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Contents<br />

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22 Review of Molecular <strong>Techniques</strong> for Sexually Transmitted<br />

Diseases Diagnosis............................................................... 353<br />

Angus C.T. Lo and Kai Man Kam<br />

23 Advances <strong>in</strong> the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and<br />

Detection of Drug Resistance .................................................. 387<br />

Abdullah Kilic and Wonder Drake<br />

24 Rapid Screen<strong>in</strong>g and Identification of Methicill<strong>in</strong>-Resistant<br />

Staphylococcus aureus .......................................................... 411<br />

Patrice Francois and Jacques Schrenzel<br />

25 Bead-Based Flow Cytometric Assays: A Multiplex Assay Platform<br />

with Applications <strong>in</strong> <strong>Diagnostic</strong> <strong>Microbiology</strong> ............................. 427<br />

David Ernst, George Bolton, Diether Recktenwald, Mark J. Cameron,<br />

Ali Danesh, Desmond Persad, David J. Kelv<strong>in</strong>, and Amitabh Gaur<br />

26 Molecular Stra<strong>in</strong> Typ<strong>in</strong>g Us<strong>in</strong>g Repetitive Sequence–Based PCR...... 444<br />

Stacie R. Frye and Mimi Healy<br />

27 Molecular Differential Diagnoses of Infectious Diseases: Is the<br />

Future Now?....................................................................... 472<br />

Jian Han<br />

28 Pathogen Detection <strong>in</strong> the Genomic Era ..................................... 505<br />

Elizabeth M. Marlowe and Donna M. Wolk<br />

Index 525

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