Medical microbiology. From microscopy to mass spectrometry. Pustnevich T.V., Efimov B.A., Gordeev A.B.

The monograph is devoted to one of the most promising and demanded areas of knowledge-mass-spectral analysis in medical microbiology. Currently, no one has doubts that this method put to the service of a microbiological laboratory has no competitors and is not expected in the near future. Faster and more accurately give an answer to the attending physician about which causative agent causes this disease and even immediately predict his sensitivity to antimicrobial drugs, obviously, no other method can.

The reader will find answers to questions to the book : how the first mass spectrometer was invented, what path mankind passed before its invention, when and how this method was first tested to identify microorganisms, as well as what kind of lines have already been achieved to date and what prospects are opened before us in the near future.

The publication is intended for medical microbiologists, epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists, clinical doctors of all specialties, microbiologists of other profiles.