Benson's microbiological applications: laboratory manual in general microbiology/ Alfred E. Brown

Part 1: Microscopy
1 Brightfield Microscopy
2 Darkfield Microscopy
3 Phase-Contrast Microscopy
4 Fluorescence Microscopy
5 Microscopic Measurements

Part 2: Survey of Microorganisms
6 Protozoans, Algae, and Cyanobacteria
7 Ubiquity of Bacteria
8 The Fungi: Yeasts and Molds

Part 3: Manipulation of Microorganisms
9 Aseptic Technique
10 Pure Culture Techniques

Part 4: Staining and Observation of Microorganisms
11 Smear Preparation
12 Simple Staining
13 Negative Staining
14 Capsular Staining
15 Gram Staining
16 Spore Staining: Two Methods
17 Acid-Fast Staining: Ziehl-Neelsen
18 Motility Determination

Part 5: Culture Methods
19 Culture Media Preparation
20 Preparation of Stock Cultures
21 Cultivation of Anaerobes
22 Enumeration of Bacteria: The Standard Plate Count
23 Slime Mold Culture
24 Slide Culture: Molds

Part 6
25 Determination of a Bacteriophage Titer
26 Burst Size Determination: a one-step growth curve
27 Isolation of phage from files
28 Phage typing

Part 7 Environmental influences and control of microbial growth
29 Temperature: effects on growth
30 Temperature: lethal effects
31 pH and microbial growth
32 Water activity and osmotic pressure
33 Ultraviolet light: lethal effects
34 Oligodynamic action
35 Evaluation of alcohol: its effectiveness as an antiseptic
36 Antimicrobic sensitivity testing: the kirby-bauer method
37 Evaluation of antiseptics: the filter paper disk method
38 Effectiveness of hand scrubbing

Part 8 Identification of Unknown Bacteria
39 Morphological study of unknown bacterium
40 Cultural characteristics
41 Physiological characteristics: oxidation and fermentation tests
42 Physiological characteristics: hydrolytic reactions
43 Physiological characteristics: biochemical tests
44 Use of Bergey's manual

Part 9 Miniaturized multitest systems
45 Enterobacteriaceae identification: the API 20E system
46 Enterobacteriaceae identification: the enterotube II system
47 O/F gram-negative rods identification: the oxi/ferm tube II system
48 Staphylococcus identification: the API staphident system

Part 10 Diversity and environmental microbiology
49 Isolation of an antibiotic producer: the actinomyces
50 Nitrogen cycle: ammonification
51 Symbiotic nitrogen fixation: rhizobium
52 Free-living nitrogen fixation: azotobacter
53 Denitrification: paracoccus denitrificans
54 The winogradsky column
55 Purple nonsulfer plhotosynthetic bacteria
56 Sulfate reducing bacteria: desulfovibrio
57 Bacterial commensalism
58 Bacterial synergism
59 Microbial Antagonism

Part 11
60 Bacterial counts of foods
61 Bacteriological examination of water: qualitative tests
62 The membrane filter method
63 Reductase test
64 Microbial spoilage of canned food
65 Microbiology of alcohol fermentation

Part 12 Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

66 Mutant isolation by replica plating
67 Bacterial transformation
68 Polymerase chain reaction for amplifying DNA
69 Plasmid isolation

Part 13 Medical microbiology and immunology
70 the staphylococci: isolation and identification
71 The streptocococci: isolation and identification
72 Gram-negative intestinal pathogens
73 Slide agglutination test: serologgical typing
74 Slide agglutination ( Latex) test: for S. aureus identification
75 Tube agglutination test: the heterophile antibody test
76 White blood cell study: the differential WBC count
77 Blood grouping
78 A synthetic epidemic