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This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for medical laboratory technicians. Covered in the individual volumes are medical laboratory administration and clinical chemistry (career opportunities, general laboratory safety and materials, general medical laboratory administration, basic chemistry, solutions, photometry and spectrophotometry, automation, quality control in collection and handling of specimens); laboratory procedures in clinical chemistry (body metabolism; proteins, carbohydrates, and enzymes; liver and kidney function tests; gastric analysis; special chemistry tests; toxicology) and laboratory procedures in urinalysis (general considerations, renal functions, physical characteristics of urine, microscopic examination, and chemical examination). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Volume review exercises are also included. (MN)

This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for medical laboratory technicians. Covered in the individual volumes are laboratory procedures in clinical bacteriology (the history of bacteriology; aseptic techniques and sterilization procedures; bacterial morphology and physiology; innoculation of media for isolation of bacteria; antimicrobial agents, drug resistance, and susceptibility testing; gram-positive organisms, gram-negative cocci, coccoid forms, and bacilli; enteric organisms, mycobacterium and spirochetes); clinical parasitology (medical parasitology and protozoa, platyhelminthes, and nematodes infecting man); and laboratory procedures in clinical mycology (medical mycology, yeastlike fungi and monomorphic molds, pathogenic dimorphic fungi, saprophytic fungi, and laboratory diagnosis of viral rickettsial and chlamydial diseases. Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises, a foldout, and a change supplement are also provided. (MN)

This three-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for medical laboratory technicians. Covered in the individual volumes are hematology (the physiology of blood, complete blood counts and related studies, erythrocyte studies, leukocyte and thrombocyte maturation, and blood coagulation studies); laboratory procedures in blood banking and immunohematology (immunohematology, blood group systems, transfusion and transfusion practices, and the blood donor center); and serology (principles of immunology and serology; agglutination tests; latex-fixation, precipitin, and ASO tests; and serological tests for syphilis). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises and a change supplement are also provided. (MN)