本书为读者提供了分子细菌学方法与临床应用方法的技术指南，籍以发展分子细菌学与临床应用技能，内容全面实用，简明扼要，深入浅出，是细菌学方面的读者研究英文文献的一部重要的参考资料。

Preface

Contributors

1 Impact of Molecular Methods on Clinical Bacteriology

RobertC.George

2 Genomic DNA Digestion and Ribotyping

J.Zoe Jordens

3 Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis

Mary Elizabeth Kaufmann

4 Plasmid Analysis

Alan p.Johnson and Neil Woodford

5 DNA Amplification:General Concepts and Methods

Nick A.Saunders and Jonathan P.Clewley

6 Arbitrarily Primed PCR Methods for Studying Bacterial Diseases

David Ralph and Michael McClelland

7 Genomic Fingerprinting by Application of rep-PCR

Anne M.Ridley

8 Molecular Approaches to the Identification of Streptococci

Robert E.McLaughlin and Joseph J.Ferretti

9 Pneumococcal Diseases

Anthony M.Smith and Keith P.Klugman

10 Molecular Approaches in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Other Infections Caused by Mycobacterium Species

Madhu Goyal and Douglas B.Young

11 Dioagnosis and Epidemiology of Diptheria

Androulla Efstratiou,Kathryn H.Engler,and Aruni de Zoysa

12 Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Infections Caused by Legionella spp.

Norman K.Fry and Timothy G.Harrison

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