An essential training aid and reference guide for laboratorians.
Includes easy-to-follow collection and ordering guidelines and diagnostic techniques.
Offers extensive discussion and a table to assist physicians with ordering the most appropriate diagnostic tests.
Provides extensive information on method selection, clinical relevance, and test menus.
Features diagnostic algorithms, summary tables, and identification keys.
Presents comprehensive organism information on facing pages.
Includes "how-to" tips based on 30 years of the author's benchwork experience
Serves as a resource for microbiologists, physicians, medical technologists, public health personnel, teachers, and students.
About the Author
Lynne Shore Garcia is the director of LSG & Associates, a firm providing training, teaching, and consultation services for diagnostic medical parasitology and health care administration. A former manager of the UCLA Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, she is a sought-after speaker (nationally and internationally) and author of hundreds of articles, book chapters, and books including two ASM Press books, Clinical Laboratory Management, Second Edition and Diagnostic Medical Parasitology, Sixth Edition.
About ASM The American Society for Microbiology has over 30,000 members, including researchers, educators and health professionals, ASM is one of the largest life science societies in the world. Discover ASM books by internationally renowned authors and editors with expertise in a broad range of microbiology disciplines.
