Literature Guide: Bacteria, Bacterial Diseases, and Bacteriology

Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Reference Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.

WCIU Journal: Health and Disease Topic

June 23, 2021

Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS

(An asterisk indicates an e-book in Latourette Library.)

Library of Congress Classification

QR 75 – QR 99.5  Bacteria                                        

RC 115 – RC 116  Internal medicine

RJ 406 .B32  Bacterial diseases in children

Dewey Decimal Classification

579 Natural history of microorganisms, fungi, algae            

616 Diseases

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Actinomycetales                                

Agglutination                                     

Anaerobic bacteria

Anaerobic infections                          

Bacteremia                                         

Bacteria                      

Bacterial antigens                              

Bacterial cell walls                            

Bacterial diseases      

Bacterial vaginitis                              

Caryophanales                                    

Coryneform bacteria

Cytophagales                                     

Erysipelothrix                                    

Eubacteriales             

Gram-negative bacteria                     

Hydrogen bacteria                             

Iron bacteria   

L-form bacteria                                  

Leprosy in children                            

Marine bacteria          

Myxobacteriales                                

Pathogenic bacteria               

Photosynthetic bacteria         

Pseudomonas infections                    

Psychrophilic bacteria            

Rhizobacteria 

Rickettsial diseases                            

Septic shock                           

Shigellosis

Sphaerotilus                                       

Spirillosis                               

Spirochetes    

Sulphur bacteria                                 

Thermophilic bacteria            

Tuberculosis in children        

Periodicals

Journal of Bacteriology                                             

Journal of Bacteriology and Parasitology

Periodical Articles

Chikeka, I., and J. S. Durnler. 2015. “Neglected Bacterial Zoonoses.” Clinical Microbiology and Infection 21, no. 5 (May): 404-15.

Cocking, Edward C. 2003. “Endophytic Colonization of Plant Roots by Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria.” Plant and Soil 252, no. 1: 169-75.

Flannery, Maura C. 2008. “Beguiling Bacteria.” The American Biology Teacher 70, no. 5: 299-302.

Gunderson, Alex R., Mark H. Forsyth, and John P. Swaddle. 2009. “Evidence that Plumage BacteriaInfluence Feather Coloration and Body Condition of Eastern Bluebirds Sialia Sialis.” Journal of Avian Biology 40, no. 4: 440-47.

Johnson, Cecil E. 1980. “The Wild World of Compost.” National Geographic (August): 273-84.

Woodford, Neil. 2011. “Unwanted Souvenirs: Travel and Multi-Resistant Bacteria.” Journal of Travel Medicine 18, no. 5 (September/October): 297-98.

Reference Books

Bacteriology—A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References (2004)

A Dictionary of Microbial Taxonomy (1978)  

Dictionary of Microbiology (1978)

Pioneers of Bacteriology: Dictionary of the Great Scientists (2012)

Reference Books with Relevant Articles

American National Biography                       

Biographical Dictionary of Medicine

Webster’s American Biography                     

Books

Adler, Richard. 2014. Victor Vaughan: A Biography of the Pioneering Bacteriologist, 1851–1929. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Amyes, Sebastian G. B. 2013. Bacteria: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Barrere, Catherine, and Martin Fucher. 2015. William B. Wherry, Bacteriologist. Sagwan Press.

*Brook, Itzhak. 2004. Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Anaerobic Infections. Newtown, PA: Handbooks in Health Care.

Brown, Kevin. 2005. Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution. Cheltenham, UK: The History Press.

Burns, Virginia Law. 1993. Gentle Hunter: A Biography of Alice C. Evans, Bacteriologist. Enterprise Press.

Cohen, Barnett. 2012. Chronicles of the Society of American Bacteriologists, 1899–1950.  Whitefish, MT: Library Licensing.

Flowers, Pip. 2017. Microbiology, Immunity, and Anti-Microbial Infections. Independently published.

Ford, Daniel K. 2010. The Bacteriologist. Charleston, SC: BiblioLife.

Haller, Dirk. 2018. The Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease. New York: Springer.

Knight, David C., and Gustav Schrotter. 2011. Robert Koch: Father of Microbiology. Whitefish, MT: Literary Licensing.

Lax, Eric. 2004. The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle. New York: Holt Paperbacks.

Velmet, Aro. 2020. Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World. New York: Oxford University Press.

Willis, A. Trevor. 2014. Anaerobic Bacteria: Clinical and Laboratory Practice. Oxford, UK:  Butterworth-Heineman.

Wilson, Michael. 2008. Bacteriology of Humans: An Ecological Perspective. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Books with Relevant Chapters

Rosen, George. 1993. A History of Public Health. Expanded edition from 1958 original. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

            Chapters 7 and 8: “The Bacterial Era and Its Aftermath.”

Zinsser, Hans. 2007. Rats, Lice, and History. Rev. ed. New York: Routledge.