Includes index.

Staphylococcus and micrococcus -- Streptococcus -- Enterococcus -- Aerococcus, abiotrophia, and other miscellaneous gram-positive cocci that grow aerobically -- Coryneform gram-positive bacilli -- Listeria and erysipelothrix -- Bacillus -- Nocardia, rhodococcus, actinomadura, streptomyces, and other aerobic actinomycetes -- Mycobacterium -- Introduction to Enterobacteriaceae -- Escherichia, shigella, and salmonella -- Klebsiella, enterobacter, citrobacter, serratia, pantoea, and raoultella -- Yersinia, proteae, edwardsiella, and hafnia -- Vibrio -- Aeromonas and plesiomonas -- Pseudomonas -- Burkholderia, stenotrophomonas, ralstonia, brevundimonas, comamonas, and acidovorax -- Acinetobacter, achromobacter, alcaligenes, moraxella, methylobacterium, and other nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli -- Actinobacillus, capnocytophaga, eikenella, kingella, and other fastidious or rarely encountered gram-negative bacilli -- Legionella -- Neisseria and moraxella -- Haemophilus -- Bordetella -- Brucella -- Pasteurella -- Bartonella and afipia -- Francisella -- Introduction to anaerobic bacteria -- Clostridium -- Peptostreptococcus, propionibacterium, lactobacillus, actinomyces, and other non-spore-forming anaerobic gram-positive bacteria -- Bacteroides, porphyromonas, prevotella, fusobacterium, and other anaerobic gram-negative bacteria -- Campylobacter and arcobacter -- Helicobacter -- Chlamydia -- Mycoplasma and ureaplasma -- Leptospira, borrelia, and treponema -- Rickettsia, orientia, ehrlichia, and coxiella -- Stains, media, and reagents.