1. Overview of Invasive Fungal Infections
Nina L. Tuite and Katrina Lacey
2. Fungal Diagnostics: Review of Commercially Available Methods
Javier Yugueros Marcos and David H. Pincus
3. Rapid Methods for the Extraction and Archiving of Molecular Grade Fungal Genomic DNA
Andrew M. Borman, Michael Palmer and Elizabeth M. Johnson
4. Apex DNA Microarray for the Identification of Pathogenic Fungi
Arianna Tavanti, Stefano Landi, and Sonia Senesi
5. Microscopic Detection of Yeasts using Fluorescence in situ Hybridization
João 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(R)
Stephan Fricke, Nadja Hilger, Christopher Oelkrug, Christian Fricke
8. Quantitative and Multiplex Detection of Pathogenic Fungi using Padlock Probes, Generic qPCR and Suspension Array Readout
Magnus Jobs, Ronnie Eriksson and Jonas Blomberg
9. Species-Specific Identification of a Wide Range of Clinically Relevant Fungal Pathogens by the Luminex xMAP Technology
Preuner S., Lion T.
10. Applied Gene Histopathology: Identification of Fusarium Species in FFPE Tissue Sections by in situ Hybridization
Yoichiro 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 Strains
Orsolya Bouquet, Béla Kocsis, Ferenc Kilár, and Ildikó Kustos
12. Surface Plasmon Resonance Genosensor for the Detection of Fusarium culmorum
Michelangelo Pascale, Francesco Zezza, and Giancarlo Perrone
13 Hyperbranching Rolling Circle Amplification (HRCA), An Improved Protocol for Discriminating Between Closely Related Fungal Species
Jiufeng Sun and Sybren de Hoog
14. Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification Based Detection of Fusarium graminearum
Ludwig Niessen
15. Multiplex-Tandem PCR for Fungal Diagnostics
Anna Lau, Keith Stanley, and Tania Sorrell
16. Specific Detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in Clinical Samples
by Flow Cytometry
Joana Barbosa, Sofia Costa-de-Oliveira, Ana Teresa Silva, Acácio Gonçalves Rodrigues, Cidália Pina-Vaz
