Handbook of Media for Clinical and Public Health Microbiology

by Ronald M. Atlas and James W Snyder

Book Overview

The detection and/or isolation and identification of pathogenic microorganisms is critical for the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases. With growth-dependant methods providing reliable means for identifying pathogens, traditional culturing continues to play an integral role in the detection and characterization of known and "new" microbial pathogens. Microbiologists, therefore, rely on a variety of media for the detection, isolation, characterization,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466582928
• ISBN13: 9781466582927
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 3.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.5" x 10.9"