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 organisms
For the first time, this easy-to-use atlas is available digitally for enhanced searching. Color Atlas of Medical Bacteriology remains the most valuable illustrative supplement for lectures and laboratory presentations, as well as for laboratorians, clinicians, students, and anyone interested in diagnostic medical bacteriology.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Technical Note xi
About the Authors xiii
1 Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, and Other Catalase‐Positive Cocci 1
2 Streptococcus 11
3 Enterococcus 24
4 Aerococcus, Abiotrophia, and Other Miscellaneous Gram-Positive Cocci That Grow Aerobically 30
5 Coryneform Gram-Positive Bacilli 36
6 Listeria and Erysipelothrix 48
7 Bacillus 54
8 Nocardia, Rhodococcus, Actinomadura, Streptomyces, Gordonia, and Other Aerobic Actinomycetes 62
9 Mycobacterium 70
10 Introduction to Enterobacterales 91
11 Escherichia, Shigella, and Salmonella 103
12 Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Cronobacter, Serratia, Plesiomonas, and Selected Other Enterobacterales 113
13 Yersinia 129
14 Vibrionaceae 134
15 Aeromonas 141
16 Pseudomonas 145
17 Burkholderia, Stenotrophomonas, Ralstonia, Cupriavidus, Pandoraea, Brevundimonas, Comamonas, Delftia, and Acidovorax 150
18 Acinetobacter, Chryseobacterium, Moraxella, Methylobacterium, and Other Nonfermentative Gram-Negative Bacilli 157
19 Actinobacillus, Aggregatibacter, Capnocytophaga, Eikenella, Kingella, Pasteurella, and Other Fastidious or Rarely Encountered Gram-Negative Bacilli 168
20 Legionella 180
21 Neisseria 184
22 Haemophilus 191
23 Bordetella and Related Genera 197
24 Brucella 203
25 Bartonella 207
26 Francisella 210
27 Introduction to Anaerobic Bacteria 213
28 Clostridium and Clostridioides 223
29 Peptostreptococcus, Finegoldia, Anaerococcus, Peptoniphilus, Cutibacterium, Lactobacillus, Actinomyces, and Other Non-Spore-Forming, Anaerobic Gram-Positive Bacteria 237
30 Bacteroides, Porphyromonas, Prevotella, Fusobacterium, and Other Anaerobic Gram-Negative Bacteria 252
31 Campylobacter and Arcobacter 261
32 Helicobacter 267
33 Chlamydia 272
34 Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma 277
35 Leptospira, Borrelia, Treponema, and Brachyspira 281
36 Rickettsia, Orientia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, and Coxiella 290
37 Tropheryma whipplei 297
38 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing 299
39 Molecular Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections 307
40 Total Laboratory Automation 330
41 Stains, Media, Reagents, and Histopathology 338
42 Fast Facts: Bacteria 367
Index 421
