Microbiology and immunology data and methods

A guide to Library and Web sources of data and methods, encyclopaedias, dictionaries and background reading on:
General microbiology and immunology; Bacteria; Viruses; Fungi; Protozoa and parasites

General microbiology and immunology

The following Web sites have useful data sources:

• Microbiology Network
• Society for General Microbiology links
• Microbes.info: The Microbiology Information Portal.
• MicrobeLibrary.org, American Society for Microbiology
• Bad bug book: Foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins handbook, FDA
• Emerging infectious diseases journal, Center for Disease Control, U.S.
• "BUGS" Index - Organisms, University of Florida, - a database of pathogens, the diseases they cause, the source of the organism, virulence mechanisms, etc
• Education image library, Dennis Kunkel Microscopy - browse by category: bacteria, viruses

• Immunology link
• Vaccine Page, UniScience News Net
• Immunogenetics Database
• Antibody Resource Page
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - NIAID

Encyclopaedias and handbooks, mainly in print form in the Barr Smith Library, include:

• Encyclopedia of microbiology. Academic Press, 1992. 4 vols. Reference collection 576.30 L473e
• Collins and Lyne's microbiological methods. 7th ed. C.H. Collins. Butterworth-Heinemann,1994. Main collection collection 576.028 C712m
• Color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology. E.W. Koneman. 5th ed. Lippincott, c1997. Main Collection 616.01 C719.5
• CRC handbook of microbiology. 9 vols. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 1977-1988. Main collection 576 C11
• CRC practical handbook of microbiology. CRC Press, 1989. Reference collection 576 O45p
• Dictionary of microbiology and molecular biology. 3rd ed. Wiley, 2001. Reference collection 579.03 S617d
• Dictionary of microbial taxonomy. Cambridge University Press, 1978. Reference collection 576.012 C874d

• Guidebook to cytokines and their receptors. Oxford University Press, 1994. Main collection 574.29 N634g
• Illustrated dictionary of immunology. CRC Press, 1994. Main collection 574.2903 C957i
• Dictionary of immunology. 4th ed. Academic Press, 1995. Reference collection 576.203 H537d.2
• Macmillan dictionary of immunology. Macmillan, 1989. Reference collection 574.2903 R813m

For other printed works, search the Library catalogue. Favour books with more recent publication dates. Catalogue subject headings for methods and data typically include - Laboratory manuals; - Technique; - Handbooks, manuals, etc; so try keyword searches such as:

• immunology and ("laboratory manuals" or technique or handbooks or methods or protocols)
• immunoassay
• immunochemistry and ("laboratory manuals" or technique or handbooks or methods or protocols)
• microbiology and ("laboratory manuals" or technique or handbooks or cultures or methods or protocols)

• Comprehensive Microbial Resource, TIGR
• Salmonella.org, University of Illinois, University of Tennessee
• coliBase - for E. coli, Salmonella and Shigella comparative genomics
• EcoCyc: Encyclopedia of E. coli Genes and Metabolism
• Nomenclature:
  List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature, J.P. Euzeby, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse
  Bacterial nomenclature , DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH

• The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria: ecophysiology, isolation, identification, applications. 2nd ed. Ed. A. Balows. Springer Verlag, 1992. 4 vols. Main collection 589.9 B195p - a major treatise with substantial reviews of each bacterial genus.
• Bacteria: a treatise on structure and function. Ed. I.C. Gunsalus. Academic Press, 1960-90. 12 vols. Main collection 589.9 G97 - see list of volumes
• Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology. 2nd ed. ASM Press, 1996. 2 vols. Main collection 589.95 N397e.2
• Glossary of bacteriological terms. P. Samson. Butterworth, 1975. Reference collection 616.01903 S1939
• Methods for general and molecular bacteriology. P. Gerhardt. American Society for Microbiology, 1994. Main Collection 589.9072 G368m - a handbook of reliable basic procedures (with literature references) in morphology, growth, molecular genetics, metabolism and systematics.
• Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology. N.R. Krieg. Williams and Wilkins,1984-89. Main collection 589.90012 B496 - includes for each genus: names, morphology, growth, physiology, genetics, antigenic structure, pathogenicity, ecology, enrichment and isolation, taxonomy, differentiation from other genera and differentiation of species within a genus, references.
• Cowan and Steel's Manual for the identification of medical bacteria. 3rd ed. G.I Barrow. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Main collection 616.019 C87.3
• For other print sources, try Library catalogue searches such as:
  (bacteri? or prokaryote?) and ("laboratory manuals" or technique or handbooks or cultures or methods or protocols)

• All the Virology on the WWW
• ICTVdB Universal Virus database, Columbia University and International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
• Big Picture Book of Viruses, Garry Lab, derived from 6th report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses..
  6th report also in BSL Reference collection 576.606 I5994r
  7th report in Waite Library Reserve 579.2012 I61 7
• Electronic Introduction to Molecular Virology, E. Rybicki, University of CapeTown
• Encyclopedia of virology. Academic Press, 1994. Reference collection 576.64 W383e.
• Comprehensive virology. Plenum Press, 1974-84. 19 vols. Main collection 576.6 F799co
• A dictionary of virology. Blackwell Scientific, 1981. Reference collection 576.6403 R885d
• Virology: directory and dictionary of animal, bacterial and plant viruses. Macmillan. 1989. Reference collection 576.6403 H913v
• For other printed sources, search the Library catalogue e.g.
  (virology or virus?) and ("laboratory manuals" or technique or methods or protocols)
  (virology or virus?) and (handbooks or atlas?)

• Mycology Online, Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital and University of Adelaide - database of human fungal infections.
• WWW Virtual Library: Mycology, Cornell University - links to collections, directories of mycologists and laboratories, discussion groups, journals, fungal genetics sites.
• Saccharomyces Genome database
• Yeast protocols ; methods in cell and molecular biology. Ed. I H. Evans. Humana Press, 1996. Methods in molecular biology, 53. Main Collection 574.1905 M589 53
• Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi. 8th ed. International Mycological Institute, 1995. Reference collection 589.203 A297d.8 - includes brief definitions with references to the literature, an appendix of keys to the families of fungal phyla and a systematic listing of genera.
• A colour atlas of pathogenic fungi. Wolfe Medical Publications, 1979. Main collection 616.015 F893c

• Parasitic diseases, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
• American Society of Parasitologists
• Protist information server
• Protist Image Data, University of Montreal
• An illustrated guide to the protozoa. 1985. Main collection 593.1 L478i