Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology (Hardcover, 1st)

Preface.- Automated Blood Cultures.- Urea Breath Tests for Detection of Helicobacter pylori.- Rapid Antigen Tests.- Advanced Antibody Detection.- Phenotypic Testing of Bacterial Antimicrobial Susceptibility.- Biochemical Profile-Based Microbial Identification Systems.- Rapid Bacterial Characterization and Identification by MALDI-TOP Mass Spectrometry.- Probe-Based Microbial Detection and Identification.- Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis.- In Vitro Nucleic Acid Amplification: An Introduction.- PCR and It s Variations.- Non-Polymerase Chain Reaction Mediated Target Amplification Techniques.- Recent Advances in Probe Amplification Technologies.- Signal Amplification Techniques: bDNA, hybrid capture.- Detection and Characterization of Molecular Amplificaiton Products: Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Southern Blot Hybridization, Restriction Enzyme Digest Analysis and Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay.- Direct Nucleotide Sequencing for Amplification Product Identification.- Microarray-Based Microbial Identification and Characterization.- Diagnostic Microbiology Using Real-time PCR Based on FRET Technology.- Amplification Product Inactivation.- Bacterial Identification Based on 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequence Analysis.- Molecular Techniques for Blood and Blood Product Screening.- Review on Molecular Techniques for Sexually Transmitted Dieseases Diagnosis.- Advance in the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Detection of Drug Resistance.- Rapid Screening and Identification of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.- Bead-based Flow Cytometric Assays; A Multiplex Assay Platform with Applications in Diagnostic Microbiology.- Molecular Strain Typing Using Repetitive Sequence Based PCR.- Molecular Differential Diagnoses of Infectious Diseases: Is the Future Now?- Pathogen Detection in the Genomic Era.- Index.