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| Microscopic Techniques | |
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| Bright-Field Light Microscope and Microscopic Measurement of Organisms | |
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| The Hanging Drop Slide and Bacterial Motility | |
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| Dark-Field Light Microscope | |
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| Phase-Contrast Light Microscope | |
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| Flourescence Microscope | |
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| Bacterial Morphology and Staining | |
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| Negative Staining | |
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| Smear Preparation and Simple Staining | |
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| Gram Stain | |
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| Acid-Fast Staining (Ziehl-Neelsen and Kinyoun) Procedures | |
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| Endospore Staining (Schaeffer-Fulton or Wirtz-Conklin) | |
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| Capsule Staining | |
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| Flagella Staining: West and Difco's SpotTest Methods | |
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| Basic Laboratory and Culture Techniques | |
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| Sterilization and Microbiological Culture Media Preparation | |
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| Culture Transfer Instruments, Techniques, and Isolation and Maintenance of Pure Cultures | |
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| Spread-Plate Technique | |
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| The Streak-Plate Technique and Different Media | |
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| Pour-Plate Technique | |
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| Cultivation of Anaerobic Bacteria | |
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| Determination of Bacterial Numbers | |
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| Biochemical Activities of Bacteria | |
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| Carbohydrates I: Fermentation and B-Galactosidase Activity | |
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| Carbohydrates II: Triple Sugar Iron Agar Tests | |
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| Carbohydrates III: Starch Hydrolysis | |
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| Lipids: Lipid Hydrolysis | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes I: Hydrogen Sulfide Production and Motility | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes II: The IMViC Tests | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes III: Casein Hydrolysis | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes IV: Gelatin Hydrolysis | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes V: Catalase Activity | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes VI: Coagulase and DNase Activity | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes VII: Oxidase Test | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes VIII: Urease Activity | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes IX: Lysine and Ornithine Decarboxylase Test | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes X: Phenylalanine Deamination | |
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| Proteins, Amino Acids, and Enzymes XI: Nitrate Reduction | |
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| Rapid Multitest Systems | |
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| The API� 20E System | |
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| The Enterotube� II System | |
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| Unknown Identification | |
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| Using the First Edition of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology to Identify Bacteria | |
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| General Unknown | |
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| Environmental Factors Affecting Growth of Microorganisms | |
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| Temperature | |
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| pH | |
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| Osmotic Pressure | |
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| The Effects of Chemical Agents on Bacteria I: Disinfectants | |
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| The Effects of Chemical Agents on Bacteria II: Antimicrobial Agents (Kirby-Bauer Method) | |
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| Hand Washing, Environmental Sampling, and Microbiological Monitoring | |
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| Determination of a Bacterial Growth Curve: Classical and Two-Hour Methods | |
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| Environmental and Food Microbiology | |
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| Standard Coliform Most Probably Number (MPN)Test and Presence-Absence Coliform Test | |
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| Membrane Filter Technique for Coliform and Fecal Streptococci; KONFIRM™ Test for Fecal Coliforms | |
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| Isolation of Escherichia coli Bacteriophages from Sewage and Determining Bacteriophage Titers | |
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| Enumeration of Soil Microorganisms | |
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| Bacterial Count of a Food Product | |
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| Examination of Milk for Bacteria | |
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| Medical Microbiology | |
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| Hemagglutination Reactions: Blood Groups | |
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| Isolation of Normal Microbiota from the Human Body | |
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| Staphylococci | |
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| Pneumococci | |
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| Streptococci | |
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| Neisseriae | |
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| Aerobic and Anaerobic Endospore-Forming Bacteria | |
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| Survey of Selected Eucaryotic Microorganisms | |
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| Fungi I: Yeasts | |
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| Fungi II: Zygomycota, Ascomyceta, and Basidiomyceta | |
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| Microbial Genetics and Genomics | |
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| Bacterial Mutation | |
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| Bacterial Transformation | |
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| Bacterial Conjugation: The Transfer of Antibiotic-Resistant Plasmids | |
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| Isolation of Genomic DNA from Baker's Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | |
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| Isolation and Purification of Genomic DNA from Escherichia coli | |
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| Dilutions with Sample Problems | |
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| Metric and English Measurement Equivalents | |
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| Transmission-Absorbance Table for Spectrophotometry | |
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| Logarithms | |
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| pH and pH Indicators | |
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| Scientific Notation | |
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| Identification Charts | |
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| Reagents, Solutions, Stains, and Tests | |
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| Culture Media | |
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| Sources and Maintenance of Microbiological Stock Cultures | |