Handbook of Practical Bacteriology

PART I -- INTRODUCTORY -- I. THE GENERAL BIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS -- II. IMMUNITY IN RELATION TO PRACTICAL BACTERIOLOGY -- PART II -- BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE -- III. THE USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN BACTERIOLOGY -- IV. CULTIVATION OF MICRO-ORGANISMS -- V. STAINING METHODS. -- VI. ANIMAL INOCULATION AND AUTOPSY ; CARE OF LABORATORY ANIMALS -- VII. IMMUNOLOGICAL AND SEROLOGICAL METHODS AS APPLIED TO BACTERIOLOGY -- VIII. BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF WATER AND MILK; TESTING OF ANTISEPTICS; TESTING OF SURGICAL CATGUT FOR STERILITY; COLLECTION AND FORWARDING OF SPECIMENS FOR BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION -- PART III -- PATHOGENIC MICRO-ORGANISMS AND BACTERIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS -- IX. THE PYOGENIC COCCI; OTHER PYOGENIC BACTERIA; PNEUMOCOCCUS -- X. MENINGOCOCCUS; GRAM-NEGATIVE COCCI OCCURRING IN THE NOSE AND THROAT; GONOCOCCUS -- XI. BACILLUS DIPHTHERIAE AND BIOLOGI CALLY ALLIED ORGANISMS -- XII. THE TUBERCLE BACILLUS AND OTHER ACID-FAST BACILLI -- XIII. BACILLUS MALLEI; B. ANTHRACIS AND BIOLOGICALLY ALLIED ORGANISMS -- XIV. THE GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACILLI OCCURRING AS COMMENSALS OR PATHOGENS IN THE INTESTINE (B. coli, B. typhosus, Salmonella group, B. dysenteriae, etc.); INTESTINAL PROTOZOA; ACIDURIC BACILLI. -- XV. VIBRIO CHOLERAE AND ALLIED ORGAN ISMS; BACILLUS PESTIS AND PAS TEURELLA GROUP -- XVI. BACILLUS MELITENSIS AND BACILLUS ABORTUS; HAEMOPHILIC BACTERIA AND ALLIED ORGANISMS -- XVII. BACILLUS TETANI; ANAEROBIC BACILLI OF INFECTED WOUNDS; BACILLUS BOTULINUS; BACILLUS CHAUVOEI -- XVIII. ACTINOMYCES; OTHER STREPTOTHRICES; LEPTOTHRIX ; BACILLUS RHUSIO PATHIAE ; ORGANISM OF BOVINE PLEUROPNEUMONIA; BACILLUS FUSI FORMIS; BACILLUS NECROPHORUS -- XIX. THE PATHOGENIC AND COMMENSAL SPIROCHAETES -- XX. RICKETTSIA GROUP; BARTONELLA -- XXI. THE FUNGI -- XXII. THE MALARIA PLASMODIA; BABESIAE ; TRYPANOSOMES; LEISHMANIAE -- XXIII. FILTERABLE VIRUSES -- APPENDIX A (METHODS OF TION) -- APPENDIX B (SCHEME OF COLOURS FOR IDENTIFYING SUGAR MEDIA) -- INDEX