Medical microbiology testing in primary care

This book's purpose is to help community-based primary care physicians and nurses, and laboratory-based microbiologists, better understand each others requirements in collecting and interpreting specimens, and thus to improve the quality of patient care. The structure of this book focuses on th...

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Other Authors: Struthers, J. Keith
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Manson Publishing 2012
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction, Cases
  • 2. Organisms and antibiotics
  • 3. The urine specimen
  • 4. The genital specimen
  • 5. The swab of the chronic leg ulcer
  • 6. Fungal scrapings of the nail apparatus (Onychomycosis), the hair and the skin
  • 7. The faecal specimen
  • 8. The eye and the respiratory tract specimen
  • 9. The serology specimen
  • 10. Infections in pregnancy
  • 11. Antibiotic guidelines in the community
  • Index