1. Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Laboratory Aspects of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections
Elizabeth Palavecino
2. Community-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Case Studies
Madeleine G. Sowash and Anne-Catrin Uhlemann
3. Rapid Methods for Detection of MRSA in Clinical Specimens
Elizabeth Palavecino
4. Immunofluorescence Microscopy for the Detection of Surface Antigens in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Yekaterina Timofeyeva, Ingrid L. Scully, and Annaliesa S. Anderson
5. Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS)-PCR Identification of MRSA
Shin-ichi Fujita
6. Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Typing of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates
Yiping He, Yanping Xie, and Sue Reed
7. Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) of Staphylococcus aureus
Nicholas A. Saunders and Anne Holmes
8. Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) Analysis of MRSA
Teruyo Ito, Kyoko Kuwahara, Yuki Katayama, Yuki Uehara, Xiao Han, Yoko Kondo, and Keiichi Hiramatsu
9. Genetic Interruption of Target Genes for Investigation of Virulence Factors
Adhar C. Manna
10. Molecular Analysis of Staphylococcal Superantigens
Wilmara Salgado-Pabón, Laura C. Case-Cook, and Patrick M. Schlievert
11. Investigation of Staphylococcus aureus Adhesion and Invasion of Host Cells
Junshu Yang and Yinduo Ji
12. Investigation of Biofilm Formation in Clinical Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus
James E. Cassat, Mark S. Smeltzer, and Chia Y. Lee
13. Transcriptomic Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus Using Microarray and Advanced Next-Generation RNA-seq Technologies
Ting Lei, Aaron Becker, and Yinduo Ji
14. Proteomic Approach to Investigate Pathogenicity and Metabolism of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Patrice François, Alexander Scherl, Denis Hochstrasser, and Jacques Schrenzel
15. Metobolomic Investigation of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Ting Lei, Lei Wang, Chi Chen, and Yinduo Ji
16. Treatment of Infections Due to Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Gregory M. Anstead, Jose Cadena, and Heta Javeri
17. Anti-Infective Drug Development for MRSA
Anu Daniel
18. Animal Models in Drug Development for MRSA
Andrea Marra