| Description |
This laboratory manual and workbook, now in its Eighth Edition, maintains its original emphasis on the basic principles of diagnostic microbiology for students preparing to enter the allied health professions. It remains oriented primarily toward meeting the interests and needs of those who will be directly involved in patient care and who wish to learn how microbiological principles should be applied in the practice of their professions. |
| Key Features |
| Table of Contents |
1 Basic Techniques of Microbiology 1 Orientation to the Microbiology Laboratory 1 The Microscope 2 Handling and Examining Cultures 2 Microsopic Morphology of Microorganisms 3 Hanging-Drop and Wet-Mount Preparations 4 Simple Stains 3 Differential Stains 5 Gram Stain 6 Acid-Fast Stain 7 Special Stains 4 Cultivation of Mircroorganisms 8 Culture Media 9 Streaking Technique to Obtain Pure Cultures 10 Pour-Plate and Subculture Techniques 11 Culturing Microorganisms from the Environment 2 Destruction of Microorganisms 5 Physical Antimicrobial Agents 12 Moist and Dry Heat 13 The Autoclave 6 Chemical Antimicrobial Agents 14 Disinfectants 15 Antimicrobial Agent Susceptibility Testing and Resistance 3 Diagnostic Microbiology in Action 7 Principles of Diagnostic Microbiology: Culture of Clinical Specimens, Identifying Isolated Microorganisms, Antigen Detection and Nucleic Acid Assays 16 Primary Media for Isolation of Microorganisms 17 Some Metabolic Activities of Bacteria 18 Activities of Bacterial Enzymes 19 Principles of Antigen Detection and Nucleic Acid Assays for Detection and Identification of Microorganisms 8 Microbiology of the Respiratory Tract 20 Staphylococci 21 Streptococci, Pneumococci, and Enterococci 22 Haemophilus, Corynebacteria, and Bordetella 23 Clinical Specimens from the Respiratory Tract 9 Microbiology of the Intestinal Tract 24 The Enterobacteriaceae 25 Clinical Specimens from the Intestinal Tract 10 Microbiology of the Urinary and Genital tracts 26 Urine Culture Techniques 27 Neisseria and Spirochetes 11 Microbial Pathogens Requiring Special Laboratory Techniques; Serological Identification of Patients' Antibodies 28 Anaerobic Bacteria 29 Mycobacteria 30 Mycoplasmas, Rickettsiae, Chlamydiae, Viruses, and Prions 31 Fungi: Yeasts and Molds 32 Protozoa and Animal Parasites 33 Serological Identification of Patients' Antibodies 4 Applied (Sanitary) Microbiology 34 Bacteriologic Analysis of Water 35 Bacteriologic Analysis of Milk |
