Microbe Mission B/C
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Re: Microbe Mission B/C
Which division are you in?MLMSOGA wrote:Does anyone know a good Microbe textbook? I've been mainly using wikipedia but I don't really think that'll cut it at States.
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Re: Microbe Mission B/C
I have been looking at "Clinical Microbiology made ridiculously simple" its really good and has some amusing illustrations. Also "Medical Microbiology & Immunology" is good its used for Boards
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Any introductory microbiology text should suffice for the vast majority of testable material; you just might be short a disease here or interesting anecdote there. Beware anything geared towards medicine, as this event is much broader in scope than that! Anyway, I have a couple of these on my shelf. My favorite among them is Tortora, which is, incidentally, the one that appears most popular on Amazon. It's total information overload, though, if you're new to biology or in B division.MLMSOGA wrote:Does anyone know a good Microbe textbook? I've been mainly using wikipedia but I don't really think that'll cut it at States.
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I'm in C division. I've started to use Tortura and have found it rather helpful. I've been losing many point on disease and was wondering if anyone has a good textbook for diseases. Further up I saw Clinical Microbiology made simple and Medical Microbiology & Immunology being recommended, does anyone have any other textbooks they would recommend for diseases?NeilMehta wrote:Which division are you in?MLMSOGA wrote:Does anyone know a good Microbe textbook? I've been mainly using wikipedia but I don't really think that'll cut it at States.
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For diseases, I just Googled every disease on the list and typed up information on each of them onto my notesheet; uit's been working pretty well for me so far (got first at a tournament for the first time after doing this).MLMSOGA wrote:I'm in C division. I've started to use Tortura and have found it rather helpful. I've been losing many point on disease and was wondering if anyone has a good textbook for diseases. Further up I saw Clinical Microbiology made simple and Medical Microbiology & Immunology being recommended, does anyone have any other textbooks they would recommend for diseases?NeilMehta wrote:Which division are you in?MLMSOGA wrote:Does anyone know a good Microbe textbook? I've been mainly using wikipedia but I don't really think that'll cut it at States.
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That's what I did too. Wikipedia is a CF of information, but it becomes easy to spot the important info after the first few diseases.Unome wrote:For diseases, I just Googled every disease on the list and typed up information on each of them onto my notesheet; uit's been working pretty well for me so far (got first at a tournament for the first time after doing this).MLMSOGA wrote: I'm in C division. I've started to use Tortura and have found it rather helpful. I've been losing many point on disease and was wondering if anyone has a good textbook for diseases. Further up I saw Clinical Microbiology made simple and Medical Microbiology & Immunology being recommended, does anyone have any other textbooks they would recommend for diseases?
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I also did this. The CDC website and Wikipedia both tend to have good disease info.Unome wrote:For diseases, I just Googled every disease on the list and typed up information on each of them onto my notesheet; uit's been working pretty well for me so far (got first at a tournament for the first time after doing this).MLMSOGA wrote:I'm in C division. I've started to use Tortura and have found it rather helpful. I've been losing many point on disease and was wondering if anyone has a good textbook for diseases. Further up I saw Clinical Microbiology made simple and Medical Microbiology & Immunology being recommended, does anyone have any other textbooks they would recommend for diseases?NeilMehta wrote: Which division are you in?
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I did the same, but find that it is often necessary to memorize distinguishing characteristics of different diseases, especially considering the limiting size of the notesheetAlex-RCHS wrote:Unome wrote:I also did this. The CDC website and Wikipedia both tend to have good disease info.MLMSOGA wrote: I'm in C division. I've started to use Tortura and have found it rather helpful. I've been losing many point on disease and was wondering if anyone has a good textbook for diseases. Further up I saw Clinical Microbiology made simple and Medical Microbiology & Immunology being recommended, does anyone have any other textbooks they would refor diseases?[/quocommend te]
For diseases, I just Googled every disease on the list and typed up information on each of them onto my notesheet; uit's been working pretty well for me so far (got first at a tournament for the first time after doing this).
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You need to work on your notesheet skillsNeilMehta wrote:especially considering the limiting size of the notesheet

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