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Title

PCR detection of microbial pathogens / edited by Konrad Sachse and Joachim Frey.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Sachse, Konrad.
• Frey, Joachim.

Description

xi, 334 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Methods in molecular biology ; v. 216

Uniform Title

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 216.

Subject

• Diagnostic microbiology
• Polymerase chain reaction > Diagnostic use
• Molecular diagnosis
• Microbiological Techniques
• Polymerase Chain Reaction > methods

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Reviews -- 1. Specificity and Performance of Diagnostic PCR Assays / Konrad Sachse -- 2. Pre-PCR Processing of Samples / Peter Radstrom, Rickard Knutsson, Petra Wolffs, Maria Dahlenborg and Charlotta Lofstrom -- 3. Critical Aspects of Standardization of PCR / Jeffrey Hoorfar and Nigel Cook -- 4. PCR Technology and Applications to Zoonotic Food-Borne Bacterial Pathogens / Peter Stephensen Lubeck and Jeffrey Hoorfar -- Pt. II. Protocols -- 5. Detection, Identification, and Subtyping of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae / Joachim Frey -- 6. Identification and Differentiation of Brucella abortus Field and Vaccine Strains by BaSS-PCR / Darla R. Ewalt and Betsy J. Bricker -- 7. Isolation of Campylobacter and Identification by PCR / Mark D. Englen, Scott R. Ladely and Paula J. Fedorka-Cray -- 8. Detection of Differentiation of Chlamydiae by Nested PCR / Konrad Sachse and Helmut Hotzel -- 9. Detection of Toxigenic Clostridia / Michel R. Popoff --
• 10. PCR-Based Detection of Coxiella burnetii from Clinical Samples / Mustapha Berri, Nathalie Arricau-Bouvery and Annie Rodolakis -- 11. Detection and Subtyping of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) / Peter Gallien -- 12. Detection of Listeria monocytogenes Using a PCR/DNA Probe Assay / Louise O'Connor -- 13. Detection of Leptospira interrogans / John W. Lester and Rance B. LeFebvre -- 14. Detection of Pathogenic Mycobacteria of Veterinary Importance / Robin A. Skuce, M. Siobhan Hughes, Malcolm J. Taylor and Sydney D. Neill -- 15. Multiplex PCR of Avian Pathogenic Mycoplasmas / Mazhar I. Khan -- 16. Detection of Differentiation of Ruminant Mycoplasmas / Helmut Hotzel, Joachim Frey, John Bashiruddin and Konrad Sachse -- 17. Detection of Mycoplasmas hyopneumoniae from Clinical Samples and Air / Marylene Kobisch and Joachim Frey --
• 18. PCR-Detection of Hemophilus paragallinarum, Hemophilus somnus, Mannheimia (Pasteurella) hemolytica, Mannheimia spp., Pasteurella trehalosi, and Pasteurella multocida / Henrik Christensen, Magne Bisgaard, Jesper Larsen and John Elmerdahl Olsen -- 19. Detection of Salmonella spp. / Burkhard Malorny and Reiner Helmuth -- 20. Detection of Toxoplasma gondii / Jonathan M. Wastling and Jens G. Mattsson -- 21. PCR-Derived Methods for the Identification of Trichinella Parasites from Animal and Human Samples / Edoardo Pozio and Giuseppe La Rosa -- 22. Detection of Pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica by a Swab Enrichment PCR Procedure / Rickard Knutsson and Peter Radstrom.

ISBN

1588290492 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002024051

OCLC

• ocm49376251
• SCSB-4323226

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries