Prescott’s Principles of Microbiology continues in the tradition of the market leading Prescott, Harley, and Klein’s Microbiology. In using the 7th edition of PHK’s Microbiology as the foundation for the development of Principles, the authors have presented a streamlined, briefer discussion of the broad discipline of microbiology and have focused on readability and the integration of several key themes with an emphasis on evolution, ecology and diversity throughout the text. To accomplish this, each chapter focuses on key concepts and includes only the most relevant, up-to-date examples.
Unique to Principles is the inclusion of microbial pathogens into the diversity chapters (chapters 19-24). Thus when students read about the metabolic and genetic diversity of each bacterial, protist, and viral taxon, they are also presented with the important pathogens. In this way, the physiological adaptations that make a given organism successful can be immediately related to its role as a pathogen and pathogens can be readily compared to phylogenetically similar microbes.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction to Microbiology
Chapter 1: The History and Scope of Microbiology
Chapter 2: Microscopes and the Study of Microbial Structure
Chapter 3: Procaryotic Cell Structure
Chapter 4: Eucaryotic Cell Structure and Function
Chapter 5: Viruses and Other Cellular Agents
Part II: Microbial Nutrition, Growth, and Control
Chapter 6: Microbial Nutrition
Chapter 7: Microbial Growth
Chapter 8: Control of Microorganisms by Physical and Chemical Agents
Part III: Microbial Metabolism
Chapter 9: Introduction to Metabolism
Chapter 10: Catabolism: Energy Release and Conservation
Chapter 11: Anabolism: The Use of Energy in Biosynthesis
Part IV: Microbial Molecular Biology and Genetics
Chapter 12: Gene Structure, Replication, and Expression
Chapter 13: Regulation of Gene Expression
Chapter 14: Mechanisms of Genetic Variation
Chapter 15: Microbial Genomics
Chapter 16: Biotechnology and Industrial Microbiology
Part V: The Diversity of The Microbial World
Chapter 17: Microbial Evolution, Taxonomy, and Diversity
Chapter 18: The Archaea
Chapter 19: Deinococci and Nonproteobacteria Gram Negative Bacteria
Chapter 20: Proteobacteria
Chapter 21: Low G + C Gram Positive Bacteria
Chapter 22: High G + C Gram Positive Bacteria
Chapter 23: Eucaryotic Microbes
Chapter 24: Viral Diversity
Part VI: Ecology and Symbiosis
Chapter 25: Biogeochemical Cycling and Introductory Microbial Ecology
Chapter 26: Microorganisms in Natural Environments
Chapter 27: Microbial Interactions
Part VII: Host Defenses
Chapter 28: Nonspecific (Innate) Host Resistance>
Chapter 29: Specific (Adaptive) Immunity
Part VIII: Microbial Diseases and Their Control
Chapter 30: Pathogenicity of Microorganisms
Chapter 31: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Chapter 32: Clinical Microbiology and Immunology
Chapter 33: The Epidemiology of Infectious Disease
Part IX: Applied Microbiology
Chapter 34: Microbiology of Food
Chapter 35: Industrial Microbiology