Part I. Diagnosis of Resistance.
Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of vanA, vanB, vanC-1, and vanC-2/3 Genes in Enterococci,
Drug Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Through the Mycolic Acid Index,
Micro-Well Phage Replication Assay for Screening Mycobacteria for Resistance to Rifampin and Streptomycin, .
Application of SSCP to Identification of Resistance Mutations,
Quantitative, Single-Tube, Nested, PCR (QSTN-PCR) for Determining the Antibiotic Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Rapid Rifamycin Susceptibility Testing of Small-Volume Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cultures by Detection of Precursor rRNA,
Detection of Penicillin Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoiae by a Seminested PCR Strategy,
Diagnosis of Penicillin Resistance by PCR-RFLP,
Detection Methods of Glycopeptide-Restraint Staphylococcus aureus I: Susceptibility Testing,
Detection Methods for Glycopeptide-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus II: Cell Wall Analysis,
Multiplex PCR for the Rapid Simultaneous Speciation and Detection of Methicillin-Resistance and Genes Encoding Toxin Production in Staphylococcus aureus,
Chromogenic Detection of Aminoglycoside Phosphotransferases,
Part II. Monitoring Response to Treatment.
Quantification of M. tuberculosis DNA in Sputum During the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis,
Isolation of M. tuberculosis RNA from Sputum,
Detection of Viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Reverse Transcriptase-Strand Displacement of mRNA,
Part III. Molecular Epidemiology.
BOX PCR Fingerprinting for Molecular Typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae, A.
Restriction Fragment End Labeling Analysis: High-Resolution Genomic Typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates,
Pulse-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Epidemiological Studies of Streptococcus pneumoniae,
Outer Membrane Profiles of Clonally Related Klebsiella pneumoniae,
Atomic Force Microscopy: Theory and Practice in Bacteria Morphostructural Analysis,
Part IV. Biology of Resistance.
Assessing the Activity of Bacterial Multidrug Efflux Pumps,
The Use of a Continuous Culture System to Study the Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Bacteria in Biofilm,
Estimation of Mutation Rates in Antibiotic Research,
In Vitro Assessment of the Fitness of Resistant M. tuberculosis Bacteria by Competition Assay,
Purification of DNA Topoisomerases and Inhibition by Fluoroqinolones,
Site-Directed Mutagenesis to Determine Structure Function Relationships in Streptococcus pneumoniae Penicillin-Binding Protein Genes,
Detection of Low Affinity Penicillin-Binding Protein Variants in Streptococcus pneumoniae,
Part V. Transmission of Resistance.
Mobilization of Transposons: Rationale and Techniques for Detection,