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Essentials of Microbiology is a short book focussing on the causative agents of microbial diseases. Their morphology, cultural characters, antigenic structure. Toxin production. Pathogenesis. Transmission Laboratory diagnosis. Prevention and treatment. The book has seven sections covering General Bacteriology. Immunology. Systemic Bacteriology Virology Mycology Parasitology (Human) and Clinical Microbiology in 85 chapters which will be highly useful for II M.B.B.S. and II B.D.S. students. Nursing students practising physicians House-surgeons And public health students. Many illustrative diagrams and colored figures have been drawn wherever possible. A section on parasitology is exclusive in this book which is not covered in any other single text of microbiology. Also some chapters on antimicrobial therapy vaccines and sera and on clinical microbiology are useful specialties.