Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology Atlas. Under the editorship of A.A. Vorobyev and A.S. Bykov. Learning Aid for Medical Students. Moscow, Medical Information Agency, 2003, 236 p.
The team of authors includes senior researcher of N.F. Gamaleya Institute for Epidemiology & MicrobiologyM.Y. Korn.Reviewers: correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences O.V. Bukharin and professor V.N. Tsarev.
The publication is approved by the Task Group on Learning and Teaching in Microbiology, Virology, and immunology of the All-Russia Training, Research, and Methodology Center for Continuous Medical and Pharmaceutical Education of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia as a learning aid for medical higher educational establishments.
Recommended by the Academic and Methodological Association for Medical and Pharmaceutical Education of Higher Educational Establishments of Russia as a learning aid for medical students.
The Atlas is drawn up in accordance with the Program on Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology for medical higher educational establishments. The book written by the team of the leading specialists of I.M Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy provides a compact and clear guidance on microorganisms of medical relevance, immunology, and allergology. It contains definitions of the diseases, description of the mechanisms of agents transmission, their properties, and diagnostics specifics. The data on microorganisms is based on the most recent classification schemes.
The original colored illustrations (photos, schemes of microorganism structures, immune response and immunological reactions), due to their informative and visual nature, improve the quality of the training process. The atlas significantly extends the opportunities of textbooks and guidance books on medical microbiology, virology, and immunology. The atlas takes into consideration the data on microorganism classification (Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 2nd Edition 2001) and the decisions of the 7th International Congress of Virology regarding implementation of the new classification of viruses starting from 2002.
The atlas can be used for the purpose of medical education in higher educational establishments, colleges, and schools and as a guidance for doctors and laboratory specialists (the list of microorganisms and diagnostic tests is in accordance with Order No. 64 of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia dd. February 21, 2000 (On Approval of the List of Clinical Laboratory Studies).
The list of examination questions is given.
For students of medical higher educational establishments, medical departments of universities, and medical colleges, attendees of the post-graduate medical education system courses and infectious disease doctors, employees of the sanitary and epidemiological services, and other specialists.