Immunological Methods in Microbiology

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.

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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