1st Edition

Immunological and Molecular Diagnosis of Infectious Disease

By Carel J. van Oss Copyright 1997

    Written by world-renowned experts, this book addresses immunological and molecular methodologies of diagnosis as well as clinical aspects of diseases. It book discusses DNA and RNA amplification methods, explains ELISA approaches, and introduces rapid diagnosis techniques, biosensors, and flow cytometry. The book examines bacterial and parasitic infections, including M. tuberculosis, Borrelia burgdorferi, Streptococcus pyogenes, chlamydia and schistosomes, and describe viral infections such as hantaviruses, hepatitis C., cytomegalovirus, herpes virus, and HIV. It also covers syndromes with infections origins, including prions, chronic fatigue syndrome, and superantigens, and much more.

    Immunological and Molecular Approaches

    DNA Amplification, Robert E. Farrell, Jr.
    Branched DNA for Quantification of Viral Load, Judith C. Wilber
    NASBA Technology: Isothermal RNA Amplification in Qualitative and Quantitative Diagnostics, Joseph W. Romano, Kimberly G. Williams, Roxanne N. Shurtliff, Christine Ginocchio, and Mark Kaplan
    Concerted Use of Immunologic and Ultrastructural Analyses in Diagnostic Medicine: Immunoelectron Microscopy and Correlative Microscopy, S. E. Miller and D. N. Howell
    Adsorption-Induced Antigenic Changes and Their Significance in ELISA and Immunological Disorders, J. E. Butler, P. Navarro, and J. Sun
    Rapid Diagnosis of Periodontal Infections: Findings in AIDS Patients, Joseph J. Zambon
    Uses of Biosensors in the Study of Viral Antigens, Marc H. V. Van Regenmortel, Danièle Altschuh, Jean Chatellier, Nathalie Rauffer-Bruyère, Pascale Richalet-Sécordel, and Hélène Saunal
    Identification and Function of Host Defense Cells by Flow Cytometry, Carleton C. Stewart
    Application of Flow Cytometry in Transplantation Medicine, T. Shanahan

    Bacterial and Parasitic Infections

    Critical Assessment of Gene Amplification Approaches on the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis, Betty A. Forbes
    Borrelia burgdorferi Infection: Clinical Diagnostic Techniques, P. K. Coyle
    The Toxins of Group A Streptococcus, the Flesh Eating Bacteria, Dennis L. Stevens
    Diagnosis of Chlamydial Infection in the Pediatric Population, M. R. Hammerschlag
    DFA, EIA, PCR, LCR and Other Technologies: What Tests Should be Used for Diagnosis of Chlamydia Infections?, J. Schachter
    Molecular Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori, T. Ulf Westblom
    Immunodiagnosis of Schistosomiasis, Victor C. W. Tsang and Patricia P. Wilkins

    Viral Infections

    The Evolution of Hantaviruses, Xinyang Zhao and John Hay
    Laboratory Diagnosis of Hepatitis C, Frederick S. Nolte
    Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays for the Detection of Cytomegalovirus in Organ and Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients, Mary Jo Evans, Yadira Edwards-Spring, Jean Myers, Alice Wendt, Deborah Povinelli, Daniel Amsterdam, Kate Rittenhouse-Diakun, Donald Armstrong, Brian M. Murray, Steven J. Greenberg, and Marie Riepenhoff-Talty
    HTLV-Associated Diseases: Human Retroviral Infection and Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas, K. Fujihara, B. Goldman, A. R. Oseroff, N. Glenister, E. S. Jaffe, E. Bisaccia, S. Pincus, and S. J. Greenberg
    Management of Cytomegalovirus Infection in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients, Brian M. Murray

    Syndromes of Various Infectious Origins

    Immunodiagnosis of Prion Disease, R. J. Kascsak, R. Fersko, D. Pulgiano, R. Rubenstein, and R. I. Carp
    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, A. C. Mawle
    Superantigens: Their Role in Infectious Diseases, Dennis L. Stevens
    Searching for Superantigens, P. M. Schlievert

    Biography

    Carel J. van Oss