Acinetobacter baumannii : methods and protocols /: methods and protocols. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Indranil Biswas, Philip N. Rather.
• Editors: Biswas, Indranil; Rather, Philip N
• Contents: 1. Specimen Collection, Processing, Culture, and Biochemical Identification of Acinetobacter spp. Binesh Lal, Saranya Vijayakumar, Shalini Anandan, and Balaji Veeraraghavan 2. Genotyping of Acinetobacter baumannii in Nosocomial Outbreak and Surveillance Saranya Vijayakumar, Balaji Veeraraghavan, Agila K Pragasam, and Yamuna Devi Bakthavachalam 3. Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methods for Acinetobacter spp Balaji Veeraraghavan, Saranya Vijayakumar, Agila K Pragasam, Yamuna Devi Bakthavachalam, and John A J Prakash 4. Methods to Evaluate Colistin Heteroresistance in Acinetobacter baumannii Edgar X. Sherman, Jessie E. Wozniak, and David S. Weiss 5. Testing Metal Sensitivity of A. baumannii Strains: Survival in Copper Supplemented Liquid Media and on Copper-Containing Surfaces Caitlin L. Williams and D. Scott Merrell 6. A New Method for Determination of Minimum Biofilm Eradication Concentration for Accurate Antimicrobial Therapy Nithin Sam, Raziya Fathima, and Balaji Veeraraghavan 7. Transformation of Acinetobacter baumannii: Electroporation Mitchell G. Thompson and Süleyman Yildirim 8. Methods for Natural Transformation in Acinetobacter baumannii Gottfried Wilharm and Evelyn Skiebe 9. Vesicle Mediated Gene Transfer in A. baumannii Shweta Fulsundar, Sara Domingues and Kaare M. Nielsen 10. Targeted Gene Replacement in Acinetobacter baumannii Indranil Biswas and Joshua Mettlach 11. RecET-Mediated Recombineering in Acinetobacter baumannii Ashley T. Tucker, Matthew J. Powers, M. Stephen Trent, and Bryan W. Davies 12. Methods for Tn-seq Analysis in Acinetobacter baumannii Larry A. Gallagher 13. Tn7-Based Single Copy Insertion Vectors for Acinetobacter baumannii Kaleigh Ducas-Mowchun, P. Malaka De Silva, Rakesh Patidar, Herbert P. Schweizer, and Ayush Kumar 14. Distinguishing Colony Opacity Variants and Measuring Opacity Variation in Acinetobacter baumannii Sarah E. Anderson and Philip N. Rather 15. A Simple Static Biofilm Assay for Acinetobacter baumannii Indranil Biswas and Joshua Mettlach 16. BioFluxTM 200 Microfluidic System to Study A. baumannii Biofilm Formation in a Dynamic Mode of Growth Bertrand Naudin, Anja Heins, Stéphane Pinhal, Emmanuelle Dé, and Marion Nico 17. In Vitro Motility Assays for Acinetobacter Species Indranil Biswas, Alexandra Machen and Joshua Mettlach 18. Desiccation Tolerance Assays for Acinetobacter baumannii Xun Wang, M. Stephen Trent, and Bryan W. Davies 19. Measuring Intracellular Metal Concentration via ICP-MS Following Copper Exposure Caitlin L. Williams, Heather M. Neu, Sarah L.J. Michel, and D. Scott Merrell 20. PBP Isolation and DD-Carboxypeptidase Assay Shilpa Pal and Anindya S. Ghosh 21. Extraction and Visualization of Capsular Polysaccharide from Acinetobacter baumannii Kyle A. Tipton and Philip N. Rather 22. Isolation of Lipid Cell Envelope Components from Acinetobacter baumannii Matthew J. Powers, Carmen M. Herrera, Ashley T. Tucker, Bryan W. Davies, and M. Stephen Trent 23. Methods for Detecting N-acyl-homoserine Lactone Production in Acinetobacter baumannii Aimee R. Paulk Tierney and Philip N. Rather 24. Isolation and Characterization of the Acinetobactin and Baumannoferrin Siderophores Produced by Acinetobacter baumannii William F. Penwell and Luis A. Actis 25. Skin and Soft Tissue Models for Acinetobacter baumannii Infection Daniel V. Zurawski, Jaideep Banerjee, Yonas A. Alamneh, Jonathan P. Shearer, and Samandra T. Demons 26. Assessing Acinetobacter baumannii Virulence and Persistence in a Murine Model of Lung Infection Lauren D. Palmer, Erin R. Green, Jessica R. Sheldon, and Eric P. Skaar 27. Computational Prediction of sRNA in Acinetobacter baumannii Sankalp Arya, Vineet Dubey, Deepak Sen, Atin Sharma, and Ranjana Pathania 28. Global Metabolic Analyses of Acinetobacter baumannii Mohd Hafidz Mahamad Maifiah, Tony Velkov, Darren J. Creek, and Jian Li 29. Reverse Vaccinology Approach to Potential Vaccine Candidates against Acinetobacter baumannii Fatima Shahid, Shifa Tariq Ashraf, and Amjad Ali.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Humana Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 571.9/93; Acinetobacter infections; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781493991181; 1493991183
• Related ISBNs: 9781493991174; 1493991175
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 25, 2019).
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