Mackie & McCartney practical medical microbiology
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Mackie & McCartney practical medical microbiology
Churchill Livingstone, 1989
13th ed / edited by J. G. Collee...[et al.]
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Practical medical microbiology
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Rev. ed. of:The practice of medical microbiology. 1975
Vol. 2 of:Medical microbiology. 13th ed. 1978
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Description
This is the second volume of the famous Mackie and McCartney. The first volume covers basic clinical microbiology and the second deals with laboratory diagnostic methods. This account of medical microbiology is organized by causative organization and is designed to be a bench book for those involved in diagnostic work. Features of this new updated edition include more comprehensive coverage and new chapters dealing with laboratory organization and the pattern of investigation recommended for each main kind of clinical specimen.
Table of Contents
- Organization of the clinical bacteriology laboratory
- microscopy
- staining methods
- sterilization and disinfection in the laboratory
- pH measurements and buffers, oxidation-reduction potentials, suspension fluids and preparation of glassware
- culture containers and culture media
- cultivation of bacteria
- tests for identification of bacteria
- laboratory control of antimicrobial therapy
- immunological and serological methods in microbial infections
- examination of water, milk, food and air
- centrifuges, colorimeters and bacterial counts
- quantitation in microbiology
- management of experimental animals
- safety in the microbiology laboratory
- staphylococcus
- streptococcus
- pneumococcus
- haemophilus
- neisseria
- gardnerella
- bordetella
- branhamella
- streptomyces
- acinetobacter
- corynebacterium
- listeria
- erysipelothrix
- anthrax
- mycobacterium
- actinomyces
- nocardia
- aeromonas
- campylobacter
- enterobacteriaceae
- salmonella
- shigella
- pseudomonas
- vibrio
- plesiomonas
- spirillum
- brucella
- yersinia
- legionellaceae
- pasteurella
- francisella
- bacteroides
- fusobacterium
- clostridia of wound infection
- enteropathogenic clostridia and clostridium botulinum
- infective syndromes
- leptospira
- borrelia
- fungi
- protozoa
- rickettsia
- coxiella
- mycoplasma
- chlamydia
- virology testing
- virus diagnosis
- cell and virus culture. Appendices. Index.
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