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Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Disease
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Introduction to Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Disease
Microscopy
Gram stain
Acid-fast and modified acid-fast stains
Fluorescent stains
Wet mounts
India ink (colloidal carbon) stain
Warthin-Starry stain and Dieterle stain
Wright stain and Giemsa stain
Trichrome stain (Gomori-Wheatley stain) and iron hematoxylin stain
Culture
Specimen collection
Special considerations for culture
Susceptibility Testing
Qualitative methods
Semiquantitative methods
Nucleic acid–based methods
Immunologic Tests for Infectious Disease
Agglutination tests
Complement fixation
Enzyme immunoassays
Precipitation tests
Western blot test
Non-Nucleic Acid–Based Identification Methods for Infectious Disease
Chromatographic methods
Mass spectroscopy
Nucleic Acid–Based Identification Methods for Infectious Disease
Unamplified testing
Nucleic acid amplification