Medical Bacteriology: a Practical Approach

摘要

Medical Bacteriology is a multi-contributor work with chapters pro-vided by various expert medicalmicrobiologists from the UnitedKingdom. The information is organ-ized into 4 basic areas totaling 12chapters; 6 covering the analysis ofvarious types of patient specimens; 2chapters on antimicrobial analysis,susceptibility testing, and direct assayin patient specimens; 2 chapters onlaboratory management issues,including information technology,quality control, and quality assurance;and 2 chapters on the role of thelaboratory in hospital infection con-trol programs and in the support ofepidemiologic investigations. Distri-buted throughout the text are 81 indi-vidual testing protocols, which can befound either by referring to a table atthe front of the book or by searchingthe index. Also included are 4 appen-dixes