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Students and faculty alike have attested to the extraordinary success rate of the Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews series. The Biochemistry and its cousin, Pharmacology, have been top-rated bestsellers for years. These unparalleled review texts clarify the essentials students need to know for the Boards through an easy-to-use outline format, extensive algorithms, and an entirely visual approach utilizing powerful visual resources that deliver the focus and clarification needed for mastery of the large amounts of critical information in the biomedical sciences.

Now, this review series offers its newest addition: Lippincott's Illustrated Review: Microbiology. It includes all the favored features of the previous two reviews with a fully visual format, including 662 illustrations, and clear presentation of its complex subject.

Designed and edited by top educators, the book helps the student tie together the visual and cognitive elements of learning for superior recognition and recall. Many figures and tables, carefully crafted to complement and amplify the text, are completely integrated with the text.

How Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology can make a difference in your studying:

• Outline Format -- get information at a glance....
  An expanded, logically organized outline format clarifies and highlights the most important facts and most significant relationships--you canrapidly retrieve that information at a glance.
• Superb Illustrations -- completely integrated to the text...
  Over 600 detailed illustrations are included, each carefully crafted to complement and amplify the text. Over 150 full color photos and numerous color-coded summaries aid you in remembering the morphology and classification of the microorganisms, as well as the therapy of choice.
• Completely Cross-Referenced -- you get the "big picture"...
  Cross-referencing links to the other two titles in the series, Biochemistry and Pharmacology help you understand key interrelationships between these disciplines -- you can easily locate material that has particular relevance to the subject you're currently studying. The text also has a large number of intravolume citations that allow you to rapidly find related information within the book without having to go to the index.
• USMLE-Type Questions With Each Chapter...
  The book supplies USMLE-type questions that simulate the experience you will encounter in the actual examinations. You not only get the correct answer -- but also a detailed explanation on why that answer is correct.

Students who ar preparing for standard courses or examinations will find this book "must" reading for mastery of the essential concepts in microbiology.