Modern imaging techniques -- Bacteriology -- Bacteriology : a survey of the bacteria and archeae domains -- Mycology -- Algology (protists--the algae) -- Protozoology (protists--the protozoa) -- Virology -- Helminthology -- Arthropods and disease -- Immunology
"[This book] provides a visual guide to many of the specific properties, activities and procedures associated with microorganisms and helminths (worms). It also discusses selected features of a number of infectious diseases. In short, this book is intended to present microorganisms to anyone who is interested and curious about the microbial world. Individuals, whether familiar or not familiar with this microscopic world of life, can gain some perspective as to the many types of microorganisms and their activities that exist in the world around them."--Preface, p. xvii