Published April, 2012
By Edward R. Leadbetter and Jeanne S. Poindexter
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Bacteria in Nature
Rating:
Availability: Available

Regrettably absent is a review of the his tory of microbes as agents of inorganic transformations, a serious omission that resulted from the illness of the prospective author late in the preparation of this volume.

---

Published April, 2012
By Bernard Roizman and Carlos Lopez
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Viruses
Rating:
Availability: Available

---

Published April, 2012
By Geoff C. Crumplin
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: Springer Series in Applied Biology
Rating:
Availability: Available

The 4-quinolone antibacterial agents have been under development and in use for over 25 years, but despite an enormous body of research work there are still many basic questions that remain unanswered.

---

Published April, 2012
By Bernard Roizman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Viruses
Rating:
Availability: Available

The first volume of the series entitled Comprehensive Virology was pub lished in 1974 and the last is yet to appear. In fact, we felt then, and feel even more strongly now, that viruses, being simpler biological models, could serve as valuable probes for investigating the biology of the far more complex host cell.

---

Published April, 2012
By Gyorgy Berencsi, György Berencsi III and Gyoergy Berencsi III
Publisher: Springer
Rating:
Availability: Available

Maternal cells with latent viruses transport viruses without impairment of fetal development. Fetal and neonatal tumours are initiated by such cells in spite of the antitumour potential of fetal organism. On the contary, the fetal cells repair maternal tissue injouries and survive in the organisms of the recipients for decades.

---

Published April, 2012
By Andre J. Nahmias and Richard J. O’Reilly
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Comprehensive Immunology
Rating:
Availability: Available

When we were first approached by the senior editors of this series to edit a book on interactions between the host and infectious agents, we acceptedthis offer as an exciting challenge.

---

Published April, 2012
By A. Perez-Miravete
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Organisms are constantly being bombarded by stimuli in their envi ronment (and also by internal stimuli), and a common way of responding is by movement.

---

Published March, 2012
By Stephen Gillespie and Kathleen Bamford
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: At a Glance
Rating:
Availability: Available

This concise and popular introduction to medical microbiology and infection encapsulates the fundamental facts and principles of this rapidly growing and changing subject area.

---

Published March, 2012
By Steven Specter, Herman Friedman and Mauro Bendinelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis
Rating:
Availability: Available

---

Published March, 2012
By F. E. Hahn, J. F. Snell, J. W. Corcoran and K. L. Arora
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Antibiotics
Rating:
Availability: Available

This volume is the third in the series devoted to Antibiotics initiated by Springer Verlag in 1967.

---