This new edition has been completely revised and updated with the latest information on epidemiology, laboratory diagnosis and treatment. The image-based question bank is further strengthened with new images - which brings the number of images included in the book to over 500 - all in colour.

More emphasis has been placed in this edition to immunology, parasitology, and mycology, with many more tables, flowcharts, and mnemonics to help students have better recall.

MRSA, VRSA, VRE, Pneumococcal vaccines, DPT vaccine, epidemiology of meningococcal meningitis, tuberculosis (GeneXpert, MGIT, TrueNat, drug susceptibility testing methods, the latest RNTCP guidelines), melioidosis, scrub typhus, yaws eradication program have been thoroughly updated.

New information has been included on the following:

MERS-CoV.
Zika virus.
Ebola virus.
Polio eradication.
Dengue vaccine.
Vaccine-derived polio viruses (VDPVs).
Updates in bacterial drug resistance.
Recent sterilization indicators.
CSSD.
Recent automations (MALDITOF, VITEK, BacT/ALERT VIRTUO).
New molecular methods (LAMP, Real-time PCR, Biofire FilmArray, etc).
Nipah virus (including the Kerala outbreak, 2018).
Poliomyelitis vaccine schedule updates, epidemiology, and end-game strategy.