Microbiology: The Human Experience, 3/e (Paperback)
暫譯: 微生物學：人類的體驗，第三版（平裝本）

對於醫療職業重要的微生物學沉浸式探索

《微生物學：人類經驗》是一本引人入勝的微生物學基礎概念介紹，學生在醫療職業中需要掌握這些概念。第三版進一步強調臨床相關性，透過我們新的臨床判斷互動活動和有關健康公平的討論來實現。這本書由受人尊敬的微生物學家和優秀的作家撰寫，提供清晰、學生友好的解釋和案例歷史，融入每一章的敘述中，幫助學生在實際情境中發展真實世界的技能。該書還配備了一套豐富的靈活課程材料，以支持所有學習者。

John W. Foster received his BS from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (now the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia) and his PhD from Hahnemann University (now Drexel University School of Medicine), also in Philadelphia, where he worked with Albert G. Moat. After postdoctoral work at Georgetown University, he joined the Marshall University School of Medicine in West Virginia. He is currently teaching in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. Dr. Foster has coauthored three editions of the textbook Microbial Physiology and has published more than 100 journal articles describing the physiology and genetics of microbial stress responses. He has served as Chair of the Microbial Physiology and Metabolism division of the American Society for Microbiology and as a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Molecular Microbiology.

Zarrintaj (Zari) Aliabadi is a physician assistant and a microbiologist. She received her Pharm D from the University of Tehran College of Pharmacy, in Iran, and her PhD in biomedical sciences from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where she worked with John W. Foster. After her postdoctoral work at the University of South Alabama (USA), in Mobile, Alabama, she joined the Department of Biochemistry at the USA College of Medicine, where she taught biochemistry and conducted research on sickle-cell anemia. Dr. Aliabadi then earned a master's in health sciences from the USA Physician Assistant Studies Program, practiced medicine as a PA in endocrinology, served as director of the USA Diabetic Foot Clinic, and became Chair of the USA Physician Assistant Studies Program. Recently she was named professor emeritus for her contributions. Dr. Aliabadi has taught extensively on infectious disease, pathophysiology, and clinical medicine to undergraduate pre–health profession students, graduate physician assistant students, and medical students. Her publications span the realms of microbiology and medicine.

Joan L. Slonczewski received their BA from Bryn Mawr College and her PhD in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University, where she studied bacterial motility with Robert M. Macnab. Since completing postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania, they have since taught undergraduate microbiology in the Department of Biology at Kenyon College, where they earned a Silver Medal in the National Professor of the Year program of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. They have published numerous research articles with undergraduate coauthors on bacterial pH regulation as well as five science fiction novels, including The Highest Frontier and A Door into Ocean, both of which earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. They conducted fieldwork on microbial ecosystems in Antarctica, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. They have served as At-Large Member representing Divisions on the Council Policy Committee of the American Society for Microbiology and as a member of the editorial board of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

約翰·W·福斯特於費城藥學與科學學院（現為費城科學大學）獲得學士學位，並在哈內曼大學（現為德雷克塞大學醫學院）獲得博士學位，期間與阿爾伯特·G·莫特合作。完成喬治城大學的博士後研究後，他加入了西維吉尼亞州的馬歇爾大學醫學院。目前，他在阿拉巴馬州莫比爾的南阿拉巴馬大學醫學院微生物學與免疫學系任教。福斯特博士共同編寫了《微生物生理學》教科書的三個版本，並發表了超過100篇描述微生物壓力反應的生理學和遺傳學的期刊文章。他曾擔任美國微生物學會微生物生理學與代謝分會的主席，以及期刊《分子微生物學》的編輯諮詢委員會成員。

扎林塔吉（Zari）阿利亞巴迪是一名醫師助理和微生物學家。她在伊朗德黑蘭大學藥學院獲得藥學博士學位，並在西維吉尼亞州亨廷頓的馬歇爾大學獲得生物醫學科學博士學位，期間與約翰·W·福斯特合作。完成南阿拉巴馬大學（美國）在阿拉巴馬州莫比爾的博士後研究後，她加入了南阿拉巴馬大學醫學院的生物化學系，教授生物化學並進行有關鐮刀型細胞貧血的研究。阿利亞巴迪博士隨後獲得南阿拉巴馬大學醫師助理研究生項目的健康科學碩士學位，並作為內分泌學的醫師助理從事醫療工作，擔任南阿拉巴馬大學糖尿病足診所的主任，並成為南阿拉巴馬大學醫師助理研究生項目的主席。最近，她因其貢獻被任命為名譽教授。阿利亞巴迪博士在傳染病、病理生理學和臨床醫學方面對本科生、研究生醫師助理學生和醫學生進行了廣泛的教學。她的出版物涵蓋微生物學和醫學領域。

喬安·L·斯隆切夫斯基於布林莫爾學院獲得學士學位，並在耶魯大學獲得分子生物物理學和生物化學博士學位，期間與羅伯特·M·麥克納布研究細菌運動性。自完成賓夕法尼亞大學的博士後研究以來，她在肯揚學院的生物學系教授本科微生物學，並在教育促進與支持委員會的全國年度教授計劃中獲得銀獎。她與本科合著者發表了多篇有關細菌pH調節的研究文章，並出版了五部科幻小說，包括《最高邊界》和《通往海洋之門》，這兩部作品均獲得約翰·W·坎貝爾紀念獎。她在南極洲進行了微生物生態系統的實地研究，該研究由國家科學基金會資助。她曾擔任美國微生物學會理事會政策委員會的全體成員，並擔任期刊《應用與環境微生物學》的編輯委員會成員。