Pharmaceutical Microbiology is a highly respected, long-established title that has become one of the core textbooks for pharmacy undergraduate education. The focus of the book is the multifaceted area of overlap between the major sciences of microbiology and pharmacy. A new European curriculum in undergraduate pharmacy has been established since the previous edition and there has been a significant increase in the numbers of pharmacy schools and undergraduate pharmacy students. The?eighth edition of Hugo and Russell's Pharmaceutical Microbiology closely reflects the revised syllabus and places renewed emphasis on infection control and the growing area of prescribing therapeutics.?It is organized into six sections covering biology of micro-organisms, pathology and host response, prescribing therapeutics, infection and contamination control, pharmaceutical production and a concluding section on current trends and new directions.