Table of Contents:
  • Overview of invasive fungal infections / Nina L. Tuite and Katrina Lacey
  • Fungal diagnostics : review of commercially available methods / Javier Yugueros Marcos and David H. Pincus
  • Rapid methods for the extraction and archiving of molecular grade fungal genomic DNA / Andrew M. Borman, Michael Palmer, and Elizabeth M. Johnson
  • APEX DNA microarray for the identification of pathogenic fungi / Arianna Tavanti, Stefano Landi, and Sonia Senesi
  • Microscopic detection of yeasts using fluorescence in situ hybridization / João Inácio and Maria da Luz Martins
  • Quantitative detection of Aspergillus spp. by real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification / Yanan Zhao and David S. Perlin
  • Differentiation of fungi using hybridization probes on the LightCycler® / Stephan Fricke ... [et al.]
  • Quantitative and multiplex detection of pathogenic fungi using padlock probes, generic qPCR, and suspension array readout / Magnus Jobs, Ronnie Eriksson, and Jonas Blomberg
  • Species-specific identification of a wide range of clinically relevant fungal pathogens by the Luminex® xMAP technology / S. Preuner and T. Lion
  • Applied gene histopathology : identification of Fusarium species in FFPE tissue sections by in situ hybridization / Yoichiro Okubo ... [et al.]
  • Application of chip-based flow cytometry for amphotericin B and fluconazole susceptibility testing on Candida strains / Orsolya Bouquet ... [et al.]
  • Surface plasmon resonance genosensor for the detection of Fusarium culmorum / Michelangelo Pascale, Francesco Zezza, and Giancarlo Perrone
  • Hyperbranching rolling circle amplification, an improved protocol for discriminating between closely related fungal species / Jiufeng Sun and Sybren de Hoog
  • Loop-mediated isothermal amplification-based detection of Fusarium graminearum / Ludwig Niessen
  • Multiplex-tandem PCR for fungal diagnostics / Anna Lau, Keith Stanley, and Tania Sorrell
  • Specific detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in clinical samples by flow cytometry / Joana Barbosa ... [et al.]