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My favourite Microbiology Websites 

Sites with loads of good information in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

bulletBaron's Medical Microbiology Textbook. YES the entire textbook, images and all!! The URL has changed (12/2/97).
bulletBrief Course in Bacteriology (Gianfranco Bruno): A short bacteriology course written in italian with great images.
bulletBiology 141 (G.Kaiser): A good microbiology course and lab book from Catonsville Community College.
bulletCells Alive! One of the best sites I have seen! Good general microbiology information.
bulletEverything Microbiology created by Dr. J. DiRienzo contains his lecture notes, research projects, history of microbiology at Univ. of Pennsylvania Dental School.
bulletGary Laboratory Homepage: Need information about Viruses or are you a card-carrying Virologist and want good information from the web? Then go to this site. The links are FANTASTIC and very comprehensive. A virologist's dream! It is also a great place for people wanting to know more about viruses.
bulletGrapes of Staph: Doc Kaiser's Microbiology Website. An excellent microbiology website. Dr. Kaiser's microbiology course and laboratory manual are fantastic for anyone wanting to know more about microbes. A must see site.
bulletInfection Control Today- A good newletter with lots of up-to-date microbial news.
bulletInsertion Sequence Finder- This database provides a list of insertion sequences isolated from eubacteria and archae. It is organized into individual files containing their general features (name, size, origin, family.....) as well as their DNA and potential protein sequences.
bulletMedical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases- Dr. Duckworth's website is excellent it includes many clinical cases, laboratory images, and lecture notes.
bulletMedscape has great review articles for infectious diseases. Really good site for physicians and those interested in medicine. You must register to get the good stuff. Registration is free.
bulletMicrobiology and Immunology Online- Dr. Hunt and his colleagues at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine have put together a wonderful Medical Microbiology and Immunology website.
bullet Microbiology 1020- Jerome Knutson, University of Minnisota Crookston, has created a good introductory Microbiology course.
bulletMicrobiology: Neal's Microbial World- contains microbiology articles and links to content-rich microbiology websites.
bulletMICR 403 / MBMB 403 Medical Microbiology - Dr. Douglas F. Fix's Medical Microbiology course is excellent. His exams are excellent, interactive, and well worth your time. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale .
bulletMicrobiology Webbed Out- Dr. Timothy Paustian et al., at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has created a microbiology website with an enormous amount of information. Great place to start if you want an introduction to microbiology.
bullet Microbiology: Dr. Randall Oelerich has created many good introductory microbiology study sheets. This site would be a great resource for those interested in learning microbiology or those teaching an introductory microbiology course.
bulletMicrobiology at KU and Jack's Place: Dr. Brown has done a wonderful job of writing articles that are currently in the news and of bringing microbiology to everyone. His section on Bugs in the News is excellent! I also really liked his What the Heck is... section.
bulletMIT Biology Hypertextbook: A basic textbook in biology. A very good source for those wanting basic information on chemistry, biochemistry, and biology.
bulletMycology Online: contains lots of information on the fungi that cause human infections. Descriptions of the organisms and the diseases they cause complete with excellent images. An excellent site.
bulletUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison; Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology: Mycology Image Library. Great images of fungi pathogenic to humans.
bulletInfectious Diseases (Chamberlain and Tritz), Immunology (Stuart), and, Medical Microbiology (Tritz) lectures at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.
bulletList of Bacterial Names With Standing in Nomenclature If you want to know the currently accepted name of a particular bacterium this is the place to go.
bulletName that Bug!- a fun bacterial identification game.
bulletNew York Department of Health's Fact Sheets on Diseases: About 50 different diseases of humans are described at this site. A good site to get information about a particular disease.
bulletRaymond Lin's Medical Microbiology Homepage contains a wonderful collection of medical microbiology sites and some teaching files with images of bacteria.
bulletSuite 101 Weekly articles covering various aspects of mainly medical microbiology are included.
bulletUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison; Department of Bacteriology: This website contains a large amount of information on bacteriology. It also contains some good information on cell structure.
bullet University of Utah's Pathology Dept. has many, many cases, tutorals, and EXCELLENT images.

 
 

Great Sites for Links to other Microbiology and Infectious Disease Sites.

bulletKarolinska Institute: Library and Information Center This site is the best compilation of medical microbiology and infectious diseases sites I can presently find. It is so good because it is organised so well.
bulletThe World Lecture Hall This site contains links to many courses from accounting to microbiology to medicine to zoology.
bulletSuite 101 This site is designed to take people to websites with good information in them. I have placed a large number of links on this site. The sites I have selected cover bacteriology, virology, parasitology, mycology, and general biology.
bulletPeter Large's Website has some wonderful microbiology links with good sites listed. You can also subscribe to and submit research articles to the World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology.
bulletThe Sicklehut Medical Links is a great repository of medical links.
bulletInfectious Diseases Weblink Great site lots of links!!!
bulletThe WWW Virtual Library: Microbiology and Virology This site has an enormous number of links to sites of interest to Microbiologists. The educational resources and images links in this virtual library are also valuable to anyone wanting to know more about Microbiology.
bulletPareras Media: This site is designed to take people to medical websites. There is also a medical online channel, medical advise area, and extensive links section.
bulletHardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources This site is designed to take people to websites that contain large health-related link lists.
bulletABCentral or EDU2 This site contains 1000's of links to educational sites from accounting to microbiology to medicine to ?.
bulletMedExplorer Website This site contains many links to medical sites on the web.


 

Societies and Governmental Agencies concerned with Microbiology and/or Infectious Diseases.

bulletASM's Homepage
bulletLabVelocity: was founded to address the growing need for rapid access to information in the unique and complex biomedical and life science market. By supplying custom research applications, tools and information resources to streamline scientific workflow, LabVelocity is creating a comprehensive online resource to aid scientists.
bulletThe Society for General Microbiology's Homepage A society of over 5000 microbiologists from around the world. They publish the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, Journal of General Virology and Journal of General Microbiology.
bulletMorbidity Mortality Weekly Reports
bulletCDC's Homepage
bulletCouncil News for NIAID

Medical Student Sites.

bulletFlash-Med Review- was designed for medical students, resident physicians and medical professionals as a tool for learning and reviewing medical information. 
bulletThe NUS Medical Student Hunnypot- contains links to materials in anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pathology, and much more.
bulletDermatlas is an excellent dermatology image resource with more than 2209 images available for viewing.
bulletDiana's Medical Student Site.
bulletThe StudentDoctor Osteopathic Medicine.
bulletThe StudentDoctor Network.
bulletMedical Bloopers- Funny things happen everywhere.

 

 

 

Microbiology sites for K-12 Educators

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Microbes in Action- This website provides scientific information and hands-on activities in microbiology to K-12 teachers via curriculum units, and workshops.

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ThinkQuest- is a global network of students, teachers, parents and technologists dedicated to exploring youth-centered learning on the Internet.

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Access Excellence- is a national educational program that gives high school biology and life-science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information on the Internet. The Mystery Spot is very microbiology-centered

Miscellaneous Sites

bulletScienceDaily A great site for up to date science news.
bulletBiology Guide Good biology site that has some microbiology links.
bulletThe Microbiology Website for Undergraduate Research Interested in helping undergraduates with research projects. This is the place to go.
bullet GIF Wizard: Shrink those LARGE gifs and give yourself more room!
bulletDr. Baer's Physiology Site

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