Includes bibliographical references and index.

Detection of adenoviruses / Kanti Pabbaraju, Sallene Wong, and Julie D. Fox -- Alphaviruses / A.M. Powers and John T. Roehrig -- Detection of human caliciviruses in fecal samples by RT-PCR / Robert L. Atmar, Frederick H. Neill, and Françoise S. Le Guyader -- Detection of dengue virus / Nagesh K. Tripathi ... [et al.] -- Detection of enteroviruses from clinical specimens / Chit Laa Poh and Eng Lee Tan -- The detection of hepatitis viruses / Peter Karayiannis -- Molecular detection of herpesviruses / Harald H. Kessler and Sophie Heyszl -- HIV drug resistance testing / Patricia Cane -- Detection, quantification, and characterisation of HIV/SIV / Neil Berry, Carolina Herrera, and Martin Cranage -- Simultaneous molecular detection and confirmation of influenza AH5, with internal control / Joanna S. Ellis and Martin D. Curran -- Detection of measles, mumps, and rubella viruses / Graham Tipples and Joanne Hiebert -- Detection of high-risk mucosal human papillomavirus DNA in human specimens by a novel and sensitive multiplex PCR method combined with DNA microarray / Tarik Gheit and Massimo Tommasino -- The detection of parvoviruses / Sean Doyle -- Detection and characterization of polioviruses / Javier Martin -- Detection of human-pathogenic poxviruses / Andreas Kurth and Andreas Nitsche -- Lyssaviruses : special emphasis on rabies virus and other members of the lyssavirus genus / Graeme Harkess and Anthony R. Fooks -- Simultaneous detection and differentiation of respiratory syncytial virus and other respiratory viral pathogens / Susan E. Sefers, Haijing Li, and Yi-Wei Tang -- Rotaviruses / Jim Gray and Miren Iturriza-Gómara -- Detection of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, hanta, and sandfly fever viruses by real-time RT-PCR / Sofi M. Ibrahim ... [et al.] -- Detection of SARS coronavirus / J.S. Malik Peiris and Leo L.M. Poon -- Detection of West Nile virus / Elizabeth B. Kauffman ... [et al.] -- Point of care testing: diagnosis outside the virology laboratory / Christopher C. Blyth, Robert Booy, and Dominic E. Dwyer -- Modelling emerging viral epidemics for public health protection / Steve Leach and ian Hall.

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