@book {688284, title = {Microbiology and Immunology}, year = {2002}, publisher = {(World of) Thomson | Gale}, organization = {(World of) Thomson | Gale}, abstract = { Although microbiology and immunology are fundamentally separate areas of biology and medicine, they combine to provide a powerful understanding of human health and disease -- especially with regard to infectious disease, disease prevention, and tragically, of the growing awareness that bioterrorism is a real and present worldwide danger... \  Throughout history, microorganisms have spread deadly diseases and caused widespread epidemics that threatened and altered human civilization. In the modern era, civic sanitation, water purification, immunization, and antibiotics have dramatically reduced the overall morbidity and the mortality of disease in advanced nations. Yet, much of the world is still ravaged by disease and epidemics, and new threats constantly appear to challenge the most advanced medical and public health systems. For all our science and technology, we are far from mastering the microbial world. \ (download to read more) K. Lee Lerner \& Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors. St. Remy, France. June, 2002. }, author = {K. Lee Lerner (Contributing Editor) and BrendaWilmoth Lerner} }