The manual includes detailed and comprehensive information on all the main topics of the microbiology laboratory:

structure and furnishings, safety rules, microscopes, staining methods, culture of bacteria, biochemical research methods, chemical sterilization, bacteriophages, genetics of microorganisms, infection of experimental animals, types of immune reactions, phagocytosis, microbiological methods for the study of infectious diseases, microbiological diagnosis on infections, clinical microbiology, sanitary-microbiological examination of housing and communal facilities, work and other objects in the external environment, microflora of medicinal raw materials and finished dosage forms.

Life on Earth, in all its dimensions, without microorganisms is impossible. From medical point of view. a huge part of the tens of thousands of known species microorganisms are harmless to the human body. Bacteria and fungi that have adapted to develop on the skin and mucous membranes of the human body are harmless to a healthy organism. These about 500 species constitute its normal flora (microbiota) and play an indispensable role in the physiological processes of the body with their antagonistic effect on other pathogenic agents, participation in metabolic processes and stimulation of the development of immune system and the immune response during the course of the infectious process.

The positive effect of microbiological diagnostics can be expected only if the clinical and laboratory staff are familiar with the rules for taking and transporting clinical material, the nature of the diagnostic methods and the assessment of the pathogenic potential of the proven microorganisms. Determining the antibiotic sensitivity of the isolated bacteria and fungi is a guarantee for the rational use of antibiotics to limit the increasingly widespread drug resistance among infectious agents.