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Competency Based Undergraduate Curriculum for the Indian Medical Graduate, prescribed by the National Medical Commission, advocates a horizontal and vertical integration of microbiology with other subjects on the basis of clinical systems. This book has introduced more than 100 integrated clinical cases, including 23 on parasitic diseases; referenced clinical systemwise in exclusive infectious diseases section and dealt in the relevant microbiology category. The book imbibes the spirit and word of the competency-based curriculum and yet retains the traditional approach to learning microbiology for greater understanding. It has bidirectional linkages, which permit navigation from clinical cases to core microbiology and otherwise. The book has been designed primarily for induction of the subject to the medical undergraduates, and not as a postgraduate entrance book, yet would also be helpful in the latter respect