Molecular Epidemiology of Microorganisms

Microbial Molecular Epidemiology: An Overview.- Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis for Parasites and Other Pathogens.- Plasmid Replicon Typing.- The Application of Randomly Amplified DNA Analysis in the Molecular Epidemiology of Microorganisms.- Use of Repetitive Element Palindromic PCR (rep-PCR) for the Epidemiologic Discrimination of Foodborne Pathogens.- Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Molecular Epidemiology of Food Pathogens.- Molecular Genotyping of Microbes by Multilocus PCR and Mass Spectrometry: A New Tool for Hospital Infection Control and Public Health Surveillance.- Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis.- Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) for the Genotyping of Bacterial Pathogens.- Spoligotyping for Molecular Epidemiology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex.- Multilocus Sequence Typing.- Multiple Locus Variable Number of Tandem Repeats Analysis.- Comparison of Molecular Typing Methods Applied to Clostridium difficile.- Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolates Using IS6110-Based Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis.- spa Typing for Epidemiological Surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus.- Sequencing of Viral Genes.- Full Sequencing of Viral Genomes: Practical Strategies Used for the Amplification and Characterization of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus.- Bacterial Genome Sequencing.- DNA Microarray for Molecular Epidemiology of Salmonella.- Methods for Data Analysis.- Internet-Based Sequence-Typing Databases for Bacterial Molecular Epidemiology.