Download or read book Handbook of Media for Clinical and Public Health Microbiology written by Ronald M. Atlas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detection and/or isolation and identification of pathogenic microorganisms is critical for the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases. With growth-dependant methods providing reliable means for identifying pathogens, traditional culturing continues to play an integral role in the detection and characterization of known and "new" microbial