TY - BOOK AU - Tang,Yi-Wei AU - Stratton,Charles W. TI - Advanced techniques in diagnostic microbiology SN - 9780387297415 (alk. paper) AV - QR67 .A38 2006 U1 - 616.904 75 TAN S 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Springer KW - Diagnostic microbiology KW - Technique N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0612/2005935335.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0663/2005935335-d.html ER -