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Current and Emerging Technologies for the Diagnosis of Microbial Infections
Methods in Microbiology Series
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Current and Emerging Technologies in Microbial Diagnostics, the latest volume in the Methods in Microbiology series, provides comprehensive, cutting-edge reviews of current and emerging technologies in the field of clinical microbiology.
The book features a wide variety of state-of-the art methods and techniques for the diagnosis and management of microbial infections, with chapters authored by internationally renowned experts. This volume focuses on current techniques, such as MALDI-TOF mass spectroscopy and molecular diagnostics, along with newly emerging technologies such as host-based diagnostics and next generation sequencing.
- Total Laboratory Automation in Clinical Bacteriology
Susan M. Novak-Weekley and Elizabeth M. Marlowe - MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry for Microorganism Identification
Lori Bourassa and Susan M. Butler-Wu - POC Tests in Microbial Diagnostics: Current Status
Luc Bissonnette and Michel G. Bergeron - Molecular Diagnostics in the Diagnosis of Parasitic Infection
Bobbi S. Pritt - Clinical Applications of Quantitative Real-Time PCR in Virology
Julia Engstrom-Melnyk, Pedro L. Rodriguez, Olivier Peraud and Raymond C. Hein - Low Density TaqMan® Array Cards for the Detection of Pathogens
Jude Heaney, Kathryn Rolfe, Nicholas S. Gleadall, Jane S. Greatorex and Martin D. Curran - Invasive Fungal Infections and Approaches to Their Diagnosis
Michael A. Pfaller - Technical and Software Advances in Bacterial Pathogen Typing
Linda Chui and Vincent Li - Molecular Strain Typing and Characterisation of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile
Tanis C. Dingle and Duncan R. MacCannell - Accurate Whole Genome Sequencing-Based Epidemiological Surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Hannes Pouseele and Philip Supply - Solid and Suspension Microarrays for Microbial Diagnostics
Steve Miller, Ulas Karaoz, Eoin Brodie and Sherry Dunbar - Gene Amplification and Sequencing for Bacterial Identification
Susanna K. P. Lau, Jade L. L. Teng, Chi-Chun Ho and Patrick C. Y. Woo - Host-Based Diagnostics for Detection and Prognosis of Infectious Diseases
William E. Yang, Christopher W. Woods and Ephraim L. Tsalik - MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory; Beyond Identification
Sören Schubert and Markus Kostrzewa - Next-Generation Sequencing for Pathogen Detection and Identification
Kenneth G. Frey and Kimberly A. Bishop-Lilly - Virology - The Next Generation from Digital PCR to Single Virion Genomics
Richard Allen White III, Jessica N. Brazelton de Cárdenas and Randall T. Hayden - Artificial Nucleic Acid Probes and Their Applications in Clinical Microbiology
Alon Singer and Yi-Wei Tang
- Written by recognized leaders and experts in the field
- Provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge review of current and emerging technologies in the field of clinical microbiology, including discussions of current techniques such as MALDI-TOF mass spectroscopy and molecular diagnostics
- Includes a broad range and breadth of techniques covered
- Presents discussions on newly emerging technologies such as host-based diagnostics and next generation sequencing