Microbiology: An Introduction has been used at colleges and universities around the world, making it the leading textbook for non-majors microbiology. The twelfth Edition continues to be a comprehensive beginning text, assuming no previous study of biology or chemistry. The text is appropriate for students in a wide variety of programs, including the allied health sciences, biological sciences environmental science, animal science, forestry, agriculture, home economics, and the liberal arts.

The twelfth Edition provides an appropriate balance between microbiological fundamentals and applications, and between medical applications and other applied areas of microbiology.

It also features straightforward presentation of complex topics.

Clear, accurate, and pedagogically effective illustrations and photos and flexible organization.

This book has no writing or highlighting in it. Nor are there any rips or tares.

The very back of the book does have a couple scratches.