本书原版是国际上最具声誉的微生物学教科书之一，2017年最新版次为第10版。威利、舍伍德、伍尔弗顿主编的《PRESCOTT微生物学(第10版影印版)(英文版)》秉承《Prescott微生物学》一直以来博大精深、新颖、系统的特点，几乎涵盖了微生物学领域的所有概念，具有一定的深度和广度。全书共9篇43章，既包含学习微生物学的目的、微生物学的化学原理、研究微生物的技术方法、微生物的特性、分类、细胞的组分、结构、营养、生态、生长、代谢、遗传、遗传工程和控制，又涵盖微生物多样性、微生物生态、病理与免疫、微生物检测及应用微生物学。全书有超过900幅的高质量插图，许多图片精心设计并以分步方式给出，可以帮助学生想象复杂的细胞和分子过程，训练学生洞幽察微、抽象思维的能力。

Part One Introduction to Microbiology
1 The Evolution of Microorganisms and Microbiology
Micro Focus:Over 4,000 Potential Planets Discovered
1.1 Members of the Microbial World
1.2 Microbes Have Evolved and Diversified for
Billions of Years
1.3 Microbiology Advanced as New Tools for
Studying Microbes Were Developed
1.4 Microbiology Encompasses Many Subdisciplines
2 Microscopy
Micro Focus:
Anthrax Bioterrorism Attack 2001
2.1 Lenses Create Images by Bending Light
2.2 There Are Several Types of Light
Microscopes
2.3 Staining Specimens Helps to Visualize and
Identify Microbes
2.4 Electron Microscopes Use Beams of
Electrons to Create Highly Magnified Images
2.5 Scanning Probe Microscopy Can Visualize
Molecules and Atoms
3 Bacterial Cell Structure
Micro Focus: Hooking Up
3.1 Use of the Term "Prokaryote" Is
Controversial
3.2 Bacteria Are Diverse but Share Some
Common Features
3.3 Bacterial Plasma Membranes Control
What Enters and Leaves the Cell
3.4 There Are Two Main Types of
Bacterial Cell Walls
Microbial Diversity & Ecology 3.1
Gram Positive and Gram Negative or
Monoderms and Diderms?
3.5 The Cell Envelope Often Includes Layers
Outside the Cell Wall
3.6 The Bacterial Cytoplasm Is More
Complex than Once Thought
3.7 Many Bacteria Have External Structures
Used for Attachment and Motility
3.8 Bacteria Move in Response to
Environmental Conditions
3.9 Bacterial Endospores Are a Survival
Strategy
4 Archaeal CelIStructure
Micro Focus:
Cows and Buffaloes and Sheep,
Oh My!
4.1 Archaea Are Diverse but Share Some
Common Features
4.2 Six Major Types of Archaeal Cell
Envelopes Have Been identified
4.3 Archaeal Cytoplasm Is Similar to
Bacterial Cytoplasm
4.4 ManyArchaea Have External Structures
Used for Attachment and Motility
Microbial Diversity & Ecology 4.1
What's in a Name?
4.5 Comparison of Bacteria and Archaea
5 Eukaryotic Cell
Structure
Micro Focus: Red Means Dead
5.1 Eukaryotic Cells Are Diverse but
Share Some Common Features
5.2 Eukaryotic Cell Envelopes
5.3 The Eukaryotic Cytoplasm Contains
a Complex Cytoskeleton and Many
Membranous Organelles
5.4 Several Cytoplasmic Membranous
Organelles Function in the Secretory
and Endocytic Pathways
5.5 The Nucleus and Ribosomes Are
Involved in Genetic Control of the Cell
5.6 Mitochondria, Related Organelles, and
Chloroplasts Are Involved in Energy
Conservation
Microbial Diversity & Ecology 5.1
There Was an Old Woman Who
Swallowed a Fly
5.7 Many Eukaryotic Microbes Have
External Structures Used for Motility
5.8 Comparison of Bacterial, Archaeal,and Eukaryotic Cells
Part Two Microbial nutrition, growth, and control
Part Three Microbial metabolism
Part Four Microbial molecular biology and genetics
Part Five The diversity of the microbial world
Part Six Ecology and Symbiosis
Part Seven Pathogenicity and Host Response
Part Eight Microbial Diseases, Detection,and Their Control
Part Nine Applied Microbiology