Please Help: Recommend a Micro book

1. I am self-teaching microbiology and need something to study from! Please let me know if you have something basic, and well written to recommend.
   
   If someone wants to sell me something, I would probably buy it!
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   Jan 17, '05

   I ordered a basic micro-coloring book by Alcamo/Elson for supplement help, it goes over bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and multi-cellular parasites. It descibes their basic structure, physiology, biochemistry, cultivation and pathology of microbial disease and the mechanisms of non specific and immune resistance exhibited by the body.
   I ordered from www.amazon.com . There are a lot of micro text to choose from, and many come with study guides and CD roms.
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   Jan 18, '05

   I'm using Microbiology for the Health Sciences by Jensen, Wright and Robison. So far, it seems like an ok book. I'm a little dissapointed in the pictures - a little low-budget for the cost of the book, but the writing seems clear.
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   Jan 21, '05

   Microbiology: Principals and Explorations by Black is a pretty good book. Very simple to follow - I used it for my micro class, but I've already sold it. I liked it much better than my A&P book which was Hole's Human Anatomy and Physiology. Ugghhh....that book was torture - had HUGE holes that you were just expected to fill in the blanks and contradicted itself. It was a bad book.
   
   Good luck with Micro.

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