you in your clinical rotations.
ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK
-- Neal Chamberlain --
Most microbiology professors don’t live in a clinical world. Microbiologists know a lot about the microorganisms that cause human disease, and they go into great detail talking about them. They will then briefly tell you what diseases these pathogens cause. You then learn all these microbial characteristics and organize them by bacterial shape and Gram stain, viral family, fungal classification, or parasitic class, leaving the diseases to hang at the end of each microbial knowledge set.
This approach to teaching medical microbiology creates a dilemma when an attending physician says to his student physicians,“Dr. Chamberlain’s chest radiograph indicates that he has pneumonia. Tell me the most common cause of typical pneumonia in this middle-aged male?” The way you learned microbiology requires that you recall a catalog of organism by organism to see which ones cause pneumonia. This takes several minutes and before you can answer, your attending says,“Don’t you know that bacteria are the most likely cause of typical pneumonia and that the most common cause of this pneumonia is Streptococcus pneumoniae?” You walk away saying to yourself, “How did my attending get the answer so quick?” What the attending physician did was relearn medical microbiology. Instead of learning the microorganisms and recalling the diseases they cause, this physician learned how to identify a disease and then created lists of the microorganisms that caused that disease.
In the past, this reorienting of the students’ medical microbiology knowledge was occurring while medical students were completing their clinical rotations. Unfortunately, case-based questions on USMLE and COMLEX, clinically oriented medical school course work, and recently revised medical school curricula require most medical students to reorient or organize their microbiology knowledge in a clinically relevant way even before they begin their clinical years. The Big Picture Medical Microbiology book was written to help you reorient or obtain medical microbiology knowledge in a clinically oriented way and to help you in your clinical rotations.
ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK- The parade of microorganisms does not exist in this book. This book is organized by organ systems and the infectious diseases caused by microorganisms in that particular system.
- The first chapter in each section presents a “Big Picture” overview that explains the organization of the organ system, some immunologic responses that the system uses to ward off infection, and the diseases as well as the common causes of the diseases that are discussed in chapters that follow within each section. Information in each chapter is discussed using similar headings of etiology, manifestations, epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapy and prevention.
- About 280 color images are included to help you visualize many of the diseases; some of the images illustrate the results of laboratory tests that are used to identify certain pathogens.
- About 120 tables compare and contrast the various types of a particular disease, summarize the signs and symptoms of a disease, and quickly compare the causes of a disease.
- The last section of the book contains 100 case-based examination questions. Over 30 of the questions contain an image that is necessary for you to examine to correctly answer the question. The questions are in random order to better simulate actual board-type examinations.
- The Appendix contains 19 summary tables and 2 flow charts, which contain a variety of information about microorganisms that will help refresh your memory.
-- Neal Chamberlain --
Key Features
- A “Big Picture” perspective on precisely what you need to know.
- Clinically oriented coverage of infections of the central nervous system, eyes and ears, respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, hematopoietic/lymphoreticular system, bone and joints, and more.
- 300 labeled and fully-explained full-color illustrations.
- Numerous summary tables and figures.
- Key concepts at the end of each chapter.
- 100 USMLE-type questions, answers, and explanations to help you prepare for the exams.
Contents
SECTION 1: INTEGUMENT AND SOFT TISSUES
- CHAPTER 1 The Big Picture: Infections of the Integument and Soft Tissues
- CHAPTER 2 Maculopapular Rashes
- CHAPTER 3 Papules, Plaques, and Patches
- CHAPTER 4 Vesicular, Bullous, and Purulent Lesions
- CHAPTER 5 Petechial, Hemorrhagic, Ulcerative, and Necrotic Lesions
SECTION 2: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 6 The Big Picture: Infections of the Central Nervous System
- CHAPTER 7 Meningitis and Encephalitis
- CHAPTER 8 Poliomyelitis and Tetanus
SECTION 3: EYES AND EARS
- CHAPTER 9 The Big Picture: Infections of the Eyes and Ears
- CHAPTER 10 Infections of the Eye
- CHAPTER 11 Infections of the Ear
SECTION 4: RESPIRATORY TRACT
- CHAPTER 12 The Big Picture: Infections of the Respiratory Tract
- CHAPTER 13 Infections of the Upper Respiratory Tract
- CHAPTER 14 Infections of the Respiratory Airways
- CHAPTER 15 Infections of the Lower Respiratory Tract
SECTION 5: GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT AND LIVER
- CHAPTER 16 The Big Picture: Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver
- CHAPTER 17 Infections of the Teeth, Gingivae, and Jaws
- CHAPTER 18 Infections of the Mouth, Tongue, and Parotid Glands
- CHAPTER 19 Infections of the Esophagus, Stomach, and Upper Duodenum
- CHAPTER 20 Liver: Viral Hepatitis
- CHAPTER 21 Infections of the Small Intestine
- CHAPTER 22 Infections of the Large Intestine
SECTION 6: HEMATOPOIETIC AND LYMPHORETICULAR SYSTEMS
- CHAPTER 23 The Big Picture: Infections of the Hematopoietic and Lymphoreticular Systems
- CHAPTER 24 Lymphocytes
- CHAPTER 25 Phagocytic Cells
- CHAPTER 26 Erythrocytes
- CHAPTER 27 Endothelial Cells
SECTION 7: CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 28 The Big Picture: Infections of the Circulatory System: Sepsis and Septic Shock
SECTION 8: CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 29 The Big Picture: Infections of the Cardiovascular System
- CHAPTER 30 Pericarditis, Myocarditis, Endocarditis, and Rheumatic Heart Disease
SECTION 9: BONES AND JOINT
- CHAPTER 31 The Big Picture: Infections of the Bones and Joints
- CHAPTER 32 Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis
SECTION 10: GENITOURINARY TRACT
- CHAPTER 33 The Big Picture: Infections of the Genitourinary Tract
- CHAPTER 34 Infections of the Urethra, Bladder, Kidney, and Prostate
- CHAPTER 35 Vaginal Infections
- CHAPTER 36 Sexually Transmitted Infections
SECTION 11: QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS
- CHAPTER 37 Practice Examination and Answers
Index
About the Author
- Neal R. Chamberlain, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, A. T. Still University of Health Sciences, Kirksville, Missouri.
Product Details
- Paperback: 456 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 1 edition (August 5, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 007147661X
- ISBN-13: 978-0071476614
- Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9 x 0.9 inches
List Price: $51.95