Author: | Tang, Y. W. |
Article Title: | Technology advances in medical microbiology |
Abstract: | Medical microbiology is the branch of microbiology devoted to the study of the physiological and pathogenic processes that underlie microbial infections in human and animal hosts. Technical advances including development and implementation of -omic technologies have made constant and enormous progress in various medical microbiology areas, including etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | pathogenesis; treatment; polymerase chain reaction; proteomics; transcriptomics; diagnosis; genomics; epidemiology; etiology; metabolomics; anton van leeuwenhoek; frederick sanger; gram stain; high-throughput sequencing of rna transcripts; kary mullis; matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry; medical microbiology; next gene sequencing; richard petri; robert koch; volatile organic compounds; walter gilbert; walther and angelina hesse |
Journal Title: | Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences |
ISSN: | 978-0-12-801238-3 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. |
Date Published: | 2014-01-01 |
Language: | English |
DOI: | 10.1016/b978-0-12-801238-3.07827-2 |
PROVIDER: | scopus |
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Notes: | Export Date: 2 December 2015 -- Source: Scopus |