Color Atlas of Medical Bacteriology

This unique visual reference presents more than 750 brilliant, four-color images of bacterial isolates commonly encountered in diagnostic microbiology and the methods used to identify them, including microscopic and phenotypic characteristics, colony morphology, and biochemical properties.

• Chapters cover the most important bacterial pathogens and related organisms, including updated taxonomy, epidemiology, pathogenicity, laboratory and antibiotic susceptibility testing, and molecular biology methodology
• Tables summarize and compare key biochemical reactions and other significant characteristics
• New to this edition is a separate chapter covering the latest developments in total laboratory automation
• The comprehensive chapter on stains, media, and reagents is now augmented with histopathology images
• A new Fast Facts chapter presents tables that summarize and illustrate the most significant details for some of the more commonly encountered org