Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology

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Front Matter....Pages I-XV Automated Blood Cultures....Pages 3-10 Urea Breath Tests for Detection of Helicobacter pylori....Pages 11-22 Rapid Antigen Tests....Pages 23-41 Advanced Antibody Detection....Pages 42-62 Phenotypic Testing of Bacterial Antimicrobial Susceptibility....Pages 63-83 Biochemical Profile-Based Microbial Identification Systems....Pages 84-116 Rapid Bacterial Characterization and Identification by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry....Pages 117-133 Probe-Based Microbial Detection and Identification....Pages 134-142 Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis....Pages 143-157 In Vitro Nucleic Acid Amplification: An Introduction....Pages 158-165 PCR and Its Variations....Pages 166-183 Non–Polymerase Chain Reaction Mediated Target Amplification Techniques....Pages 184-209 Recent Advances in Probe Amplification Technologies....Pages 210-227 Signal Amplification Techniques: bDNA, Hybrid Capture....Pages 228-242 Detection and Characterization of Molecular Amplification Products: Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Southern Blot Hybridization, Restriction Enzyme Digest Analysis, and Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay....Pages 243-263 Direct Nucleotide Sequencing for Amplification Product Identification....Pages 264-275 Microarray-Based Microbial Identification and Characterization....Pages 276-290 Diagnostic Microbiology Using Real-Time PCR Based on FRET Technology....Pages 291-305 Amplification Product Inactivation....Pages 306-319 Front Matter....Pages I-XV Bacterial Identification Based on 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequence Analysis....Pages 323-332 Front Matter....Pages I-XV Molecular Techniques for Blood and Blood Product Screening....Pages 333-352 Review of Molecular Techniques for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Diagnosis....Pages 353-386 Advances in the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Detection of Drug Resistance....Pages 387-410 Rapid Screening and Identification of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus....Pages 411-426 Bead-Based Flow Cytometric Assays: A Multiplex Assay Platform with Applications in Diagnostic Microbiology....Pages 427-443 Molecular Strain Typing Using Repetitive Sequence–Based PCR....Pages 444-471 Molecular Differential Diagnoses of Infectious Diseases: Is the Future Now?....Pages 472-504 Pathogen Detection in the Genomic Era....Pages 505-523