Prescott's Microbiology

Key differences between 10th and 9th editions

• Period between current and previous publications: 3 years (2016 vs 2013).
• The first edition of this Microbiology textbook was written by Samuel Cate Prescott.
• Main content changes in the Tenth Ed.
• Chapter 2: More comprehensive coverage of phase contrast microscopy, an optical technique.
• Chapter 4: New Microbial Diversity & Ecology box What's in a Name?
• Chapter 5: Features differences between bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotic microorganisms.
• Chapter 7: Up-to-date material on bacterial persister cell formation.
• Chapter 10 presents concept of metabolic flux, the rate molecules turnover through a metabolic pathway.
• Chapter 12: New explanation of synthesis pathways for porphyrins , lipopolysaccharides, sterols.
• Chapter 16: New introductory story about the global problem of antibiotic resistance.
• Chapter 18: Next-generation sequencing technologies.
• Chapter 20: Anabolic and catabolic pathways specific to the Archaea, including CO2 fixation pathways.
• Chapter 21: Description of Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae bacterial superphylum.
• Chapter 22: Recently recognized proteobacteria.
• Chapter 29: Mass spectrometry bacterial identification methods, metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics technologies.
• Chapter 31: New information about microbial populations of the rhizosphere, phyllosphere and rhizoplane.
• Chapter 35: Important requirements for a pathogen to establish infection.
• Chapter 38: Up-to-date information on viral pathogenesis and prion-mediated diseases.
• Chapter 41: Discussion of fermented milk products.
• Chapter 42: Introduction to synthetic biology, a rapidly developing research area.