SECTION I
BACTERIOLOGY

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Introduction to Bacteriology
Charles Patrick Davis, David Niesel and Gail Woods

Structure
Milton R. J. Salton and Kwang-Shin Kim

Classification
Ellen Jo Baron

Bacterial Metabolism
Peter Jurtshuk, Jr.

Genetics
Randall K. Holmes and Michael G. Jobling

Normal Flora
Charles Patrick Davis

Bacterial Pathogenesis
Johnny W. Peterson

Specific Acquired Immunity
John B. Robbins, Rachel Schneerson and Shousun C. Szu

Epidemiology
Philip S. Brachman

Principles of Diagnosis
John A. Washington

Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Harold C. Neu and Thomas D. Gootz

Staphylococcus
Timothy Foster

Streptococcus
Maria Jevitz Patterson

Neisseria, Branhamella, Moraxella, and Acinetobacter
Stephen A. Morse

Bacillus
Peter C. B. Turnbull

Miscellaneous Pathogenic Bacteria
Herbert Hof

Anaerobes: General Characteristics
David J. Hentges

Clostridia: Spore-Forming Anaerobic Bacilli
Carol L. Wells and Tracy D. Wilkins

Anaerobic Cocci
Carol L. Wells and Tracy D. Wilkins

Anaerobic Gram-Negative Bacilli
Sydney M. Finegold

Salmonella
Ralph A. Giannella

Shigella
Thomas L. Hale and Gerald T. Keusch

Campylobacter and Helicobacter
Guillermo I. Perez-Perez and Martin J. Blaser

Cholera, Vibrio cholerae 01 and 0139, and Other Pathogenic Vibrios
Richard A. Finkelstein

Escherichia coli in Diarrheal Disease
Doyle J Evans, Jr. and Dolores G. Evans

Escherichia, Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Serratia, Citrobacter, and Proteus
M. Neal Guentzel

Pseudomonas
Barbara H. Iglewski

Brucella
J. R. L. Forsyth and G. G. Alton

Pasteurella, Yersinia, and Francisella
Frank M. Collins

Haemophilus Species
Daniel M. Musher

Bordetella
Horst Finger and Carl Heinz Wirsing von Koenig

Corynebacterium diphtheriae
John R. Murphy

Mycobacteria and Nocardia
David N. McMurray

Actinomyces, Propionibacterium propionicus, and Streptomyces
George H. Bowden

Leptospira, Borrelia (Including Lyme Disease), and Spirillum
Russell C. Johnson

Treponema
Justin D. Radolf

Mycoplasmas
Shmuel Razin

Rickettsiae
David H. Walker

Chlamydia
Yechiel Becker

Legionella
Washington C Winn, Jr.

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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