Yousef and Carlstrom's Food Microbiology: A Laboratory Manual serves as a general laboratory manual for undergraduate and graduate students in food microbiology, as well as a training manual in analytical food microbiology. Focusing on basic skill-building throughout, the Manual provides a review of basic microbiological techniques-media preparation, aseptic techniques, dilution, plating, etc.-followed by analytical methods and advanced tests for food-bourne pathogens. The Manual includes a total of fourteen complete experiments.

The first of the Manual's four sections reviews basic...