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Part I: Basic Medical Microbiology
- Microbial Taxonomy
- Bacterial Genetics, Metabolism, and Structure
- Host-Microorganism Interactions
Part II: General Principles in Clinical Microbiology Section
1:Safety and Specimen Management
- Laboratory Safety
- Specimen Management
Section 2: Approaches to Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
- Role of Microscopy
- Traditional Cultivation and Identification
- Nucleic Acid-Based Analytic Methods for Microbial Identification and Characterization
- Overview of Immunochemical Methods Used for Organism Detection
Section 3: Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity
- Principles of Antimicrobial Action & Resistance
- Laboratory Methods and Strategies for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Part III: Bacteriology
- Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, and Similar Organisms
Section 3: Catalase-Negative, Gram-Positive Cocci
- Streptococcus, Enterococcus, and Similar Organisms
Section 4: Non-Branching, Catalase-Positive, Gram-Positive Bacilli
- Bacillus and Similar Organisms
- Listeria, Corynebacterium, and Similar Organisms
Section 5: Non-Branching, Catalase-Negative, Gram-Positive Bacilli
- Erysipelothirix, Lactobacillus, and Similar Organisms
Section 6: Branching or Partially Acid-Fast, Gram-Positive Bacilli
- Nocardia, Streptomyces, Rhodococcus, and Similar Organisms
Section 7: Gram-Negative Bacilli and Coccobacilli (MacConkey-Positive, Oxidase-Negative)
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Acinetobacter, Stenotrophomonas, and Other Organisms
Section 8: Gram-Negative Bacilli and Coccobacilli (MacConkey-Positive, Oxidase-Positive)
- Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, and Similar Organisms
- Achromobacter, Rhizobium, Ochrobactrum, and Similar Organisms
- Chryseobacterium, Sphingobacterium, and Similar Organisms
- Alcaligenes, Bordetella (Nonpertussis), Comamonas, and Similar Organisms
- Vibrio, Aeromonas, Plesiomonasshigelloides, and Chromobacteriumviolaceum
Section 9: Gram-Negative Bacilli and Coccobacilli (MacConkey-Negative, Oxidase-Positive)
- Sphingomonaspaucimobilis and Similar Organisms
- Moraxella
- Eikenellacorrodens and Similar Organisms
- Pasteurella and Similar Organisms
- Actinobacillus, Kingella, Cardiobacterium, Capnocytophaga, and Similar Organisms
Section 10: Gram-Negative Bacilli and Coccobacilli (MacConkey-Negative, Oxidase-Variable)
- Haemophilus
Section 11: Gram-Negative Bacilli that are Optimally Recovered on Special Media
- Bartonella and Afipia
- Campylobacter, Arcobacter, and Helicobacter
- Legionella
- Brucella
- Bordetella pertussis and Bordetellaparapertussis
- Francisella
- Streptobacillusmoniliformis and Spirillum minus
Section 12: Gram-Negative Cocci
- Neisseria and Moraxella catarrhalis
Section 13: Anaerobic Bacteriology
- Overview and General Considerations
- Laboratory Considerations
Section 14: Mycobacteria and Other Bacteria with Unusual Growth Requirements
- Mycobacteria
- Obligate Intracellular and Nonculturable Bacterial Agents
- Cell Wall-Deficient Bacteria: Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma
- The Spirochetes Part IV: Parasitology
- Overview of the Methods and Strategies in Parasitology
- Intestinal Protozoa
- Blood and Tissue Protoza
- Protozoa from Other Body Sites
- Intestinal Nematodes
- Tissue Nematodes
- Blood Nematodes
- Intestinal Cestodes
- Tissue Cestodes
- Intestinal Trematodes
- Liver and Lung Trematodes
- Blood Trematodes
Part V: Mycology
- Overview of Fungal Identification Methods and Strategies
- Hyaline Molds, Zygomycetes, Dermatophytes, and Opportunitistic and Systemic Mycoses
- Dematiaceious Molds
- Opportunistic Atypical Fungs: P. jiroveci
- The Yeasts
- Antifungal Susceptibility Testing, Therapy and Prevention
Part VI: Virology
- Overview of the Methods and Strategies in Virology
- Viruses in Human Disease
- Antiviral Therapy, Susceptibility Testing and Prevention
Part VII: Diagnosis by Organ System
- Bloodstream Infections
- Infections of the Lower Respiratory Tract
- Upper Respiratory Tract Infections and Other Infections of the Oral Cavity and Neck
- Meningitis and Other Infections of the Central Nervous Systems
- Infections of the Eyes, Ears, and Sinuses
- Infections of the Urinary Tract
- Genital Tract Infections
- Gastrointestinal Tract Infections
- Skin, Soft Tissue, and Wound Infections
- Normally Sterile Body Fluids, Bone and Bone Marrow, and Solid Tissues
Part VIII: Clinical Laboratory Management
- Quality in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
- Infection Control
- Sentinel Laboratory Response to Bioterrorism
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