ABSTRACT

This timely reference provides comprehensive coverage of the most recent advances in diagnostic bacteriology-emphasizing the detection, pathogenesis, epidemiology, immunology, and therapeutics for bacterial infections as well as emerging areas of infection, including gastric helicobacters, bartonellosis, and borreliosis.

Organized by specifi

chapter 1|8 pages

A Role for Microscopy Continues

chapter 2|24 pages

Applied Systematics

chapter 4|28 pages

Serodiagnosis for Bacterial Infections

chapter 5|34 pages

Molecular Diagnostics: Present and Future

chapter 6|8 pages

Searching for the Unknown

chapter 7|22 pages

Molecular Epidemiology

chapter 9|22 pages

Blood Culture Systems

chapter 10|18 pages

The Quality Laboratory

chapter 11|28 pages

Staphylococcal Infections

chapter 12|76 pages

Streptococcal and Enterococcal Infections

chapter 14|46 pages

Mycobacteria and Actinomycetes

chapter 15|76 pages

Enterobacteriaceae and Enteric Infections

chapter 16|28 pages

Gram Negative Cocci and Moraxellae

chapter 28|30 pages

Gastric Helicobacters

chapter 21|18 pages

Legionellosis

chapter 22|34 pages

Bartonellosis

chapter 23|18 pages

Whooping Cough (Pertussis)

chapter 24|42 pages

Anaerobic Infections

chapter 25|30 pages

Borrelioses

chapter 26|18 pages

Treponemal and Other Spirochetoses

chapter 27|28 pages

Chlamydiae

chapter 28|38 pages

Rickettsioses (with Q Fever)

chapter 29|32 pages

Mycoplasmas