Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology

✍ Scribed by Yi-Wei Tang, Charles W. Stratton (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 550
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Automated Blood Cultures....Pages 3-10
Urea Breath Tests for Detection of Helicobacter pylori....Pages 11-22
Rapid Antigen Tests....Pages 23-41
Advanced Antibody Detection....Pages 42-62
Phenotypic Testing of Bacterial Antimicrobial Susceptibility....Pages 63-83
Biochemical Profile-Based Microbial Identification Systems....Pages 84-116
Rapid Bacterial Characterization and Identification by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry....Pages 117-133
Probe-Based Microbial Detection and Identification....Pages 134-142
Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis....Pages 143-157
In Vitro Nucleic Acid Amplification: An Introduction....Pages 158-165
PCR and Its Variations....Pages 166-183
Non–Polymerase Chain Reaction Mediated Target Amplification Techniques....Pages 184-209
Recent Advances in Probe Amplification Technologies....Pages 210-227
Signal Amplification Techniques: bDNA, Hybrid Capture....Pages 228-242
Detection and Characterization of Molecular Amplification Products: Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Southern Blot Hybridization, Restriction Enzyme Digest Analysis, and Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay....Pages 243-263
Direct Nucleotide Sequencing for Amplification Product Identification....Pages 264-275
Microarray-Based Microbial Identification and Characterization....Pages 276-290
Diagnostic Microbiology Using Real-Time PCR Based on FRET Technology....Pages 291-305
Amplification Product Inactivation....Pages 306-319
Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Bacterial Identification Based on 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequence Analysis....Pages 323-332
Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Molecular Techniques for Blood and Blood Product Screening....Pages 333-352
Review of Molecular Techniques for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Diagnosis....Pages 353-386
Advances in the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Detection of Drug Resistance....Pages 387-410
Rapid Screening and Identification of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus....Pages 411-426
Bead-Based Flow Cytometric Assays: A Multiplex Assay Platform with Applications in Diagnostic Microbiology....Pages 427-443
Molecular Strain Typing Using Repetitive Sequence–Based PCR....Pages 444-471
Molecular Differential Diagnoses of Infectious Diseases: Is the Future Now?....Pages 472-504
Pathogen Detection in the Genomic Era....Pages 505-523

✦ Subjects

Medical Microbiology