Practical Bacteriology covers the essential skills in Bacteriology. Here you will learn how to optimize isolation and culture of bacteria. You will also learn the standard guidelines on the enumeration of culturable bacteria via spread plating, pour plating, membrane filtration method, most probable number (MPN) and other culture-independent techniques. Finally, learn how to carry out the phenotypic approach to bacterial identification whether using the dichotomous key or blunderbuss approach, and the 16S rRNA gene sequencing genotypic approach.