Quantitative real-time PCR in applied microbiology / edited by Martin Filion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technical considerations: An introduction to the real-time polymerase chain reaction / Stephen A. Bustin, Sara Zaccara and Tania Nolan. Instrumentation and fluorescent chemistries used in quantitative polymerase chain reaction / Mathilde H. Josefsen [and others]. Quantification strategies in real-time polymerase chain reaction / Michael W. Pfaffl. GenEx : data analysis software / Mikael Kubista [and others] -- qPCR for quantifying microorganisms: Quantification of microorganisms targeting conserved genes in complex environmental samples using quantitative polymerase chain reaction / Claudia Goyer and Catherine E. Dandie. Quantification of microorganisms using a functional gene approach / Lia C.R.S. Teixeira and Etienne Yergeau. Using quantitative polymerase chain reaction for water microbial risk assessments / Jorge Santo Domingo [and others]. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction in food microbiology / Luca Cocolin and Kalliopi Rantsiou -- RT-qPCR for studying microbial gene expression: Studying microbial gene expression in complex environmental matrices using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction / Vijay J. Gadkar and Martin Filion. Quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for validating microbial microarray data / Dan Tulpan, Michelle Davey and Mark Laflamme. Future trends in quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction technology and their implication in applied microbiology / Vijay J. Gadkar and Martin Filion.