Book Title: Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Immunology for Pre-Clinical Students
Book Description: Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Immunology for Pre-Clinical Students is a peer-reviewed open textbook designed to fill a gap in undergraduate medical education (UME) and support medical school pre-clerkship education. It covers the areas of immunology, microbiology, systems-based infections, and global mechanisms of treatment. It is aligned to USMLE(r) (United States Medical Licensing Examination) and modified from OpenStax Microbiology.
The organization of this resource is driven by curricular structure to enhance integrated, multidisciplinary content delivery. This specific resource is intended to be used in various ways, mainly as a student quick-reference guide. The sections are not intended to be all-inclusive, but are primers for applied content delivery. The resource is organized into small chapters that can be used to support student preparation in any arrangement. Similarly, clinical context is only briefly discussed (or purposefully omitted) in order to allow the user to apply the basic content presented here in the clinical context used by their specific curricular structure. As cases and clinical correlates change regularly, it is beneficial to have flexible, short resources that can be applied to many scenarios.
To access this text in different formats (PDF, EPUB, and print), please visit https://doi.org/10.21061/micropharmimmuno.
Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook: please help us understand your use by filling out this form: https://bit.ly/interest-preclinical.
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Book Description
Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Immunology for Pre-Clinical Students is a peer-reviewed open textbook designed to fill a gap in undergraduate medical education (UME) and support medical school pre-clerkship education. It covers the areas of immunology, microbiology, systems-based infections, and global mechanisms of treatment. It is aligned to USMLE(r) (United States Medical Licensing Examination) and modified from OpenStax Microbiology.
The organization of this resource is driven by curricular structure to enhance integrated, multidisciplinary content delivery. This specific resource is intended to be used in various ways, mainly as a student quick-reference guide. The sections are not intended to be all-inclusive, but are primers for applied content delivery. The resource is organized into small chapters that can be used to support student preparation in any arrangement. Similarly, clinical context is only briefly discussed (or purposefully omitted) in order to allow the user to apply the basic content presented here in the clinical context used by their specific curricular structure. As cases and clinical correlates change regularly, it is beneficial to have flexible, short resources that can be applied to many scenarios.
To access this text in different formats (PDF, EPUB, and print), please visit https://doi.org/10.21061/micropharmimmuno.
Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook: please help us understand your use by filling out this form: https://bit.ly/interest-preclinical.
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Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Immunology for Pre-Clinical Students Copyright © 2025 by Jennifer L. Cleveland, Andrew P. Binks, and Renée J. LeClair is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Immunology for Pre-Clinical Students Copyright © 2025 by Jennifer L. Cleveland, Andrew P. Binks, and Renée J. LeClair is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Attributions: The base of the book is from OpenStax Microbiology by Nina Parker et al, which is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license, much of which was reworded and reorganized.
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Suggested citation: Cleveland, Jennifer L., Binks, Andrew P., and LeClair, Renée J. (2025). Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Immunology for Pre- Clinical Students. Roanoke: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. https://doi.org/10.21061/micropharmimmuno. Licensed with CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Jennifer L. Cleveland, Andrew P. Binks, Renée J. LeClair, authors
Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Immunology for Pre-Clinical Students / Jennifer L. Cleveland, Andrew P. Binks, and Renée J. LeClair Pages cm
ISBN 978-1-962841-04-7 (PDF)
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URI (Universal Resource Identifier): https://hdl.handle.net/10919/118480
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/micropharmimmuno
- Immunology–Textbooks.
- Medical microbiology–Textbooks.QR181 .C54 2025
Cover image: Luna Girolamini, et al. via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Cover design: Kindred Grey
