Pocket Guide to Clinical Microbiology. Christopher D. Doern

      1  Cover

      2  Preface

      3  About the Author

      4  SECTION 1: Taxonomic Classification of Medically Important Microorganisms Taxonomic Classification of Bacteria Taxonomic Classification of Human Viruses Taxonomic Classification of Fungi Taxonomic Classification of Parasites

      5  SECTION 2: Indigenous and Pathogenic Microbes of Humans Microbes Responsible for Human Disease Summary of Notifiable Infectious Diseases: United States, 2015

      6  SECTION 3: Specimen Collection and Transport Virology: General Specimen Guidelines Virology: Specific Specimen Guidelines

      7  SECTION 4: Bacterial Diagnosis Microscopy Primary Plating Media: Bacteria Primary Plating Media: Mycobacteria Specific Diagnostic Tests for Pathogen Detection

      8  SECTION 5: Viral Diagnosis

      9  SECTION 6: Fungal Diagnosis Mycology Specimen Collection and Transport Guidelines Specific Diagnostic Tests Identification Tables

      10  SECTION 7: Parasitic Diagnosis Specific Diagnostic Tests

      11  SECTION 8: Vaccines, Susceptibility Testing, and Methods of Organism Identification

      12  Index

      13  End User License Agreement

      1 Section 2Table 2.1 Human indigenous flora^αTable 2.2 Arthropod vectors of medically important diseases^αTable 2.3 Fungal pathogens and geographic distributionTable 2.4 Parasitic pathogens and geographic distribution

      2 Section 3Table 3.1 Bacteriology: Collection and transport guidelines^a,bTable 3.2 Specimen collection and transport guidelines for infrequently encounte...Table 3.3 Guidelines for collection of specimens for anaerobic culture^aTable 3.4 Recommended blood volumes to collect for blood cultures^aTable 3.5 Mycology: Collection and transport guidelines^a,bTable 3.6 Parasitology: Specimen guidelines^aTable 3.7 Guidelines for processing stool specimens for parasites^a,b

      3 Section 4Table 4.1 Detection methods from clinical specimens for clinically relevant bact...Table 4.2 Recommendations for Gram stain and plating media^a,bTable 4.3 Screening specimens for routine bacterial culture^aTable 4.4 Processing specimens for mycobacterial identificationTable 4.5 Differential characteristics of catalase-positive Gram-positive cocciTable 4.6 Differential characteristics of most common clinically significant Sta...Table 4.7 Differential characteristics of catalase-negative Gram-positive cocciTable 4.8 Differential characteristics of beta-hemolytic streptococci^aTable 4.9 Differential characteristics of viridans streptococciTable 4.10 Differential characteristics of common Enterococcus speciesTable 4.11 Differential characteristics of Gram-positive rodsTable 4.12 Differential characteristics of common Corynebacterium speciesTable 4.13 Differential characteristics of selected coryneform bacteriaTable 4.14 Differential characteristics of selected Bacillus species and related...Table 4.15 Differential characteristics of selected actinomycetes^a,bTable 4.16 Differential characteristics of selected Nocardia species^aTable 4.17 Differential characteristics of select, slow-growing Mycobacterium sp...Table 4.18 Differential characteristics of clinically relevant, rapidly growing,...Table 4.19 Differential characteristics of medically relevant Neisseria speciesTable 4.20 Differential characteristics of selected members of the Neisseriaceae...Table 4.21 Differential characteristics of selected Aggregatibacter, Actinobacil...Table 4.22 Differential characteristics of selected Capnocytophaga, Dysgonomonas...Table 4.23 Differential characteristics of Haemophilus speciesTable 4.24 Differential characteristics of selected members of the Enterobacteri...Table 4.25 Differential characteristics of Citrobacter species^aTable 4.26 Differential characteristics of select Enterobacter, Pluralibacter, C...Table 4.27 Differential characteristics of Klebsiella and Raoultella species^aTable 4.28 Differential characteristics of Proteus, Providencia, and Morganella ...Table 4.29 Differential characteristics of Yersinia species after incubation at ...Table 4.30 Differential characteristics of Aeromonas species^aTable 4.31 Differential characteristics of Vibrio species^aTable 4.32 Differential characteristics of Pseudomonas species^aTable 4.33 Differential characteristics of Acidovorax, Brevundimonas, Delftia, C...Table 4.34 Differential characteristics of selected Bordetella speciesTable 4.35 Differential characteristics of selected oxidase-negative, oxidative,...Table 4.36 Differential characteristics of selected oxidase-positive, nonferment...Table 4.37 Differential characteristics of selected oxidase-positive, nonoxidati...Table 4.38 Differential characteristics of selected Campylobacter, Arcobacter, a...Table 4.39 Differential characteristics of select non-spore-forming, anaerobic, ...Table 4.40 Differential characteristics of selected Clostridium speciesTable 4.41 Differential characteristics of anaerobic Gram-negative bacteriaTable 4.42 Differential characteristics of the Bacteroides fragilis group

      4 Section 5Table 5.1 Detection methods for viruses^aTable 5.2 Cells used for viral isolation^aTable 5.3 EBV serologic profiles under different conditions^a,bTable 5.4 Hepatitis B virus markers in different stages of infection and convale...Table 5.5 Clinical diseases of parvovirus B19 and method of diagnosis^a

      5 Section 6Table 6.1 Methods for the identification of fungiTable 6.2 Characteristic fungal elements seen by direct examination of clinical ...Table 6.3 Mycology plating guideTable 6.4 Cultural and biochemical characteristics of yeasts frequently isolated...Table 6.5 Characteristics of selected Trichosporon species^aTable 6.6 Characteristics of Aspergillus species^aTable 6.7 Opportunistic moniliaceous fungi^aTable 6.8 Zygomycetes^aTable 6.9 Dimorphic molds^aTable 6.10 Characteristics