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MIC 195A

Great Experiments in Microbiology

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Electronic

Department of Veterianry Science and Microbiology http://microvet.arizona.edu

American Society for Microbiology: related microbiology links and educational materials http://www.asm.org/

Library resources: http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/users/jpfander/mic195a.html

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/

Discovery Health: http://health.discovery.com

Bacteria: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/bacteria.html

On-Line Textbook of Bacteriology http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/

Cells: http://www.cellsalive.com

All the Virology on the WWW: http://www.virology.net/garryfavwweb.html

 

Listserv

Listserv on emerging infectious diseases: email to Majordomo@promedmail.org . Subject: not needed. Message: subscribe promed-digest

 

Print: Non Fiction

Alibek, Ken and Stephen Handelman, Biohazard The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It Dell Publishing, New York, 1999

Angier, Natalie, Natural Obsessions The Search for the Oncogene, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1988

Biddle, Wayne, A Field Guide to Germs, Anchor Books, New York, 1995

Clark, William R., At War Within, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995

Close, William T. EBOLA Through the Eyes of the People Meadowlark Springs Production, Marbleton, WY, 2002

de Kruif, Paul, Microbe Hunters, Harcourt Brace and Company, San Diego, 1926 (1996)

Desalle, Rob, Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease, New press, 1999

Desowitz, Robert S., The Malaria Capers, W. W. Norton and Company, New York, 1991

Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel The Fates of Human Societies W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1999

Drexler, Madeline, Serret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections, Penguin USA, 2003

Ewald, Paul W., Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease, Anchor, 2002

Fisher, Jeffrey, The Plague Makers, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1994

Garrett, Laurie, The Coming Plague, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1994

Henig, Robin Marantz A Dancing Matrix   How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses Random House, New York, 1993

Kolata, Gina, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic, Touchstone Books, 2001

Levy, Elinor and Mark Fischette, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Mutant Germs Threatens Us All, Crown, 2003

Levy, Stuart B. The Antibiotic Paradox. How the Misuse of Antibiotics Destroys Their Curative Powers. Perseus Publishing, 2002.

Miller, Judith, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad Germs Biological Weapons and America's Secret War Simon and Schuster, New York, 2001

Murphy, Jim, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Clarion Books, 2003

Nesse, R. M. and G. C. Williams. Why We Get Sick. The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. Random House, New York, , 1994.

Osterholm, Michael T. and John Schwartz, Living Terrors What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe Delacorte Press, New York, 2000

Porter, Roy, Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine. W.W. Norton and Co., New York. 2002.

Postgate, John, Microbes and Man, Cambridge University Press, 1992

Postgate, John, The Outer Reaches of Life, Cambridge University Press, 1994

Preston, Richard, The Demon in the Freezer, Fawcett Books, 2003

Radetasky, Peter, The Invisible Invaders, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1994

Regis, Ed,The Biology of Doom The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project , Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1999

Regis, Ed, Virus Ground Zero, Pocket Books, New York, 1996

Rhodes, Richard Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1998

Schlossberg, David (ed.). Infections of Leisure, ASM Press, Washington, DC, 1999.

Shilts, Randy And the Band Played On Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic Penguin Books, New York, 1987

Shnayerson, Michael and Mark J. Plotkin The Killers Within The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 2002

Walters, Mark J., Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, Shearwater Books, 2003

Wills, Christopher, Yellow Fever, Black Goddess, Addison Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1996

Zinsser, Hans, Rats, Lice and History, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1934 (1963)

 

Print: Fiction

Clancy, Tom, Rainbow Six Berkley Books, New York, 1998

Cook, Robin, Contagion Berkley Books, New York, 1995

Cook, Robin, Outbreak Berkley Books, New York, 1988

Crichton, Michael, The Andromeda Strain Mass Market Paperback, 1993

Goliszek, Andrew, Rivers of the Black Moon Tom Doherty Associates (TOR), New York, 1996

Merkel, Earl, Final Epidemic, Signet, 2002

Preston, Richard, The Cobra Event Random House, New York, 1997

Preston, Richard, The Hot Zone Anchor Books Doubleday, New York, 1994

http://microvet.arizona.edu/Courses/MIC195A/mic195Aresources.html
Written by Janet M. Decker jdecker@u.arizona.edu
Last modified September 5, 2006