Revised edition of: Shorter Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology. "Although this edition of Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology contains much information derived from the four volumes of Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, it should not be considered an abridged version of the latter work."--Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spirochetes -- Aerobic/microaerophilic, motile, helical/vibrioid gram-negative bacteria -- Nonmotile (or rarely motile), gram-negative curved bacteria -- Gram-negative aerobic/microaerophilic rods and cocci -- Facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rods -- Gram-negative, anaerobic, straight, curved, and helical bacteria -- Dissimilatory sulfate- or sulfur-reducing bacteria -- Anaerobic gram-negative cocci -- The rickettsias and chlamydias -- Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria -- Oxygenic phototrophic bacteria -- Aerobic chemolithotrophic bacteria and associated organisms -- Budding and/or appendaged bacteria -- Sheathed bacteria -- Nonphotosynthetic, nonfruiting gliding bacteria -- The fruiting, gliding bacteria : the myxobacteria -- Gram-positive cocci -- Endospore-forming gram-positive rods and cocci -- Regular, nonsporing gram-positive rods -- Irregular, nonsporing gram-positive rods -- The mycobacteria -- The actinomycetes -- Nocardioform actinomycetes -- Genera with multilocular sporangia -- Actinoplanetes -- Streptomycetes and related genera -- Maduromycetes -- Thermomonospora and related genera -- Thermoactinomycetes -- Other genera -- The mycoplasmas (or mollicutes) : cell wall-less bacteria -- The methanogens -- Archaeal sulfate reducers -- Extremely halophilic, aerobic archaeobacteria (halobacteria) -- Cell wall-less archaeobacteria -- Extremely thermophilic and hyperthermophilic S-metabolizers.