Microbe

Michele Swanson, Gemma Reguera, Moselio Schaechter, ... [et. al.]

2nd ed.

Washington, DC : ASM Press, cop. 2016

p. 425

Table 15.3 lists some of the principal fungal infections of humans. Note that these include some rather common ones that many of us are acquainted with, such as athlete's foot and vaginal "yeast" infections.

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p. 425

Other so-called "systemic" diseases affect deeper organs of the body, often with severe consequences. Some of these, such as coccidioidomycosis ("valley fever") and histoplasmosis, resemble tuberculosis (keep this in mind when you visit TB in chapter 24). The agents that cause these infections are always found in the environment. Coccidioidomycosis, in fact, is typically found among people living in the Western desert of the United States, because the spores of the causative fungus, Coccidioides immitis, survive well in the dust.

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p. 492

In the study case above, Mrs. K had chickenpox as a child, a disease caused by one of the herpesviruses (the varicella-zoster virus or VZV).

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p. 544

Viral predation is particularly high in groups of microbes that grow and increase in numbers fast, as we'll see in explosive epidemics of the bacterial disease cholera (chapter 26).

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p. 463

In fact, viral genomes (the virome) vastly outnumber those of all other biological cells.

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p. 492

In the study case above, Mrs. K had chickenpox as a child, a disease caused by one of the herpesviruses (the varicella-zoster virus or VZV).

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