De la Maza (pathology and laboratory medicine, U. of California, Irvine) et al. present laboratory technicians, clinicians, and students with an atlas of about 730 color images of common pathogenic bacteria and descriptions of methods used to identify them, including microscopic and phenotypic characteristics, colonial morphology, and biochemical properties. Chapters are organized by pathogen and taxonomic group. This edition incorporates developments in molecular biology methodology with a new chapter on these techniques, as well as a new chapter on antimicrobial susceptibility testing. It has updated illustrations of typical Gram stains, colony morphologies, and biochemical reactions of bacteria most frequently encountered in the clinical laboratory. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)