Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology Dedication to Hans Zinsser

Welcome to Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology textbookofbacteriology.net. This textbook has evolved from online and live-in-person lectures presented in my bacteriology courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Its contents are suitable for reading or presentation in courses or course modules concerning general microbiology and medical bacteriology at the college and advanced high school levels of education. As an electronic text, new material is constantly being added, and current material is constantly being revised and updated. This is an inherent advantage of the web-based text over the tree-burner.

The textbook will never be complete, as the rate of production of new information in microbiology far outruns the author's ability to acquire and properly present it. If you have suggestions, comments or criticisms regarding the textbook or its contents, or the idea of this type of textbook, please send email to me at the address below.

Kenneth Todar
University of Wisconsin
Department of Bacteriology
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
kgtodar@facstaff.wisc.edu

Overview of Bacteriology

The Impact of Microbes on the Environment and Human Activities

Structure and Function of Procaryotes

Nutrition and Growth of Bacteria

Growth of Bacterial Populations

Control of Microbial Growth

The Diversity of Procaryotic Metabolism

Regulation and Control of Metabolic Activities

Bacteriophage

Procaryotes in the Environment

Important Groups of Procaryotes

The Nature of Host-Parasite Interactions

The Bacterial Flora of Humans

Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenicity

Bacteria of Medical Importance

Immune Defense against Microbial Pathogens: Innate Immunity

Immune Defense against Microbial Pathogens: Adaptive Immunity

Bacterial Structure in Relationship to Pathogenicity

Colonization and Invasion by Bacterial Pathogens

Bacterial Defense against Phagocytosis

Bacterial Defense against Immune Responses

Bacterial Protein Toxins

Bacterial Endotoxin

Antimicrobial Agents Used in the Treatment of Infectious Disease

Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents

Staphylococcus and Staphylococcal Disease

Streptococcus and Streptococcal Disease

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Listeria monocytogenes and Listeriosis

Neisseria: Gonorrhea and Meningitis

Haemophilus influenzae including Hib Meningitis

Opportunistic Infections Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Whooping Cough (Pertussis)

E. coli: Gastroenteritis, Urinary Tract Infections and Neonatal Meningitis

Cholera

Salmonella and Salmonellosis

Shigella and Shigellosis

Pathogenic Clostridia, including Tetanus and Botulism

Bacillus cereus Food Poisoning

Bacillus anthracis and Anthrax

Diphtheria

Tuberculosis

Rickettsial Diseases, including Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Borrelia burgdorferi

Vibrio vulnificus

Bacillus and Related Endospore-forming Bacteria

Kenneth Todar has taught microbiology to undergraduate students at The University of Texas, University of Alaska and University of Wisconsin since 1969. He received a PhD in Microbiology in 1972 from The University of Texas-Austin. His main teaching interests are in general microbiology, bacterial diversity, microbial ecology and pathogenic bacteriology. Currently, he is an emeritus lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches Microbiology 100, "The Microbial World". He resides in Madison, Wisconsin and Silvergate, Montana.

WEB TEXT REVIEW (SCIENCE Magazine Vol 304: 1421) "The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly" The pearly droplets in this photo are colonies of Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax. The bugs exude a goopy coating that repels immune system assaults and allows them to establish a foothold in the body. Learn more about the tricks bacteria use to prosper almost everywhere on Earth in this Web text from microbiologist Kenneth Todar of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. High school and college students can absorb the basics of bacterial structure, physiology, classification, and ecology.The book emphasizes medical microbiology, exploring how bacteria hitch a ride from host to host, how the body tries to corral invading microbes, and how the bugs elude these defenses. For example, the cholera bacterium releases a toxin that induces intestinal cells to spill ions and water, producing potentially lethal diarrhea. textbookofbacteriology.net

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