Koneman's Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology
By: Washington C. Winn Jr. ... [et al.].
Contributors: Winn, Washington C.; Koneman, Elmer W., 1932-
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1535
Subjects: Diagnostic microbiology -- Atlases; Microbiology -- Laboratory Manuals; Laboratory Techniques and Procedures
Genres: Atlases.; Laboratory Manuals.
Other titles: Color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology; Color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology.
Description: Written for medical and biomedical students and for laboratory professionals, this text provides extensive but practical discussion, presenting the structural, physiological, pathogenetic, and clinical manifestations of organisms causing infectious disease and integrating laboratory procedures and clinical problems and challenges.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. ed. of: Color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology / Elmer W. Koneman ... [et al.]. 5th ed. c1997.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to microbiology; title: Laboratory diagnosis by immunologic methods; title: Molecular microbiology; title: Medical bacteriology: taxonomy, morphology, physiology, and virulence; title: The enterobacteriaceae; title: The nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli; title: Curved gram-negative bacilli and oxidase-positive fermenters: campylobacteraceae and vibrionaceae; title: Miscellaneous fastidious gram-negative bacilli; title: Legionella; title: Neisseria species and moraxella catarrhalis; title: Gram-positive cocci; title: The gram-positive cocci; title: Aerobic and facultative gram-positive bacilli; title: Aerobic actinomycetes; title: The anaerobic bacteria; title: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing; title: Mycoplasmas and ureaplasmas; title: Mycobacteria; title: Spirochetal infections; title: Mycology; title: Parasitology; title: Diagnosis of infections caused by viruses, chlamydia, rickettsia, and related organisms.