Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology

by Patricia M. Tille PhD, MLS(ASCP), AHI(AMT), FACSc

Overview

**Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence Award Winner, 2024** **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Laboratory Technology** Perfect your lab skills with the essential text for diagnostic microbiology! Bailey & Scott’s Diagnostic Microbiology, 15th Edition Is known as the #1 bench reference for practicing microbiologists and as the preeminent text for students in clinical laboratory science programs. With hundreds of full-color illustrations and step-by-step methods for procedures, this text provides a solid, basic understanding of diagnostic microbiology and also covers more advanced techniques such as matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Written by noted CLS educator Dr. Patricia Tille, Diagnostic Microbiology has everything you need to get accurate lab test results in class and in clinical practice.

• More than 800 high-quality, full-color illustrations help you visualize concepts.
• Expanded sections on parasitology, mycology, and virology allow you to use just one book, eliminating the need to purchase other microbiology textbooks for these topics.
• Hands-on procedures show exactly what takes place in the lab, including step-by-step methods, photos, and expected results.
• Case studies allow you to apply your knowledge to diagnostic scenarios and to develop critical thinking skills.
• Genera and Species boxes provide handy, at-a-glance summaries at the beginning of each organism chapter.
• Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter provide measurable outcomes to achieve by completing the chapter material.
• A glossary defines terms at the back of the book and on the Evolve companion website.

• New! Updated content includes infectious disease trends and new illustrations such as culture plate images of real specimens, complex gram stains, lactophenol cotton blue microscopy, and more.
• NEW COVID-19 information has been added.
• UPDATED topics include the Human Microbiome Project, expanded MALDI-TOF applications and molecular diagnostics in conjunction with traditional microbiology, additional streps, and significant news in mycology.
• EXPANDED glossary defines terms on the Evolve companion website.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443118913
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/24/2025
Edition description:	16th ed.
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.00(d)

Table of Contents

PART I: BASIC MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
1. Microbial Taxonomy
2. Bacterial Genetics, Metabolism, and Structure
3. Host-Microorganism Interactions
PART II: GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Section 1: Safety and Specimen Management
4. Laboratory Safety
5. Specimen Management
Section 2: Approaches to Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
6. Role of Microscopy
7. Conventional Cultivation and Identification
8. Nucleic Acid-Based Analytic Methods for Microbial Identification and Characterization
9. Overview of Immunochemical Methods Used for Organism Detection
Section 3: Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity
10. Principles of Antimicrobial Action and Resistance
11. Laboratory Methods and Strategies for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
PART III: BACTERIOLOGY
Section 1: Principles of Identification
12. Overview of Bacterial Identification Methods and Strategies
Section 2: Catalase-Positive, Gram-Positive Cocci
13. Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, and Similar Organisms
Section 3: Catalase-Negative, Gram-Positive Cocci
14. Streptococcus, Enterococcus, and Similar Organisms
Section 4: Non-Branching, Catalase-Positive, Gram-Positive Bacilli
15. Bacillus and Similar Organisms
16. Listeria, Corynebacterium, and Similar Organisms
Section 5: Non-Branching, Catalase-Negative, Gram-Positive Bacilli
17. Erysipelothirix, Lactobacillus, and Similar Organisms
Section 6: Branching or Partially Acid-Fast, Gram-Positive Bacilli
18. Nocardia, Streptomyces, Rhodococcus, and Similar Organisms
Section 7: Gram-Negative Bacilli and Coccobacilli (MacConkey-Positive, Oxidase-Negative)
19. Enterobacterales
20. Acinetobacter, Stenotrophomonas, and Other Organisms
Section 8: Gram-Negative Bacilli and Coccobacilli (MacConkey-Positive, Oxidase-Positive)
21. Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, and Similar Organisms
22. Achromobacter, Rhizobium, Ochrobactrum, and Similar Organisms
23. Chryseobacterium, Sphingobacterium, and Similar Organisms
24. Alcaligenes, Comamonas, and Similar Organisms
25. Vibrio, Aeromonas, Plesiomonas shigelloides, and Chromobacterium violaceum
Section 9: Gram-Negative Bacilli and Coccobacilli (MacConkey-Negative, Oxidase-Positive)
26. Sphingomonas paucimobilis and Similar Organisms
27. Moraxella
28. Eikenella corrodens and Similar Organisms
29. Pasteurella and Similar Organisms
30. Actinobacillus, Kingella, Cardiobacterium, Capnocytophaga, and Similar Organisms
Section 10: Gram-Negative Bacilli and Coccobacilli (MacConkey-Negative, Oxidase-Variable)
31. Haemophilus
Section 11: Gram-Negative Bacilli that are Optimally Recovered on Special Media
32. Bartonella
33. Campylobacter, Arcobacter, and Helicobacter
34. Legionella
35. Brucella
36. Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis,
37. Francisella
38. Streptobacillus moniliformis and Similar Organisms
Section 12: Gram-Negative Cocci
39. Neisseria and Moraxella catarrhalis
Section 13: Anaerobic Bacteriology
40. Overview and General Laboratory Considerations
41. Overview of Anaerobic Organisms
Section 14: Mycobacteria and Other Bacteria with Unusual Growth Requirements
42. Mycobacteria
43. Obligate Intracellular and Nonculturable Bacterial Agents
44. Cell Wall-Deficient Bacteria: Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma
45. The Spirochetes
PART IV: PARASITOLOGY
46. Overview of the Methods and Strategies in Parasitology
47. Intestinal Protozoa
48. Blood and Tissue Protozoa
49. Protozoa from Other Body Sites
50. Intestinal Nematodes
51. Tissue Nematodes
52. Blood Nematodes
53. Intestinal Cestodes
54. Tissue Cestodes
55. Intestinal Trematodes
56. Liver and Lung Trematodes
57. Blood Trematodes
PART V: MYCOLOGY
58. Overview of Fungal Identification Methods and Strategies
59. Hyaline Molds, Zygomycetes, Dermatophytes, and Opportunistic and Systemic Mycoses
60. Dematiaceious Molds
61. Pneumocystis jirovecci, Lagenidium, Paralegenidium, Pythium, Rhinosporidium and Uncultivated Paracocidioides
62. The Yeasts
63. Antifungal Susceptibility Testing, Therapy, and Prevention
PART VI: VIROLOGY
64. Overview of the Methods and Strategies in Virology
65. Viruses and Prions in Human Disease
66. Antiviral Therapy, Susceptibility Testing, and Prevention
PART VII: DIAGNOSIS BY ORGAN SYSTEM
67. Bloodstream Infections
68. Infections of the Lower Respiratory Tract
69. Upper Respiratory Tract Infections and Other Infections of the Oral Cavity and Neck
70. Meningitis and Other Infections of the Central Nervous System
71. Infections of the Eyes, Ears, and Sinuses
72. Infections of the Urinary Tract
73. Genital Tract Infections
74. Gastrointestinal Tract Infections
75. Skin, Soft Tissue, and Wound Infections
76. Normally Sterile Body Fluids, Bone and Bone Marrow, and Solid Tissues
PART VIII: CLINICAL LABORATORY MANAGEMENT
77. Quality in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
78. Infection Prevention
79. Sentinel Laboratory Response to Bioterrorism
Glossary
Index

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Valerie L Ng, PhD MD(Alameda County Medical Center/Highland Hospital)
Description: This is the 15th edition of a venerated textbook of diagnostic microbiology. The previous edition was published in 2017. I was able to access only the student resources online. These consisted of lab manuals (*.rtf files) or review questions and added value as they are not included in the print version.
Purpose: The purpose is to "...provide an updated and reliable reference text..." for diagnostic microbiology. These are worthy objectives (once again) well met by this edition.
Audience: It is intended for practicing clinical microbiologists and technologists, with the added intent of supporting educational efforts of "all those responsible for preparing others for a career in diagnostic microbiology." This edition nicely meets the needs of the intended audience. The authors are most credible authorities.
Features: This edition carries on the tradition of providing an "updated and reliable reference" on diagnostic clinical microbiology. Everything you loved about previous versions is still there — the logical organization through the various specialty areas of clinical microbiology (e.g., bacteriology, mycobacteriology, virology, etc.). The chapters follow a standard format with key learning points in color-coded formats to catch the eye. The figures are fantastic — gram stains, colonies on plates, etc. All around, this is the usual very useful bench reference for diagnostic microbiology. What I would love to see in the next edition: an expansion of biosafety to emphasize workflow changes to minimize aerosolization of select agents (i.e., all work on any culture is performed inside the biosafety cabinet until a select agent can be "ruled out"), to minimize/avoid laboratory acquired infections (meningococcus, melioidosis, brucellosis, histoplasmosis, etc.). Missing is a discussion of the automated microbiology systems gaining use (e.g., Wasp, Kiestra). And given today's tendency to centralize microbiology testing, it would be helpful to have a discussion on when to interrupt the usual laboratory workflow for specific specimen types (e.g., blood or urine cultures) and/or organisms (e.g., yeast) to send the primary specimen or recovered isolate to the centralized lab for additional testing (e.g., MALDI-TOF, specialized biochemical, other) without compromising diagnostic yield.
Assessment: As with previous editions, this edition continues the tradition of a mainstay bench reference for diagnostic microbiology. Remember to adhere to biosafety practices (not heavily emphasized) when following the expert workup recommendations!

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