Table of Contents

List of Contributors. Preface. SECTION ONE: GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI. 1 Beta-Haemolytic Streptococci (Androulla Efstratiou, Shiranee Sriskandan, Theresa Lamagni and Adrian Whatmore). 2 Oral and Other Non-Beta-Haemolytic Streptococci (Roderick McNab and Theresa Lamagni). 3 Streptococcus pneumoniae (Indran Balakrishnan). 4 Enterococcus spp. (Esteban C. Nannini and Barbara E. Murray). 5 Staphylococcus aureus (Sharon Peacock). 6 Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci (Roger G. Finch). SECTION TWO: GRAM-POSITIVE BACILLI. 7 Corynebacterium spp. (Aruni De Zoysa and Androulla Efstratiou). 8 Listeria and Erysipelothrix spp. (Kevin G. Kerr). 9 Bacillus spp. and Related Genera (Niall A. Logan and Marina Rodriguez-Diaz). 10 Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Stephen H. Gillespie). 11 Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacteria (Stephen H. Gillespie). 12 Aerobic Actinomycetes (Stephen H. Gillespie). SECTION THREE: GRAM-NEGATIVE ORGANISMS. 13 Moraxella catarrhalis and Kingella kingae (Alex van Belkum and Cees M. Verduin). 14 Neisseria meningitidis (Dlawer A. A. Ala'Aldeen and David P. J. Turner). 15 Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Catherine A. Ison). 16 Acinetobacter spp. (Peter Hawkey and Eugenie Bergogne-Berezin). 17 Haemophilus spp. (Derrick W. Crook and Derek W. Hood). 18 Bordetella spp. (Qiushui He, Jussi Mertsola and Matti K. Viljanen). 19 Brucella spp. (Edward J. Young). 20 Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (Brian Henderson and Derren Ready). 21 Francisella tularensis (Petra C. F. Oyston). 22 Rickettsia spp. (James G. Olson, Franca R. Jones and Patrick J. Blair). 23 Bartonella spp. (J. M. Rolain and D. Raoult). 24 Mycoplasma spp. (Christiane Bebear, Sabine Pereyre and Cecile M. Bebear). 25 Chlamydia spp. and Related Organisms (S. J. Furrows and G. L. Ridgway). 26 Tropheryma whipplei (F. Fenollar and D. Raoult). 27 Identification of Enterobacteriaceae (Peter M. Hawkey). 28 Escherichia coli and Shigella spp. (Christopher L. Baylis, Charles W. Penn, Nathan M. Thielman, Richard L. Guerrant, Claire Jenkins and Stephen H. Gillespie). 29 Salmonella spp. (Claire Jenkins and Stephen H. Gillespie). 30 Klebsiella, Citrobacter, Enterobacter and Serratia spp. (C. Anthony Hart). 31 Donovanosis and Klebsiella spp. (John Richens). 32 Proteus, Providencia and Morganella spp. (Peter M. Hawkey). 33 Yersinia spp. (M. B. Prentice). 34 Vibrio spp. (Tom Cheasty). 35 Aeromonas and Plesiomonas spp. (Alpana Bose). 36 Pseudomonas and Burkholderia spp. (Tyrone L. Pitt and Andrew J. H. Simpson). 37 Legionella spp. (T. G. Harrison). 38 Coxiella burnetii (James G. Olson, Franca R. Jones and Patrick J. Blair). SECTION FOUR: SPIRAL BACTERIA. 39 Leptospira spp. (P. N. Levett). 40 Helicobacter spp. and Related Organisms (Peter J. Jenks). 41 Campylobacter and Arcobacter spp. (Diane E. Taylor and Monika Keelan). 42 Treponemes (Andrew J. L. Turner). 43 Borrelia spp. (Sudha Pabbatireddy and Benjamin J. Luft). SECTION FIVE: OBLIGATE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA. 44 Anaerobic Cocci (D. A. Murdoch). 45 Non-Sporing Gram-Negative Anaerobes (Sheila Patrick and Brian I. Duerden). 46 Clostridium difficile (Mark H. Wilcox). 47 Other Clostridium spp. (Ian R. Poxton). 48 Anaerobic Actinomycetes and Related Organisms (Val Hall). Index.

About the Author

Stephen H. Gillespie, Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London, UK Peter M. Hawkey, Medical School, Birmingham, UK.