A unique visual reference for the diagnostic microbiology laboratory. Conceived by a team of authors with decades of classroom and laboratory experience. Includes more than 730 brilliant, four-color images of common pathogenic bacteria and descriptions of the methods used to identify them. Valuable illustrative supplement for lectures and laboratory presentations, this easy-to-use atlas was written for laboratorians, clinicians, students, and anyone interested in the field of diagnostic medical bacteriology.
Color Atlas of Medical Bacteriology
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Technical Note
1. Staphylococcus and Micrococus
2. Streptococcus
3. Enterococcus
4. Aerococcus, Abiotrophia and Other Miscellaneous Gram-Positive Cocci That Grow Aerobically
5. Coryneform Gram-Positive Bacilli
6. Listeria and Erysipelothrix
7. Bacillus
8. Nocardia, Rhodococcus, Actinomadura, Streptomyces, and Other Aerobic Actinomycetes
9. Mycobacterium
10. Introduction to Enterobacteriaceae
11. Escherichia, Shigella, and Salmonella
12. Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Serratia, Pantoea, Raoultella, and Other Enterobacteriaceae
13. Yersinia, the Proteeae, Edwardsiella, and Hafnia