Molecular epidemiology of microorganisms : methods and protocols / edited by Dominique A. Caugant. — New York : Humana Press, c2009. – (58.17/M592/v.551) |
Contents
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
12 Multiple Locus Variable Number of Tandem Repeats Analysis
13 Comparison of Molecular Typing Methods Applied to Clostridium difficile 159
14 Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolates Using IS6110-Based Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis 173
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 231
19 DNA Microarray for Molecular Epidemiology of Salmonella
20 Methods for Data Analysis
21 Internet-Based Sequence-Typing Databases for Bacterial Molecular Epidemiology
Index