TY - JOUR T1 - Medical Microbiology JF - Journal of Clinical Pathology JO - J Clin Pathol SP - 1008 LP - 1008 DO - 10.1136/jcp.2004.019620 VL - 57 IS - 9 AU - J R Kerr Y1 - 2004/09/01 UR - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/57/9/1008.1.abstract N2 - Edited by C H Collins, P M Lyme, J M Grange and et al. Published by Hodder Arnold, 2003, £45.00 (paperback), pp 456. ISBN 0 34080 896 9 If ever asked the question “what are flippers, springers, and hard swells?” in the pub quiz then this book, the eighth edition of a venerated text that first appeared in 1964, is where you should turn for the answers. The new edition has enlisted the help of an American editor and author in a bid to include a North American perspective and, although there are nods in this direction (NCCLS susceptibility testing—for example), this is essentially a text that will appeal to a mostly UK centric audience. … ER -