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| Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology (Diagnostic Microbiology (Bailey & Scott's)) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Betty A. Forbes, Daniel F. Sahm, Alice S. Weissfeld
Publisher: Mosby
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Customer Ratings:  10 comments
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1056
Shipping Weight (pounds): 4.4
Dimensions (inch): 11.1 x 8.8 x 1.6
ISBN: 0323030653
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.90475
EAN: 9780323030656
Publication Date: January 10, 2007
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Overall a good book September 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this comment useful.
This book holds a lot of useful information from safety to bacteria. Some of the parasitology was lacking and all of the tables can be useful or a menace depending on how well you can learn from them. The pictures were very useful and everything is easy to understand.
Nice Book January 9, 2007
4 out of 4 found this comment useful.
The great pictures and tables in this book keep it interesting, the only bad thing about it is that there are no end-of-chapter reviews or questions.
 Is it really good? August 11, 2006
7 out of 8 found this comment useful.
The eleventh edition is good in many aspects. But it cannot be denied that it is not as good as Koneman's book. Bailey and Scott is more suitable only for the bench technicians and not for researchers and graduate students. The book churns out table after table, in the name of comparative analysis. A student's mind will have difficulty in memorising and reproducing tables in the exam. In that sense, the lucid style of presentation in Koneman is commendable. Probably, the author of B&S did not have 'the student' in their mind when they wrote it. Another grossly lacking area is Parasitology. When compared to books written by Indian authors like SC Parija and Chatterjea, Bailey and Scott lags far behind. Probably, it is because parasitic infections are less in the US, which is why this area has been under emphasised.
As a gradute student in India, I would strongly encourage my friends and fellow microbiologists to singularly follow Koneman alone. Trying to use Koneman with Bailey and Scott or trying to substitute Koneman with Bailey and Scott is an exercise in futility.
These are my personal views only. Perhaps, students who want to finish studying clinical microbiology quickly because of the proximity of the exam dates, can go for Bailey and Scott. For MD students like me, we all in our college unanimously vote for the
Koneman.
 Um bom livro de consulta March 21, 2006
2 out of 3 found this comment useful.
Um bom livro de consulta, um bom livro para estudo sistematizado de microbiologia.
Microbiology March 20, 2006
1 out of 1 found this comment useful.
This book was a very useful tool in the class that I took.The pictures were very helful in determining different parasites and understanding how species are very related,but different.
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