Current and Emerging Technologies for the Diagnosis of Microbial Infections Methods in Microbiology Series
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
Date de parution : 11-2015
Ouvrage de 634 p.
19x23.3 cm