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BASIC MICROBIOLOGY
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
Part I PractIcal InformatIon and Procedures fo BacterIology
Chapter 1 Sterilization, Disinfection, and Antisepsis
Judith A. Challis
Chapter 2 Quantitation of Microorganisms
Peter S. Lee
Chapter 3 Culturing and Preserving Microorganisms
Lorrence H. Green
Chapter 4 Stains for Light Microscopy
Stuart Chaskes
Chapter 5 Identification of Gram-Positive Organisms
Peter M. Colaninno
Chapter 6 Identification of Aerobic Gram-Negative Bacteria
Donna J. Kohlerschmidt, Kimberlee A. Musser, and Nellie B. Dumas
Chapter 7 Plaque Assay for Bacteriophage
Emanuel Goldman
Chapter 8 Phage Identification of Bacteria
Catherine E.D. Rees and Martin J. Loessner
Chapter 9 Phage Display and Selection of Protein Ligands
Wlodek Mandecki and Emanuel Goldman
Chapter 10. Diagnostic Medical Microbiolog
Lorrence H. Green
Practical Handbook of Microbiology, Second Edition
Chapter 11 Mechanisms of Action of Antimicrobial Agents
Carmen E. DeMarco and Stephen A. Lerner
Chapter 12 .Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
Audrey Wanger
Chapter 13 . Bacterial Cell Wall: Morphology and Biochemistry
Maxim Suvorov, Jed F. Fisher, and Shahriar Mobashery
Chapter 14. Bacterial Cell Breakage or Lysis
Matthew E. Bahamonde
Chapter 15 .Major Culture Collections and Sources
Lorrence H. Green
Chapter 16 . Epidemiological Methods in Microbiology
D. Ashley Robinson
Part II InformatIon on IndIvIdual genus and
SPECLES, AND OTHER TOPICS
Chapter 17 . The Family Enterobacteriaceae
J. Michael Janda and Sharon L. Abbott
Chapter 18 The Genus Pseudomonas
Norberto J. Palleroni
Chapter 19 .The Family Neisseriaceae
Yvonne A. Lue
Chapter 20 Microbiological and Clinical Aspects of the Pathogenic Spirochetes
Charles S. Pavia
Chapter 21 The Genus Vibrio and Related Genera
Rita R. Colwell and Jongsik Chun
Chapter 22 Staphylococcus aureus and Related Staphylococci
Olaf Schneewind and Dominique Missiakas
Chapter 23 The Genus Streptococcus
Vincent A. Fischetti and Patricia Ryan
Chapter 24 The Genus Bacillus
Daniel R. Zeigler and John B. Perkins
Chapter 25 The Genus Clostridium
Peter Dürre
Chapter 26 The Genus Corynebacterium
Lothar Eggeling and Michael Bott
Chapter 27 The Actinobacteria
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Alan C. Ward and Nagamani Bora
Chapter 28 The Family Rickettsiaceae
Abdu F. Azad, Magda Beier-Sexton, and Joseph J. Gillespie
Chapter 29 Chlamydia
Lourdes G. Bahamonde
Chapter 30 Mycoplasma and Related Organisms
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Meghan May, Robert F. Whitcomb, and Daniel R. Brown
Chapter 31 The Genus Mycobacteria
Vincent J. LaBombardi
Chapter 32 The Genus Legionella
Eva M. Campodonico and Craig R. Roy
Chapter 33 The Genus Haemophilus
Elisabeth E. Adderson
Chapter 34 The Genus Listeria
Sukhadeo Barbuddhe, Torsten Hain, and Trinad Chakraborty
Chapter 35 The Genus Campylobacter
Collette Fitzgerald, Jean Whichard, and Patricia I. Fields
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Chapter 36 The Genus Helicobacter
Ernestine M. Vellozzi and Edmund R. Giugliano
Chapter 37 The Genus Yersinia
Susan E. Sharp
Chapter 38 The Genus Bordetella
Trevor H. Stenson and Mark S. Peppler
Chapter 39 Other Zoonotic Bacteria
Sanjay K. Shukla and Steven Foley
Chapter 40 Other Anaerobic Bacteria: Bacteroides, Porphyromonas, Prevotella, Tannerella,and Fusobacterium
Joseph J. Zambon and Violet I. Haraszthy
Chapter 41 Introduction to Archaea
Sarah T. Gross
Chapter 42 Overview of Biofilms and Some Key Methods for Their Study
Irvin N. Hirshfield, Subit Barua, and Paramita Basu
Chapter 43 Introduction to Bacteriophages
Elizabeth Kutter and Emanuel Goldman
Chapter 44 Phage Therapy: Bacteriophages as Natural, Self-Replicating Antimicrobials
Elizabeth Kutter
Chapter 45 Introduction to Parasites
Frederick L. Schuster
Chapter 46 Introduction to Yeasts
David H. Pincus
Chapter 47 Introduction to Virology
Ken S. Rosenthal
Appendix
Survey of Selected Clinical, Commercial, and Research-Model Eubacterial
Species
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Compiled by Emanuel Goldman