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Guest Commentary:

F. W. Brenner, R. G. Villar, F. J. Angulo, R. Tauxe, and B. Swaminathan

Salmonella Nomenclature
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2465-2467. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Virology:

Chun-Nan Lee, Wei-Kung Wang, Wen-Sheng Fan, Shing-Jer Twu, Shou-Chien Chen, Ming-Ching Sheng, and Mao-Yuan Chen

Determination of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Subtypes in Taiwan by vpu Gene Analysis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2468-2474. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Utako Machida, Masahiro Kami, Takafumi Fukui, Yukumasa Kazuyama, Moritoshi Kinoshita, Yuji Tanaka, Yoshinobu Kanda, Seishi Ogawa, Hiroaki Honda, Shigeru Chiba, Kinuko Mitani, Yoshitomo Muto, Kazuoki Osumi, Satoshi Kimura, and Hisamaru Hirai

Real-Time Automated PCR for Early Diagnosis and Monitoring of Cytomegalovirus Infection after Bone Marrow Transplantation
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2536-2542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Menno D. de Jong, Jan F. L. Weel, Tim Schuurman, Pauline M. E. Wertheim-van Dillen, and René Boom

Quantitation of Varicella-Zoster Virus DNA in Whole Blood, Plasma, and Serum by PCR and Electrochemiluminescence
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2568-2573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lynn A. Cooper and Kanta Subbarao

A Simple Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism-Based Strategy That Can Distinguish the Internal Genes of Human H1N1, H3N2, and H5N1 Influenza A Viruses
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2579-2583. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Svein Arne Nordbø, Sidsel Krokstad, Per Winge, Finn Egil Skjeldestad, and Are B. Dalen

Prevalence of GB Virus C (Also Called Hepatitis G Virus) Markers in Norwegian Blood Donors
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2584-2590. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jan Vinjé and Marion P. G. Koopmans

Simultaneous Detection and Genotyping of "Norwalk-Like Viruses" by Oligonucleotide Array in a Reverse Line Blot Hybridization Format
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2595-2601. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Harald H. Kessler, Gerhard Mühlbauer, Beate Rinner, Evelyn Stelzl, Annemarie Berger, Hans-Wilhelm Dörr, Brigitte Santner, Egon Marth, and Holger Rabenau

Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus DNA by Real-Time PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2638-2642. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexis Bozorg Grayeli, Pierre Palmer, Patrice Tran Ba Huy, Jacques Soudant, Olivier Sterkers, Pierre Lebon, and Evelyne Ferrary

No Evidence of Measles Virus in Stapes Samples from Patients with Otosclerosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2655-2660. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James Bremer, Marek Nowicki, Suzanne Beckner, Donald Brambilla, Mike Cronin, Steven Herman, Andrea Kovacs, and Patricia Reichelderfer

Comparison of Two Amplification Technologies for Detection and Quantitation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA in the Female Genital Tract
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2665-2669. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. G. Bausch, P. E. Rollin, A. H. Demby, M. Coulibaly, J. Kanu, A. S. Conteh, K. D. Wagoner, L. K. McMullan, M. D. Bowen, C. J. Peters, and T. G. Ksiazek

Diagnosis and Clinical Virology of Lassa Fever as Evaluated by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Indirect Fluorescent-Antibody Test, and Virus Isolation
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2670-2677. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sandra Emery, Sharon Bodrug, Barbra A. Richardson, Cristina Giachetti, Martha A. Bott, Dana Panteleeff, Linda L. Jagodzinski, Nelson L. Michael, Ruth Nduati, Job Bwayo, Joan K. Kreiss, and Julie Overbaugh

Evaluation of Performance of the Gen-Probe Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Viral Load Assay Using Primary Subtype A, C, and D Isolates from Kenya
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2688-2695. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

George J. Hanna, Victoria A. Johnson, Daniel R. Kuritzkes, Douglas D. Richman, Javier Martinez-Picado, Lorraine Sutton, J. Darren Hazelwood, and Richard T. D'Aquila

Comparison of Sequencing by Hybridization and Cycle Sequencing for Genotyping of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Reverse Transcriptase
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2715-2721. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michéle Martinot-Peignoux, Véronique Le Breton, Sandrine Fritsch, Gaëlle Le guludec, Nathalie Labouret, Françoise Keller, and Patrick Marcellin

Assessment of Viral Loads in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C with AMPLICOR HCV MONITOR Version 1.0, COBAS HCV MONITOR Version 2.0, and QUANTIPLEX HCV RNA Version 2.0 Assays
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2722-2725. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Mouroux, A. Yvon-Groussin, G. Peytavin, C. Delaugerre, M. Legrand, P. Bossi, B. Do, A. Trylesinski, B. Diquet, E. Dohin, J. F. Delfraissy, C. Katlama, V. Calvez, and The MIKADO Study Group

Early Virological Failure in Naive Human Immunodeficiency Virus Patients Receiving Saquinavir (Soft Gel Capsule)-Stavudine-Zalcitabine (MIKADO Trial) Is Not Associated with Mutations Conferring Viral Resistance
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2726-2730. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Nitsche, Nina Steuer, Christian Andreas Schmidt, Olfert Landt, Heinz Ellerbrok, Georg Pauli, and Wolfgang Siegert

Detection of Human Cytomegalovirus DNA by Real-Time Quantitative PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2734-2737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masayoshi Nagamine, Tatsuo Suzutani, Masayuki Saijo, Kozaburo Hayashi, and Masanobu Azuma

Comparison of Polymorphism of Thymidine Kinase Gene and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism of Genomic DNA in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2750-2752. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Pitkäranta, H. Piiparinen, L. Mannonen, M. Vesaluoma, and A. Vaheri

Detection of Human Herpesvirus 6 and Varicella-Zoster Virus in Tear Fluid of Patients with Bell's Palsy by PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2753-2755. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul K. S. Chan, Ho-Keung Ng, Jo L. K. Cheung, and Augustine F. Cheng

Survey for the Presence and Distribution of Human Herpesvirus 8 in Healthy Brain
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2772-2773. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. D. Griffin, C. D. Kirkwood, U. D. Parashar, P. A. Woods, J. S. Bresee, R. I. Glass, J. R. Gentsch, and the National Rotavirus Strain Surveillance System Collaborating Laboratories

Surveillance of Rotavirus Strains in the United States: Identification of Unusual Strains
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2784-2787. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriology:

Jing-Jou Yan, Hsiu-Mei Wu, Ah-Huei Huang, Hsiu-Mei Fu, Chen-Ting Lee, and Jiunn-Jong Wu

Prevalence of Polyclonal mefA-Containing Isolates among Erythromycin-Resistant Group A Streptococci in Southern Taiwan
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2475-2479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Philippe Bidet, Valérie Lalande, Béatrice Salauze, Béatrice Burghoffer, Véronique Avesani, Michel Delmée, Anne Rossier, Frédéric Barbut, and Jean-Claude Petit

Comparison of PCR-Ribotyping, Arbitrarily Primed PCR, and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Typing Clostridium difficile
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2484-2487. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

George E. Killgore, Brian Holloway, and Fred C. Tenover

A 5' Nuclease PCR (TaqMan) High-Throughput Assay for Detection of the mecA Gene in Staphylococci
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2516-2519. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Whalley K. Fong, Zora Modrusan, John P. Mcnevin, Johanna Marostenmaki, Ben Zin, and Faouzi Bekkaoui

Rapid Solid-Phase Immunoassay for Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Using Cycling Probe Technology
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2525-2529. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria J. C. Gomes-Solecki, John J. Dunn, Benjamin J. Luft, Jonathan Castillo, Daniel E. Dykhuizen, Xiaohua Yang, John D. Glass, and Raymond J. Dattwyler

Recombinant Chimeric Borrelia Proteins for Diagnosis of Lyme Disease
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2530-2535. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Victoria Pope, Martha B. Fears, William E. Morrill, Arnold Castro, and Susan E. Kikkert

Comparison of the Serodia Treponema pallidum Particle Agglutination, Captia Syphilis-G, and SpiroTek Reagin II Tests with Standard Test Techniques for Diagnosis of Syphilis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2543-2545. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James G. Fox, Chih Ching Chien, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Bruce J. Paster, Zeli Shen, Pasquale L. Melito, David L. Woodward, and Frank G. Rodgers

Helicobacter canadensis sp. nov. Isolated from Humans with Diarrhea as an Example of an Emerging Pathogen
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2546-2549. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Seung-Hyun Lee, Bum-Joon Kim, Jong-Hyun Kim, Kyung-Hee Park, Seo-Jeong Kim, and Yoon-Hoh Kook

Differentiation of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato on the Basis of RNA Polymerase Gene (rpoB) Sequences
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2557-2562. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. A. Jordan and M. B. Durso

Comparison of 16S rRNA Gene PCR and BACTEC 9240 for Detection of Neonatal Bacteremia
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2574-2578. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marta A. Guerra, Edward D. Walker, and Uriel Kitron

Quantitative Approach for the Serodiagnosis of Canine Lyme Disease by the Immunoblot Procedure
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2628-2632. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kathleen M. Connor, Malcolm M. Quirie, Graham Baird, and William Donachie

Characterization of United Kingdom Isolates of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Using Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2633-2637. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neil J. Rowan, Alan A. G. Candlish, Andreas Bubert, John G. Anderson, Karl Kramer, and Jim McLauchlin

Virulent Rough Filaments of Listeria monocytogenes from Clinical and Food Samples Secreting Wild-Type Levels of Cell-Free p60 Protein
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2643-2648. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mavis Hendson and Robert S. Lane

Genetic Characteristics of Borrelia coriaceae Isolates from the Soft Tick Ornithodoros coriaceus (Acari: Argasidae)
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2678-2682. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aurora Parissi-Crivelli, Joaquín M. Parissi-Crivelli, and Jorge A. Girón

Recognition of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Virulence Determinants by Human Colostrum and Serum Antibodies
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2696-2700. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michelle J. Alfa, Amin Kabani, David Lyerly, Scott Moncrief, Laurie M. Neville, Ali Al-Barrak, Godfrey K. H. Harding, Brenda Dyck, Karen Olekson, and John M. Embil

Characterization of a Toxin A-Negative, Toxin B-Positive Strain of Clostridium difficile Responsible for a Nosocomial Outbreak of Clostridium difficile-Associated Diarrhea
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2706-2714. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter C. Wever, Ed P. F. Yzerman, Ed J. Kuijper, Peter Speelman, and Jacob Dankert

Rapid Diagnosis of Legionnaires' Disease Using an Immunochromatographic Assay for Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Antigen in Urine during an Outbreak in The Netherlands
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2738-2739. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S.-R. Han, C. Schindel, R. Genitsariotis, E. Märker-Hermann, S. Bhakdi, and M. J. Maeurer

Identification of a Unique Helicobacter Species by 16S rRNA Gene Analysis in an Abdominal Abscess from a Patient with X-Linked Hypogammaglobulinemia
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2740-2742. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Johanna Pietilä, Qiushui He, Jarmo Oksi, and Matti K. Viljanen

Rapid Differentiation of Borrelia garinii from Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto by LightCycler Fluorescence Melting Curve Analysis of a PCR Product of the recA Gene
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2756-2759. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeanet A. Lomholt and Mogens Kilian

Immunoglobulin A1 Protease Activity in Gemella haemolysans
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2760-2762. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert F. Benson, Patrick W. Tang, and Barry S. Fields

Evaluation of the Binax and Biotest Urinary Antigen Kits for Detection of Legionnaires' Disease Due to Multiple Serogroups and Species of Legionella
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2763-2765. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jann-Yuan Wang, Po-Ren Hsueh, Jann-Tay Wang, Li-Na Lee, Pan-Chyr Yang, and Kwen-Tay Luh

Recurrent Infections and Chronic Colonization by an Escherichia coli Clone in the Respiratory Tract of a Patient with Severe Cystic Bronchiectasis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2766-2767. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luis Fernández-Lago, F. Javier Vallejo, Ignacio Trujillano, and Nieves Vizcaíno

Fluorescent Whole-Cell Hybridization with 16S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probes To Identify Brucella spp. by Flow Cytometry
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2768-2771. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology:

J. Kapala, D. Copes, A. Sproston, J. Patel, D. Jang, A. Petrich, J. Mahony, K. Biers, and M. Chernesky

Pooling Cervical Swabs and Testing by Ligase Chain Reaction Are Accurate and Cost-Saving Strategies for Diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2480-2483. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

François Coutlée, Manon de Ladurantaye, Carole Tremblay, Jean Vincelette, Louise Labrecque, and Michel Roger

An Important Proportion of Genital Samples Submitted for Chlamydia trachomatis Detection by PCR Contain Small Amounts of Cellular DNA as Measured by -Globin Gene Amplification
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2512-2515. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert H. Ring and Joseph M. Lyons

Failure To Detect Chlamydia pneumoniae in the Late-Onset Alzheimer's Brain
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2591-2594. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. B. Mahony, S. Chong, B. K. Coombes, M. Smieja, and A. Petrich

Analytical Sensitivity, Reproducibility of Results, and Clinical Performance of Five PCR Assays for Detecting Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2622-2627. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Meagan V. Land, Wei-Mei Ching, Gregory A. Dasch, Zhiwen Zhang, Daryl J. Kelly, Stephen R. Graves, and Peter L. Devine

Evaluation of a Commercially Available Recombinant-Protein Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Detection of Antibodies Produced in Scrub Typhus Rickettsial Infections
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2701-2705. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John W. Sumner, Gregory A. Storch, Richard S. Buller, Allison M. Liddell, Steven L. Stockham, Yasuko Rikihisa, Sharon Messenger, and Christopher D. Paddock

PCR Amplification and Phylogenetic Analysis of groESL Operon Sequences from Ehrlichia ewingii and Ehrlichia muris
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2746-2749. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wu-Chun Cao, Yu-Min Gao, Pan-He Zhang, Xi-Tan Zhang, Qing-Hua Dai, J. Stephen Dumler, Li-Qun Fang, and Hong Yang

Identification of Ehrlichia chaffeensis by Nested PCR in Ticks from Southern China
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2778-2780. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Epidemiology:

J. H. Sloos, L. Dijkshoorn, L. Vogel, and C. P. A. van Boven

Performance of Phenotypic and Genotypic Methods To Determine the Clinical Relevance of Serial Blood Isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis in Patients with Septicemia
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2488-2493. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia Gomez-De-Leon, Jose I. Santos, Javier Caballero, Demostenes Gomez, Luz E. Espinosa, Isabel Moreno, Daniel Piñero, and Alejandro Cravioto

Genomic Variability of Haemophilus influenzae Isolated from Mexican Children Determined by Using Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus Sequences and PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2504-2511. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nobuhiro Iritani, Yoshiyuki Seto, Kosuke Haruki, Masatsugu Kimura, Minoru Ayata, and Hisashi Ogura

Major Change in the Predominant Type of "Norwalk-Like Viruses" in Outbreaks of Acute Nonbacterial Gastroenteritis in Osaka City, Japan, between April 1996 and March 1999
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2649-2654. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank Møller Aarestrup

Characterization of Glycopeptide-Resistant Enterococcus faecium (GRE) from Broilers and Pigs in Denmark: Genetic Evidence that Persistence of GRE in Pig Herds Is Associated with Coselection by Resistance to Macrolides
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2774-2777. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical Veterinary Microbiology:

Martijn Fenaux, Patrick G. Halbur, Mike Gill, Thomas E. Toth, and Xiang-Jin Meng

Genetic Characterization of Type 2 Porcine Circovirus (PCV-2) from Pigs with Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome in Different Geographic Regions of North America and Development of a Differential PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Assay To Detect and Differentiate between Infections with PCV-1 and PCV-2
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2494-2503. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. J. Whittington, S. Fell, D. Walker, S. McAllister, I. Marsh, E. Sergeant, C. A. Taragel, D. J. Marshall, and I. J. Links

Use of Pooled Fecal Culture for Sensitive and Economic Detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Infection in Flocks of Sheep
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2550-2556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joppe W. R. Hovius, K. Emil Hovius, Anneke Oei, Dirk J. Houwers, and Alje P. van Dam

Antibodies against Specific Proteins of and Immobilizing Activity against Three Strains of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Can Be Found in Symptomatic but Not in Infected Asymptomatic Dogs
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2611-2621. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert Roosendaal, Jan H. Vos, Thijs Roumen, René van Vugt, Giovanni Cattoli, Aldert Bart, Henricus L. B. M. Klaasen, Ernst J. Kuipers, Christina M. J. E. Vandenbroucke-Grauls, and Johannes G. Kusters

Slaughter Pigs Are Commonly Infected by Closely Related but Distinct Gastric Ulcerative Lesion-Inducing Gastrospirilla
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2661-2664. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nick A. Faber, Melissa Crawford, Rance B. LeFebvre, Nedim C. Buyukmihci, John E. Madigan, and Neil H. Willits

Detection of Leptospira spp. in the Aqueous Humor of Horses with Naturally Acquired Recurrent Uveitis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2731-2733. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes:

Ingrid Filliol, Severine Ferdinand, Laetitia Negroni, Christophe Sola, and Nalin Rastogi

Molecular Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Based on Variable Number of Tandem DNA Repeats Used Alone and in Association with Spoligotyping
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2520-2524. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Niemann, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes, Elvira Richter, Heiko Thielen, Helga Heykes-Uden, and Roland Diel

Stability of IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains in Actual Chains of Transmission
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2563-2567. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Srinand Sreevatsan, Jack B. Bookout, Fidel Ringpis, Veera S. Perumaalla, Thomas A. Ficht, L. Garry Adams, Sue D. Hagius, Philip H. Elzer, Betsy J. Bricker, Girish K. Kumar, M. Rajasekhar, Srikrishna Isloor, and Raj R. Barathur

A Multiplex Approach to Molecular Detection of Brucella abortus and/or Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Cattle
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2602-2610. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ákos Somoskövi, Jacqueline E. Hotaling, Marie Fitzgerald, Vivian Jonas, Denise Stasik, Linda M. Parsons, and Max Salfinger

False-Positive Results for Mycobacterium celatum with the AccuProbe Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Assay
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2743-2745. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Parasitology:

Holger Mayta, Robert H. Gilman, Maritza M. Calderon, Aren Gottlieb, Giselle Soto, Iskra Tuero, Sixto Sanchez, and Aldo Vivar

18S Ribosomal DNA-Based PCR for Diagnosis of Trichomonas vaginalis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2683-2687. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel P. Fedorko, Esther C. Williams, Nancy A. Nelson, Leslie B. Calhoun, and Sizhuang S. Yan

Performance of Three Enzyme Immunoassays and Two Direct Fluorescence Assays for Detection of Giardia lamblia in Stool Specimens Preserved in ECOFIX
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2781-2783. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case Reports:

E. Strobel, J. Heesemann, G. Mayer, J. Peters, S. Müller-Weihrich, and P. Emmerling

Bacteriological and Serological Findings in a Further Case of Transfusion-Mediated Yersinia enterocolitica Sepsis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2788-2790. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fast-Track Communications:

John Edward Corkill, Robert Graham, Charles Anthony Hart, and Simon Stubbs

Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis of Degradation-Sensitive DNAs from Clostridium difficile PCR Ribotype 1 Strains
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2791-2792. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters:

Wei Ning Chen and Chong Jin Oon

Hepatitis B Virus Surface Antigen (HBsAg) Mutants in Singapore Adults and Vaccinated Children with High Anti-Hepatitis B Virus Antibody Levels but Negative for HBsAg
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2793-2794. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leslie Wolf, Todd McPherson, Bruce Harrison, Barry Engber, Alice Anderson, and Parker Whitt

Prevalence of Ehrlichia ewingii in Amblyomma americanum in North Carolina
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2795. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christine Watt, Marie Louie, and Andrew E. Simor

Evaluation of Stability of Cefotaxime (30-µg) and Ceftazidime (30-µg) Disks Impregnated with Clavulanic Acid (10 µg) for Detection of Extended-Spectrum -Lactamases
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2796-2797. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Albert Joseph Lastovica, Elza le Roux;, Jørgen Engberg, Peter Gerner-Smidt, Stephen L. W. On, and Clare S. Harrington

Efficient Isolation of Campylobacteria from Stools
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2798-2799. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrice A. Marchildon; and Bengt Sunnerstam

Detection of Helicobacter pylori Antibodies in Pediatric Populations
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2800-2801. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Subhash C. Arya; and Calvin M. Kunin

Use of Urine Cultures in a Novel Filter Paper Dilution System
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2802. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nico E. L. Meessen, Hilly G. de Vries-Hospers;, and T. Miethke

Failure of an Automated Blood Culture System To Detect Nonfermentative Gram-Negative Bacteria
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2803-2804. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Jose C. Aguilar, María P. Pérez-Breña, María L. García, Nieves Cruz, Dean D. Erdman, and Juan Emilio Echevarría

Detection and Identification of Human Parainfluenza Viruses 1, 2, 3, and 4 in Clinical Samples of Pediatric Patients by Multiplex Reverse Transcription-PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2805. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frederic J. Laurent, Frederique Provost, and Patrick Boiron

Rapid Identification of Clinically Relevant Nocardia Species to Genus Level by 16S rRNA Gene PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000 38: 2805. [Full Text]  

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