Cowan and Steel's manual for the identification of medical bacteria.
[Book]
3rd ed. / edited and rev. by G.I. Barrow and R.K.A. Feltham.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
xix, 331 pages :
illustrations ;
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-316) and index.
Classification and nomenclature -- Culture media: constituents and sterilization -- Principles of isolation -- Bacterial characters and characterization -- Theory and practice of bacterial identification -- Characters of gram-positive bacteria -- Characters of gram-negative bacteria -- Taxonomy in theory and practice -- Bacterial identification by cards -- Bacterial identification by computer -- Quality control in microbiology.