This textbook from Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers is an English medium (अंग्रेज़ी माध्यम) title by Apurba S. Sastry and Sandhya Bhat, written for MBBS second-year students studying microbiology (माइक्रोबायोलॉजी). It ships as a set of two books — the main textbook together with the complimentary One Stop Resource for All Your Exam Needs in Microbiology. (cite index="400-1">The revised reprint of the 4th edition presents a comprehensive, NExT-oriented microbiology textbook, now accompanied by a complimentary chapter-wise question bank as per NMC guidelines. The book is organised into two major parts — General Microbiology, Immunology and Hospital Infection Control, and Systemic Microbiology — covering clinical infective syndromes, etiological agents and updated parasitology topics. (cite index="405-1">The authors describe the making of the book as a journey in which they experienced how microbiology could be changed to suit the needs of an Indian Medical Graduate. It is prepared according to the new MBBS curriculum, and its content was modified from traditional organism-based teaching to system-based teaching. Parasitology topics have been updated under the respective infective syndromes, which obviates the need to read a separate parasitology book, and the overall content has been reduced with the perspective of an Indian medical graduate in mind. (cite index="404-1">The edition also updates the AETCOM module as per the CBME curriculum for second MBBS students; carries recent advances in laboratory diagnosis, treatment guidelines and vaccine prophylaxis of infectious diseases, notably tuberculosis and HIV; includes epidemiology updates on recent outbreaks and geographical distribution with special emphasis on Indian epidemiology; follows references from the latest editions of Harrison, Mandell, and Bailey & Scott along with CDC and WHO sources and Indian healthcare programme guidelines such as ICMR, NCDC, NTEP, NACO, NVBDCP and GPEI; and adds more tables, flowcharts, real images and schematic diagrams. The authors describe it as one weapon for two targets — the MBBS examination and the NExT entrance — being the only textbook written in a NExT-oriented way, so that the matter of the textbook does not differ greatly from a PG entrance book. (cite index="400-1">Apurba S. Sastry, MD (JIPMER) DNB MNAMS PDCR, is Officer-in-Charge of the Hospital Infection Control and Prevention Unit, Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead and Additional Professor in the Department of Microbiology at JIPMER, Puducherry; Sandhya Bhat, MD DNB MNAMS PDCR, a gold medallist, is Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences. The whole book is written in English in the Roman script.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script)
Written by Apurba S. Sastry and Sandhya Bhat, published by Jaypee Brothers
4th Edition, Revised Reprint — around 734 pages
Two-book set — includes the complimentary One Stop Resource question bank
Question bank covers long essays, short notes, case-based and reasoning questions, and MCQs
Written to the revised CBME curriculum and NMC guidelines
The only microbiology textbook written in a NExT-oriented way
Serves both the MBBS examination and PG entrance preparation
System-based teaching rather than the traditional organism-based approach
Parasitology integrated under infective syndromes — no separate parasitology book needed
Two-part structure: General Microbiology/Immunology/HIC, and Systemic Microbiology
Updated AETCOM module as per CBME for second MBBS
Updates on tuberculosis, HIV, COVID-19 protocols and antimicrobial stewardship
Indian epidemiology emphasised, with ICMR, NCDC, NTEP, NACO and NVBDCP guidelines
Extensive tables, flowcharts, real images and schematic diagrams
जेपी ब्रदर्स मेडिकल पब्लिशर्स द्वारा प्रकाशित 'Essentials of Medical Microbiology' का यह चौथा संस्करण (रिवाइज़्ड रीप्रिंट) डॉ. अपूर्बा एस. सास्त्री एवं डॉ. संध्या भट द्वारा लिखा गया है। इसके साथ 'One Stop Resource for All Your Exam Needs in Microbiology' नामक प्रश्न-बैंक निःशुल्क दिया जाता है, जो NMC दिशा-निर्देशों के अनुसार अध्यायवार तैयार किया गया है। यह पुस्तक नए MBBS पाठ्यक्रम के अनुरूप तैयार की गई है और इसमें पारंपरिक जीव-आधारित (organism-based) शिक्षण के स्थान पर तंत्र-आधारित (system-based) शिक्षण अपनाया गया है। पैरासाइटोलॉजी के विषयों को संबंधित संक्रामक सिंड्रोम के अंतर्गत ही सम्मिलित कर दिया गया है, जिससे अलग से पैरासाइटोलॉजी की पुस्तक पढ़ने की आवश्यकता नहीं रहती। पुस्तक दो भागों में विभाजित है — (I) जनरल माइक्रोबायोलॉजी, इम्यूनोलॉजी एवं हॉस्पिटल इन्फ़ेक्शन कंट्रोल, तथा (II) सिस्टमिक माइक्रोबायोलॉजी। इसमें तपेदिक, एचआईवी, कोविड-19 प्रोटोकॉल तथा एंटीमाइक्रोबियल स्टीवर्डशिप संबंधी अद्यतन सामग्री सम्मिलित है, और भारतीय महामारी-विज्ञान पर विशेष बल दिया गया है। यह एकमात्र ऐसी पाठ्यपुस्तक है जो NExT-उन्मुख शैली में लिखी गई है। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है, हिन्दी में नहीं।
