Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 8th Edition:Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 8th Edition

Abstract

Every field of endeavor has one resource that is universally acclaimed among practitioners as its “bible.” For clinical microbiologists, it is the Manual of Clinical Microbiology (MCM). Some 30 years after the first edition appeared, the MCM is now in its eighth edition, in 2 volumes and 141 chapters spanning all areas of this expanding field. If there is one word that can be used to describe the MCM, it is, most assuredly, “encyclopedic.”