WHO Guidelines on Standard Operating Procedures for Microbiology

Section A: General Laboratory Practices/GCLP

• Organization and Functions of Laboratories
• Collection and Transportation of Clinical Specimens
• Sterilization
• Staining Techniques
• Bacteriological Media
• Cultivation of Bacteria on Laboratory Media
• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
• Safety in Laboratories
• Quality Assurance

Section B: Standard Procedures for specific diseases

• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Enteric Fever
• Pyogenic Meningitis
• Dysentery
• Gonorrhoea
• Syphilis
• Tuberculosis
• Malaria
• Urinary Tract Infection
• Parasitological Examination of Faeces
• Mycological Techniques
• Bacteriological Examination of Water

Section C: Collection and transportation of clinical material to referral laboratories

• Bacterial Food Poisoning
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Viral Hepatitis
• Poliomyelitis
• Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever