Main description:

A comprehensive and updated volume for the clinical virologist.

Details laboratory procedures for detecting and handling viruses, from specimen requirements and quality assurance to virus detection and identification, from the fundamentals through the latest molecular methods.
Presents the most current knowledge on the wide range of specific viral pathogens.
Includes information on services provided by federal and state public health virology laboratories.
Provides essential information for clinicians and laboratory virologists.

This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

Contents:

Table of Contents

SECTION I. LABORATORY PROCEDURES FOR DETECTING VIRUSES

1. Quality Assurance in Clinical Virology

Christine C. Ginocchio

2. Specimen Requirements: Selection, Collection, Transport, and Processing

Thomas E. Grys and Thomas F. Smith

3. Primary Isolation of Viruses

Marie L. Landry

4. The Cytopathology of Virus Infection

Roger D. Smith and Anthony Kubat

5. Electron Microscopy and Immunoelectron Microscopy

Raymond Tellier, John Nishikawa, and Martin Petric

6. Immunofluorescence

Ted E. Schutzbank, Robyn McGuire, and David R. Scholl

7. Enzyme Immunoassays and Immunochromatography

Diane S. Leland

8. Immunoenzymatic Techniques for Detection of Viral Antigens in Cells and Tissue

Christopher R. Polage and Cathy A. Petti

9. Neutralization

David Schnurr

10. Hemadsorption and Hemagglutination-Inhibition

Stephen A. Young

11. Immunoglobulin M Determinations

Dean D. Erdman and Lia M. Haynes

12. Susceptibility Test Methods: Viruses

Max Q. Arens and Ella M. Swierkosz

13. Application of Western Blotting to Diagnosis of Viral Infections

Mark B. Meads and Peter G. Medveczky

14. Nucleic Acid Amplification and Detection Methods

Danny L. Wiedbrauk

15. Quantitative Molecular Techniques

Frederick S. Nolte

16. Flow Cytometry

James J. McSharry

SECTION II. VIRAL PATHOGENS

17. Respiratory Viruses

Christine Robinson

18. Enteroviruses and Parechoviruses

Mark A. Pallansch and M. Steven Oberste

19. Rotavirus, Caliciviruses, Astroviruses, Enteric Adenoviruses, and Other Viruses Causing Acute Gastroenteritis

Tibor Farkas and Xi Jiang

20. Waterborne Hepatitis

David A. Anderson

21. Blood-Borne Hepatitis Viruses: Hepatitis Viruses B, C, and D and Candidate Agents of Cryptogenetic Hepatitis

Mauro Bendinelli, Mauro Pistello, Fabrizio Maggi, and Marialinda Vatteroni

22. Rabies

Charles V. Trimarchi and Robert J. Rudd

23. Arboviruses

John T. Roehrig and Robert S. Lanciotti

24. Human Papillomaviruses

Raphael P. Viscidi and Keerti V. Shah

25. Human Polyomaviruses

Raphael P. Viscidi and Keerti V. Shah

26. Herpes Simplex Viruses

Laure Aurelian

27. Cytomegalovirus, Varicella-Zoster Virus, and Epstein-Barr Virus

Sonali K. Sanghavi, David T. Rowe, and Charles R. Rinaldo, Jr.

28. Human Herpesviruses 6, 7, and 8

Philip E. Pellett and Sheila C. Dollard

29. Poxviruses

Victoria A. Olson, Russell L. Regnery, and Inger K. Damon

30. Parvoviruses

Stanley J. Naides

31. Measles, Mumps, and Rubella

William J. Bellini and Joseph P. Icenogle

32. Human Retroviruses, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and Human T-Lymphotropic Retrovirus (HTLV)

Joerg Schupbach

33. Chlamydiae

Charlotte A. Gaydos

34. Rodent-Borne Viruses

Brian Hjelle and Fernando Torres-Perez

APPENDICES: REFERENCE LABORATORIES

A1. Virology Services Offered by the Federal Reference Laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Brian W. J. Mahy

A2. State Public Health Laboratory Virology Services

Rosemary Humes