Molecular epidemiology of microorganisms : methods and protocols /

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Imprint:New York : Humana Press, c2009.
Description:xi, 321 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Methods in molecular biology, 1064-3745 ; v. 551
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 551.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7736136
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Other authors / contributors:Caugant, Dominique A.
ISBN:9781603279987 (alk. paper)
1603279989 (alk. paper)
9781603279994 (e-ISBN)
1603279997 (e-ISBN)
Notes:"Springer protocols"--cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1. Microbial Molecular Epidemiology: An Overview
  • 2. Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis for Parasites and Other Pathogens
  • 3. Plasmid Replicon Typing
  • 4. The Application of Randomly Amplified DNA Analysis in the Molecular Epidemiology of Microorganisms
  • 5. Use of Repetitive Element Palindromic PCR (rep-PCR) for the Epidemiologic Discrimination of Foodborne Pathogens
  • 6. Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Molecular Epidemiology of Food Pathogens
  • 7. Molecular Genotyping of Microbes by Multilocus PCR and Mass Spectrometry: A New Tool for Hospital Infection Control and Public Health Surveillance
  • 8. Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
  • 9. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) for the Genotyping of Bacterial Pathogens
  • 10. Spoligotyping for Molecular Epidemiology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
  • 11. Multilocus Sequence Typing
  • 12. Multiple Locus Variable Number of Tandem Repeats Analysis
  • 13. Comparison of Molecular Typing Methods Applied to Clostridium difficile
  • 14. Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolates Using IS6110-Based Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
  • 15. spa Typing for Epidemiological Surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus
  • 16. Sequencing of Viral Genes
  • 17. Full Sequencing of Viral Genomes: Practical Strategies Used for the Amplification and Characterization of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus
  • 18. Bacterial Genome Sequencing
  • 19. DNA Microarray for Molecular Epidemiology of Salmonella
  • 20. Methods for Data Analysis
  • 21. Internet-Based Sequence-Typing Databases for Bacterial Molecular Epidemiology
  • Index