RT Book, Section
A1 Carroll, Karen C.
A1 Hobden, Jeffery A.
A1 Miller, Steve
A1 Morse, Stephen A.
A1 Mietzner, Timothy A.
A1 Detrick, Barbara
A1 Mitchell, Thomas G.
A1 McKerrow, James H.
A1 Sakanari, Judy A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1114732366
T1 Classification of Bacteria
T2 Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology, 27e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071824989
LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1114732366
RD 2024/04/18
AB One  has  only  to  peruse  the  table  of  contents  of  this  book  to  appreciate  the  diversity  of  medical  pathogens  that  are  associated  with  infectious  diseases.  It  has  been  estimated  that  we  currently  have  the  capacity  to  identify  fewer  than  10%  of  the  pathogens  responsible  for  causing  human  disease.  This  is  due  to  our  inability  to  culture  or  target  these  organisms  using  molecular  probes.  The  diversity  of  even  these  identifiable  pathogens  alone  is  so  great  that  it  is  important  to  appreciate  the  subtleties  associated  with  each  infectious  agent.  The  reason  for  understanding  these  differences  is  significant  because  each  infectious  agent  has  specifically  adapted  to  a  particular  mode(s)  of  transmission,  a  mechanism(s)  to  grow  in  a  human  host  (colonization),  and  a  mechanism(s)  to  cause  disease  (pathology).  As  such,  a  vocabulary  that  consistently  communicates  the  unique  characteristics  of  infectious  organisms  to  students,  microbiologists,  and  health  care  workers  is  critical  to  avoid  the  chaos  that  would  ensue  without  the  organizational  guidelines  of  bacterial  taxonomy  (Gk.  taxon  =  arrangement;  eg,  the  classification  of  organisms  in  an  ordered  system  that  indicates  a  natural  relationship).