Manual of Clinical Microbiology

Section I. 1. Introduction to the 13th edition of the manual of clinical microbiology. 2. Laboratory acreditation and compliance. 3. Diagnostic stewardship in clinical microbiology. 4. Microscopy. 5. Laboratory detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 6. Systems for identification of bacteria and fungi. 7. Laboratory automation in clinical microbiology. 8. Molecular techniques. 9. Inmunoassays for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. 10. Prevention of health care-associated infections. 11. Investigation of disease outbreaks. 12. Molecular epidemiology. 13. Procedures for the storage of microorganisms. 14. Prevention of laboratory-acquired infections. 15. Disinfection and sterilization. 16. Biothreat agents. 17. The human microbiome. Section II. 18. Taxonomy of bacteria and Archaea. 19. Specimen collection, transport, and processing: bacteriology. Gram-positive Cocci. 20. Approaches to the identification of aerobic Gram-positive Cocci. 21. Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, and other catalase-positive Cocci. 22. Streptococcus. 23. Enterococcus. 24. Aerococcus, Abiotrophia and other aeorobic Catalase-negative, Gram-positive Cocci. Gram-positive rods. 25. General approaches to the identification of aerobic Gram-positive rods. 26. Bacillus and other aerobic endospore-forming bacteria. 27. Listeria and erysipelothrix. 28.Coryneform Gram-positive rods. 29. Nocardia, Rhodococcus, Gordonia, Actinomadura, Streptomyces, and other aerobic Actinomycetes. 30. Mycobacterium: general characteristics, laboratory processing, staining, isolation, and detection procedures. 31. Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. 32. Mycobacterium: laboratory characteristics of slowly growing mycobacteria other than mycobacterium tuberculosis. 33. Mycobacterium: clinical and laboratory characteristics of rapidly growing mycobacteria.