The 16 presentations at a workshop in Jerusalem, August 1991, sponsored by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, explore new approaches, methods, and commercially available kits for determining the presence of pathogenic Mollicutes bacteria more quickly than the days or weeks require

This compendium is the result of the FEMS Workshop on "Rapid Diagnosis of Mycoplasmas" which I organized and which took place in Jerusalem, Israel, August 11-23, 1991. The first week's sessions were held at a resort on the outskirts of Jerusalem and consisted of lectures and discussions. This part was modelled along the lines of the Gordon Conference in the USA, i.e., in an intimate atmo- sphere in which everyone could mix and exchange ideas, and was very benefi- cial. About 100 scientists from around the world attended the first week. Dur- ing the first week, the biology, molecular biology...