Main description:

This updated second edition of Molecular Typing in Bacterial Infections, presented in two volumes, covers both common and neglected bacterial pathogenic agents, highlighting the most effective methods for their identification and classification in the light of their specific epidemiology. New chapters have been included to add new species, as well as another view of how bacterial typing can be used. These books are valuable resources for the molecular typing of infectious disease agents encountered in both research and hospital clinical laboratory settings, as well as in culture collections and in the industry. Each of the 21 chapters provides an overview of specific molecular approaches to efficiently detect and type different bacterial pathogens. The chapters are grouped in five parts, covering respiratory and urogenital pathogens (Volume I), and gastrointestinal and healthcare-associated pathogens, as well as a new group of vector-borne and Biosafety level 3 pathogens including a description of typing methods used in the traditional microbiology laboratory in comparison to molecular methods of epidemiology (Volume II). Comprehensive and updated, Molecular Typing in Bacterial Infections provides state-of-the-art methods for accurate diagnosis and for the correct classification of different types which will prove to be critical in unravelling the transmission routes of human pathogens.

Contents:

1. Campylobacter Sophie J. Hedges and Frances M. Colles2. Clostridioides difficile

Eliane de Oliveira Ferreira and Gerly Anne de Castro Brito

3. Cronobacter

Marcelo L. L. Brandao and Stephan Forsythe

4. Oral and Intestinal Bacteroidetes

Marina C. Claros, Zaida C. Claros, Sareh Said Yekta-Michael, and Georg Conrads

5. Vibrio cholerae

Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Bhabatosh Das, Ranjan K. Nandy, Ankur Mutreja, and G. Balakrish Nair

6. Acinetobacter baumannii

Dennis Nurjadi and Sebastien Boutin

7. Enterococcus

Lucia M. Teixeira, Adriana R. Faria, Stephanie S. R. Souza and Vania Lucia C. Merquior

8. Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Junyan Liu, Ruirui Xu, Zerong Lu and Zhenbo Xu

9. Staphylococci

JoAnn M. McClure and Kunyan Zhang

10. Bartonellaceae

Joaquim Ruiz, Claudia Gomes and Maria J.Pons

11. Brucella

Roland T. Ashford and Adrian M. Whatmore

12. Coxiella burnetii

Dimitrios Frangoulidis, Mathias C. Walter, Akinyemi M. Fasemore and Sally J. Cutler