It is our honor to write the foreword to the first edition of the Textbook of Laboratory Microbiology. The authors have written a thoroughly structured textbook on laboratory microbiology which provides a strong foundation for clinical laboratory students and other health care professionals, as well as new and re-emerging pathogens. Students and other readers are provided the background theoretic concepts, identification schemas, diagnostic characteristics, biochemical reactions, and isolation techniques to produce clinically relevant results. This book is a useful resource for those who need research in the field of laboratory microbiology.