Practical Microbiology, 3e

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Front Cover Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the First Edition General Instructions to theStudents for Safety Contents SECTION 1: General Bacteriology 1. Microscope 2. Gram Staining 3. Ziehl-Neelsen Staining 4. Albert’s Staining 5. Spore Staining 6. Capsule Staining 7. Direct Method of Bacterial Detection (Motility of Bacteria) 8. Hospital Infection Control • Sterilization • Biomedical Waste Management • Needlestick Injury • Hand Hygiene and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 9. Liquid Culture Media 10. Solid Culture Media 11. Collection and Transportation of Specimen 12. Cultivation of Bacteria 13. Identification of Bacteria (Biochemical Reactions) • Automation 14. Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing SECTION 2: Serology/Immunology 15. Precipitation and Agglutination • Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) Test • Widal Test • C-Reactive Protein (CRP) Test • Rheumatoid Factor (RF) Test • Antistreptolysin O (ASO) Test • Complement Fixation Test 16. Enzyme Immunoassay (EIA) • Immunofluorescence Assay (IFA) • Chemiluminescence-Linked Immunoassay (CLIA) SECTION 3: Parasitology(General Principles of Laboratory Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases) 17. Collection and Preservation of Stool Specimen 18. Examination of Stool 19. Identification of Faecal Eggs, Trophozoites, Cysts and Oocysts 20. Examination of Blood SECTION 4: Mycology (General Principles of Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases 21. Laboratory Diagnosis of Mycoses 22. Candida albicans 23. Cryptococcus neoformans 24. Aspergillus 25. Mucoraceae 26. Dermatophytes SECTION 5: Virology (General Principles of Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Diseases 27. Diagnostic Approach to Viral Infections SECTION 6: Systemic Bacteriology 28. Staphylococcus 29. Streptococcus pyogenes, S. agalactiae and Enterococci 30. Streptococcus pneumoniae (Pneumococcus) 31. Neisseria 32. Corynebacterium 33. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis 34. Diagnostic Approach to Anaerobes 35. Clostridium 36. Escherichia coli 37. Klebsiella 38. Proteus 39. Shigella 40. Salmonella 41. Pseudomonas 42. Vibrio 43. Spirochaetes 44. Bacteriological Examination of Water SECTION 7: Infective Syndromes and Clinical Case Based Exercises 45. Infective Syndromes 45A. Cardiovascular System: Clinical Case Based Exercises 45B. Gastrointestinal System: Clinical Case Based Exercises 45C. Respiratory System: Clinical Case Based Exercises 45D. CNS: Clinical Case Based Exercises 45E. Skin and Soft Tissue: Clinical Case Based Exercises 45F. Genitourinary Tract, STDs: Clinical Case Based Exercises 46. Monkeypox 47. SARS-CoV-2 Virus SECTION 8: Recent Advances 48. Molecular Biology SECTION 9: Medical Entomology 49. Medically Important Arthropods SECTION 10: Spots 50. Spots SECTION 11: Appendices Appendix I: pH Indicators Appendix II: Greek Alphabet Appendix III: International System of Units (SI)—SI Prefixes Appendix IV: Notifiable Infectious Diseases Old Nomenclature of a Few Organisms Appendix V: Characterstic Colonial Appearance Characteristic Appearance of Bacteria in Stained Smear Appendix VI: Differentiation of Bacteria of Enterobacteriaceae by Biochemical Tests Appendix VII: Overview of Microbiology, Mycology and Parasitology Back Cover