Completely revised, updated, and expanded, the Pocket Guide
to Clinical Microbiology, 2nd Edition will help you and your busy
laboratory associates quickly locate answers to the most commonly asked
questions you encounter in your daily interactions with physicians and
other members of the health care team.
This handy pocket-sized resource for clinical microbiologists offers
immediate access to essential information you need and use in your lab
work The author has organized the information in this book to follow the
lab process - from differential diagnosis to specimen collection,
transport, and processing and then to identification, susceptibility
testing, immunodiagnostic testing, and finally, reportable diseases. Each
major group of microbes - bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites - is
discussed comp rehensively in the individual sections.
As an added feature, the Pocket Guide presents a uniform approach to the
taxonomy of the organisms, clearly showing the relationships among the
many clinically relevant microbes. This unique reference presents its
valuable data in charts, diagrams, and figures, making it a very
easy-to-use, time-saving resource. The Pocket Guide is also a useful
teaching tool for medical technologists, pathology residents, and
infectious disease fellows.