Appendices cover:

How to calculate dilutions

Ranges and colour changes of common pH indicators

Organisms used in the laboratory manual

Culture media

Stains, indicators and reagents

Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology

By  Jaime S Colomé,  Raúl J Cano,   A Mark Kubinski   and   David V Grady

283 pages plus appendices, index, and templates for student exercises, soft cover.

This comprehensive laboratory manual was written for undergraduate students in fields such as agricultural science, biology, chemistry, environmental engineering, food science and technology, and health related studies such as nursing, who are undertaking a course in microbiology.  As well as detailed descriptions and explanations, you'll find many line drawings and a section of colour photographs that illustrate this manual.  These features make this title an excellent reference manual for teachers devising exercises for their senior high school students.

There are 72 comprehensive exercises covering the following topics:

• Microscopic techniques

• Cultivation of microorganisms

• Staining

• Enumeration of microorganisms

• Environmental factors affecting growth

• Control of microbial growth

• Metabolic activities of microorganisms

• Survey of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

• The viruses

• Genetics of microorganisms

• Microbial ecology

• Water sanitary analysis

• Food microbiology

• Dairy microbiology

• Agricultural microbiology

• Medical microbiology

There is also a full index, five supplementary appendices and a set of templates to assist reporting the results of each exercise.