Rev. ed. of :Color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology / Elmer W. Koneman --- [et al.]. 5th ed. c1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to microbiology -- 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: cmpylobacteraceae and vibrionaceae -- Miscellaneous fastidious gram-negative bacilli -- Legionella -- Neisseria species and moraxella catarrhalis -- Gram-positive cocci -- The gram-positive cocci -- 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