Introduction to Pathogenic Bacteria-Tracey Elizabeth Love and Barbara Jones.- Sample Preparation: An Essential Prerequisite for High-Quality Bacteria Detection-Jan W. Kretzer, Manfred Biebl and Stefan Miller.- Detection of Bacterial Pathogens in Different Matrices: Current Practices and Challenges-Ahmed E. Yousef.- Overview of Rapid Microbiological Methods-Jeanne Moldenhauer.- Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Sensors for the Detection of Bacterial Pathogens-Allen D. Taylor, Jon Ladd, JiErA Homola and Shaoyi Jiang.- Bacterial Detection Using Evanescent Wave-Based Fluorescent Biosensors-Kim E. Sapsford and Lisa C. Shriver-Lake.- Fiber Optic Biosensors for Bacterial Detection-Ryan B. Hayman.- Integrated Deep-Probe Optical Waveguides for Label Free Bacterial Detection-Mohammed Zourob, Nina Skivesen, Robert Horvath, Stephan Mohr, Martin B. McDonnell and Nicholas J. Goddard.- Interferometric Biosensors-Daniel P. Campbell.- Luminescence Techniques for the Detection of Bacterial Pathogens-Leigh Farris, Mussie Y. Habteselassie, Lynda Perry, S. Yanyun Chen, Ronald Turco, Brad Reuhs and Bruce Applegate.- Porous and Planar Silicon Sensors-Charles R. Mace and Benjamin L. Miller.- Acoustic Wave (TSM) Biosensors: Weighing Bacteria-Eric Olsen, Arnold Vainrub and Vitaly Vodyanoy.- Amperometric Biosensors for Pathogenic Bacteria Detection-Ilaria Palchetti and Marco Mascini.- Microbial Genetic Analysis Based on Field Effect Transistors-Yuji Miyahara, Toshiya Sakata and Akira Matsumoto.- Impedance-Based Biosensors for Pathogen Detection-Xavier MuA+/-oz-Berbel, Neus Godino, Olivier Laczka, Eva Baldrich, Francesc Xavier MuA+/-oz and Fco. Javier Del Campo.- Label-Free Microbial Biosensors Using Molecular Nanowire Transducers-Evangelyn Alocilja and Zarini Muhammad-Tahir.- Magnetic Techniques for Rapid Detection of Pathogens-Yousef Haik, Reyad Sawafta, Irina Ciubotaru, Ahmad Qablan, Ee Lim Tan and Keat Ghee Ong.- Cantilever Sensors for Pathogen Detection-Raj Mutharasan.-Detection and Viability Assessment of Endospore-Forming Pathogens-Adrian Ponce, Stephanie A. Connon and Pun To Yung.- Label-Free Fingerprinting of Pathogens by Raman Spectroscopy Techniques-Ann E. Grow.- Antibodies and Immunoassays for Detection of Bacterial Pathogens-Padmapriya P. Banada and Arun. K. Bhunia.- Rapid Nucleic Acid-Based Diagnostics Methods for the Detection of Bacterial Pathogens-Barry Glynn.- Oligonucleotide and DNA Microarrays: Versatile Tools for Rapid Bacterial Diagnostics-Tanja Kostic, Patrice Francois, Levente Bodrossy and Jacques Schrenzel.- Pathogenic Bacterial Sensors Based on Carbohydrates as Sensing Elements-Haiying Liu.- Aptamers and Their Potential as Recognition Elements for the Detection of Bacteria-Casey C. Fowler, Naveen K. Navani, Eric D. Brown and Yingfu Li.- Protein Microarray Technologies for Detection and Identification of Bacterial and Protein Analytes-Christer Wingren and Carl AK Borrebaeck.- Bacteriophage: Powerful Tools for the Detection of Bacterial Pathogens-Mathias Schmelcher and Martin J. Loessner.- Phage Display Methods for Detection of Bacterial Pathogens-Paul A. Gulig, Julio L. Martin, Harald G. Messer, Beverly L. Deffense and Crystal J. Harpley.- Molecular Imprinted Polymers for Biorecognition of Bioagents-Keith Warriner, Edward P.C. Lai, Azadeh Namvar, Daniel M. Hawkins and Subrayal M. Reddy.- Microfluidics-Based Lysis of Bacteria and Spores for Detection and Analysis-Ning Bao and Chang Lu.- Detection of Pathogens by On-Chip PCR-Pierre-Alain Auroux.- Micro- and Nanopatterning for Bacteria- and Virus-Based Biosensing Applications-David Morrison, Kahp Y. Suh and Ali Khademhosseini.- Microfabricated Flow Cytometers for Bacterial Detection-Sung-Yi Yang and Gwo-Bin Lee.- Bacterial Concentration, Separation and Analysis by Dielectrophoresis-Michael Pycraft Hughes and Kai Friedrich Hoettges.- Ultrasonic Microsystems for Bacterial Cell Manipulation-Martyn Hill and Nicholas R. Harris.- Recent Advances in Real-Time Mass Spect
