Research Catalog

Title

Molecular microbiology : diagnostic principles and practice / editor in chief, David H. Persing ; editors, Fred C. Tenover ... [et al.].

Publication

Washington, DC : ASM Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Persing, David H.

Description

xvi, 724 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

"This forward-looking text will appeal to microbiologists, pathologists, infectious disease specialists, and their technologists and trainees. Molecular Microbiology positions itself to be a critical resource today and well into the future."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Molecular microbiology
• Microbiology
• Diagnostic microbiology
• Molecular Biology
• Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
• Molecular diagnosis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Culture Confirmation and Direct-Detection Probes -- 1. Applications of Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization in Diagnostic Microbiology / Stefan Juretschko, Anne Marie Buccat and Thomas R. Fritsche -- 2. DNA Probes for Culture Confirmation and Direct Detection of Bacterial Infections: a Review of Technology / Jun Li and Bruce A. Hanna -- 3. Use of Commercial Amplification Tests in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: Test Selection and Quality Assurance / Gerri S. Hall, Mark Katanik, Marion Tuohy and Mary Sholtis -- II. Nucleic Acid Amplification Methods -- 4. Evolution of In Vitro Amplification Methods: the Juice Has Been Worth the Squeeze / David H. Persing -- 5. In Vitro Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques / Randall T. Hayden -- 6. Real-Time PCR / Carl T. Wittwer and Noriko Kusukawa -- 7. Nucleic Acid Amplification Methods: Laboratory Design and Operations / P. Shawn Mitchell, Jeffrey J. Germer and Robin Patel -- 8. Quantitative Molecular Methods: Result Standardization, Interpretation, and Laboratory Quality Control / Donald P. Shepley and Donna M. Wolk -- III. Diagnostic Sequencing and Mutation Detection -- 9. Mutation Screening Strategies: an Overview / Jeremy A. Pena and James Versalovic -- 10. Mutation Scanning / Peter Nollau and Christoph Wagener -- 11. Mutation Detection: PCR-Based Approaches / Leen-Jan van Doorn -- 12. Automated DNA Sequencing / Timothy M. Alcorn and Steven M. Anderson -- 13. Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis / Paul W. Lepp and David A. Relman -- IV. Molecular Typing Methods -- 14. Bacterial Strain Typing through the Decades: a Personal Reflection / Fred C. Tenover -- 15. Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis / Richard V. Goering -- 16. PCR Amplification-Based Microbial Typing / Jan L. W. Rademaker and Paul Savelkoul -- 17. Genotyping Bacteria by Using Variable-Number Tandem Repeats / Barun Mathema and Barry N. Kreiswirth -- 18. Multilocus Sequence Typing: Strain Characterization, Population Biology, and Patterns of Evolutionary Descent / William P. Hanage, Edward J. Feil, Angela B. Brueggemann and Brian G. Spratt -- 19. Automated Ribotyping / Michael A. Pfaller and Richard J. Hollis -- 20. Molecular Subtyping for Epidemiology: Issues in Comparability of Patterns and Interpretation of Data / Timothy J. Barrett, Efrain Ribot and Bala Swaminathan -- V. Detection Methodology -- 21. Detection of Amplification Products / Yi-Wei Tang -- 22. Gel Electrophoresis, Southern Hybridization, and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis / Raymond P. Podzorski -- 23. Microwell Plate Detection Systems for Amplicon Detection and Characterization / Michael J. Loeffelholz -- 24. Detection of Pathogenic Organisms with Multicolor Molecular Beacons / Fann Wu, Phyllis Della-Latta, Sanjay Tyagi and Fred Russell Kramer -- 25. The Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer System / J. R. Uhl and F. R. Cockerill III -- 26. Elucidation of Diagnostic and Vaccine Candidates by Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics / John F. Douglass -- VI. Detection and Characterization of Bacterial Pathogens -- 27. Detection and Characterization of Bacterial Pathogens by Nucleic Acid Amplification: State-of-the-Art Review / M. Ieven, K. Loens and Herman Goossens -- 28. PCR Detection of Haemophilus ducreyi, Treponema pallidum, and Mycoplasma genitalium / Patricia A. Totten, Lisa E. Manhart and Arturo Centurion-Lara -- 29. 16S Ribosomal DNA Sequence Analysis for Identification of Bacteria in a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory / Chris P. Kolbert, Paul N. Rys, Marlene Hopkins, David T. Lynch, Jeffrey J. Germer, Cathal E. O'Sullivan, Andrej Trampuz and Robin Patel -- 30. Broad-Range PCR for Detection and Identification of Bacteria / Matthias Maiwald -- 31. Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and Mutations Associated with Antimicrobial Resistance in Microorganisms / Fred C. Tenover and J. Kamile Rasheed -- 32. Application of Genomic Information to Diagnosis, Management, and Control of Bacterial Infections: the Staphylococcus aureus Model / Keiichi Hiramatsu, Makoto Kuroda, Tadashi Baba, Teruyo Ito and Keiko Okuma -- 33. Detection of Agents Associated with Bioterrorism / James W. Snyder, Donald Jungkind and David H. Persing -- VII. Detection and Characterization of Viruses -- 34. DNA Virus Detection / Richard H. Scheuermann, Rana Domiati-Saad and Beverly Barton Rogers -- 35. RNA Virus Detection / Kristin R. Fiebelkorn and Frederick S. Nolte -- 36. Viral Load Testing / Charles E. Hill and Angela M. Caliendo -- 37. Viral Genotyping / Angela M. Caliendo and Belinda Yen-Lieberman -- 38. Phenotypic Testing of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I Drug Susceptibility / Christos J. Petropoulos -- 39. Emerging Viral Pathogens / Robyn S. Klein and Joseph El Khoury -- 40. Molecular Virology: Current and Future Trends / Thomas F. Smith, Mark J. Espy and Mary F. Jones -- VIII. Detection and Characterization of Fungal Pathogens -- 41. Molecular Detection and Characterization of Fungal Pathogens / Roy F. Chemaly and Gary W. Procop -- 42. Sequence-Based Fungal Identification and Classification / Michael R. McGinnis and Gary B. Nunn -- 43. Molecular Detection of Antifungal Resistance / Thomas D. Edlind -- IX. Detection and Characterization of Parasitic Pathogens -- 44. Overview of the Development, Utility, and Future of Molecular Diagnostics for Parasitic Disease / William A. Petri, Jr. -- 45. Molecular Approaches for Detection, Species Identification, and Genotyping of Cryptosporidium / Roberta M. O'Connor, Malanie R. Mackay and Honorine D. Ward -- 46. Molecular Approaches for Diagnosis of Malaria and Characterization of Genetic Markers of Drug Resistance / Annie-Claude Labbe, Dylan Pillai and Kevin C. Kain -- X. Applications of Array Technologies -- 47. Hybridization Array Technology / Axel G. Stover, Eric Jeffery, Jiangchun Xu and David H. Persing -- XI. Host Genetics and Pharmacogenomics -- 48. Beyond Bugs: The Human Genome, Genetic Polymorphism, and Disease Management / Frank Xiangjun Liu, David H. Persing and Yi-Wei Tang -- 49. Genetic Polymorphisms of Cytochrome P-450s and Drug Transporters and Infectious Disease Management / Hong-Guang Xie and Richard B. Kim -- 50. Host Susceptibility to Microbial Infection and Cancer / Emad M. El-Omar and Charles S. Rabkin -- 51. Genomics and DNA Variation: Determinants of Susceptibility and Outcomes in Microbial Diseases / Samuel Broder -- XII. Laboratory Standardization, Proficiency-Testing Programs, Quality-Control Standards, and Monitoring -- 52. External Quality Assessment and Proficiency Testing in Diagnostic Molecular Microbiology / James Versalovic and Elizabeth R. Unger -- 53. Laboratory Controls and Standards / Dwight B. DuBois and Justin T. Brown.

ISBN

155581221X

LCCN

2003058272

OCLC

• ocm52631424
• SCSB-4846056

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries