Synopses & Reviews
You'll love the completely revised and updated fifth edition of this "goldstandard" of microbiology. Learn to identify the microbial agents associated with infectious disease, and understand the basic biochemical and metabolic pathways that serve as the basis for identification, and the microbes that cause disease. A comprehensive overview of microbiology offers confidence by building a solid foundation for further areas of study, including taxonomy, classification, identification, and speciation, and by explaining all major microorganisms and their role as agents in disease. Over 600 illustrations show pathogenic mechanisms, models of antibiotic resistance, life cycles of parasites, and more!What's New: Easy-to-read charts outline theory, procedures and interpretations of tests. Clinical correlation boxes provide quick, easy access to information on signs and symptoms of disease caused by microorganisms. Boxes focus on essential information, highlighting its importance. A new chapter on bacterial physiology provides the most current information. An added second color illustrates key aspects of complicated concepts.
Synopsis
Completely revised and updated, the Fifth Edition reflects a wealth of new findings. Readers will learn to identify microbial agents associated with infectious disease and the microbes that cause disease, and will understand the biochemical and metabolic pathways that serve as a basis for identification. Organized by microorganism, the text covers taxonomy, classification, identification, speciation, and the roles of all major microorganisms as agents in disease. Easy-to-read charts outline theory, procedures and interpretations of tests. New in the Fifth Edition: New bacterial physiology chapter / Clinical correlation boxes / Boxes highlighting essential information / New second color, 100 new illustrations showing pathogenic mechanisms, life cycles of parasites and more!
Synopsis
Long considered the definitive work in its field, this new edition presents all the principles and practices readers need for a solid grounding in all aspects of clinical microbiology—bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, and virology. Tests are presented according to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (formerly NCCLS) format.
This extensively revised edition includes practical guidelines for cost-effective, clinically relevant evaluation of clinical specimens including extent of workup and abbreviated identification schemes. New chapters cover the increasingly important areas of immunologic and molecular diagnosis.
Clinical correlations link microorganisms to specific disease states. Over 600 color plates depict salient identification features of organisms.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction to Microbiology, Part 1: The Role of the Microbiology Laboratory in the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Guidelines to Practice and Management
Chapter 2: Introduction to Microbiology, Part 2: Guidelines for the Collection, Transport, Processing, Analysis, and Reporting of Cultures from Specific Specimen Sources
Chapter 3: Laboratory Diagnosis by Immunologic Methods
Chapter 4: Molecular Microbiology
Chapter 5: Medical Bacteriology: Taxonomy, Morphology, Physiology, and Virulence
Chapter 6: The Enterobacteriaceae
Chapter 7: The Nonfermentative Gram-Negative Bacilli
Chapter 8: Curved Gram-Negative Bacilli and Oxidase-Positive Fermenters: Campylobacteraceae and Vibrionaceae
Chapter 9: Miscellaneous Fastidious Gram-Negative Bacilli
Chapter 10: Legionella
Chapter 11: Neisseria Species and Moraxella catarrhalis
Chapter 12: Gram-Positive Cocci, Part 1: Staphylococci and Related Gram-Positive Cocci
Chapter 13: Gram-Positive Cocci, Part 2: Streptococci, Enterococci, and the "Streptococcis-Like" Bacteria
Chapter 14: Aerobic and Facultative Gram-Positive Bacilli
Chapter 15: Aerobic Actinomycetes
Chapter 16: The Anaerobic Bacteria
Chapter 17: Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Chapter 18: Mycoplasmas and Ureaplasmas
Chapter 19: Mycobacteria
Chapter 20: Spirochetal Infections
Chapter 21: Mycology
Chapter 22: Parasitology
Chapter 23: Diagnosis of Infections Caused by Viruses, Chlamydia, Rickettsia, and Related Organisms
Appendix I: Ectoparasites and Other Invertebrates in the Clinical Laboratory: A Brief Guide
Appendix II: Free-Living Amebae
Charts
Color Plates
Index