Bacterial Cell Culture : Essential Data

From The Critics

Reviewer: Alvin Telser, PhD(Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Description: This is a short guide to growing and identifying bacteria in the laboratory. It is essentially a book containing methods and basic information about bacteria.
Purpose: The book is a practical guide to the growth and identification of bacteria in the laboratory. The techniques are brief, well written, and useful; it is a very worthwhile book to have in the laboratory.
Audience: The book is intended for anyone familiar with basic laboratory procedures (making solutions, buffers, pouring agar plates or tubes) and the basic elements of biology. The quality and level of writing is clear and understandable. The author is clearly an authority in the field.
Features: Illustrations, references (both the number and currency) are not significant factors in this book. This is a small book. The text is printed sideways to facilitate its use in a laboratory — a somewhat unusual departure from the norm. As it is intended to be used as a lab guide, the format is appropriate.
Assessment: This is a volume in the Essential Data series of books. It would be a useful guide at the lab bench and should be purchased by anyone who routinely needs to grow bacterial cultures from raw samples or to simply maintain purified bacterial cultures.

Alvin Telser

This is a short guide to growing and identifying bacteria in the laboratory. It is essentially a book containing methods and basic information about bacteria. The book is a practical guide to the growth and identification of bacteria in the laboratory. The techniques are brief, well written, and useful; it is a very worthwhile book to have in the laboratory. The book is intended for anyone familiar with basic laboratory procedures (making solutions, buffers, pouring agar plates or tubes) and the basic elements of biology. The quality and level of writing is clear and understandable. The author is clearly an authority in the field. Illustrations, references (both the number and currency) are not significant factors in this book. This is a small book. The text is printed sideways to facilitate its use in a laboratory—a somewhat unusual departure from the norm. As it is intended to be used as a lab guide, the format is appropriate. This is a volume in the Essential Data series of books. It would be a useful guide at the lab bench and should be purchased by anyone who routinely needs to grow bacterial cultures from raw samples or to simply maintain purified bacterial cultures.

4 Stars! from Doody