Koneman's color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology / Washington C. Winn, Jr., Stephen D. Allen, William M. Janda, Elmer W. Koneman, Gary W. Procop, Paul C. Schreckenberger, Gail L. Woods.

Revised edition of: Color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology/Elmer W. Koneman [and others]. 5th edition c1997.

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 : guidelins 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: part I : staphylococci and related gram-positive cocci -- 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.

Written for medical and biomedical students and for laboratory professionals, this text provides extensive but practical discussion, presenting the structural, physiological, pathogenetic, and clinical manifestations of organisms causing infectious disease and integrating laboratory procedures and clinical problems and challenges.