Fungal Diagnostics

1. Overview of Invasive Fungal InfectionsNina L. Tuite and Katrina Lacey 2. Fungal Diagnostics: Review of Commercially Available MethodsJavier Yugueros Marcos and David H. Pincus 3. Rapid Methods for the Extraction and Archiving of Molecular Grade Fungal Genomic DNAAndrew M. Borman, Michael Palmer and Elizabeth M. Johnson 4. Apex DNA Microarray for the Identification of Pathogenic FungiArianna Tavanti, Stefano Landi, and Sonia Senesi 5. Microscopic Detection of Yeasts using Fluorescence in situ HybridizationJoão Inácio and Maria da Luz Martins 6. Quantitative Detection of Aspergillus spp. by Real-time Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification (NASBA)Yanan Zhao and David S. Perlin 7. Differentiation of Fungi using Hybridization Probes on the LightCycler® Stephan Fricke, Nadja Hilger, Christopher Oelkrug, Christian Fricke 8. Quantitative and Multiplex Detection of Pathogenic Fungi using Padlock Probes, Generic qPCR and Suspension Array ReadoutMagnus Jobs, Ronnie Eriksson and Jonas Blomberg 9. Species-Specific Identification of a Wide Range of Clinically Relevant Fungal Pathogens by the Luminex xMAP TechnologyPreuner S., Lion T. 10. Applied Gene Histopathology: Identification of Fusarium Species in FFPE Tissue Sections by in situ HybridizationYoichiro Okubo, Minoru Shinozaki, Megumi Wakayama, Haruo Nakayama, Daisuke Sasai, Takao Ishiwatari, Tetsuo Nemoto, and Kazutoshi Shibuya 11. Application of Chip-based Flow Cytometry for Amphotericin B and Fluconazole Susceptibility Testing on Candida StrainsOrsolya Bouquet, Béla Kocsis, Ferenc Kilár, and Ildikó Kustos 12. Surface Plasmon Resonance Genosensor for the Detection of Fusarium culmorumMichelangelo Pascale, Francesco Zezza, and Giancarlo Perrone 13 Hyperbranching Rolling Circle Amplification (HRCA), An Improved Protocol for Discriminating Between Closely Related Fungal SpeciesJiufeng Sun and Sybren de Hoog 14. Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification Based