ASM Pocket Guide to Clinical Microbiology, 2nd ed.
Completely revised, updated, and expanded, the Pocket Guide to Clinical Microbiology, 2nd Edition will help you and your busy laboratory associates quickly locate answers to the most commonly asked questions you encounter in your daily interactions with physicians and other members of the health care team. As an added feature, the Pocket Guide presents a uniform approach to the taxonomy of the organisms, clearly showing the relationships among the many clinically relevant microbes. Data are presented in clear charts, diagrams and figures.
The eighth edition provides a firm foundation in microbiology with an emphasis on human disease. It is written for students in nursing and allied health programs. This edition revised by award winning educator Jeffrey Pommerville, retains the late Ed Alcamo’s student friendly style. Microbiology is a rapidly advancing and dynamic discipline. Dr. Pommerville presents new content on recent discoveries, such as information on the avian flu and the 2006 Midwest mumps outbreak, in a manner that is directly applicable to students. Dr. Pommerville also integrates new teaching pedagogies, based on his years of teaching experience, to promote problem-based learning and facilitate mastery of concepts.
The 12th edition features the same comprehensive, authoritative content and adds new and updated material throughout. Detailed hands-on procedures make the content more interesting and relevant by describing exactly what takes place in the micro lab. There are 3 new chapters along with general considerations and applications of information provided in Bacterial Sections of Part III which explains the criteria for organism inclusion and how it should be used. This guide to Part III includes gram reaction, shape, arrangement, atmosphere preferred, oxidase and catalase reactions, among other decision points for various pathogens, creating a visual method of identifying and cross referencing organisms.
The classic text known as the 'gold standard' in microbiology is now revised, reorganized, and up-to-date. Always comprehensive and current, this edition features even more new information on hot topics such as identification systems, quality control organisms, antiparasitic agents, HIV viral load testing, HIV genotyping, Hepatitis C virus, antivirals, and a new procedure for the motility test. The additional and revised material reflects the latest advances and developments. New clinical case studies challenge students to think critically and apply what they've learned in realistic situations.
Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed.
Based on the data contained in the four-volume Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, this book also includes new genera and species, new combinations, and new taxa published through the January 1992 issue of the IJSB. Users will find short general descriptions that encompass all organisms by Groups; shape and size, Gram reaction, other pertinent morphological features, motility and flagella, relations to oxygen, basic type of metabolism, carbon and energy sources, habitat and ecology. BMDB-9 also includes discussions of difficulties in identification, keys or tables to genera and species, genus descriptions, synonyms, other nomenclatural changes, and numerous illustrations.
This handbook offers a practical guide to the principles of quantitative analysis in biological experiments. The material is primarily aimed at working molecular biologists, but the scope and clarity of presentation make it equally suitable for students. Topics covered range from the basics—such as measuring the concentrations of macromolecules—through considerations of binding constants and the kinetics of molecular interactions. The book ends with a thorough consideration of data analysis.
Diagnostic Molecular Microbiology: Principles and Applications
DNA techniques in the microbiology laboratory comprehensively reviewed, with four editors contributing their particular expertise and viewpoints. Cutting edge techniques like nucleic acid probes and in vitro amplification, and concepts of quality control in PCR processes are applied to identification of pathogens, known and novel in over 60 detailed protocols.
Disinfection, Sterilization and Preservation, 5th ed.
Thoroughly revised, more than a third of this edition's chapters cover subjects never addressed in previous editions. New topics covered include recently identified pathogens, microbial biofilms, use of antibiotics as antiseptics, synergism between chemical microbiocides, pulsed-light sterilization of pharmaceuticals, and methods for medical waste management. Attention is given to prevention of infections in immunocompromised patients.
Endotoxins: Pyrogens, LAL Testing, and Depyrogenation, 2nd ed.
This revised edition focuses on environmental prevalence, detection, properties, and biological structure and function of endotoxins from a parenteral manufacturing perspective, including in-depth discussion of state-of-the-art technologies involving Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), such as assay development, automation, and depyrogenation. It surveys shift in emphasis away from pyrogens to endotoxins and development and proliferation of semiautomated kinetic LAL assays. With regulatory references and analytical protocols, this book emphasizes application of contamination control in pharmaceutical industry and details instances of endotoxin parenteral contamination.
The third edition lists the formulations, methods of preparation, and uses for more than 4,000 microbiological media. With almost 30 percent more entries than the previous edition, the book includes new information on international collections of microorganisms. It also contains formulations and uses of media for isolation, culture, identification, and maintenance of microorganisms. The entries are arranged alphabetically by medium name and include synonyms, sources, and more. It makes finding media for culturing diverse microorganisms quick and simple, and presents easy-to-follow directions and "cookbook recipes" for preparing media.
Expanded into two volumes, "MCM" is the definitive resource for the microbiology, epidemiology, and clinical significance of all clinically significant bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. No other single resource offers extensive, up-to-date information. It sets the standard for reliability and utility as a reference work. These volumes focus on the when and why of diagnostic procedures, as well as the how. It presents an approach to organizing information with thorough but concise treatments of all the major areas of microbiology, including new microbial discoveries, changing diagnostic methods, and emerging therapeutic challenges facing clinicians.
Microbial Growth in Biofilms Part B, Methods in Enzymology Vol 337
A selection of titles from the long-running series published by Academic Press. Biofilms are a grouping of microorganisms surrounded by a protective matrix of secreted polymers. They are important in industry, agriculture, biotechnology and the study of disease. This volume provides up-to-date information for virtually any kind of experimental approach involving biofilms.
This book provides an explanation of the sources of error in microbiological assay and helps analysts choose efficient assay designs to minimize those errors. Beginning with the quantitative aspects, the author discusses microbiological assay as a branch of pharmaceutical analysis and distinguishes it from biological assay in general. He draws attention to the microbiological aspects that may not be so obvious to the chemical analyst and to the analytical aspects not so obvious to the microbiologist. It contains detailed evaluations of assays that illustrate typical experimental designs and addresses how to present a realistic assessment of the best potency estimate from a series of assays. This book expands on the guidance given in pharmacopoeias.
This book focuses on the problem posed by resistant organisms: multi-resistance. Resistance and multi-resistance arise as consequences of a complex set of biological, social and economic forces. Bacteria gain multi-resistance in a number of ways, gathering individual resistance genes in single genetic elements, activating responses to environmental stress, and growing in biofilms. Two of the most dangerous pathogenic organisms (methicillin-resistant S. aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci) pose a threat because they are always multi-resistant are covered. Chapter 7 is devoted to explain a different way to look into the evolution of resistance and a way to search for new antimicrobial drugs.
This volume is a new edition of the most authoritative book on Prion Biology, first published in 1999 and edited by the Nobel Prize–winning founder of the field. This expanded edition has been completely updated, and includes chapters on therapeutics, and diagnostic methods and approaches This book is by far the most authoritative summary of the complex data that form the basis of our understanding of the molecular basis of this esoteric group of diseases.
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