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    Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Disease
    • Introduction to Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Disease
      • Reference
    • Microscopy
      • Gram Stain
      • Acid-Fast and Modified Acid-Fast Stains
      • Fluorescent Stains
      • Wet Mounts
      • India Ink Stain
      • Warthin-Starry Stain and Dieterle Stain
      • Wright Stain and Giemsa Stain
      • Trichrome Stain (Gomori-Wheatley Stain) and Iron Hematoxylin Stain
    • Culture
      • Specimen Collection
        • References
      • Special Considerations for Culture
        • Anaerobes
        • Mycobacteria
        • Viruses
        • Fungi
    • 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
      • Serologic assays
      • Chromatographic methods
      • Mass spectrometry
    • Nucleic Acid–Based Identification Methods for Infectious Disease
      • Unamplified testing
      • Nucleic acid amplification
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