About the Author
This book is meant for BDS, BSc, BSc MLT, MSc, MSc MLT students and technical staff of medical (clinical) laboratories. It is a bench book containing well tried methods. This will also help the students preparing for postgraduate entrance examination. Dr. Bharti Arora, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Maharaja Agarsen Medical College, Agroha, Hisar has seven years of experience of teaching medical students She has worked in all fields of microbiology She has done fellowships at AIIMS, New Delhi and PGI, Chandigarh. She has published a review article in Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology and has contributed significantly in the Textbook of Microbiology and Medical Parasitology by the second author. She is a life-member of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists.Dr D R Arora, M D, Ph D, M N A M 5, Professor & Head, Department of Microbiology, Maharaja Agarsen Medical College, Agroha, Hisar, Haryana (Irdia), Lead Assessor, ___________ Faculty Member and Member Technical Committee, National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), New Delhi (India); Assessor, National P Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH), New Delhi (India); formerly Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana (India), Ex W H 0 Fellow, and Visiting Professor, University of Mauritius, has 37 years of teaching experience in microbiology including parasitology to medical, dental and nursing undergraduate and postgraduate students Besides conducting and supervising research in microbiology, he has published 150 research articles in several national and international journals of repute The results of his research on malaria parasites and Kiebsiella pneumoniae have been cited in World Health Organization WHO!MALI83.10003 and Topley and Wilson s Microbiology and Microbial Infections, Vol. 2, 9th edition, 1998, respectively. He has supervised a number of PG students of Ph.D., M.D. and M.S. In appreciation of outstanding research carried out by him in India on bacteriocins of Kiebsiella pneumoniae, he was awarded Smt. Kunti Mehrotra award of indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists in 1983. In recognition of significant contribution for the advancement of medical sciences, he was elected Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) in 1985. He was a Visiting Professor at University of Mauritius in 1989. He was awarded WHO fellowship on Laboratory Aspects of HIV ! AIDS and STD at Community Health Surveillance and Laboratories Administration, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) in 1992. He was honoured by Indian Medical Association, Kaithal (Haryana) on the eve of Doctors Day on 01.07.1999. He has been examiner for B.D.S., M.B.B.S., M.D., D.N.B. and Ph.D. microbiology of a number of universities.
