Automated Blood Cultures / X.Y. Han -- Laboratory Automation in Clinical Bacteriology / A. Croxatto -- Biochemical Profile-Based Microbial Identification Systems / S. Hafeez and J. Aslanzadeh -- Advanced Phenotypic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methods / C.W. Stratton -- Rapid Microbial Antigen Tests / S. Campbell and M.L. Landry -- Antibody Detection: Principles and Applications / Y.F. (Wayne) Wang -- Procalcitonin and Other Host-Response-Based Biomarkers for Evaluation of Infection and Guidance of Antimicrobial Treatment / P. Schuetz, R. Sager, Y. Wirz and B. Mueller -- Functional Assessment of Microbial, Viral, and Parasitic Infections Using Real-Time Cellular Analysis / D. Jin, X. Xu, M. Zheng, A. Mira, B.J. Lamarche and A.B. Ryder -- Cellular Fatty Acid-Based Microbial Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing / N. Parrish and S. Riedel -- MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry-Based Microbial Identification and Beyond / A. Mellmann and J. Müthing -- Transcriptomic Techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology / Z.E. Holcomb and E.L. Tsalik -- The Use of Microbial Metabolites for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases / M.J. Thalavitiya Acharige, S.S. Koshy and S. Koo -- Nucleic Acid Extraction and Enrichment / J.H. Shin -- Nonamplified Probe-Based Microbial Detection and Identification / F. Wu, T. Hong and P. Della-Latta -- Molecular Typing Techniques: State of the Art / R.V. Goering -- PCR and Its Variations / E.A. Powell and M. Loeffelholz -- Non-PCR Amplification Techniques / R.C. She, T.E. Schutzbank and E.M. Marlowe -- Real-Time and Digital PCR for Nucleic Acid Quantification / A.J. McAdam -- Direct Nucleotide Sequencing for Amplification Product Identification / T. Hong -- Solid and Suspension Microarrays for Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases / S. Dunbar, J. Farhang, S. Das, S. Ali and H. Qian -- Real-Time Detection of Amplification Products Through Fluorescence Quenching or Energy Transfer / C. Otto and S. Huang -- PCR/Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry as an Infectious Disease Diagnostic Tool / V. Özenci and K. Strålin -- Nucleic Acid Amplicons Detected and Identified by T2 Magnetic Resonance / J.L. Snyder, H.S. Lapp, Z.-X. Luo, B. Manning and T.J. Lowery -- Molecular Contamination and Amplification Product Inactivation / S. Sefers and J.E. Schmitz.
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This newly updated edition of the well informed guide covers the more advanced and less cumbersome methods of analysis that embattled hospital microbiology labs must adopt to replace the slow and cumbersome culture-based assays of pathogenic microorganisms.