Cellular Microbiology : Bacteria-Host Interactions in Health and Disease

Rating:
Summary: A valuable addition to a personal scientific library
Review: This is the one and only text book I have ever read from cover-to-cover because it was interesting enough to hold my attention, and because it was written in such a way that the sections which discussed areas of bacteriology already known to me became useful exercises in revision. As a bacteriologist entering the complex world of eukaryotic cell signalling for the first time, this has been an invaluable text for me. The authors are to be congratulated on writing a text book on a subject which at times can be highly complex - since they have made the subject matter accessible to all, from grad students to research professors. The diagrams are without exception clear and concise, and the chosen literature for further reading is well-sourced. My only criticism is that some of the diagrams may have been easier to decipher if presented in colour - but I suspect the publishers were trying to keep printing costs to a minimum.

I do hope the authors consider producing updated revisions of this text as this field of microbiology progresses.