Resources for learning more about bacteria

Internet resources on bacteria

Bacteria World: http://www.bacteria-world.com/.

Cells Alive: http://www.cellsalive.com/.

Dennis Kunkel Microscopy: http://www.denniskunkel.com/.

Infectious Diseases in History: http://urbanrim.org.uk/diseases.htm.

Microbe World: http://www.microbeworld.org/.

Todar’s Online Textbook of Bacteriology: http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/.

The Microbial World: http://www.microbiologytext.com/index.php?module=Book&func=toc&book_id=4.

University of California Museum of Paleontology: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/bacteria.html.

The Virtual Museum of Bacteria: http://www.bacteriamuseum.org/cms/.

Book resources on bacteria

Biddle, Wayne. A Field Guide to Germs, 2002, Anchor Books, New York.

Dyer, Betsey Dexter. A Field Guide to the Bacteria, 2003, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.

Lax, Alistair. Toxin: The Cunning of Bacterial Poisons, 2005, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Maczulak, Anne E. The Five-Second Rule and Other Myths about Germs, 2007, Thunder’s Mouth Press/Perseus Books, Philadelphia.

Meinesz, Alexandre. How Life Began, Evolution’s Three Geneses, 2008, University of Chicago Press.

Sachs, Jessica Snyder. Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World, 2007, Hill and Wang, New York.

Schaechter, Moselio, John L. Ingraham, and Frederick C. Neidhardt. Microbe, 2006, American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC.

Spellberg, Brad. Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them, 2009, Prometheus Books, New York.

Zimmer, Carl. Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, 2008, Vintage Books, New York.

Classic reading on bacteria

De Kruif, Paul. Microbe Hunters, 1926, Harcourt, Orlando, Fla. History of bacteriology through biographies of the greatest microbiologists.

Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, 1994, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. Mainly about viruses but with eternal lessons on all germs.

Karlen, Arlo. Biography of a Germ, 2000, Pantheon Books, New York. A unique introduction to bacteria by following the activities of the lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi.

MacFarlane, Gwyn. Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth, 1985, Oxford University Press, Oxford. The story and intrigue behind a historic scientific discovery.

Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, 1974, Viking Press, New York. Appreciation of biology for nonbiologists.