Molecular epidemiology of microorganisms
Subtitle: methods and protocols
By: edited by Dominique A. Caugant.
Contributors: Caugant, Dominique A.
Series: Methods in molecular biology -- v. 551; Springer protocols
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781603279987; 9781603279994
Subjects: Molecular epidemiology -- Laboratory manuals; Pathogenic bacteria; Molecular Epidemiology -- methods -- Laboratory Manuals; Épidémiologie moléculaire
Genres: Laboratory manuals; Laboratory Manuals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Microbial molecular epidemiology: an overview / M. Tibayrenc; title: Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis for parasites and other pathogens / M. Tibayrenc; title: Plasmid replicon typing / T.J. Johnson and L.K. Nolan; title: The application of randomly amplified DNA analysis in the molecular epidemiology of microorganisms / A. Belkum, E. Pelt-Verkuil and J.P. Hays; title: Use of repetitive element palindromic PCR (rep-PCR) for the epidemiologic discrimination of foodborne pathogens / K.L. Hiett and B.S. Seal; title: Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for molecular epidemiology of food pathogens / T.M. Peters; title: Molecular genotyping of microbes by multilocus PCR and mass spectrometry: a new tool for hospital infection control and public health surveillance / D.J. Ecker ... [et al.]; title: Amplified fragment-length polymorphism analysis / N.K. Fry, P.H. Savelkoul and P. Visca; title: Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) for the genotyping of bacterial pathogens / I. Grissa, G. Vergnaud and C. Pourcel; title: Spoligotyping for molecular epidemiology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex / J.R. Driscoll; title: Multilocus sequence typing / A.B. Ibarz Pavon and M.C. Maiden; title: Multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis / G. Vergnaud and C. Pourcel; title: Comparison of molecular typing methods applied to Clostridium difficile / E.J. Kuijper, R.J. van den Berg and J.S. Brazier; title: Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates using IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis / P. Bifani ... [et al.]; title: spa typing for epidemiological surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus / M. Hallin, A.W. Friedrich and M.J. Struelens; title: Sequencing of viral genes / C. Holm-Hansen and K. Vainio; title: Full sequencing of viral genomes: Practical strategies used for the amplification and characterization of foot-and-mouth disease virus / E.M. Cottam ... [et al.]; title: Bacterial genome sequencing / H. Tettelin and T. Feldblyum; title: DNA microarray for molecular epidemiology of Salmonella / S. Huehn and B. Malorny; title: Methods for data analysis / W.P. Hanage and D.M. Aanensen; title: Internet-based sequence-typing databases for bacterial molecular epidemiology / K.A. Jolley.