Table 2.
Summarizing table of relevant diagnostic tools for detecting lateral gene transfers of ARGs.
| Conventional methods | Non-conventional methods | Microfluidics | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular techniques | PCR-based methods | Genome sequencing and metagenomics | Whole genome sequencing (WGS) | Quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM) |
| Isothermal amplification methods | Pyrosequencing | |||
| DNA microarrays | Short and long read combination | |||
| Nanopore sequencing | ||||
| MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry | ||||