Manual of clinical microbiology, volume 1 / editor in chief, James Versalovic ; editors, Karen C. Carroll ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

V. 1: Introduction to the Tenth Edition of the Manual of Clinical Microbiology -- Microscopy -- Systems for Detection and Identification of Bacteria and Yeasts -- Molecular Microbiology -- Immunoassays for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases -- Infection Control Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology -- Investigation of Enteric Disease Outbreaks -- Molecular Epidemiology -- Procedures for the Storage of Microorganisms -- Prevention and Control of Laboratory-Acquired Infections -- Decontamination, Disinfection, and Sterilization -- Biothreat Agents -- The Human Microbiome -- Microbial Genomics and Pathogen Discovery -- Taxonomy and Classification of Bacteria -- Specimen Collection, Transport, and Processing: Bacteriology -- Reagents, Stains, and Media: Bacteriology -- General Approaches to Identification of Aerobic Gram-Positive Cocci -- Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, and Other Catalase-Positive Cocci -- Streptococcus -- Enterococcus -- Aerococcus, Abiotrophia, and Other Aerobic Catalase-Negative, Gram-Positive Cocci -- General Approaches to the Identification of Aerobic Gram-Positive Rods -- Bacillus and Other Aerobic Endospore-Forming Bacteria -- Listeria and Erysipelothrix -- Coryneform Gram-Positive Rods -- Nocardia, Rhodococcus, Gordonia, Actinomadura, Streptomyces, and Other Aerobic Actinomycetes -- Mycobacterium: General Characteristics, Laboratory Detection, and Staining Procedures -- Mycobacterium: Laboratory Characteristics of Slowly Growing Mycobacteria -- Mycobacterium: Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria -- Approaches to the Identification of Aerobic Gram-Negative Bacteria -- Neisseria -- Actinobacillus, Capnocytophaga, Eikenella, Kingella, Pasteurella, and Other Fastidious or Rarely Encountered Gram-Negative Rods -- Haemophilus -- Escherichia, Shigella, and Salmonella -- Yersinia -- Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Serratia, Plesiomonas, and Other Enterobacteriaceae --

Aeromonas -- Vibrio and Related Organisms -- Pseudomonas -- Burkholderia, Stenotrophomonas, Ralstonia, Cupriavidus, Pandoraea, Brevundimonas, Comamonas, Delftia, and Acidovorax -- Acinetobacter, Chryseobacterium, Moraxella, and Other Nonfermentative Gram-Negative Bacteria -- Bordetella and Related Genera -- Francisella and Brucella -- Legionella -- Bartonella -- Approaches to Identification of Anaerobic Bacteria -- Approaches to Identification of anaerobic Bacteria -- Peptostreptococcus, Finegoldia, Anaerococcus, Peptoniphilus, and Other anaerobic Cocci -- Propionibacterium, Lactobacillus, Actinomyces, and Other Non-Spore-Forming Anaerobic Gram-Positive Rods -- Clostridium -- Bacteroides, Porphyromonas, Prevotella, Fusobacterium, and Other Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods -- Algorithms for Identification of Curved and Spiral-Shaped Gram-Negative Rods -- Campylobacter and Arcobacter Collette Fitzgerald and Irving Nachamkin -- Helicobacter -- Leptospira -- Borrelia -- Treponema and Brachyspira, Human Host-Associated Spirochetes -- General Approaches to Identification of Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma, and Obligate Intracellular Bacteria -- Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma -- Chlamydiaceae -- Rickettsia and Orientia -- Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, and Related Intracellular Bacteria -- Coxiella -- Tropheryma -- Antibacterial Agents -- Mechanisms of Resistance to Antibacterial Agents -- Susceptibility Test Methods: General Considerations -- Susceptibility Test Methods: Dilution and Disk Diffusion Methods -- Susceptibility Testing Instrumentation and Computerized Expert Systems for Data Analysis and Interpretation -- Special Phenotypic Methods for Detecting Antibacterial Resistance -- Susceptibility Test Methods: Fastidious Bacteria -- Susceptibility Test Methods: Anaerobic Bacteria -- Susceptibility Test Methods: Mycobacteria, Nocardia, and Other Actinomycetes -- Detection and Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Pathogenic Bacteria --