Impact of Molecular Methods on Clinical Bacteriology -- Genomic DNA Digestion and Ribotyping -- Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis -- Plasmid Analysis -- DNA Amplification -- Arbitrarily Primed PCR Methods for Studying Bacterial Diseases -- Genomic Fingerprinting by Application of rep-PCR -- Molecular Approaches to the Identification of Streptococci -- Pneumococcal Diseases -- Molecular Approaches in Mycobacterium tuberculosisand Other Infections Caused by Mycobacterium Species -- Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Diphtheria -- Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Infections Caused by Legionella spp. -- Molecular Methods for Haemophilus influenzae -- The Impact o Molecular Techniques on the Study of Meningococcal Disease -- Gonorrhea -- Chancroid -- Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma Infections -- Application of Molecular Methods to the Study of Infections Caused by Salmonella spp. -- Cholera -- Diagnosisand Investigation of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli -- Campylobacter Infections -- Detection and Typing of Helicobacter pylori -- Nosocomial Infections Caused by Staphylococci -- Application of Molecular Techniques to the Study of Nosocomial Infections Caused by Enterococci -- Molecular Approaches for the Detection and Identification of ?-Lactamases -- Biochemical and Enzyme Kinetic Applications for the Characterization of ?Lactamases -- ?Lactam Resistance Mediated by Changes in Penicillin-Binding Proteins -- The Application of Molecular Techniques for the Study of Aminoglycoside Resistance -- Molecular Investigation of Glycopeptide Resistance in Gram-Positive Bacteria -- Quinolone Resistance -- Resistance to Tetracyclines, Macrolides, Trimethoprim and Sulfonamides.

In Molecular Bacteriology: Protocols and Clinical Applications, Woodford and Johnson bring together in a single volume a state-of-the-art collection of detailed molecular methods for the diagnosis and clinical investigation of bacterial infections. These wide ranging techniques-each presented by recognized experts who have fine-tuned their methods for optimum performance-will permit readers to establish them successfully in their own laboratories. An accompanying series of minireviews highlights and explains the clinical and epidemiological relevance of the techniques and shows how they may be applied to major pathogen species and various types of antibiotic resistance. Molecular Bacteriology: Protocols and Clinical Applications enlarges our current understanding of the role that molecular methodology can play in modern medical bacteriology, fully explaining both the practical and theoretical aspects of the cutting-edge methods that are increasingly finding diagnostic use in laboratories throughout the world. An authoritative laboratory resource for everyone working with infectious diseases today, this book's insightful reviews and detailed protocols will soon win many devotees.

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