Laboratory manual in Diagnostic Bacteriology / Edel Noveloso

Includes bibliography.

1 Glassware and equipment used in the microbiology laboratory -- 2 Bright - Field light microscope and other types of microscope -- 3 Control of Microbial Growth -- 4 Wet-Mount slide,Hanging drop slide and bacterial motility -- 5 Specimen collection, transport and processing -- 6 Smear Preperation and simple staining -- 7 Gram staining -- 8 Acid-fast Staining -- 9 Endospore staining -- ( Shaeffer-fulton ) -- 10 Capsule staining -- 11 Flagella Stainng ( Difco's Spot Test Method ) -- 12 Microbiological culture media preperation and sterillization -- 13 Culture transfer instruments, techniques, and isolation and maintenance of pure cultures -- 14 Incubation -- 15 Observation of bacterial growth characteristics -- 16 antimicrobial suspectibility testing ( kirby - bauer technique ) -- 17 staphylococci -- 18 streptococci -- 19 Pneumococci -- 20 Neisseriae -- 21 Bacillus -- 22 Corynebacteria -- 23 Enterobacteriaceae: Morphology and cultural characteristics, isolation techniques -- 24 Biochemical test for enterobacteriaceae: TSI Reactions -- 25 Biochemical test for enterobacteriaceae: IMVC Reactions -- 26 Biochemical test for enterobacteriaceae: Urease Reaction -- 27 Biochemical test for enterobacteriaceae: LIA/KIA -- 28 enterobacteriacea: Test for motility -- 29 Nonfermentative Gram-Negative Bacilli -- 30 Related Enteropathogens -- 31 Haemophilus -- 32 Spirochetes -- 33 Mycobacteria -- 34 Clostridia.