Book reviews amazing variety of specimens and how to interpret the results once the tests had been done.The rest of the book (150 pages) is devoted to systematic bacteriology (and mycology) which is given the authors' idiosyncratic treatment.The style is didactic and at times dogmatic but always carries the conviction that those who have written the text have actually carried out the work.Throughout, there are a relatively small num- ber of well chosen references.
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