ABSTRACT

The book's purpose is to help community-based primary care physicians and nurses, and laboratory-based microbiologists, better understand each other's requirements in collecting and interpreting specimens, and thus to improve the quality of patient care, while saving resources and reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescription.The book's structure fo

chapter |2 pages

Contents

chapter |2 pages

Preface

chapter 1|20 pages

The Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

Organisms and Antibiotics

chapter 3|22 pages

The urine specimen

chapter 4|18 pages

The Genital Specimen

chapter 5|12 pages

The Swab of the Chronic Leg Ulcer

chapter 7|22 pages

The Faecal Specimen

chapter 8|22 pages

The Eye and the Respiratory Tract Specimen

chapter 9|20 pages

The Serology Specimen

chapter 10|20 pages

Infections in Pregnancy

chapter 11|8 pages

Antibiotic Guidelines