General Information

• * The Microbe Zoo: Covers many aspects of the unseen world.
• Bugs in the News: Headlines made by the microbial world. Also includes the excellent, "What the heck..?" series of questions and answers about general areas of microbiology, virology and immunology.
• * Introduction to Clinical Microbiology: U. Texas Houston. Introduction to aspects of clinical microbiology that includes methods for identifying microbes, as well as an extensive picture gallery of Gram stains and colonies.
• Life in Extreme Environments: Microbes form the basis of all ecosystems on the planet, including some of the most seemingly inhospitable.
• Microbes.info: The Microbiology Information Portal.
• * Foodsafety: FDA website concerning food safety. Includes the popular Bad Bug Book
• Microbial Techniques: Basic descriptions with images of commonly used techniques in microbiology, including streaking plates and preparing commonly used types of media.

• Soil Biological Communities: You probably never realized so many things could live in DIRT.

• Medical Microbiology: An online textbook with in-depth information and images about MedMicro..
• Antimicrobial Agents: U. Wisconsin online course in Bacteriology. DMOZ's section on antibiotics has further information about this class of drugs.
• Diagnostic Parasitology: Extensive information about a variety of parasitic infections (malaria, WORMS..), at the CDC.
• Medical Mycology: Information and images about fungi that can cause disease.
• Doctor Fungus: Detailed website with information about medically relevant fungi.

• Protist Web: Image and information concerning protistans (algae and protozoa).

• * The Fifth Kingdom Extensive information and images of species of molds, slime molds and other fungi.
• MykoWeb: Mushrooms and other fungi.

Specific Microbial Species

• The E. coli Index: The little bug that could.. intestinal inhabitants, workhorses of biotechnology, and occasional pathogenic varieties, such as strain O-157.
• Helicobacter pylori: The 'ulcer bug' - you've never heard of it? Allow us to introduce..

  Marshall's Hunch was his testube lunch
  which cased him much distress later on...
  He thought he was a goner when he swallowed all his fauna
  and he felt another ulcer coming on...
  		(-lb & rb, late one night..)
  

• The Streptococcus Home Page: Prepare to be blown-away by a big blue pict of a nasty (however, many species of Streptococci are quite nice.. some even make yoghurt..).
• The Myxomycetes Home Page: The lovely, glorius life of brilliant yellow slime molds.
• Cyanosite: Information about blue-green algae.

Careers in Microbiology

Recommended Books

• The Microbes, Our Unseen Friends: Harold Rossmoore. This delightful book covers the many functions played by microbes in the world around us. Though out of print many public libraries have a copy.
  Wayne State Univ. Press. ISBN - 0-8143-1561-5 (1976).
• The Microbe Hunters: Paul de Kruif. A historical perspective of many important discoveries in bacteriology from Leeuwenhoek to Pasteur.
  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN - 0-1560-0262-0 (1926).
• Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection: Berton Rouechi. A series of intersting and true stories from an epidemiologist, including the title of the book: a case of "Eleven Blue Men." Other books by the same author include The Incurable Wound, and The Medical DetectivesThe Medical Detectives.
  ISBN - 0-5400-5121 (1953).
• Microbiology Coloring Book: Learn about microbes by coloring them in!

• Brock's Biology of Microorganisms by Michael T. Madigan, et al. Comprehensive introductory textbook of microbiology (ISBN: 0130819220).
• Bacterial Pathogenesis, A Molecular Approach by Abigail Salyers. A comprehensive and easy-to-read text concerning strategies used by bacterial pathogens to circumvent host defenses (ISBN: 155581171X).

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