Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases ; principles and practices / Lee W. Riley . -- ASM Press,2004. -- (41.24/R573)

Contents

Contents 1.Principles and Approaches  1 2.Laboratory Methods Used for Strain Typing of Pathogens: Conventional and Molecular Techniques  29 3.Laboratory Methods Used for Strain Typing of Pathogens: PCR-Based Strain Typing Methods  63 4.Analysis of Similarity and Relatedness in Molecular Epidemiology  91 5.Distinguishing Epidemic and Endemic Occurrence of Infectious Diseases  125 6.Stratification and Refinement of Data in Epidemiologic Investigations  149 7.Distinguishing Pathovars from Nonpathovars:  Escherichia coli  175 8.Distinguishing Pathovars from Nonpathovars: Streptococcus pneumoniae  209 9.Distinguishing Pathovars from Nonpathovars: Helicobacter Pylori  229 10.Hospital infections:  Staphylococcus aureus  249 11.Hospital infections: Gram-Negative Bacteria  281 12.Identifying a Pathogen's Biologic Determinants of Disease Transmission  307