RT Book, Section A1 Levinson, Warren A1 Chin-Hong, Peter A1 Joyce, Elizabeth A. A1 Nussbaum, Jesse A1 Schwartz, Brian SR Print(0) ID 1171923557 T1 Classification of Medically Important Bacteria T2 Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 16e YR 2020 FD 2020 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781260116717 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1171923557 RD 2024/10/11 AB The current classification of bacteria is based primarily on morphologic and biochemical characteristics. A scheme that divides the medically important organisms by genus is shown in Table 5–1. For pedagogic purposes, this classification scheme deviates from those derived from strict taxonomic principles in two ways: