Key features

• •Comprehensive but concise coverage of general microbiology, immunology, microbes and infections of relevance to dentistry, oral microbiology, and cross-infection and control.
• •Careful integration of clinical dentistry throughout, bringing the subject alive for the dental student and facilitating the new problem-based learning curricula used in many dental schools.
• •Covers both general and oral microbiology in one book.
• •Key Fact boxes, tables, colour illustrations, and concise text make the book easy to use and learn from.
• •Total update of the text.
• •New question-and-answer sections for self-review at the end of each chapter.
• •New sections on uncultivable bacteria, biofilms, emerging infections, SARS coronavirus infection, avian flu, prion diseases, drug resistant bacteria and the latest American and British recommendations on infection control procedures.
• •New material on advances in molecular biology relevant to infectious diseases and on new taxonomy and nomenclature.