Medical Bacteriology, 1st edition (Hawkey and Lewis), is an excellent book and was part of a Practical Approach series published by IRL Press in 1989. This book had chapters on the bacteriology of urine, normally sterile fluids, the respiratory tract, the genital tract, superficial and deep tissue infection, intestinal disease, susceptibility testing, antibiotic assays, reporting and record keeping, quality control, outbreak investigation, and epidemiology. I was given a free copy by an antibiotic representiative while training for the MRCPath examination in microbiology. I …