Continuing Medical Education

Table of Contents

Cover

Cover	PDF

Contents Page

Contents	PDF

Editors comment

Getting it right	PDF
Bridget Farham	521

Guest editorial

Microbiology	PDF
A Forder	522

Main articles

Update on the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis	PDF
C Bamford	524

What can you expect from a microbiology diagnostic service?	PDF
E Wasserman	528

Medical microbiology - specimen collection	PDF
A Forder	532

An approach to antibiotic-associated diarrhoeal syndromes	PDF
I S Kalla	534

Intravascular catheter-related infection: update and overview	PDF
M Mer	540

Interpretation of microbiological reports	PDF
H Orth	545

More about

Blood cultures	PDF
M Senekal	548

C-reactive protein and procalcitonin as markers of infection	PDF
M Senekal	548

The interpretation of Streptococcus pneumoniae antimicrobial susceptibilities	PDF
M Senekal	550

Laboratory diagnosis of paediatric lower respiratory tract infection	PDF
M Senekal	551

Clinical pharmacology

Antibiotic prescribing in respiratory tract infections: first do no harm	PDF
E H Decloedt, G Maartens	553

News bites

News bites	PDF
Chris Bateman	555

Abstracts

Abstracts	PDF
Bridget Farham	557

AIDS briefs

AIDS briefs	PDF
Bridget Farham	559

CPD Questionnaire

CPD Questionnaire	PDF
Gertrude Fani