Part I: Fundamentals of Microbiology and Infectious Disease 1. Microbes Shape Our History 2. Basic Concepts of Infectious Disease 3. Observing Microbes 4. Living Chemistry: From Atoms to Cells 5. Cell Biology of Bacteria and Eukaryotes 6. Bacterial Growth, Nutrition, and Differentiation Part II: Essential Biology and Control of Infectious Agents 7. Bacterial Metabolism 8.
Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology 9. Bacterial Genomes and Evolution 10. Bacterial Diversity 11. Eukaryotic Microbes and Invertebrate Infectious Agents 12. Viruses 13. Sterilization, Disinfection, and Antibiotic Therapy Part III: The Immune System 14. Normal Human Microbiota: A Delicate Balance of Power 15. The Immune System: Inflammation and Innate Immunity 16.
The Immune System: Adaptive Immunity Part IV: Infectious Diseases 17. Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Immune Disorders 18. Microbial Pathogenesis 19. Infections of the Skin and Eye 20. Infections of the Respiratory Tract 21. Systemic Infections 22. Infections of the Digestive System 23. Infections of the Urinary and Reproductive Tracts 24.
Infections of the Central Nervous System 25. Diagnostic Clinical Microbiology 26. Epidemiology: Tracking Infectious Diseases 27. Environmental and Food Microbiology.