Medical Mycology: Cellular and Molecular Techniques

List of Contributors.

1 Diagnosis of Candida Infection in Tissue by Immunohistochemistry (Malcolm D. Richardson, Riina Rautemaa and Jarkko Hietanen).

2 Transmission Electron Microscopy of Pathogenic Fungi (Guy Tronchin and Jean-Philippe Bouchara).

3 Evaluation of Molecular Responses and Antifungal Activity of Phagocytes to Opportunistic Fungi (Maria Simitsopoulou and Emmanuel Roilides).

4 Determination of the Virulence Factors of Candida Albicans and Related Yeast Species (Khaled H. Abu-Elteen and Mawieh Hamad).

5 Analysis of Drug Resistance in Pathogenic Fungi (Gary P. Moran, Emmanuelle Pinjon, David C. Coleman and Derek J. Sullivan).

6 Animal Models for Evaluation of Antifungal Efficacy Against Filamentous Fungi (Eric Dannaoui).

7 Proteomic Analysis of Pathogenic Fungi (Alan Murphy).

8 Extraction and Detection of DNA and RNA from Yeast (Patrick Geraghty and Kevin Kavanagh).

9 Microarrays for Studying Pathogenicity in Candida Albicans (André Nantel, Tracey Rigby, Hervé´ Hogues and Malcolm Whiteway).

10 Molecular Techniques for Application with Aspergillus Fumigatus (Nir Osherov and Jacob Romano).

11 Promoter Analysis and Generation of Knock-out Mutants in Aspergillus Fumigatus (Matthias Brock, Alexander Gehrke, Venelina Sugareva and Axel A. Brakhage).

12 Microarray Technology for Studying the Virulence of Aspergillus Fumigatus (Darius Armstrong-James and Thomas Rogers).

13 Techniques and Strategies for Studying Virulence Factors in Cryptococcus Neoformans (Nancy Lee and Guilhem Janbon).

14 Genetic Manipulation of Zygomycetes (Ashraf S. Ibrahim and Christopher D. Skory).

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