Fungal Diagnostics

Overview of Invasive Fungal Infections.-Fungal Diagnostics: Review of Commercially Available Methods.-Rapid Methods for the Extraction and Archiving of Molecular Grade Fungal Genomic DNA.-Apex DNA Microarray for the Identification of Pathogenic Fungi.-Microscopic Detection of Yeasts using Fluorescence in situ Hybridization.-Quantitative Detection of Aspergillus spp. by Real-time Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification (NASBA).-Differentiation of Fungi using Hybridization Probes on the LightCycler® .-Quantitative and Multiplex Detection of Pathogenic Fungi using Padlock Probes, Generic qPCR and Suspension Array Readout.-Species-Specific Identification of a Wide Range of Clinically Relevant Fungal Pathogens by the Luminex xMAP Technology.-Applied Gene Histopathology: Identification of Fusarium Species in FFPE Tissue Sections by in situ Hybridization.-Application of Chip-based Flow Cytometry for Amphotericin B and Fluconazole Susceptibility Testing on Candida Strains.-Surface Plasmon Resonance Genosensor for the Detection of Fusarium culmorum.-Hyperbranching Rolling Circle Amplification (HRCA), An Improved Protocol for Discriminating Between Closely Related Fungal Species.-Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification Based Detection of Fusarium graminearum.-Multiplex-Tandem PCR for Fungal Diagnostics.-Specific Detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in Clinical Samples by Flow Cytometry.