Koneman's color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology / Gary W. Procop, MD, MS, Medical Director, Enterprise Test Utilization and Pathology Consultative Services, Director, Molecular Microbiology, Mycology, Parasitology, and Virology, Professor of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, Deirdre L. Church, MD, PhD, FRCPC, D(ABMM), Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, University of Calgary, Clinical Section Chief, Microbiology, Calgary Laboratory Services/Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Geraldine S. Hall, PhD, D(ABMM), Retired Clinical Microbiologist, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, William M. Janda, PhD, D(ABMM), Professor Emeritus, Pathology and Microbiology, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Division Chair, Microbiology and Virology, Department of Pathology, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital/Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago, Illinois, Elmer W. Koneman, MD, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, Paul C. Schreckenberger, PhD, D(ABMM), Professor of Pathology, Director, Clinical Microbiology, Associate Director, Molecular Pathology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, Gail L. Woods, MD, Professor and Chief of Pediatric Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Preceded by Koneman's color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology / Washington C. Winn Jr. ... [et al.]. 6th ed. c2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to microbiology : part I : the role of the microbiology laboratory in the diagnosis of infectious diseases : guidelines to practice and management -- Introduction to microbiology : part II : guidelines for the collection, transport, processing, analysis, and reporting of cultures from specific specimen sources -- Laboratory diagnosis by immunologic methods -- Molecular microbiology -- Medical bacteriology : taxonomy, morphology, physiology, and virulence -- The enterobacteriaceae -- The nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli -- Curved gram-negative bacilli and oxidase-positive fermenters : campylobacteraceae and vibrionaceae -- Miscellaneous fastidious gram-negative bacilli -- Legionella -- Neisseria species and moraxella catarrhalis -- Gram-positive cocci -- The gram-positive cocci : part I : staphylococci and Related gram-positive cocci -- The gram-positive cocci : part II : streptococci, enterococci, and the streptococcus-like bacteria-- Aerobic and facultative gram-positive bacilli -- Aerobic actinomycetes -- The anaerobic bacteria -- Antimicrobial susceptibility testing -- Mycoplasmas and ureaplasmas -- Mycobacteria -- Spirochetal infections -- Mycology -- Parasitology -- Diagnosis of infections caused by viruses, chlamydia, rickettsia, and related organisms.

"The founding objective of Koneman's Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology is to provide a clear exposition of procedures routinely employed in the laboratory identification of microbial agents causing infectious diseases"--