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Guest Commentary:

Joseph E. McDade and William J. Hausler, Jr.

Modernization of Public Health Laboratories in a Privatization Atmosphere
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 609-613. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes:

Fritz Stauffer, Heinrich Haber, Armin Rieger, Robert Mutschlechner, Petra Hasenberger, Vincent J. Tevere, and Karen K. Y. Young

Genus Level Identification of Mycobacteria from Clinical Specimens by Using an Easy-To-Handle Mycobacterium-Specific PCR Assay
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 614-617. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Fredy Gamboa, Gregorio Fernandez, Eduardo Padilla, José M. Manterola, Joan Lonca, Pere Joan Cardona, Lurdes Matas, and Vicente Ausina

Comparative Evaluation of Initial and New Versions of the Gen-Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Respiratory and Nonrespiratory Specimens
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 684-689. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

R. J. Whittington, I. Marsh, M. J. Turner, S. McAllister, E. Choy, G. J. Eamens, D. J. Marshall, and S. Ottaway

Rapid Detection of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in Clinical Samples from Ruminants and in Spiked Environmental Samples by Modified BACTEC 12B Radiometric Culture and Direct Confirmation by IS900 PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 701-707. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

La Donna C. Carlson, Carolyn K. Wallis, and Marie B. Coyle

Standardized BACTEC Method To Measure Clarithromycin Susceptibility of Mycobacterium genavense
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 748-751. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gregor W. Leckie, Dwight D. Erickson, Qizhi He, Ingrid E. Facey, Bor-Chian Lin, Jianli Cao, and Folim G. Halaka

Method for Reduction of Inhibition in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific Ligase Chain Reaction DNA Amplification Assay
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 764-767. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bacteriology:

Francis Martineau, François J. Picard, Paul H. Roy, Marc Ouellette, and Michel G. Bergeron

Species-Specific and Ubiquitous-DNA-Based Assays for Rapid Identification of Staphylococcus aureus
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 618-623. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Guido Funke, Paul A. Lawson, and Matthew D. Collins

Corynebacterium riegelii sp. nov., an Unusual Species Isolated from Female Patients with Urinary Tract Infections
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 624-627. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Toshihiro Mitsuda, Tetsunori Muto, Mikiko Yamada, Nobuyoshi Kobayashi, Masanori Toba, Yukoh Aihara, Akira Ito, and Shumpei Yokota

Epidemiological Study of a Food-Borne Outbreak of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli O25:NM by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Analysis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 652-656. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

R. Ziegler, I. Johnscher, P. Martus, D. Lenhardt, and H.-M. Just

Controlled Clinical Laboratory Comparison of Two Supplemented Aerobic and Anaerobic Media Used in Automated Blood Culture Systems To Detect Bloodstream Infections
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 657-661. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jeannette Adu-Bobie, Gad Frankel, Christopher Bain, Azizedite Guedes Goncalves, Luiz R. Trabulsi, Gill Douce, Stuart Knutton, and Gordon Dougan

Detection of Intimins , , , and , Four Intimin Derivatives Expressed by Attaching and Effacing Microbial Pathogens
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 662-668. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ron Dagan, Ofra Shriker, Inbal Hazan, Eugene Leibovitz, David Greenberg, Francis Schlaeffer, and Rachel Levy

Prospective Study To Determine Clinical Relevance of Detection of Pneumococcal DNA in Sera of Children by PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 669-673. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

C. Solano, B. Sesma, M. Alvarez, T. J. Humphrey, C. J. Thorns, and C. Gamazo

Discrimination of Strains of Salmonella enteritidis with Differing Levels of Virulence by an In Vitro Glass Adherence Test
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 674-678. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Lena Lind-Brandberg, Christina Welinder-Olsson, Teresa Lagergård, John Taranger, Birger Trollfors, and Gunilla Zackrisson

Evaluation of PCR for Diagnosis of Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis Infections
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 679-683. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

S. Gouveia, M. E. Proctor, M.-S. Lee, J. B. Luchansky, and C. W. Kaspar

Genomic Comparisons and Shiga Toxin Production among Escherichia coli O157:H7 Isolates from a Day Care Center Outbreak and Sporadic Cases in Southeastern Wisconsin
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 727-733. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Adriana Mosca, Paula Summanen, Sydney M. Finegold, Giampiero De Michele, and Giuseppe Miragliotta

Cellular Fatty Acid Composition, Soluble-Protein Profile, and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Eubacterium lentum
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 752-755. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Charu Sharma, M. Thungapathra, A. Ghosh, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Arnab Basu, Rupak Mitra, Indira Basu, S. K. Bhattacharya, T. Shimada, T. Ramamurthy, T. Takeda, S. Yamasaki, Y. Takeda, and G. Balakrish Nair

Molecular Analysis of Non-O1, Non-O139 Vibrio cholerae Associated with an Unusual Upsurge in the Incidence of Cholera-Like Disease in Calcutta, India
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 756-763. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Guiqing Wang, Alje P. van Dam, Lodewijk Spanjaard, and Jacob Dankert

Molecular Typing of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato by Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Fingerprinting Analysis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 768-776. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Shideh Khashe and J. Michael Janda

Biochemical and Pathogenic Properties of Shewanella alga and Shewanella putrefaciens
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 783-787. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

J. H. Jorgensen, M. L. McElmeel, and S. A. Crawford

Evaluation of the Dade MicroScan MICroSTREP Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Panel with Selected Streptococcus pneumoniae Challenge Strains and Recent Clinical Isolates
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 788-791. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Chien-Ming Shih, Jin-Choung Wang, Li-Lian Chao, and Trong-Neng Wu

Lyme Disease in Taiwan: First Human Patient with Characteristic Erythema Chronicum Migrans Skin Lesion
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 807-808. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Norbert Schnitzler, Rainer Meilicke, Georg Conrads, Darius Frank, and Gerhard Haase

Staphylococcus lugdunensis: Report of a Case of Peritonitis and an Easy-To-Perform Screening Strategy
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 812-813. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

S. Appuhamy, J. G. Coote, J. C. Low, and R. Parton

PCR Methods for Rapid Identification and Characterization of Actinobacillus seminis Strains
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 814-817. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

J. Friedl, A. Stift, G. A. Berlakovich, S. Taucher, M. Gnant, R. Steininger, and F. Mühlbacher

Haemophilus parainfluenzae Liver Abscess after Successful Liver Transplantation
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 818-819. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Celso Luíz Cardoso, Carla Barbosa Muraro, Vera Lúcia Dias Siqueira, and Márcio Guilhermetti

Simplified Technique for Detection of Significant Bacteriuria by Microscopic Examination of Urine
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 820-823. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Giovanni Di Bonaventura, Evandro Ricci, Nicoletta Della Loggia, Giovanni Catamo, and Raffaele Piccolomini

Evaluation of the E Test for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates from Patients with Long-Term Bladder Catheterization
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 824-826. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Haluk Vahaboglu, Recep Ozturk, Huriye Akbal, Suat Saribas, and Ozlem Tansel

Practical Approach for Detection and Identification of OXA-10-Derived Ceftazidime-Hydrolyzing Extended-Spectrum -Lactamases
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 827-829. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

M. A. Gardam and M. A. Miller

Optochin Revisited: Defining the Optimal Type of Blood Agar for Presumptive Identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 833-834. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Stefano Morabito, Helge Karch, Patrizia Mariani-Kurkdjian, Herbert Schmidt, Fabio Minelli, Edouard Bingen, and Alfredo Caprioli

Enteroaggregative, Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O111:H2 Associated with an Outbreak of Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 840-842. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Charu Sharma, Amit Ghosh, A. Dalsgaard, Anita Forslund, R. K. Ghosh, S. K. Bhattacharya, and G. Balakrish Nair

Molecular Evidence that a Distinct Vibrio cholerae O1 Biotype El Tor Strain in Calcutta May Have Spread to the African Continent
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 843-844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Virology:

Gerd Haberhausen, Judith Pinsl, Carl-Christoph Kuhn, and Christine Markert-Hahn

Comparative Study of Different Standardization Concepts in Quantitative Competitive Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 628-633. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Stephen K. N. Ho, Chi-Yuen Lo, Ignatius K. P. Cheng, and Tak-Mao Chan

Rapid Cytomegalovirus pp65 Antigenemia Assay by Direct Erythrocyte Lysis and Immunofluorescence Staining
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 638-640. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Linda Blitz, Flor H. Pujol, Paul D. Swenson, Leticia Porto, Ricardo Atencio, Mary Araujo, Luciana Costa, Diana Callejas Monsalve, Jaime R. Torres, Howard A. Fields, Steve Lambert, Caroline Van Geyt, Helene Norder, Lars O. Magnius, José M. Echevarría, and Lieven Stuyver

Antigenic Diversity of Hepatitis B Virus Strains of Genotype F in Amerindians and Other Population Groups from Venezuela
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 648-651. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Frederick S. Nolte, Jodi Boysza, Cathy Thurmond, W. Scott Clark, and Jeffrey L. Lennox

Clinical Comparison of an Enhanced-Sensitivity Branched-DNA Assay and Reverse Transcription-PCR for Quantitation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA in Plasma
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 716-720. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Fabienne Bouche, Wim Ammerlaan, Francoise Berthet, Sophie Houard, Francois Schneider, and Claude P. Muller

Immunosorbent Assay Based on Recombinant Hemagglutinin Protein Produced in a High-Efficiency Mammalian Expression System for Surveillance of Measles Immunity
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 721-726. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Geneviève Eugene-Ruellan, François Freymuth, Chokri Bahloul, Hassan Badrane, Astrid Vabret, and Nöel Tordo

Detection of Respiratory Syncytial Virus A and B and Parainfluenzavirus 3 Sequences in Respiratory Tracts of Infants by a Single PCR with Primers Targeted to the L-Polymerase Gene and Differential Hybridization
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 796-801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Florence Damond, Ibtissam Loussert-Ajaka, Cristian Apetrei, Diane Descamps, Sandrine Souquière, Annie Leprêtre, Sophie Matheron, Françoise Brun-Vézinet, and François Simon

Highly Sensitive Method for Amplification of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 DNA
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 809-811. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hsiang Ju Lin, Louise Pedneault, and F. Blaine Hollinger

Intra-Assay Performance Characteristics of Five Assays for Quantification of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA in Plasma
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 835-839. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jan Groen, Grietje Van Dijk, Hubert G. M. Niesters, Willem I. Van Der Meijden, and Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus

Comparison of Two Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays and One Rapid Immunoblot Assay for Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2-Specific Antibodies in Serum
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 845-847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Maria C. do Nascimento, Laura M. Sumita, Vanda A. U. F. de Souza, and Cláudio S. Pannuti

Detection and Direct Typing of Herpes Simplex Virus in Perianal Ulcers of Patients with AIDS by PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 848-849. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Clinical Veterinary Microbiology:

R. Neiger, C. Dieterich, A. Burnens, A. Waldvogel, I. Corthésy-Theulaz, F. Halter, B. Lauterburg, and A. Schmassmann

Detection and Prevalence of Helicobacter Infection in Pet Cats
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 634-637. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tong Zhao, Michael P. Doyle, Barry G. Harmon, Cathy A. Brown, P. O. Eric Mueller, and Andrew H. Parks

Reduction of Carriage of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Cattle by Inoculation with Probiotic Bacteria
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 641-647. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mia Vanrobaeys, Peter De Herdt, Richard Ducatelle, Luc A. Devriese, Gerard Charlier, and Freddy Haesebrouck

Typhlitis Caused by Intestinal Serpulina-Like Bacteria in Domestic Guinea Pigs (Cavia porcellus)
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 690-694. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

William L. Nicholson, Susie Muir, John W. Sumner, and James E. Childs

Serologic Evidence of Infection with Ehrlichia spp. in Wild Rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae) in the United States
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 695-700. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Susana Torioni de Echaide, Donald P. Knowles, Travis C. McGuire, Guy H. Palmer, Carlos E. Suarez, and Terry F. McElwain

Detection of Cattle Naturally Infected with Anaplasma marginale in a Region of Endemicity by Nested PCR and a Competitive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Using Recombinant Major Surface Protein 5
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 777-782. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Domenico Iannelli, Letizia D'Apice, Domenico Fenizia, Luigi Serpe, Carlo Cottone, Maurizio Viscardi, and Rosanna Capparelli

Simultaneous Identification of Antibodies to Brucella abortus and Staphylococcus aureus in Milk Samples by Flow Cytometry
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 802-806. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mycology:

Deanna A. Sutton, Malcolm Slifkin, Robert Yakulis, and Michael G. Rinaldi

U.S. Case Report of Cerebral Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Ramichloridium obovoideum (R. mackenziei): Criteria for Identification, Therapy, and Review of Other Known Dematiaceous Neurotropic Taxa
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 708-715. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Chao-Hung Lee, Jannik Helweg-Larsen, Xing Tang, Shaoling Jin, Baozheng Li, Marilyn S. Bartlett, Jang-Jih Lu, Bettina Lundgren, Jens D. Lundgren, Mats Olsson, Sebastian B. Lucas, Patricia Roux, Antonietta Cargnel, Chiara Atzori, Olga Matos, and James W. Smith

Update on Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis Typing Based on Nucleotide Sequence Variations in Internal Transcribed Spacer Regions of rRNA Genes
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 734-741. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Maria Isabel Nogueira Cano, Patrícia Silva Cisalpino, Ivan Galindo, José Luiz Ramírez, Renato Arruda Mortara, and José Franco da Silveira

Electrophoretic Karyotypes and Genome Sizing of the Pathogenic Fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 742-747. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Domenico D'Antonio, Beatrice Violante, Aldo Mazzoni, Tiziana Bonfini, M. Assunta Capuani, Francesco D'Aloia, Antonio Iacone, Francesco Schioppa, and Ferdinando Romano

A Nosocomial Cluster of Candida inconspicua Infections in Patients with Hematological Malignancies
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 792-795. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Epidemiology:

J. Silverman, L. A. Thal, M. B. Perri, G. Bostic, and M. J. Zervos

Epidemiologic Evaluation of Antimicrobial Resistance in Community-Acquired Enterococci
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 830-832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Letters:

Abdalla O. A. Ahmed, El Sir A. M. Abugroun, Ahmed H. Fahal, Ed E. Zijlstra, Alex van Belkum, and Henri A. Verbrugh

Unexpected High Prevalence of Secondary Bacterial Infection in Patients with Mycetoma
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 850-851. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Frank, J. Michalski;, Attila Lörincz, Allison Cullen, and Carole Long

Rapid Detection and Typing of Herpes Simplex Virus DNA in Clinical Specimens by the Hybrid Capture II Signal Amplification Probe Test
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 852. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

T. J. Hellyer, L. E. DesJardin, M. L. Beggs, Z. Yang, K. D. Eisenach, M. D. Cave, J. H. Bates, M. K. Assaf, J. T. Crawford;, S. H. Gillespie, L. E. Newport, and T. D. McHugh

IS6110 Homologs Are Present in Multiple Copies in Mycobacteria Other than Tuberculosis-Causing Mycobacteria
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 853-854. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Subhash C. Arya;, Max Arens, and William Meyer III

Stability of Free and Complexed Human Immunodeficiency Virus p24 Antigens during Storage for Various Intervals
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 855. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bisharat Naiel and Raz Raul

Chronic Prostatitis Due to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998 36: 856. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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