Pocket Guide to Clinical Microbiology.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- SECTION 1: Taxonomic Classification of Medically Important Microorganisms -- Taxonomic Classification of Bacteria -- Domain: Bacteria -- Taxonomic Classification of Human Viruses -- Single-stranded, nonenveloped DNA viruses -- Double-stranded, nonenveloped DNA viruses -- Double-stranded, enveloped DNA viruses -- Single-stranded, positive-sense, nonenveloped RNA viruses -- Single-stranded, positive-sense, enveloped RNA viruses -- Single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped RNA viruses -- Double-stranded, enveloped RNA viruses -- Taxonomic Classification of Fungi -- Taxonomic Classification of Parasites -- Kingdom. Protozoa -- Kingdom. Chromista -- Kingdom. Animalia -- Phylum. Platyhelminthes -- SECTION 2: Indigenous and Pathogenic Microbes of Humans -- Table 2.1 Human Indigenous Flora -- Microbes Responsible for Human Disease -- BONE AND JOINT INFECTIONS -- Arthritis -- Osteomyelitis -- CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTIONS -- Endocarditis -- Myocarditis -- Pericarditis -- Sepsis -- Transfusion-associated sepsis -- Suppurative thrombophlebitis -- CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS -- Acute meningitis -- Chronic meningitis -- Encephalitis -- Brain abscess -- EAR INFECTIONS -- Otitis externa -- Otitis media -- EYE INFECTIONS -- Conjunctivitis -- Endophthalmitis -- Keratitis -- GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS -- Esophagitis -- Noninflammatory diarrhea -- Inflammatory diarrhea -- GENITAL INFECTIONS -- Cervicitis -- Genital ulcers and skin nodules -- Urethritis -- Vaginitis -- GRANULOMATOUS INFECTIONS -- INTRA-ABDOMINAL INFECTIONS -- Peritonitis -- Dialysis-associated peritonitis -- Visceral abscesses -- RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS -- Pharyngitis -- Laryngitis -- Laryngotracheobronchitis (croup) -- Sinusitis -- Bronchitis -- Empyema.

Community-acquired pneumonia -- Hospital-acquired pneumonia -- SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS -- Primary pyodermas -- Gangrenous cellulitis -- Nodular lesions -- Secondary skin infections -- Disseminated infections with cutaneous manifestations -- URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS -- Cystitis and pyelonephritis -- Renal calculi -- Prostatitis -- Summary of Notifiable Infectious Diseases: United States, 2015 -- Table 2.2 Arthropod vectors of medically important diseases -- Table 2.3 Fungal pathogens and geographic distribution -- Table 2.4 Parasitic pathogens and geographic distribution -- SECTION 3: Specimen Collection and Transport -- Table 3.1 Bacteriology: Collection and transport guidelines -- Table 3.2 Specimen collection and transport guidelines for infrequently encountered bacteria -- Table 3.3 Guidelines for collection of specimens for anaerobic culture -- Virology: General Specimen Guidelines -- Virology: Specific Specimen Guidelines -- Blood -- Bone marrow -- CSF -- Respiratory specimens (throat, nasopharyngeal swab, nasopharyngeal aspirate, nasal washings, and bronchoalveolar lavage [BAL]) specimens) -- Urine -- Feces -- Eyes -- Tissue -- Genital specimens -- Skin -- Table 3.4 Recommended blood volumes to collect for blood cultures -- Table 3.5 Mycology: Collection and transport guidelines -- Table 3.6 Parasitology: Specimen guidelines -- Table 3.7 Guidelines for processing stool specimens for parasites -- SECTION 4: Bacterial Diagnosis -- General Comments -- Table 4.1 Detection methods from clinical specimens for clinically relevant bacteria -- Table 4.2 Recommendations for gram stain and plating media -- Table 4.3 Screening specimens for routine bacterial culture -- Table 4.4 Processing specimens for mycobacterial identification -- Microscopy -- Acid-Fast Stain -- Acridine Orange Stain -- Auramine-Rhodamine Stain.

Direct Fluorescent-Antibody Stain -- Gram Stain -- Spore Stain -- Primary Plating Media: Bacteria -- Ashdown Medium -- Bacteroides Bile-Esculin (BBE) Agar -- Bile-Esculin (Enterococcal Selective) Agar -- Bismuth Sulfite Agar -- Blood Agar -- Bordet-Gengou Agar -- Brain Heart Infusion Agar and Broth -- Brilliant Green Agar -- Brucella Agar and Broth -- Buffered Charcoal-Yeast Extract (BCYE) Agar -- Burkholderia cepacia Selective Agar (BCSA) -- Campylobacter Selective Medium -- Cefsulodin-lrgasan-Novobiocin (CIN) Agar -- Chromogenic Media -- Chocolate Agar -- Chopped-Meat Broth -- Colistin-Nalidixic Acid (CNA) Agar -- Columbia Agar and Broth -- Cycloserine-Cefoxitin-Egg Yolk-Fructose Agar (CCFA) -- Cystine Tellurite Blood Agar -- Egg Yolk Agar -- Ellinghausen-McCullough-Johnson-Harris Medium -- Enterococcosel agar -- Eosin-Methylene Blue (EMB) Agar -- Fletcher Medium -- Gram-Negative (G N -- Hajna) Broth -- Haemophilus Test Medium (HTM) Agar and Broth -- Hektoen Enteric Agar -- Kanamycin-Vancomycin Laked Blood (LKV) Agar -- LIM Broth -- Loffler Medium -- MacConkey (MAC) Agar -- MacConkey Agar with Sorbitol-see Sorbitol-MacConkey Agar -- Mannitol Salt Agar -- Martin-Lewis Agar -- McBride Listeria agar -- Mueller-Hinton Agar and Broth -- New York City Agar -- Oxidative-Fermentative Polymyxin B-Bacitracin-Lactose (OFPBL) Agar -- Phenylethyl Alcohol (PEA) Blood Agar -- Regan-Lowe Agar Medium -- Salmonella-Shigella (SS) Agar -- Schaedler's Agar -- Selenite Broth -- Skirrow Brucella Medium -- Sorbitol-MacConkey Agar -- Streptococcus selective medium -- StrepB Carrot Broth -- Tetrathionate Broth, Hajna -- Thayer-Martin (Modified) Agar -- Thioglycolate Broth -- Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Salts Sucrose (TCBS) Agar -- Tinsdale Agar -- Tryptic or Trypticase Soy Agar (TSA) and Broth (TSB) -- Xylose-Lysine-Deoxycholate (XLD) Agar.

Primary Plating Media: Mycobacteria -- American Trudeau Society Medium -- Dubos Broth (Dubos Tween albumin broth) -- Lowenstein-Jensen (LJ) Medium -- Lowenstein-Gruft Modification -- Lowenstein-Jensen Medium, Mycobactosel Modification -- Middlebrook 7H9 Broth -- Middlebrook 7H10 Agar -- Middlebrook 7H11 Agar -- Middlebrook 7H11 Agar, Mitchison's Modification -- Middlebrook 7H13 Broth -- Petragnani Medium -- Specific Diagnostic Tests for Pathogen Detection -- Aerobic Gram-Positive Cocci -- Aerobic Gram-Positive Rods -- Acid-Fast and Partially Acid-Fast Gram-Positive Rods -- Aerobic Gram-Negative Cocci -- Aerobic Gram-Negative Rods -- Anaerobic Bacteria -- Curved and Spiral-Shaped Bacteria -- Mycoplasma spp. and Obligate Intracellular Bacteria -- Table 4.5 Differential characteristics of catalase-positive Gram-positive cocci -- Table 4.6 Differential characteristics of most common clinically significant Staphylococcus species -- Table 4.7 Differential characteristics of catalase-negative Gram-positive cocci -- Table 4.8 Differential characteristics of beta-hemolytic streptococci -- Table 4.9 Differential characteristics of viridans streptococci -- Table 4.10 Differential characteristics of common Enterococcus species -- Table 4.11 Differential characteristics of Gram-positive rods -- Table 4.12 Differential characteristics of common Corynebacterium species -- Table 4.13 Differential characteristics of selected coryneform bacteria -- Table 4.14 Differential characteristics of selected Bacillus species and related spore-forming genera -- Table 4.15 Differential characteristics of selected actinomycetes -- Table 4.16 Differential characteristics of selected Nocardia species -- Table 4.17 Differential characteristics of select, slow-growing Mycobacterium species.

Table 4.18 Differential characteristics of clinically relevant, rapidly growing, Mycobacterium species -- Table 4.19 Differential characteristics of medically relevant Neisseria species -- Table 4.20 Differential characteristics of selected members of the Neisseriaceae and of the Cardiobacteriaceae -- Table 4.21 Differential characteristics of selected Aggregatibacter, Actinobacillus, and Pasteurella species -- Table 4.22 Differential characteristics of selected Capnocytophaga, Dysgonomonas, and Streptobacillus species -- Table 4.23 Differential characteristics of Haemophilus species -- Table 4.24 Differential characteristics of selected members of the Enterobacteriaceae -- Table 4.25 Differential characteristics of Citrobacter species -- Table 4.26 Differential characteristics of select Enterobacter, Pluralibacter, Cronobacter, Kosakonia, and Pantoea species -- Table 4.27 Differential characteristics of Klebsiella and Raoultella species -- Table 4.28 Differential characteristics of Proteus, Providencia, and Morganella species -- Table 4.29 Differential characteristics of Yersinia species after incubation at 25°C for 48 h -- Table 4.30 Differential characteristics of Aeromonas species -- Table 4.31 Differential characteristics of Vibrio species -- Table 4.32 Differential characteristics of Pseudomonas species -- Table 4.33 Differential characteristics of Acidovorax, Brevundimonas, Delftia, Comamonas, and Stenotrophomonas species -- Table 4.34 Differential characteristics of selected Bordetella species -- Table 4.35 Differential characteristics of selected oxidase-negative, oxidative, Gram-negative rods -- Table 4.36 Differential characteristics of selected oxidase-positive, nonfermentative, Gram-negative rods -- Table 4.37 Differential characteristics of selected oxidase-positive, nonoxidative, Gram-negative rods.

Table 4.38 Differential characteristics of selected Campylobacter, Arcobacter, and Helicobacter species.

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