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)