The Pathogenesis of Disease Due to Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae.- The Pathogenesis of Disease Due to Type b Haemophilus influenzae.- General Methods for Culturing Haemophilus influenzae.- Transformation of Haemophilus influenzae.- Diagnosis of Infection.- Characterization of Plasmids.- Protein Characterization by Two-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis.- Monitoring Gene Expression Using DNA Arrays.- Gene Expression Technology.- The Genome Sequence of Haemophilus influenzae.- Structural Profiling of Short-Chain Lipopolysaccharides from Haemophilus influenzae.- Mutagenesis of H. influenzae.- Transposon Tn 10.- In Vivo Expression of Bacterial Genes During Human Infections.- ELISA.- Opsonophagocytosis Assay Using Flow-Cytometry.- In Vitro Models of Infection I-Human Respiratory Tissue Organ Culture.- In Vitro Models of Infection II-Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVECs) System.- Animal Models.

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