About Book
Microbiology is an extraordinarily various self-discipline and can be a bewildering area to the novice. The common books appear to be exhaustive of microbiologic facts, are too lengthy and distinct to be study by means of the usual scientific scholar who is making an attempt to hold up with a number of lessons concurrently of different subjects.
On the contrary, some of the books are in brevity, too cursory and with inadequate records on microbiology now not beneficial to a usual scientific student. The microbiology textual content introduced here, was once written after 25 years of instructing clinical college students and looking out for a e book that used to be each readable and entire adequate to meet their needs.
It consists of all of the facts that is pertinent to scientific college students who are reading microbiology maintaining in thought their examination. It additionally affords a strong historical past of microbiology whilst describing the organisms in a manner that is clinically relevant.
Although, the textual content used to be designed to educate undergraduate and postgraduate clinical students, it must additionally serve as a assessment device for persons who are taking clinical examinations and humans working in health-related professions, medical doctors and infectious sickness scientists. The mass of fabric may additionally show up overwhelming for undergraduate college students however that is actual life.
Microbiology has multiplied past consciousness with a variety of clinical forte and it is now not feasible for any textbook to cowl all factors of scientific microbiology in depth. The textbook is divided into seven sections, based totally on the primary disciplines blanketed inside microbiology:
General Bacteriology, Immunology, Systemic Bacteriology, Virology, Medical Mycology, Miscellaneous and Diagnostic Medical Microbiology. The chapters themselves are complete but free of pointless element and supply the reader with a framework for understanding. Mycology and parasitology have endured to flourish and have blossomed into fields of learn about of their very own rights.
Therefore, parasitology has no longer been blanketed in the e book which has a sturdy independence. I shall be grateful for any remark or guidelines from students, instructors and all the readers of the e book for in addition improvements.
This e book took years for writing however is a lifetime preparation. I would like to thank these who set instance in educating and prodding which helped me to increase a thirst for understanding as nicely as strategies for quenching that thirst.
I am radically indebted to a range of mentors, buddies and colleagues who stimulated me and gave treasured guidelines for enhancing the text. I am usually indebted to my late brother Sant Swaran Dev whose advice, training and actual existence philosophy gave me power and braveness to proceed my work.
I would like to thank my household for patiently enduring the writing of this book, which regarded at instances to be an limitless process. I am mainly grateful to my spouse Dr Savita Kumari, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India, for her help and encouragement and to two expensive children, Sourabh Kumar and Sanchit Kumar (both are now clinical students), who gave me their childhood moments barring any grievance for finishing the e book so I should keep my sanity.
I am specially indebted to Dr Vishwa Mohan Katoch, Secretary to the Government of India (Department of Health Research), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India, who generously agreed to write a foreword for this book. My distinct thanks goes to Dr Sanjeev R Saigal, my PhD scholar and now my Research Associate ICMR, who stood by using me each time. My honest perception additionally goes to Mr Tarun Duneja (Director-Publishing), Mr KK Raman (Production Manager), Mr Sunil Kumar Dogra (Production Executive), Mr Neelambar Pant (Production Coordinator), Mr Ravinder Kumar, Mr Sanjeev Kumar, Mr Akhilesh Kumar Dubey, Mr Gyanendra Kumar and the whole group of M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India, for their help in this project.
