Bookedited by Andew Sails and Yi-Wei Tang.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Total laboratory automation in clinical bacteriology
Chapter 2. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for microorganism identification
Chapter 3. POC tests in microbial diagnostics: current status
Chapter 4. Molecular diagnostics in the diagnosis of parasitic infection
Chapter 5. Clinical applications of quantitative real-time PCR in virology
Chapter 6. Low-density TaqMan® array cards for the detection of pathogens
Chapter 7. Invasive fungal infections and approaches to their diagnosis
Chapter 8. Technical and software advances in bacterial pathogen typing
Chapter 9. Molecular strain typing and characterisation of toxigenic Clostridium difficile
Chapter 10. Accurate whole-genome sequencing-based epidemiological surveillance of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Chapter 11. Solid and suspension microarrays for microbial diagnostics
Chapter 12. Gene amplification and sequencing for bacterial identification
Chapter 13. Host-based diagnostics for detection and prognosis of infectious diseases
Chapter 14. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in the clinical microbiology laboratory: beyond identification
Chapter 15. Next-generation sequencing for pathogen detection and identification
Chapter 16. Virology: the next generation from digital PCR to single virion genomics
Chapter 17. Artificial nucleic acid probes and their applications in clinical microbiology
Index.