Antifungal agents : methods and protocols

Part I. Introduction Susceptibility Testing Methods of Antifungal Agents Erika J. Ernst Part II. Antifungal Resistance Deoxyribonucleic Acid Fingerprinting Methods for Candida Species Shawn R. Lockhart, Claude Pujol, Andrew R. Dodgson, and David R. Soll CARE-2 Fingerprinting of Candida albicans Isolates Joachim Morschhauser, Peter Staib, and Gerwald Kohler Targeted Gene Deletion in Candida albicans Wild-Type Strains by MPAR Flipping Joachim Morschhauser, Peter Staib, and Gerwald Kohler Application of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Microarray Analysis to the Study of Azole Antifungal Resistance in Candida albicans Katherine S. Barker and P. David Rogers Application of Proteomic Analysis to the Study of Azole Antifungal Resistance in Candida albicans Massoumeh Z. Hooshdaran, George M. Hilliard, and P. David Rogers Techniques for Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Candida albicans Biofilms Gordon Ramage and Jose Luis Lopez-Ribot Part III. Antifungal Development and Evaluation Natural Products and Antifungal Drug Discovery Melissa R. Jacob and Larry A. Walker Use of an Animal Model of Disseminated Candidiasis in the Evaluation of Antifungal Therapy David Andes Murine Model of Invasive Aspergillosis Russell E. Lewis and Nathan P. Wiederhold Antifungal Combinations Roxana G. Vitale, Javier Afeltra, and Eric Dannaoui Post-Antifungal Effect Methods Roxana G. Vitale Part IV. Host Responses and Immunotherapy Evaluation of Immunotherapy in Invasive Candidiasis: Antifungal Activity and Cytokine Expression Assays Maria Simitsopoulou and Emmanuel Roilides Interaction of Histoplasma capsulatum With Human Macrophages, Dendritic Cells, and Neutrophils Simon L. Newman Immunology of Infection Caused by Cryptococcusneoformans Floyd L. Wormley, Jr. and John R. Perfect Index