Practical Handbook of Microbiology
暫譯: 微生物學實用手冊

《微生物學實用手冊》第四版提供有關微生物的基本、清晰且簡明的知識和實用信息。這本書對任何對微生物感興趣的人都很有用，特別是針對四個群體：在微生物學特定領域工作的受過訓練的微生物學家；在其他學科受過訓練並將微生物作為工具或“化學試劑”的人；評估微生物學相關公司的商業人士；以及一個新興群體，從事可能在微生物學方面訓練有限的職業和行業，但需要特定實用信息的人。

主要特點：
- 提供有關微生物的基本信息的綜合彙編——從經典微生物學到基因組學。
- 包括致病細菌、細菌病毒（噬菌體）及其在治療疾病中的應用的內容，並增加了對極端微生物和真菌的覆蓋。
- 特別涵蓋抗微生物劑，包括有關抗真菌劑和抗病毒劑的新章節。
- 涵蓋細菌病原體、革蘭氏陰性病原體和革蘭氏陽性厭氧球菌。
- 增加了許多特別針對專業人士的章節，例如醫療和工業專業人士、環境科學家和生態學家、教師和商業人士。

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Emanuel Goldman is a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics of the New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS), a division of Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. He graduated with honors from the Bronx High School of Science in 1962, received a BA (cum laude) from Brandeis University in 1966, where he was a chemistry major and music minor, and completed his PhD in biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. He performed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and at the University of California, Irvine, before joining the faculty of the New Jersey Medical School in 1979, where he rose through the ranks to professor in 1993. Among his awards and honors, Dr. Goldman was a Damon Runyon fellow, a Lievre senior fellow of the California Division, American Cancer Society, and a recipient of the Research Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute.

Among his service activities, he was an officer and organizer of the New York-New Jersey Molecular Biology Club, served as a full member of an American Cancer Society Study Section, and continues to serve on the editorial boards of Protein Expression and Purification and Applied and Environmental Microbiology. He was also twice elected by his colleagues to serve as the president of his university's chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and he was elected to serve as president of the Faculty Organization of NJMS. Among several areas of research activity, he has focused on the role of tRNA in the elongation of bacterial protein synthesis, including uncharged tRNA, codon bias, and programmed translational frameshifts. In addition to numerous scientific peer-reviewed publications and publications in the lay press, he has contributed a chapter to Zubay's Biochemistry textbook and four chapters to the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. His recently published Comment in Lancet, "Exaggerated risk of transmission of COVID-19 by Fomites", has attracted significant international attention.

Lorrence H. Green, Ph.D., President of Westbury Diagnostics, Inc. earned his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, in 1978. He followed this with three years of recombinant DNA and genetic research at Harvard University. In 1981, he moved into Industry by joining Analytab Products Inc., a major manufacturer of in vitro diagnostic test kits. During the next twelve years he helped to invent and manufacture over 40 diagnostic test kits, and rose to become the Director of New Product Development and Product Support.

In 1993, Dr. Green founded Westbury Diagnostics, Inc., a microbiology-biotechnology based contract research and development laboratory also offering consulting services. Mixing his love of business with his love of teaching Dr. Green has served as an adjunct associate professor of microbiology at the NY College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology at Farmingdale State College and a Director of the Fundamentals of the Bioscience Industry Program at Stony Brook University of the State University of New York.

Dr. Green is on the steering committee, and is a former Chairman, of the Microbiology Section of the NY Academy of Sciences. He was also the long time Treasurer of the NYC Branch of the ASM. From 2001 until 2004 he was a member of the Advisory Committee on Emerging Pathogens and Bioterrorism to the New York City Commissioner of Health. In 2013 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Long Island Advancement of Small Business.

His main interests involve using technology in the development of commercial products and in being an entrepreneur who invests in and develops companies. He enjoys providing mentorship and career advice to students at all levels. He has spoken at many career day events, judged many regional science fairs, and has helped dozens of young people with applications to medical school, nursing school, physician's assistant school, and with starting companies. Most recently he has become involved in government and is currently the Chairman of the Town of Mamakating Planning Board.

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Emanuel Goldman 是新澤西醫學院（NJMS）、羅格斯生物醫學與健康科學（RBHS）部門的微生物學、生物化學和分子遺傳學教授，該部門隸屬於新澤西州紐瓦克的羅格斯大學。他於1962年以優異成績畢業於布朗克斯科學高中，1966年獲得布蘭代斯大學的學士學位（榮譽），主修化學、副修音樂，並於1972年在麻省理工學院獲得生物化學博士學位。他在哈佛醫學院和加州大學爾灣分校進行博士後研究，1979年加入新澤西醫學院的教職，並於1993年晉升為教授。在他的獎項和榮譽中，Goldman博士曾是Damon Runyon研究員，加州分部美國癌症學會的Lievre高級研究員，以及國家癌症研究所的研究職業發展獎的獲得者。

在他的服務活動中，他曾擔任紐約-新澤西分子生物學俱樂部的幹部和組織者，作為美國癌症學會研究小組的正式成員，並持續擔任《蛋白質表達與純化》和《應用與環境微生物學》的編輯委員會成員。他還曾兩次被同事選舉為美國大學教授協會的校友會會長，並當選為新澤西醫學院教職員組織的會長。在多個研究領域中，他專注於tRNA在細菌蛋白質合成延長中的角色，包括未充電的tRNA、密碼子偏好和程序性翻譯框移位。除了眾多的科學同行評審出版物和大眾媒體出版物外，他還為Zubay的《生物化學》教科書貢獻了一章，並為《生命科學百科全書》貢獻了四章。他最近在《柳葉刀》上發表的評論《通過物體傳播COVID-19的風險被誇大了》，引起了國際上的廣泛關注。

Lorrence H. Green，博士，Westbury Diagnostics, Inc.的總裁，於1978年在印第安納大學布盧明頓校區獲得細胞與分子生物學博士學位。隨後，他在哈佛大學進行了三年的重組DNA和基因研究。1981年，他進入業界，加入Analytab Products Inc.，這是一家主要生產體外診斷測試套件的公司。在接下來的十二年中，他幫助發明和製造了超過40種診斷測試套件，並晉升為新產品開發和產品支持的主任。

1993年，Green博士創立了Westbury Diagnostics, Inc.，這是一家基於微生物學和生物技術的合同研究與開發實驗室，還提供諮詢服務。Green博士將他對商業的熱愛與對教學的熱愛相結合，曾擔任紐約骨科醫學院的微生物學兼任副教授，目前是Farmingdale State College的生物學兼任助理教授，以及紐約州立大學石溪校區生物科學產業基礎課程計劃的主任。

Green博士是紐約科學院微生物學部的指導委員會成員，並曾擔任主席。他還是美國微生物學會紐約市分會的長期財務主管。從2001年到2004年，他是紐約市健康專員的新興病原體和生物恐怖主義諮詢委員會成員。2013年，他被任命為長島小企業促進會的董事會成員。

他的主要興趣在於利用技術開發商業產品，並作為一名投資和發展公司的企業家。他喜歡為各級學生提供指導和職業建議。他曾在許多職業日活動中發言，擔任多個地區科學博覽會的評審，並幫助數十名年輕人申請醫學院、護理學院、醫師助理學校以及創辦公司。最近，他開始參與政府事務，目前擔任Mamakating鎮規劃委員會的主席。