SUMMARY A pure bacterial culture remains essential for the study of its virulence, its
antibiotic susceptibility, and its genome sequence in order to facilitate the understanding …

Microbiology has been largely developed thanks to the discovery and optimization of culture
media. The first liquid artificial culture medium was created by Louis Pasteur in 1860 …

The 9th edition of this book was intended to provide microbiologists, laboratorians and
infectious disease professionals with the most current information on clinical microbiology …

Palaeomicrobiology has detected the tuberculosis agent in animal and human skeletons
that are thousands of years old. The German doctor Robert Koch was the first microbiologist …

Bacteroides species are Gram‐negative, obligate anaerobic bacteria. They are the
predominant indigenous bacterial species in the human intestinal tract, where they play an …

It also contains formulations and uses of media for isolation, culture, identification, and
maintenance of microorganisms. The entries are arranged alphabetically by medium name …

It is perhaps highly appropriate that a reviewer of a specific area of scientific literature be
chosen from the ranks of investigators who have not as yet contributed to the area being …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses methods for culturing Mycobacterium, isolating
genetic mutants, and moving DNA in and out of the cells. Experimental methods for culturing …

In the twenty-first century, the clinical microbiology laboratory plays a central part in
optimizing the management of infectious diseases and surveying local and global …

In the past decade, clinical microbiology laboratories have undergone important changes
with the introduction of molecular biology techniques and laboratory automation. In the …