Diagnostic bacteriology protocols

A review of current and future molecular diagnostic tests for use in the microbiology laboratory / Geert Jannes and Daniel De Vos -- Overview of DNA purification for nucleic acid-based diagnostics from environmental and clinical samples / Knut Rudi and Kjetill S. Jakobsen -- Microarray-based detection of bacteria by on-chip PCR / Georg Mitterer and Wolfgang M. Schmidt -- An array biosensor for detection of bacterial and toxic contaminants of foods / Miriam M. Ngundi and Chris R. Taitt -- Detection of Neisseria meningitidis, streptococcus pneumoniae, and Haemophilus influenzae in blood and cerebrospinal fluid using fluorescence-based PCR / Stuart C. Clarke -- Use of hybridization probes in a real-time PCR assay on the LightCycler for the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus / Andrea J. Grisold and Harald H. Kessler -- Detection of verotoxin genes VT 1 and VT 2 in Escherichia coli O157:H7 in minced beef using immunocapture and real-time PCR / Justine Fitzmaurice -- Application of two-step quantitative reverse-transcription PCR to bacterial diagnostics / Barry Glynn -- Quencher extension for single nucleotide polymorphism quantification in bacterial typing and microbial community analyses / Knut Rudi, Monika Zimonja, and Beate Skånseng -- Amplified fragment-length polymorphism and protein profiling for identification of Campylobacter lari subgroups / Birgitta Duim and Jaap Wagenaar -- Use of peptide nucleic acid probes for rapid detection and enumeration of viable bacteria in recreatonal waters and beach sand / Nwadiuto Esiobu -- HOOF-prints: brucella strain typing by PCR amplification of multilocus tandem-repeat polymorphisms / Betsy J. Bricker and Darla R. Ewalt -- Detection of Legionella in various sample types using whole-cell fluorescent In Situ hybridization / Priscilla Declerck and Frans Ollevier -- Identification of diagnostic proteins in Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis by a whole genome analysis approach / John P. Bannantine and Michael L. Paustian -- Diagnosis of Q fever using indirect microimmunofluorescence / Guenievre Imbert and Bernard La Scola -- Macrophage cell cultures for rapid isolation of intracellular bacteria: the mycobacterium bovis model / Massimo Amadori ... [et al.]