Bookeditor in chief, Michael J. Loeffelholz, Professor in the Department of Pathology,
... Show More Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston ; editors, Richard L. Hodinka, Professor in the Microbiology Department and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Stephen A. Young, Director of Research and Clinical Trials at TriCore Reference Laboratories, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Contents:
Section I: General topics in clinical virology
Virus taxonomy / Steven J. Drews
Quality control/quality assurance / Matthew J. Bankowski
Regulatory compliance / Linoj Samuel
Laboratory safety / Sue C. Kehl
Laboratory Design / Matthew J. Binniker
Section II: Laboratory procedures for detecting viruses
Specimen selection, collection, transport, processing, and storage / Reeti Khare and Thomas E. Grys
Primary isolation of viruses / Marie L. Landry and Diane S. Leland
Antigen detection methods (IFA, solid-phase immunoassays) / Diane S. Leland and Ryan F. Rlich
serologic methods (IFA, IA, WB, HA, HI, Neut, IgM-specific methods) / Dongxiang Xia, Debra A. Wadford, Christopher P. Preas, and David P. Schnurr
Nucleic acid extraction in diagnostic virology / Raymond H. Widen
Nucleic acid amplification by polymerase chain reaction / Ana María Cárdenas and Kevin Alby
Isothermal nucleic acid amplification methods / Harald H. Kessler and Evelyn Stelzl
Quantitative molecular methods / Natalie N. Whitfield and Donna M. Wolk
Signal amplification methods / Yun (Wayne) Wang
Sequencing methods / Joanne Bartkus
Phenotypic and genotypic antiviral susceptibility testing / Martha T. Van Der Beek and Eric C. J. Claas
Point-of-care diagnostic virology / James J. Dunn and Lakshmi Chandramohan
Future technology / Erin Mcelvania Tekipe and Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Section III: Viral pathogens
Respiratory viruses / Christine Robinson
Enteroviruses and parechoviruses / M. Steven Oberste and Mark A. Pallansch
Measles, mumps, and rubella viruses / William J. Bellini, Joseph P. Icenogle, and Carole J. Hickman
Gastrointestinal viruses / Michael D. Bowen
Hepatitis A and E viruses / Gilberto Vaughan and Michael A. Purdy
Hepatitis B and D viruses / Rebecca T. Horvat
Hepatitis C virus / David Hillyard and Melanie Mallory
Herpes simplex viruses and Varicella-Zoster virus / Mark Prichard
Cytomegalovirus / Preeti Pancholi and Stanley I. Martin
Epstein-Barr virus / Derrick Chen and Belinda Yen-Lieberman
Human herpesviruses 6, 7, and 8 / Sheila C. Dollard and Tim Karnauchow
Human papillomaviruses / Susan Novak-Weekley and Robert Pretorius
Human polyomaviruses / Rebecca J. Rockett, Michael D. Nissen, Theo P. Sloots, and Seweryn Bialasiewicz
Parvovirus / Richard S. Buller
Poxviruses / Ashley V. Kondas and Victoria A. Olson
Rabies virus / Robert J. Rudd
Arboviruses / Laura D. Kramer, Elizabeth B. Kauffman, and Norma P. Tavakoli
Animal-borne viruses / Gregory J. Berry, Michael J. Loeffelholz, and Gustavo Palacios
Human immunodeficiency virus and human T-lymphotropic viruses / Jörg Schüpbach
Chlamydiae / Bobbie Van Der Pol and Charlotte A. Gaydos
Human virome / Matthew C. Ross, Nadim J. Ajami, and Joseph F. Petrosino
Human susceptibility and response to viral diseases / Ville Peltola and Jorma Ilonen
Appendices: Reference virology laboratories
A. Reference virology laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Roberta B. Carey
B. U.S. state and local public health laboratories / Jane Getchell
C. International reference laboratories/laboratory systems / Ariel Suarez and Cristina Videla.