Meningococcal disease : methods and protocols /
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| Imprint: | Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2001. |
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| Description: | xvii, 721 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Methods in molecular medicine ; 67 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4515425 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1. Microbiology and Laboratory Diagnosis
- 2. Isolation, Culture, and Identification of Meningococci from Clinical Specimens
- 3. PCR Diagnosis
- 4. Detection of Meningococcal Antigen by Latex Agglutination
- 5. Meningococcal Serology
- 6. Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
- 7. Molecular Approach for the Study of Penicillin Resistance in Neisseria Meningitidis
- 8. Overview: Epidemiology, Surveillance and Population Biology
- 9. Serological Characterization
- 10. Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis
- 11. Nucleotide Sequencing of Antigen Genes of Neisseria Meningitidis
- 12. Multi-Locus Sequence Typing
- 13. Capsular Operons
- 14. Molecular Analysis of the Meningococcal LPS Expression
- 15. Genome Sequencing and Annotation
- 16. Representational Difference Analysis
- 17. Managing Outbreaks: The Public Health Response
- 18. Global Trends in Meningococcal Disease
- 19. Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Population Biology: Carriage Studies
- 20. Surveillance of Meningococcal Disease in Europe
- 21. Global Surveillance for Meningococcal Disease
- 22. Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease in North America
- 23. Computational Methods for Meningococcal Population Studies
- 24. Clinical Studies and Host-Pathogen Interactions
- 25. Clinical Scoring Systems in Meningococcal Disease
- 26. Quantitative Detection of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides in Clinical Specimens
- 27. Isolation and Analysis of Radiolabeled Meningococcal Endotoxin
- 28. Cytokine Measurement in vivo and in vitro
- 29. Cytokine Bioassays
- 30. Molecular Analysis of Gene-Polymorphisms Affecting the Host Response to Infection
- 31. Coagulation Studies
- 32. Complement Pathways and Meningococcal Disease: Diagnostic Aspects
- 33. Evaluation of New Treatments for Meningococcal Disease Simon Nadel
- 34. Studies on the Effect of Neisserial Porins on Apoptosis of Mammalian Cells
- 35. Molecular Recognition Mechanisms of Meningococci: Identifying Receptor-Ligand Pairs Involved in Microbe-Host Interactions
- 36. Experimental Nasopharyngeal Colonization by Neisseria Meningitidis Using Explant Organ Culture
- 37. Invasion of the Central Nervous System by Neisseria Meningitidis
- 38. Interactions of Meningococci with Endothelium
- 39. A Promoter Probe Plasmid Based on Green Fluorescent Protein: a Strategy for Studying Meningococcal Gene Expression
- 40. Signature Tagged Mutagenesis
- Index
