ANTIBIOTICS IN LABORATORY MEDICINE -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributing Authors -- 1 The Breakpoint -- 2 Antimicrobial Susceptibility on Solid Media -- 3 Susceptibility Testing of Antimicrobials in Liquid Media -- 4 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Anaerobic Bacteria -- 5 Antimycobacterial Agents: In Vitro Susceptibility Testing and Mechanisms of Action and Resistance -- 6 Antifungal Drugs: Mechanisms of Action, Drug Resistance, Susceptibility Testing, and Assays of Activity in Biological Fluids -- 7 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for Some Atypical Microorganisms (Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, Coxiella, and Spirochetes) -- 8 Applications, Significance of, and Methods for the Measurement of Antimicrobial Concentrations in Human Body Fluids -- 9 Antimicrobial Combinations -- 10 Genetic and Biochemical Mechanisms of Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents -- 11 Molecular Methods for the Detection of Antibacterial Resistance Genes -- 12 Molecular Mechanisms of Action for Antimicrobial Agents: General Principles and Mechanisms for Selected Classes of Antibiotics -- 13 The Antivirogram and the Modes of Action of Antiviral Agents, HIV, Hepatitis, Influenza, and Cytomegalovirus -- 14 Disinfectants and Antiseptics, Modes of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance, and Testing -- 15 Evaluation of Antimicrobials in Experimental Animal Infections -- 16 Extravascular Antimicrobial Distribution and the Respective Blood and Urine Concentrations in Humans -- 17 Epidemiology of Antimicrobial Resistance: Species Prevalence, Susceptibility Profiles, and Resistance Trends -- Index.