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Advanced techniques in diagnostic microbiology /

Advanced techniques in diagnostic microbiology / [edited by] Yi-Wei Tang, Charles W. Stratton. - New York, N.Y. : Springer, 2006. - xv, 540 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Techniques.- 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-TOF Mass Spectrometry.- Probe-Based Microbial Detection and Identification.- Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis.- In Vitro Nucleic Acid Amplification: An Introduction.- PCR and Its 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 Amplification 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.- Applications.- Bacterial Identification Based on 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequence Analysis.- Molecular Techniques for Blood and Blood Product Screening.- Review of Molecular Techniques for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Diagnosis.- Advances 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.

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Diagnostic microbiology--Technique.

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