Microbiology for Nurses, 3/e
Author:
Sood
Edition:
3/e
ISBN:
9788131230909
Language:
English
Published:
2013
Publisher:
Elsevier, India
This book gives you clear and concise information about microorganisms: how to identify them, how they cause infection, and the preventive measures to be employed.
Microbiology for Nurses, 3/e
About
This book gives you clear and concise information about microorganisms: how to identify them, how they cause infection, and the preventive measures to be employed. Along with an extensive discussion on diagnosis and treatment of various microbial diseases, the book encompasses the relevant basic knowledge of bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology and entomology with reference to the Indian context.
Key Features
- Detailed discussion of collection and transport of specimens for microbiological examination, sterilization, hospital-associated infections, hospital waste management.
- Practising nurses will find chapters on Occupational Hazards and Patient Safety particularly useful
- New to This Edition
- Chapters on bacteriology have been rewritten
- Vital areas of patient care including management of hospital waste have been detailed and patient safety introduced
- Adequate stress has been placed on different aspects of immunology
- Overall, chapters are more structured, containing more tables, coloured photographs and flow charts to enhance the lucidity of the book.
- Every chapter is equipped with Things to Remember and Revision Questions at its end.
- The Role of Nurse boxes have been added, as it has been the focus throughout the book
- Interesting information about the ongoing topic is at hand at Do You Know boxes
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to Microbiology
Chapter 2 Normal Flora of the Human Body
Chapter 3 Microscopy and Morphology of Bacteria
Chapter 4 Growth and Nutrition of Bacteria
Chapter 5 Study of Bacteria
Chapter 6 Collection and Transport of Specimens for Microbiological Examination
Chapter 7 Hospital-Acquired Infection: An Overview
Chapter 8 Disinfection
Chapter 9 Sterilization
Chapter 10 Management of Hospital Waste
Chapter 11 Patient Safety
Chapter 12 Microbiological Investigation of an Outbreak
Chapter 13 Measures to Minimize Occupational Hazards of Health Care Workers
Chapter 14 Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance
Chapter 15 Immunity
Chapter 16 Antigens
Chapter 17 Antibodies (Immunoglobulin)
Chapter 18 Antigen–Antibody Reactions
Chapter 19 The Complement System
Chapter 20 Immune Response
Chapter 21 Hypersensitivity
Chapter 22 Prevention of Infection by Immunization
Chapter 23 Water-Borne and Food-Borne Diseases
Chapter 24 The Cocci
Chapter 25 The Bacilli and the Vibrios
Chapter 26 The Spirochaetes
Chapter 27 Mycoplasma, Chlamydia, Rickettsia and Ehrlichia
Chapter 28 The Fungi
Chapter 29 The Viruses – Part I: DNA Viruses
Chapter 30 The Viruses – Part II: RNA Viruses
Chapter 31 Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Microbiology
Chapter 32 Parasitology
Chapter 33 Vectors and Disease