1. Whole Genome Enrichment using RNA Probes and Sequencing of Chlamydia Trachomatis Directly from Clinical Samples
Amanda Claire Brown and Mette T. Christiansen
2. Characterization of Sinus Microbiota by 16S Sequencing from Swabs
Thad W. Vickery, Jennifer M. Kofonow, and Vijay R. Ramakrishnan
3. Molecular Subtyping of Salmonella Typhimurium with Multiplex Oligonucleotide Ligation-PCR (MOL-PCR)
Veronique Wuyts, Wesley Mattheus, Nancy H.C. Roosens, Kathleen Marchal, Sophie Bertrand, and Sigrid C.J. De Keersmaecker
4. Detection of Helicobacter pylori DNA in Formalin-fixed Paraffin Embedded Gastric Biopsies using Laser Micro-dissection and qPCR
Maria Fernanda Loayza Villa, Valeria Liliana Herrera Sevilla, and Nicolas Vivar Diaz
5. Mycobacterial Load Assay
Stephen H. Gillespie, Wilber Sabiiti, and Katarina Oravcova
6. Defining Diagnostic Biomarkers using Shotgun Proteomics and MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry
Jean Armengaud
7. Detection and Typing of 'Candidatus Phytoplasma' spp. in Host DNA Extracts Using Oligonucleotide-Coupled Fluorescent Microspheres
Edel Perez-Lopez, Christine Hammond, Chrystel Olivier, and Tim J. Dumonceaux
8. Detection of Helicobacter Pylori in the Gastric Mucosa by Fluorescence in vivo Hybridization
Silvia Fontenete, Marina Leite, Ceu Figueiredo, Paul Cos, and Nuno F. Azevedo
9. Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing for Urinary Tract Infections
Anja Mezger, Mats Nilsson, and Dan I. Andersson
10. Detection and Differentiation of Lyme Spirochetes and other Tick-borne Pathogens from Blood using real-time PCR with Molecular Beacons
Samantha Schlachter, Kamfai Chan, Salvatore A. E. Marras, and Nikhat Parveen
11. Methods for Real-time PCR-based Diagnosis of Chlamydia Pneumoniae, Chlamydia Psittaci and Chlamydia Abortus Infections in an Opened Molecular Diagnostic Platform
Onya Opota, Rene Brouillet, Gilbert Greub, and Katia Jaton
12. Real-time PCR to Identify Staphylococci and Assay for Virulence from Blood
Charles E. Okolie
13. Multiplex Peptide Nucleic Acid Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (PNA-FISH) for Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis
Antonio Machado and Nuno Cerca
14. A Closed-tube Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for the Visual Endpoint Detection of Brucella spp. and Mycobacterium Avium Subsp. Paratuberculosis
Marcos D. Trangoni, Andrea K. Gioffre, and Silvio L. Cravero
15. Highly Specific Ligation-Dependent Microarray Detection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Noa Wolff and Ivan Barisic
16. Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) for Cronobacter spp.
17. Diagnostic Bacteriology: Raman Spectroscopy
Rebecca L. Pavlicek, Nicole J. Crane, Meron Ghebremedhin, Katherine Cilwa, and Eric A. Elster
