ABSTRACT

Filled with highly instructional visual images, An Atlas of the Clinical Microbiology of Infectious Diseases, Volume 1: Bacterial Agents contains typical and atypical presentations and identifying characteristics of microorganisms, including newly described microbial agents, covering the breadth of clinical microbiology. The book presents more than 425 color photomicrographs harvested over the author's 40-year career augmented by up-to-date text describing each microbial entity included and offering insightful comments on their clinical significance.

chapter |6 pages

CORYNEBACTERIUM JEIKEIUM

chapter |3 pages

OERSKOVIA TURBATA

chapter 3|9 pages

Acid-fast bacilli: Mycobacterium

part |2 pages

Mycobacterium fortuitum, Mycobacterium chelonei, Mycobacterium abscessus

part |1 pages

Proteus

chapter |6 pages

Shigella species

chapter |7 pages

Vibrio parahaemolyticus

chapter 6|8 pages

Anaerobes

part |2 pages

OTHER ANAEROBES

chapter 7|6 pages

Fastidious, Gram-negative bacilli

chapter |20 pages

BORDETELLA SPECIES

chapter 8|4 pages

Gram-positive, catalase-positive cocci

chapter 9|14 pages

Gram-positive, catalase-negative cocci

chapter 10|6 pages

Gram-negative cocci

chapter 11|7 pages

Curved and spiral species

chapter |3 pages

Treponema pallidum

chapter 12|6 pages

Intracellular bacterial species