Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beta-haemolytic Streptococci / Androulla Efstratiou ... [et al.] -- Oral and other alpha-haemolytic Streptococci / Roderick McNab and Theresa Lamagni -- Streptococcus pneumoniae / Indran Balakrishan -- Enterococcus / Esteban C. Nannini and Barbara E. Murray -- Staphylococcus aureus / Sharon Peacock -- Coagulase negative staphylococci / Roger G. Finch -- Corynebacterium spp. / Aruni De Zoysa and Androulla Efstratiou -- Listeria ssp. and Erysipelothrix / Kevin G. Kerr -- Bacillus spp. / Niall A. Logan and Marina Rodríguez-Díaz -- Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Stephen H. Gillespie -- Non-tuberculosis Mycobacteria / Stephen H. Gillespie -- Aerobic Actinomycetes / Stephen H. Gillespie -- Branhamella, Moraxella, and Klingella / Alex van Belkum and Cees M. Verduin -- Neisseria meningitidis / Dlawer A. A. Ala' Aldeen and David P. J. Turner -- Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Catherine Ison -- Acinetobacter spp. / Peter Hawkey and Eugenie Bergogne-Berezin -- Haemophilus spp. / Derrick W. Crook and Derek W. Hood -- Bordatella spp. / Qiushui He, Jussi Mertsola, and Matti K. Viljanen -- Brucella spp. / Edward J. Young -- Actinobacillus / Brian Henderson and Derren Ready -- Francisella tularensis / Petra C. F. Oyston -- Rickettsia spp. / James G. Olson, Franca Jones and Patrick Blair -- Bartonella spp. / J. M. Rolain and Didier Raoult -- Mycoplasma spp. and related organisms / Christiane Bébéar, Sabine Pereyre, and Cécile M. Bébéar.

Chlamydia spp. and related organisms / Sarah J. Furrows and Geoff L. Ridgway -- Tropheryma whipplei / Florence Fenollar and Didier Raoult -- Identification of Enterobacteriaceae / Peter M. Hawkey -- Escherichia coli and Shigella spp. / Christopher L. Baylis ... [et al.] -- Salmonella spp. / Clare Jenkins and Stephen H. Gillespie -- Klebsiella, Citrobacter, Enterobacter, and Serratia spp. / C. Anthony Hart -- Donovanosis and Klebsiella / John Richens -- Proteus, Providentia, and Morganella / Peter M. Hawkey -- Yersinia / Michael B. Prentice -- Vibrio spp. / Tom Cheasty -- Aeromonas and Pleisiomonas / Andrew J. H. Simpson -- Pseudomonas and Burkholderia / Tyrone L. Pitt and Andrew J. H. Simpson -- Legionella and related organisms / T.G. Harrison -- Coxiella burnettii / James G. Olson, Franca Jones, and Patrick Blair -- Leptospira / Paul N. Levett -- Helicobacter and related organisms / Peter J. Jenks -- Campylobacter and related organisms / Diane E. Taylor and Monika Keelan -- Treponema and related organisms / Andrew J.L. Turner -- Borrelia / Sudha Pabbatireddy and Benjamin J. Luft -- Anaerobic cocci / David A. Murdoch -- Non-sporing gram negative anaerobes / Sheila Patrick and Brian I. Duerden -- Clostridium difficile / Mark H. Wilcox -- Other Clostridium spp. / Ian R. Poxton -- Anaerobic actinomycetes and related organisms / Val Hall.