Meningococcal Disease - Pollard, Andrew J.; Maiden, Martin C.J.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2001)
Microbiology and Laboratory Diagnosis -- Isolation, Culture, and Identification of Meningococci from Clinical Specimens -- PCR Diagnosis -- Detection of Meningococcal Antigen by Latex Agglutination -- Meningococcal Serology -- Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing -- Molecular Approach for the Study of Penicillin Resistance In Neisseria meningitidis -- Overview: Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Population Biology -- Serological Characterization -- Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis -- Nucleotide Sequencing of Antigen Genes of Neisseria meningitidis -- Multi-Locus Sequence Typing -- Capsular Operons -- Molecular Analysis of the Meningococcal LPS Expression -- Genome Sequencing and Annotation -- Representational Difference Analysis -- Managing Outbreaks -- Global Trends in Meningococcal Disease -- Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Population Biology -- Surveillance of Meningococcal Disease in Europe -- Global Surveillance for Meningococcal Disease -- Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease in North America -- Computational Methods for Meningococcal Population Studies -- Clinical Studies -- Clinical Scoring Systems in Meningococcal Disease -- Quantitative Detection of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides in Clinical Specimens -- Isolation and Analysis of Radiolabeled Meningococcal Endotoxin -- Cytokine Measurement In Vivo and In Vitro -- Cytokine Bioassays -- Molecular Analysis of Gene-Polymorphisms Affecting the Host Response to Infection -- Coagulation Studies -- Complement Pathways and Meningococcal Disease -- Evaluation of New Treatments for Meningococcal Disease -- Studies on the Effect of Neisserial Porins on Apoptosis of Mammalian Cells -- Molecular Recognition Mechanisms of Meningococci -- Experimental Nasopharyngeal Colonization by Neisseria meningitidis using Explant Organ Culture -- Invasion of the Central Nervous System by Neisseria meningitidis -- Interactions of Meningococci with Endothelium -- A Promoter Probe Plasmid Based on Green Fluorescent Protein -- Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis.
Keywords: Infectious diseases; Infectious Diseases