Pocket Guide to Clinical Microbiology

✍ Scribed by Christopher D. Doern

• Publisher: ASM Press,
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Edition: 4th edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Quick reference to clinical microbiology

If you work in the clinical laboratory, this pocket guide will help you confidently identify most organisms you could encounter.

This useful updated edition continues to present valuable quick-reference information to the clinical microbiology community in a small package. Along with specifics on pathogenic microorganisms, there is updated information on effectively using essential molecular diagnostic techniques for today's challenges.

You will find guidance on:

MALDI-TOF MS performance for individual bacteria, mycobacteria, and fungi

Nucleic acid amplification testing/PCR and help interpreting genetic sequencing results

Susceptibility testing, with methods and interpretive criteria for most organism/antibiotic combinations

Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and resistance profiles for common organisms

✦ Table of Contents

Section 1: Taxonomic Classification of Medically Important Microorganisms Section 2: Indigenous and Pathogenic Microbes of Humans Section 3: Specimen Collection and Transport Section 4: Bacterial Diagnosis Section 5: Viral Diagnosis Section 6: Fungal Diagnosis Section 7: Parasitic Diagnosis Section 8: Vaccines, Susceptibility Testing Methods, and Susceptibility Patterns

✦ Subjects

Medizinische Mikrobiologie