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• Adapted and reorganized book content with attribution
• The base of the book is OpenStax Microbiology
• OpenStax Microbiology is by Nina Parker et al.
• The source is licensed under a Creative Commons license
• The license is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
• Much of the source material was reworded
• Much of the source material was reorganized
• Senior Contributing Authors
• Nina Parker — Shenandoah University
• Mark Schneegurt — Wichita State University
• Anh-Hue Thi Tu — Georgia Southwestern State University
• Philip Lister — Central New Mexico Community College
• Brian M. Forster — Saint Joseph’s University
• Contributing Authors
• Summer Allen — Brown University
• Ann Auman — Pacific Lutheran University
• Graciela Brelles-Mariño — Universidad Nacional de la Plata
• Myriam Alhadeff Feldman — Lake Washington Institute of Technology
• Paul Flowers — University of North Carolina–Pembroke
• George Pinchuk — Mississippi University for Women
• Ben Rowley — University of Central Arkansas
• Mark Sutherland — Hendrix College
• Clifton Franklund — Ferris State University
• Ann Paterson — Williams Baptist University