Introduction

This book originated while lecturing a graduate course in microbiology called first “Zoonoses”, and later more specifically “Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses” at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno, in the years 1992–2009. It presents an up-to-date survey of the problems of microbial zoonoses and sapronoses, and can be used not only by microbiologists but also zoologists or students of veterinary and human medicine including Ph.D. students.