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

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

Life on Earth, in all its dimensions, without microorganisms is impossible. From a 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 adapted to develop on the skin and mucous membranes of the human body are harmless to a healthy organism. These about 500 species make up its normal flora (microbiota) and play an irrevocable role in the body's physiological processes with its antagonistic action towards other pathogenic agents, participation in metabolic processes and stimulation of the development of immune system and the immune response in the course of the infectious process.

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