A Photographic Atlas for the Microbiology Laboratory

This book is a fantastic resource for the microbiology student. The plates are beautiful and the captions are fantastically detailed. Especially important and impressive is the background text and the plates that describe the metabolic pathways that the various tests and growth media exploit to bring about their results. This book is actually as much of a chemistry refresher as it is a microbiology textbook and lab book all in one. Seeing the chemical plates really makes you appreciate your chemistry courses again. Also very important are the clear and concise test result tables and captions under the plates. These provide a simple and easy-to-understand means of interpreting the various tests that you will perform in your microbiology lab. In a sense, I could say that a textbook isn't really needed for a microbiology course. If your instructor provides good presentations in your lectures, all you really need is this product for your lab assignments. I highly recommend this text both to professors and students.

Came brand new in plastic wrapping. No bent corners or missing pages. It is loose leaf so you will need a binder. Turned out to be incredibly helpful for my microbiology class, it actually has a lot of useful information without being wordy. Thought this would be another useful purchase required by a teacher but i found myself referencing it for the majority of our assignments.

Excellent atlas of microbiology! This book does a great job illustrating many microbes that you would otherwise be unable to see. I thought this manual was a good compliment to the required textbook for the course, and it was very handy for use in lab. This is a loose-leaf book, so you will need to purchase a three-ring binder to house this manual. Not a big deal, just wanted to make a note of it for potential future buyers. :)

I was skeptical about purchasing this as it was only a suggested textbook for my Clinical Microbiology class, but it was definitely worth the few extra bucks. It is a great resource for all things micro! It has been very useful in studying for tests as it has great descriptions of different media, beautiful pictures, and is very well organized.

I'm a med tech student, and we do a lot of Micro tests, so I really loved the Atlas. It contains a lot of Micro tests with great pictures & explanation. I highly recommend this Atlas for a micro student. The only thing that would be great is if only they can make a smaller version of the Atlas, that would be great.

Our lab was not very organized and I ended up providing a lot of the reference and guidance with this atlas, even though I didn't expect to be doing so at all. Thank God, because at least my lab group did our experiments correctly and also managed to avoid haphazardly infecting other people in the process (other students seemed a bit too cavalier about knocking over petri dishes of E. coli or a Clostridium bacterium). Be the superstar of your micro lab and get this book.

arrived as promised, in great shape, a bit cheaper compared to the same spiral bound version. It's also nice to be able to remove single pages during lab when you're comparing growth or experiments results. It has wonderful pictures and is a great companion if you have a Microbiology class. The larger textbooks are unable to incorporate all of these very handy images.

I just bought this for my microbiology lab because it is a requirement. It is a lot cheaper to buy from Amazon then to buy from the college bookstore. It arrived in brand new condition but shipping cause minor bends in the corner. It is not noticeable though. The pages are very colorful and very detailed in the pictures and explanations. All the pages can fit in a 1 inch 3 ring binder.

This book was more helpful than the assigned textbook for my microbiology class and it also came in handy for molecular cell biology. The content has just the right amount of detail and is written in a way that is easy to understand even if you don't have a strong science background. I was weary that it was only available as looseleaf since looseleaf textbooks I've gotten in the past had very thin paper (like bible paper) but this one actually had very sturdy pages.

If I would knew about this book before I had that job interwiev I would have had it! Everything you need to know or review at any time is in this book with great photos to ilustrate the reactions. Love it. Would recomend this book to everyone who is in microbiology field, whichewer lever you are in.