Schaechter’s Mechanisms of Microbial Disease (4th ed.)

Abstract

Microbial diseases and the microbes that cause said diseases are prevalent throughout the world. Indeed, there are a bewildering amount of causative agents for microbial disease and keeping track of them is a monumental task. The 4th edition of Schaechter’s Mechanisms of Microbial Disease does an admirable job of presenting a wide selection of microbes and the diseases they cause in a pathological framework that is concise and understandable. The book is relatively short at 762 pages but covers a respectable amount of information in three sections and 76 chapters.