Defines the role of a clinical microbiology laboratory in integrated patient care and offers a comprehensive procedural manual that can be used by a wide variety of laboratories. This book describes various protocols for bioassay methods and molecular methods for bacterial strain typing. "? exceptionally well written both in clarity and through illustration. ? there is a well-developed index that readers will find quite useful for subject searches. ? this book is a comprehensive manual of antimicrobial susceptibility testing protocols and applications. I believe it will be of great value for clinical microbiologists and pathologists, physicians, veterinarians, and pharmacists, medical and veterinary technologists, molecular biologists, infectious disease epidemiologists, as well as infection control practitioners and hospital administrators." - Christian T.K.-H. Stadtlander, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota in Microbe, January 2009