Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple 8th Edition

Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple 8th Edition is an excellent USMLE Board Review Book for Microbiology.

From Ebola to AIDS to flesh-eating bacteria; to mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, Clostridium difcile diagnosis and treatment; treatment of gonorrhoea in light of growing antimicrobial resistance; Tuberculosis diagnostics, drugs for treatment of latent TB infection and MDR TB; the latest antibiotherapy drugs; and the latest antibiotherapy drugs for MDR TB. Measles and a section on newly developing infectious diseases and antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

This 8th Edition of Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple has been significantly revised by the addition of a brand-new chapter on the SARS-COV-2 virus and COVID-19 disease. This chapter explores the nature of the virus, including:

• SARS-COV-2 Virus genetic composition
• SARS-COV-2 Virus structural components
• Infectiousness inside the body
• Transmission between persons
• Chronology of infectiousness
• Signs and Symptoms
• Risk factors
• Various laboratory testing procedures
• Findings from radiology on the infected
• Various PPE and their utility
• Antiviral medicines, plasma treatment, monoclonal antibody therapy, anticoagulation and anti-inflammatory therapy are COVID-19 treatments.
• The names and mechanisms of action of all authorized vaccinations.