Contents
Chapter 1.Basic Bacteriology,Concepts of Virulence,and Technologic Advances in Clinical Microbiology
Chapter 2.Introduction to Microbiology
Part 1:The Role of the Microbiology Laboratory in the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases:Guidelines to Practice and Management

Chapter 3.Introduction to Microbiology
Part 2:Guidelines for the Collection,Transport,Processing,Analysis,and Reporting of Cultures from Specific Specimen Sources

Chapter 4.The Enterobacteriaceae
Chapter 5.The Nonfermentative Gram-Negative Bacilli
Chapter 6.Curved Gram-Negative Bacilli and Oxidase-Positive Fermenters:Campylobacteraceae and Vibrionaceae
Chapter 7.Haemophilus
Chapter 8.Miscellaneous Fastidious Gram-Negative Bacilli
Chapter 9.Legionella
Chapter 10.Neisseria Species and Moraxella Catarrhalis
Chapter 11.The Gram-Positive Cocci:
Part 1:Staphylococci and Related Organisms

Chapter 12.The Gram-Positive Cocci:
Part II:Streptococci,Enterococci,and the "Streptococcus-Like"Bacteria

Chapter 13.The Aerobic Gram-Positive Bacilli
Chapter 14.The Anaerobic Bacteria
Chapter 15.Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Chapter 16.Mycoplasmas and Ureaplasmas
Chapter 17.Mycobacteria
Chapter 18.Spirochetal Infections
Chapter 19.Mycology
Chapter 20.Parasitology
Chapter 21.Diagnosis of Infections Caused by Biruses,Chlamydia,Rickettsia,and Related Organisms