Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Copyright; Foreword to First Edition; Preface to Second Edition; Preface to First Edition; 'Priority' Reading in this Book for Medical Students; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements for Illustrations; Section A: General principles; Chapter 1: Classification and pathogenicity of microbes; Publisher Summary; CLASSIFICATION OF BACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION OF VIRUSES; CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI; PATHOGENESIS: FACTORS AFFECTING THE 'VIRULENCE' AND SPREAD OF MICROBES; Appendix: Basic characteristics of some important bacterial pathogens

Chapter 2: Use of the microbiology laboratory-general principlesCOLLECTION OF CLINICALLY RELEVANT SPECIMENS; PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL CLINICAL INFORMATION; PRIOR DISCUSSION WITH THE MICROBIOLOGIST; COLLECTION OF GOOD QUALITY SPECIMENS; TRANSPORT OF SPECIMENS TO THE LABORATORY; PROCEDURES IN THE LABORATORY FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; Appendix 1 Some microbiological methods; MAKING SMEARS: THE GRAM-STAIN AND ACID-FAST STAINS; ZIEHL-NEELSEN STAIN FOR ACID-FAST BACILLI; Appendix 2 Basic virological investigations

Chapter 3: Antimicrobial chemotherapy-general principlesPublisher Summary; MODE OF ACTION OF ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS; SPECTRUM OF ACTIVITY OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS; GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF USE OF ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS; PHARMACOKINETIC FACTORS; USE OF MICROBIOLOGICAL IVESTIGATIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THERAPY; ANTIBIOTIC ASSAYS; CAUSES OF FAILURE OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY; RESISTANCE TO ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC POLICIES; Appendix: Notes on antimicrobiological drugs including some 'new' antibiotics; BETA-LACTAM ANTIBIOTICS; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; TETRACYCLINES

ANTI-FUNGAL DRUGSANTI-VIRAL DRUGS; Section B: Specific clinical topics; Chapter 4: Pyrexia of undetermined origin (PUO); Publisher Summary; DEFINITION OF PUO; MAJOR CAUSES OF PUO; INFECTIVE CAUSES OF PUO; INVESTIGATION OF PUO; SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS; Chapter 5: Septicaemia; Publisher Summary; CLINICAL FEATURES; CAUSATIVE ORGANISMS; MICROBIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF SEPTICAEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT OF SEPTICAEMIA; PREVENTION OF SEPTICAEMIA; MELIOIDOSIS; Appendix: Instructions for the collection of conventional blood cultures (example at St Stephen's Hospital, London SW10, 1985)

Chapter 6: Opportunistic infectionsPublisher Summary; 'OPPORTUNIST' ORGANISMS; OPPORTUNISTIC CONDITIONS; Diagnosis of Opportunistic Infections; TREATMENT OF OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PREVENTION OF OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; Chapter 7: Obstetric, perinatal and neonatal infections; Publisher Summary; INFECTIONS IN PREGNANCY; PERINATAL INFECTIONS; NEONATAL AND CONGENITAL INFECTIONS; PUERPERAL SEPSIS AND POST-PARTUM PYREXIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION AND AIDS IN INFANTS; GYNAECOLOGICAL INFECTIONS; Chapter 8: Infections in children; Publisher Summary; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS