Strelkauskas’ Microbiology: A Clinical Approach, third edition, is still a thorough beginning textbook designed especially for pre-nursing, nursing, and allied health students, just like the highly acclaimed previous versions. Its base is the topic of infection, making it clinically relevant throughout. It aligns nicely with the ‘One Health’ approach, which is becoming more and more important for controlling zoonoses and fighting antibiotic resistance. The third version has been completely updated and altered to take into account the most recent information, including the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The book comes with a comprehensive instructor auxiliary package that enables teachers to easily integrate the novel methodology of the book into their lectures. It also contains extra resources for students to enhance classroom instruction and promote study and introspection.
Principal Elements:
student-focused, with every component thoughtfully chosen to support kids in connecting with and comprehending challenging ideas as well as pique and maintain enthusiasm
A section devoted to learning skills presents useful techniques for enhancing understanding and memory.
Numerous text features further enhance learning and teaching, including chapter overviews, rapid facts, case studies and human stories, and ‘why is this important?’ highlights
a range of question-and-answer formats for self-assessment and introspection that encourage and evaluate fundamental knowledge acquisition, push students to integrate key ideas, and have them apply what they’ve learned to a particular clinical situation or issue
All backed by an extensive collection of online resources, such as lecture notes, interactive questions, MicroMovies, the BugParade, and lecturer support materials
The book is a wonderful resource to guide and assist inter-professional education in the health sciences and an outstanding entry-point to the subject for anyone coming from another discipline and invaluable extra reading for medical, microbiology and biomedical science students.
