chapter 1 Safe Microbiological Practices -- chapter 2 Culture Media Used in Pharmaceutical Microbiology -- chapter 3 Sampling: Principles and Practice -- chapter 4 Enumeration of Micro-organisms -- chapter 5 Identification of Micro-organisms -- chapter 6 Pharmacopoeial Methods for the Detection of Specified Micro-organisms -- chapter 7 Rapid Methods for Enumeration and Identification in Microbiology -- chapter 8 Microbiology Laboratory Methods in Support of the Sterility Assurance System -- chapter 9 Endotoxin Testing -- chapter 10 Antimicrobial Preservative Efficacy Testing -- chapter 11 Microbiological Assay of Antibiotics in Pharmaceutical Preparations -- chapter 12 Disinfection and Cleansing -- chapter 13 Microbiological Hazard Analysis and Audit: The Practice -- chapter 14 Case Studies and Worked Examples.