Molecular Epidemiology of Microorganisms

Chapter 1 Microbial Molecular Epidemiology: An Overview

Chapter 2 Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis for Parasites and Other Pathogens

Chapter 3 Plasmid Replicon Typing

Chapter 4 The Application of Randomly Amplified DNA Analysis in the Molecular Epidemiology of Microorganisms

Chapter 5 Use of Repetitive Element Palindromic PCR (rep-PCR) for the Epidemiologic Discrimination of Foodborne Pathogens

Chapter 6 Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Molecular Epidemiology of Food Pathogens

Chapter 7 Molecular Genotyping of Microbes by Multilocus PCR and Mass Spectrometry: A New Tool for Hospital Infection Control and Public Health Surveillance

Chapter 8 Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis

Chapter 9 Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) for the Genotyping of Bacterial Pathogens

Chapter 10 Spoligotyping for Molecular Epidemiology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex

Chapter 11 Molecular Epidemiology of Microorganisms

Chapter 12 Multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis.

Chapter 13 Comparison of Molecular Typing Methods Applied to Clostridium difficile

Chapter 14 Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolates Using IS 6110 -Based Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis

Chapter 15 spa Typing for Epidemiological Surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus

Chapter 16 Sequencing of Viral Genes

Chapter 17 Full Sequencing of Viral Genomes: Practical Strategies Used for the Amplification and Characterization of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus

Chapter 18 Bacterial Genome Sequencing

Chapter 19 DNA Microarray for Molecular Epidemiology of Salmonella

Chapter 20 Methods for Data Analysis

Chapter 21 Internet-Based Sequence-Typing Databases for Bacterial Molecular Epidemiology