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Immunological Methods in Microbiology

  • 1st Edition, Volume 47 - April 29, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Volker Gurtler, Charles S. Pavia
  • Language: English

Immunological Methods in Microbiology, Volume 47 in the Methods in Microbiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chap… Read more

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Immunological Methods in Microbiology, Volume 47 in the Methods in Microbiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Immunological Techniques in the Clinical laboratory, Immunologic Diagnosis of HIV and Opportunistic Infections, Combining Antigen Detection and Serology for the Diagnosis of Selected Infectious Diseases, Immunologic Detection of Lyme Disease and Related Borrelioses, Immunodetection of Bacteria Causing Brucellosis, Immunological Diagnostic Techniques Used to Identify and Type Pasteurella, Immunological Tests for Diarrhea caused by Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli Targeting Their Main Virulence Factors, and much more.

Key features

  • Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
  • Presents the latest release in the Methods in Microbiology series
  • Includes the latest information on Immunological Methods in Microbiology

Readership

Undergraduates, graduates, academics and researchers in the field of Microbiology

Table of contents

1. Introduction to immunological techniques in the clinical laboratory
Tony A. Slieman and Joerg Leheste

2. Combining antigen detection and serology for the diagnosis of selected infectious diseases
Maria M. Plummer and Charles S. Pavia

3. Immunologic detection of Lyme disease and the related borrelioses
Charles S. Pavia

4. Immunodetection of bacteria causing brucellosis
Sukhadeo B. Barbuddhe, Jess Vergis and Deepak B. Rawool

5. Immunological and molecular techniques used for determination of serotypes in Pasteurellaceae
Henrik Christensen, Janine Bossé, Øystein Angen, Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen and Magne Bisgaard

6. Immunological tests for diarrhoea caused by diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli targeting their main virulence factors
Roxane M.F. Piazza, Bruna A. Caetano, Camila P. Henrique, Daniela Luz, Danielle D. Munhoz, Juliana M. Polatto, Letícia B. Rocha, Miriam A. Silva and Thais Mitsunari

7. Development and improvement of a colony blot immunoassay for the detection of thermotolerant Campylobacter species
Hongsheng Huang, Philippe Raymond, Chris Grenier and Jessica Fahey

8. Serodiagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis infection
Rahmah Noordin, Norsyahida Arifin, Dinesh Balachandra and Hussain Ahmad

9. Immunological detection of Zika virus: A summary in the context of general viral diagnostics
Rebecca Peters

10. Detection of microorganisms using recombinase polymerase amplification with lateral flow dipsticks
Yuhang Zhang, Jinqiang Hu, Qingmei Li, Junqing Guo and Gaiping Zhang

11. Detection of microorganisms with lateral flow test strips
Tatsuya Tominaga and Masaharu Ishii

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 47
  • Published: April 29, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Volker Gurtler

Dr Gurtler completed a Ph.D. program in 1996 at La Trobe University in the Department of Microbiology. The main contribution of this work was the development of a universal bacterial typing technique based on the 16S-23S rDNA spacer region. The technique is now extensively used in many areas of Microbiology including Diagnostic, Environmental and Veterinary Microbiology. Citations to the articles Dr Gurtler wrote on this topic total >1000 with >830 citations alone to the 1996 review published in the journal “Microbiology”. Dr Gurtler wrote an invited review on genomic typing, taxonomy and identification of bacterial isolates for the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM). In addition to fundamental research, Dr Gurtler has also had experience with the application of this technology to the medical diagnostic laboratory in the fields of molecular microbiology and human molecular genetics. Dr Gurtler has been involved full time in diagnostic microbiology over many years resulting in the adoption of a method that identifies Mycobacterium species directly from clinical specimens without the need for culture in specimens positive for acid fast bacilli, the discovery of Nocardia veterana, and the development of many diagnostic tests.

In the last twelve years Dr Gurtler has been an Editor for the Journal of Microbiological Methods (JMM) and in the last 5 years Serial Editor of Methods in Microbiology (MIM) with the publication of 9 volumes covering diverse subjects such as Biofilms, Nanotechnology, COVID-19 and Fluorescent Probes.

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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Charles S. Pavia

Dr. Pavia is a Microbiologist/Immunologist and an Associate Professor at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, New York. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at New York Medical College. He previously worked and held research appointments at the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, NY, and the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research in Washington, DC. Throughout his career, he has focused his research activities on various pathogenic microbes with a particular emphasis on the disease-causing spirochetes and certain protozoan pathogens. His research has covered multiple areas including the basic microbiologic, immunologic, molecular, diagnostic and clinical aspects of Lyme disease, syphilis, malaria and toxoplasmosis. He has published widely on these areas in peer-reviewed journals, as well as given numerous research presentations of his work at national and international conferences. As a principal investigator or co-investigator, he has received research funding from the NIH, the CDC, the J.M. Foundation, and various other organizations to support his research work. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Microbiological Methods for the past 25 years, and has been an ad-hoc reviewer for a wide range of other scientific journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, USA

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