| Description |
1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations |
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Reference Manual, ASM Press |
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Reference Manual, ASM Press
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| Contents |
Dedication -- contents -- editorial board -- how to use this handbook -- abbreviations -- preface -- acknowledgments -- reader response form -- disclaimer -- Volume 1 -- Procedure coding, reimbursement, and billing compliance -- Chapter 1.1 : introduction -- Chapter 1.2 : procedure coding, reimbursement, and billing compliance -- Specimen collection, transport, and acceptability -- Chapter 2.1 : collection, transport, and manipulation of clinical specimens and initial laboratory concerns -- Aerobic bacteriology -- Chapter 3.1 : introduction to the section -- Chapter 3.2 : staining procedures -- Chapter 3.3 : processing, isolation, detection, and interpretation of aerobic bacteriology cultures -- Chapter 3.4 : blood cultures -- Chapter 3.5 : body fluid cultures (excluding blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and urine) -- Chapter 3.6 : catheter tip cultures -- Chapter 3.7 : cerebrospinal fluid cultures -- Chapter 3.8 : fecal and other gastrointestinal cultures and toxin assays -- Chapter 3.9 : genital cultures -- Chapter 3.10 : ocular cultures -- Chapter 3.11 : respiratory tract cultures -- Chapter 3.12 : urine cultures -- Chapter 3.13 : wound cultures -- Chapter 3.14 : leptospira culture -- Chapter 3.15 : mycoplasma pneumoniae, mycoplasma hominis, and ureaplasma cultures from clinical specimens -- Chapter 3.16 : guidelines for biochemical identification of aerobic bacteria -- Chapter 3.17 : biochemical tests for the identification of aerobic bacteria -- Chapter 3.18 : schemes for identification of aerobic bacteria -- Anaerobic bacteriology -- Chapter 4.1 : introduction -- Chapter 4.2 : collection and transport of clinical specimens for anaerobic culture -- Chapter 4.3 : culture media for anaerobes -- Chapter 4.4 : examination of primary culture plates for anaerobic bacteria -- Chapter 4.5 : incubation techniques for anaerobic bacteriology specimens -- Chapter 4.6 : rapid disk, spot tests, and other methods for the identification of anaerobes -- Chapter 4.7 : commercial kit overnight biochemical systems for the identification of anaerobes -- Chapter 4.8 : rapid enzymatic systems for the identification of anaerobes -- Chapter 4.9 : rapid biochemical tests (4 hours or less) for the identification of anaerobes -- Chapter 4.10 : anaerobic gram-negative bacilli -- Chapter 4.11 : anaerobic gram-positive bacilli -- Chapter 4.12 : anaerobic cocci -- Chapter 4.13 : suggestions for a practical scheme for the workup of anaerobic cultures -- Chapter 4.14 : clostridium difficile as a pathogen involved in antimicrobial agent-associated diarrhea, colitis, and pseudomembranous colitis |
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Volume 3 -- Viruses and chlamydiae -- Chapter 10.1 : laboratory diagnosis of viral infections: introduction -- Chapter 10.2 : selection, maintenance, and observation of uninoculated monolayer cell cultures -- Chapter 10.3 : cell culture techniques: serial propagation and maintenance of monolayer cell cultures -- Chapter 10.4 : specimen collection and processing -- Chapter 10.5 : viral culture: isolation of viruses in cell cultures -- Chapter 10.6 : isolation of chlamydia spp. In cell culture -- Chapter 10.7 : direct detection of viruses and chlamydia in clinical samples -- Immunology -- Chapter 11.1 : immunology introduction -- Chapter 11.2 : serologic diagnosis of group a streptococcal infections -- Chapter 11.3 : detection of legionella antigen by direct immunofluorescence -- Chapter 11.4 : urinary antigen detection for legionella spp. -- Chapter 11.5 : laboratory diagnosis of syphilis -- Chapter 11.6 : detection of borrelia burgdorferi antibodies -- Chapter 11.7 : serodiagnosis of rickettsial infections -- Chapter 11.8 : immunoassay detection of shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli -- Chapter 11.9 : serodiagnosis of helicobacter pylori -- Chapter 11.10 : total viable cell counting procedure -- Chapter 11.11 : peripheral blood mononuclear cell cryopreservation method -- Chapter 11.12 : lymphocyte proliferation assay -- Chapter 11.13 : natural killer cell assays -- Chapter 11.14 : quantitation of human interleukin 4, interleukin 6, and gamma interferon -- Chapter 11.15 : flow cytometry whole-blood intracellular-cytokine assay using phorbol myristate acetate, ionomycin, and brefeldin a -- Chapter 11.16 : whole-blood lymphocyte immunophenotyping using cell surface markers by flow cytometry -- Chapter 11.17 : neutrophil function whole-blood flow cytometric test for leukocyte adhesion deficiency -- Chapter 11.18 : flow cytometric test for chronic granulomatous disease -- Chapter 11.19 : gamma interferon enzyme-linked immunospot assay -- Molecular diagnostics -- Chapter 12.1 : introduction -- Chapter 12.2 : molecular methods for direct detection of microorganisms in clinical specimens -- Chapter 12.3 : molecular methods for identification of cultured microorganisms -- Chapter 12.4 : molecular methods for epidemiologic typing of microorganisms -- Chapter 12.5 : molecular methods for antimicrobial agent resistance determination -- Chapter 12.6 : appendix 12.6-1 -- unidirectional work flow and minimization of contamination -- Epidemiologic and infection control microbiology -- Chapter 13.1 : introduction -- Chapter 13.2 : laboratory support for infection control: optimization by policy and procedure -- Chapter 13.3 : policies for environmental sampling and culturing for infection control -- Chapter 13.4 : outbreak investigations: laboratory and epidemiologic concepts -- Chapter 13.5 : epidemiologic strain typing -- Chapter 13.6 : culture of hospital water for legionellaceae |
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Chapter 13.7 : culture and endotoxin assay of hemodialysis fluids -- Chapter 13.8 : culture of peritoneal dialysis fluid -- Chapter 13.9 : air cultures for fungi -- Chapter 13.10 : microbiological assay of environmental and medical-device surfaces -- Chapter 13.11 : surveillance cultures from immunocompromised hosts -- Chapter 13.12 : culture of intravascular devices -- Chapter 13.13 : culture of blood bank products -- Chapter 13.14 : microbiological assessment of orthopedic surgery sites -- Chapter 13.15 : quantitative culture of small-bowel contents -- Chapter 13.16 : phenotypic characterization of organisms for epidemiologic purposes -- Chapter 13.17 : screening for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus -- Chapter 13.18 : screening for vancomycin-resistant enterococci -- Quality assurance, quality control, laboratory records, and water quality -- Chapter 14.1 : quality assessment and improvement (quality assurance) -- Chapter 14.2 : quality control -- Chapter 14.3 : laboratory records -- Chapter 14.4 : preparation and quality control of laboratory water -- Biohazards and safety -- Chapter 15.1 : introduction -- Chapter 15.2 : biological safety and biohazard prevention -- Chapter 15.3 : biohazard containment -- Chapter 15.4 : laboratory instrumentation and equipment -- Chapter 15.5 : special pathogens and employee safety -- Chapter 15.6 : packing and shipping infectious substances -- Chapter 15.7 : management of laboratory accidents -- Chapter 15.8 : management of infectious waste -- Bioterrorism -- Chapter 16.1 : general introduction to bioterrorism -- Chapter 16.2 : levels of laboratory safety -- Chapter 16.3 : packing and shipping select agents -- Chapter 16.4 : anthrax -- bacillus anthracis -- Chapter 16.5 : botulinumtoxin -- clostridium botulinum -- Chapter 16.6 : brucellosis -- brucella spp. -- Chapter 16.7 : plague -- yersinia pestis -- Chapter 16.8 : tularemia -- francisella tularensis -- Chapter 16.9 : melioidosis (burkholderia pseudomallei) and glanders (burkholderia mallei) -- Chapter 16.10 : smallpox -- variola major -- Chapter 16.11 : unknown virus -- Chapter 16.12 : q fever -- coxiella burnetii -- Chapter 16.13 : clinical laboratory bioterrorism readiness plan -- Chapter 16.14 : avian influenza -- Index |
| Notes |
"Editor in chief, original and second editions Henry D. Isenberg." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Knovel, viewed November 14, 2011) |
| Subject |
Diagnostic microbiology -- Laboratory manuals
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Microbiological Techniques -- methods
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Diagnostic microbiology
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| Genre/Form |
Laboratory manuals
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Laboratory manuals.
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Manuels de laboratoire.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Garcia, Lynne Shore.
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Isenberg, Henry D.
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| LC no. |
2010014355 |
| ISBN |
9781555817435 |
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1555817432 |
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1555815278 |
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9781555815271 |
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1613442750 |
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9781613442753 |
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9781683674054 |
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1683674057 |
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