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Clinical Veterinary Microbiology:

M. Blanco, J. E. Blanco, A. Mora, J. Rey, J. M. Alonso, M. Hermoso, J. Hermoso, M. P. Alonso, G. Dahbi, E. A. González, M. I. Bernárdez, and J. Blanco

Serotypes, Virulence Genes, and Intimin Types of Shiga Toxin (Verotoxin)-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates from Healthy Sheep in Spain
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1351-1356. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hojabr Dezfulian, Isabelle Batisson, John M. Fairbrother, Peter C. K. Lau, Atef Nassar, George Szatmari, and Josée Harel

Presence and Characterization of Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli Virulence Genes in F165-Positive E. coli Strains Isolated from Diseased Calves and Pigs
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1375-1385. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard Reithinger, Juan Canales Espinoza, Orin Courtenay, and Clive R. Davies

Evaluation of PCR as a Diagnostic Mass-Screening Tool To Detect Leishmania (Viannia) spp. in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris)
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1486-1493. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Josepa Gené, José L. Blanco, Josep Cano, Marta E. García, and Josep Guarro

New Filamentous Fungus Sagenomella chlamydospora Responsible for a Disseminated Infection in a Dog
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1722-1725. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fred J. DeGraves, Dongya Gao, Hans-Robert Hehnen, Tobias Schlapp, and Bernhard Kaltenboeck

Quantitative Detection of Chlamydia psittaci and C. pecorum by High-Sensitivity Real-Time PCR Reveals High Prevalence of Vaginal Infection in Cattle
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1726-1729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. M. Moreno, M. R. Baccaro, A. J. P. Ferreira, and A. F. Pestana de Castro

Use of Single-Enzyme Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism for Typing Pasteurella multocida subsp. multocida Isolates from Pigs
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1743-1746. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mycology:

A. Borst, B. Theelen, E. Reinders, T. Boekhout, A. C. Fluit, and P. H. M. Savelkoul

Use of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis To Identify Medically Important Candida spp., Including C. dubliniensis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1357-1362. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sindy Hu, Wen-Hung Chung, Shuen-Iu Hung, Hsin-Chun Ho, Zen-Whe Wang, Chien-Hsun Chen, Shu-Chuan Lu, Tseng-tong Kuo, and Hong-Shang Hong

Detection of Sporothrix schenckii in Clinical Samples by a Nested PCR Assay
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1414-1418. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. A. Pfaller, D. J. Diekema, S. A. Messer, L. Boyken, and R. J. Hollis

Activities of Fluconazole and Voriconazole against 1,586 Recent Clinical Isolates of Candida Species Determined by Broth Microdilution, Disk Diffusion, and Etest Methods: Report from The ARTEMIS Global Antifungal Susceptibility Program, 2001
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1440-1446. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Soraya Díez, Beatriz L. Gómez, Juan G. McEwen, Angela Restrepo, Rod J. Hay, and Andrew J. Hamilton

Combined Use of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Recombinant 27-Kilodalton and Purified 87-Kilodalton Antigens in an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Serodiagnosis of Paracoccidioidomycosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1536-1542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

T. G. M. Bauters, D. Swinne, V. Stove, and H. J. Nelis

Detection of Single Cells of Cryptococcus neoformans in Clinical Samples by Solid-Phase Cytometry
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1736-1737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrea Bracca, María Elena Tosello, Javier E. Girardini, Susana L. Amigot, Carlos Gomez, and Esteban Serra

Molecular Detection of Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum in Human Clinical Samples
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1753-1755. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriology:

Yuli Song, Chengxu Liu, Maureen McTeague, and Sydney M. Finegold

16S Ribosomal DNA Sequence-Based Analysis of Clinically Significant Gram-Positive Anaerobic Cocci
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1363-1369. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oliver Greiner, Philip J. R. Day, Martin Altwegg, and David Nadal

Quantitative Detection of Moraxella catarrhalis in Nasopharyngeal Secretions by Real-Time PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1386-1390. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ryousuke Yamano, Masaru Ohara, Shuichi Nishikubo, Tamaki Fujiwara, Toru Kawamoto, Yoko Ueno, Hitoshi Komatsuzawa, Katsuji Okuda, Hidemi Kurihara, Hidekazu Suginaka, Eric Oswald, Kazuo Tanne, and Motoyuki Sugai

Prevalence of Cytolethal Distending Toxin Production in Periodontopathogenic Bacteria
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1391-1398. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Søren Mose Hansen and Uffe B. Skov Sørensen

Method for Quantitative Detection and Presumptive Identification of Group B Streptococci on Primary Plating
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1399-1403. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

N. van der Mee-Marquet, A. Achard, L. Mereghetti, A. Danton, M. Minier, and R. Quentin

Staphylococcus lugdunensis Infections: High Frequency of Inguinal Area Carriage
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1404-1409. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karsten Becker, Alexander W. Friedrich, Gabriele Lubritz, Maria Weilert, Georg Peters, and Christof von Eiff

Prevalence of Genes Encoding Pyrogenic Toxin Superantigens and Exfoliative Toxins among Strains of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Blood and Nasal Specimens
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1434-1439. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maurizio Sanguinetti, Brunella Posteraro, Teresa Spanu, Daniela Ciccaglione, Lucio Romano, Barbara Fiori, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefania Zanetti, and Giovanni Fadda

Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Enterobacteriaceae from Italy by the BD Phoenix Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase Detection Method
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1463-1468. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrice A. Marchildon, Toshiro Sugiyama, Yoshihiro Fukada, Jeffrey S. Peacock, Masahiro Asaka, Takashi Shimoyama, and David Y. Graham

Evaluation of the Effects of Strain-Specific Antigen Variation on the Accuracy of Serologic Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori Infection
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1480-1485. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qiyi Wen, Kazuaki Miyamoto, and Bruce A. McClane

Development of a Duplex PCR Genotyping Assay for Distinguishing Clostridium perfringens Type A Isolates Carrying Chromosomal Enterotoxin (cpe) Genes from Those Carrying Plasmid-Borne Enterotoxin (cpe) Genes
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1494-1498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guido Werner, Rob J. L. Willems, Bianca Hildebrandt, Ingo Klare, and Wolfgang Witte

Influence of Transferable Genetic Determinants on the Outcome of Typing Methods Commonly Used for Enterococcus faecium
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1499-1506. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karen B. Register, Randy E. Sacco, and Gwen E. Nordholm

Comparison of Ribotyping and Restriction Enzyme Analysis for Inter- and Intraspecies Discrimination of Bordetella avium and Bordetella hinzii
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1512-1519. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stuart Johnson, Susan P. Sambol, Jon S. Brazier, Michel Delmée, V. Avesani, Michelle M. Merrigan, and Dale N. Gerding

International Typing Study of Toxin A-Negative, Toxin B-Positive Clostridium difficile Variants
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1543-1547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Adriana Santos, Dulciene Maria Magalhães Queiroz, Armelle Ménard, Armelle Marais, Gifone Aguiar Rocha, Celso Affonso Oliveira, Ana Margarida Miguel Ferreira Nogueira, Milton Uzeda, and Francis Mégraud

New Pathogenicity Marker Found in the Plasticity Region of the Helicobacter pylori Genome
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1651-1655. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomasz Cieslikowski, Dobroslawa Gradecka, Magdalena Mielczarek, and Wieslaw Kaca

Tandem Tetramer-Based Microsatellite Fingerprinting for Typing of Proteus mirabilis Strains
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1673-1680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. Sieradzki, T. Leski, J. Dick, L. Borio, and A. Tomasz

Evolution of a Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus Strain In Vivo: Multiple Changes in the Antibiotic Resistance Phenotypes of a Single Lineage of Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus under the Impact of Antibiotics Administered for Chemotherapy
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1687-1693. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Drancourt, P. Carrieri, M.-J. Gévaudan, and D. Raoult

Blood Agar and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: the End of a Dogma
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1710-1711. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Riad Khatib, Mamta Sharma, S. Anwar H. Naqvi, Kathleen Riederer, Mohammed O. Almoujahed, and Mohamad G. Fakih

Molecular Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus Blood Isolates Shows Lack of Polyclonal Bacteremia
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1717-1719. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. J. Wade and M. A. Graver

Survival of Six Auxotypes of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Transport Media
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1720-1721. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Annarita Mazzariol, Jessica Zuliani, Roberta Fontana, and Giuseppe Cornaglia

Isolation from Blood Culture of a Leclercia adecarboxylata Strain Producing an SHV-12 Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1738-1739. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sophie A. Granier, Véronique Leflon-Guibout, Fred W. Goldstein, and Marie-Hélène Nicolas-Chanoine

Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus 1R PCR Assay for Detection of Raoultella sp. Isolates among Strains Identified as Klebsiella oxytoca in the Clinical Laboratory
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1740-1742. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akitoyo Hotta, Midori Kawamura, Ho To, Masako Andoh, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Hideto Fukushi, Ken-Ichi Amano, and Katsuya Hirai

Use of Monoclonal Antibodies to Lipopolysaccharide for Antigenic Analysis of Coxiella burnetii
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1747-1749. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexandra Heininger, Marlies Binder, Andreas Ellinger, Konrad Botzenhart, Klaus Unertl, and Gerd Döring

DNase Pretreatment of Master Mix Reagents Improves the Validity of Universal 16S rRNA Gene PCR Results
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1763-1765. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. A. Diggle, K. Smith, E. K. Girvan, and S. C. Clarke

Evaluation of a Fluorescence-Based PCR Method for Identification of Serogroup A Meningococci
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1766-1768. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claire Jenkins, Neil T. Perry, Tom Cheasty, Darren J. Shaw, Gad Frankel, Gordon Dougan, George J. Gunn, Henry R. Smith, Adrienne W. Paton, and James C. Paton

Distribution of the saa Gene in Strains of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli of Human and Bovine Origins
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1775-1778. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. Devulder, G. Perrière, F. Baty, and J. P. Flandrois

BIBI, a Bioinformatics Bacterial Identification Tool
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1785-1787. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Sicklinger, Ralf Wienecke, and Uwe Neubert

In Vitro Susceptibility Testing of Four Antibiotics against Borrelia burgdorferi: a Comparison of Results for the Three Genospecies Borrelia afzelii, Borrelia garinii, and Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1791-1793. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claudia M. Brandt, Gerhard Haase, Barbara Spellerberg, Regina Holland, and Rudolf Lütticken

drs (Distantly Related sic) Gene Polymorphisms among emm12-Type Streptococcus pyogenes Isolates
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1794-1797. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Artur Sabat, Jolanta Krzyszton-Russjan, Wojciech Strzalka, Renata Filipek, Klaudia Kosowska, Waleria Hryniewicz, James Travis, and Jan Potempa

New Method for Typing Staphylococcus aureus Strains: Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis of Polymorphism and Genetic Relationships of Clinical Isolates
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1801-1804. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Parasitology:

Stephen J. Rogerson, Patrick Mkundika, and Maxwell K. Kanjala

Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria at Delivery: Comparison of Blood Film Preparation Methods and of Blood Films with Histology
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1370-1374. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean Menotti, Bruno Cassinat, Claudine Sarfati, Olivier Liguory, Francis Derouin, and Jean-Michel Molina

Development of a Real-Time PCR Assay for Quantitative Detection of Encephalitozoon intestinalis DNA
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1410-1413. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean-Pierre Gangneux, Jean Menotti, Frédéric Lorenzo, Claudine Sarfati, Hélène Blanche, Hung Bui, Francine Pratlong, Yves-Jean-François Garin, and Francis Derouin

Prospective Value of PCR Amplification and Sequencing for Diagnosis and Typing of Old World Leishmania Infections in an Area of Nonendemicity
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1419-1422. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wangeci Gatei, Julie Greensill, Richard W. Ashford, Luis E. Cuevas, Christopher M. Parry, Nigel A. Cunliffe, Nicholas J. Beeching, and C. Anthony Hart

Molecular Analysis of the 18S rRNA Gene of Cryptosporidium Parasites from Patients with or without Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections Living in Kenya, Malawi, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1458-1462. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexandra Schulz, Katja Mellenthin, Gabriele Schönian, Bernhard Fleischer, and Christian Drosten

Detection, Differentiation, and Quantitation of Pathogenic Leishmania Organisms by a Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer-Based Real-Time PCR Assay
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1529-1535. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

F. Foudrinier, I. Villena, R. Jaussaud, D. Aubert, C. Chemla, F. Martinot, and J. M. Pinon

Clinical Value of Specific Immunoglobulin E Detection by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay in Cases of Acquired and Congenital Toxoplasmosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1681-1686. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Virology:

Jan Vinjé, Harry Vennema, Leena Maunula, Carl-Henrik von Bonsdorff, Marina Hoehne, Eckart Schreier, Alison Richards, Jon Green, David Brown, Suzanne S. Beard, Stephan S. Monroe, Erwin de Bruin, Lennart Svensson, and Marion P. G. Koopmans

International Collaborative Study To Compare Reverse Transcriptase PCR Assays for Detection and Genotyping of Noroviruses
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1423-1433. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tsutomu Kageyama, Shigeyuki Kojima, Michiyo Shinohara, Kazue Uchida, Shuetsu Fukushi, Fuminori B. Hoshino, Naokazu Takeda, and Kazuhiko Katayama

Broadly Reactive and Highly Sensitive Assay for Norwalk-Like Viruses Based on Real-Time Quantitative Reverse Transcription-PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1548-1557. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frederick S. Nolte, Alicia M. Green, Kristin R. Fiebelkorn, Angela M. Caliendo, Cynthia Sturchio, Aileen Grunwald, and Mimi Healy

Clinical Evaluation of Two Methods for Genotyping Hepatitis C Virus Based on Analysis of the 5' Noncoding Region
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1558-1564. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Manfred Weidmann, Ursula Meyer-König, and Frank T. Hufert

Rapid Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus and Varicella-Zoster Virus Infections by Real-Time PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1565-1568. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert M. Grant, Daniel R. Kuritzkes, Victoria A. Johnson, John W. Mellors, John L. Sullivan, Ronald Swanstrom, Richard T. D'Aquila, Mark Van Gorder, Mark Holodniy, Robert M. Lloyd, Jr., Caroline Reid, Gillian F. Morgan, and Dean L. Winslow

Accuracy of the TRUGENE HIV-1 Genotyping Kit
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1586-1593. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel R. Kuritzkes, Robert M. Grant, Paul Feorino, Marshal Griswold, Marie Hoover, Russell Young, Stephen Day, Robert M. Lloyd, Jr., Caroline Reid, Gillian F. Morgan, and Dean L. Winslow

Performance Characteristics of the TRUGENE HIV-1 Genotyping Kit and the Opengene DNA Sequencing System
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1594-1599. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazunori Kawaguchi, Shuichi Kaneko, Masao Honda, Hiroshi F. Kawai, Yukihiro Shirota, and Kenichi Kobayashi

Detection of Hepatitis B Virus DNA in Sera from Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection by DNA Microarray Method
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1701-1704. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rene Alvarez, Humphrey M. Lwamba, Darrell R. Kapczynski, M. Kariuki Njenga, and Bruce S. Seal

Nucleotide and Predicted Amino Acid Sequence-Based Analysis of the Avian Metapneumovirus Type C Cell Attachment Glycoprotein Gene: Phylogenetic Analysis and Molecular Epidemiology of U.S. Pneumoviruses
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1730-1735. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Bourlet, Valerie Caro, Sophie Minjolle, Isabelle Jusselin, Bruno Pozzetto, Radu Crainic, and Ronald Colimon

New PCR Test That Recognizes All Human Prototypes of Enterovirus: Application for Clinical Diagnosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1750-1752. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nobuhiro Iritani, Yoshiyuki Seto, Hideyuki Kubo, Tsukasa Murakami, Kosuke Haruki, Minoru Ayata, and Hisashi Ogura

Prevalence of Norwalk-Like Virus Infections in Cases of Viral Gastroenteritis among Children in Osaka City, Japan
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1756-1759. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Loredana Sarmati, Emanuele Nicastri, Ilaria Uccella, Gabriella d'Ettorre, Saverio G. Parisi, Lucia Palmisano, Clementina Galluzzo, Ercole Concia, Vincenzo Vullo, Stefano Vella, and Massimo Andreoni

Drug-Associated Resistance Mutations in Plasma and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Infected Patients for Whom Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Is Failing
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1760-1762. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Grazia Revello, Daniele Lilleri, Maurizio Zavattoni, Milena Furione, Jaap Middeldorp, and Giuseppe Gerna

Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Human Cytomegalovirus Infection in Amniotic Fluid by Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification Assay
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1772-1774. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sukanya Raghuraman, Thenmozhi Subramaniam, Dolly Daniel, Gopalan Sridharan, and Priya Abraham

Occurrence of False Positives during Testing for Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus among Volunteer Blood Donors in India
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1788-1790. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes:

Leslie Hall, Kelly A. Doerr, Sherri L. Wohlfiel, and Glenn D. Roberts

Evaluation of the MicroSeq System for Identification of Mycobacteria by 16S Ribosomal DNA Sequencing and Its Integration into a Routine Clinical Mycobacteriology Laboratory
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1447-1453. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jim Werngren and Sven E. Hoffner

Drug-Susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype Does Not Develop Mutation-Conferred Resistance to Rifampin at an Elevated Rate
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1520-1524. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kirsi Puustinen, Merja Marjamäki, Nalin Rastogi, Christophe Sola, Ingrid Filliol, Petri Ruutu, Pekka Holmström, Matti K. Viljanen, and Hanna Soini

Characterization of Finnish Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates by Spoligotyping
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1525-1528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard C. Huard, Luiz Claudio de Oliveira Lazzarini, W. Ray Butler, Dick van Soolingen, and John L. Ho

PCR-Based Method To Differentiate the Subspecies of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex on the Basis of Genomic Deletions
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1637-1650. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Saotomo Itoh, Yuko Kazumi, Chiyoji Abe, and Mitsuyoshi Takahashi

Heterogeneity of RNA Polymerase Gene (rpoB) Sequences of Mycobacterium gordonae Clinical Isolates Identified with a DNA Probe Kit and by Conventional Methods
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1656-1663. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sudha Pottumarthy, Ajit P. Limaye, Jennifer L. Prentice, Yolanda B. Houze, Susan R. Swanzy, and Brad T. Cookson

Nocardia veterana, a New Emerging Pathogen
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1705-1709. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Niyaz Ahmed, Luz Caviedes, Mahfooz Alam, K. Rajender Rao, Vartul Sangal, Patricia Sheen, Robert H. Gilman, and Seyed E. Hasnain

Distinctiveness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genotypes from Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Seropositive and -Seronegative Patients in Lima, Peru
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1712-1716. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gianna Mazzarelli, Laura Rindi, Paola Piccoli, Claudio Scarparo, Carlo Garzelli, and Enrico Tortoli

Evaluation of the BDProbeTec ET System for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Samples: a Multicenter Study
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1779-1782. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Kerleguer, J.-L. Koeck, M. Fabre, P. Gérôme, R. Teyssou, and V. Hervé

Use of Equivocal Zone in Interpretation of Results of the Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1783-1784. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology:

Melanie Cochrane, Andreas Pospischil, Philip Walker, Harry Gibbs, and Peter Timms

Distribution of Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA in Atherosclerotic Carotid Arteries: Significance for Sampling Procedures
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1454-1457. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emilia H. Koumans, Carolyn M. Black, Lauri E. Markowitz, ElizabethR. Unger, Antonya Pierce, Mary K. Sawyer, and John R. Papp

Comparison of Methods for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Using Commercially Available Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests and a Liquid Pap Smear Medium
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1507-1511. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joshua W. Courtney, Richard L. Dryden, Jill Montgomery, Bradley S. Schneider, Gary Smith, and Robert F. Massung

Molecular Characterization of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis Ticks from Pennsylvania
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1569-1573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Philippe Parola, Jean-Paul Cornet, Yibayiri Osée Sanogo, R. Scott Miller, Huynh Van Thien, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, Didier Raoult, Sam R. Telford III, and Chansuda Wongsrichanalai

Detection of Ehrlichia spp., Anaplasma spp., Rickettsia spp., and Other Eubacteria in Ticks from the Thai-Myanmar Border and Vietnam
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1600-1608. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

José de la Fuente, Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, Tulio M. Prado, and Katherine M. Kocan

Anaplasma marginale msp1 Genotypes Evolved under Positive Selection Pressure but Are Not Markers for Geographic Isolates
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1609-1616. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Epidemiology:

Bjørn-Arne Lindstedt, Even Heir, Elisabet Gjernes, and Georg Kapperud

DNA Fingerprinting of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Typhimurium with Emphasis on Phage Type DT104 Based on Variable Number of Tandem Repeat Loci
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1469-1479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephen Murchan, Mary Elizabeth Kaufmann, Ariane Deplano, Raf de Ryck, Marc Struelens, Christina Elsberg Zinn, Vivian Fussing, Saara Salmenlinna, Jaana Vuopio-Varkila, Névine El Solh, Christina Cuny, Wolfgang Witte, Panayotis T. Tassios, Nikolas Legakis, Willem van Leeuwen, Alex van Belkum, Anna Vindel, Idoia Laconcha, Javier Garaizar, Saara Haeggman, Barbro Olsson-Liljequist, Ulrika Ransjo, Geoffrey Coombes, and Barry Cookson

Harmonization of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocols for Epidemiological Typing of Strains of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a Single Approach Developed by Consensus in 10 European Laboratories and Its Application for Tracing the Spread of Related Strains
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1574-1585. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jorge Fernandez, Alberto Fica, German Ebensperger, Hector Calfullan, Soledad Prat, Alda Fernandez, Marcela Alexandre, and Ingrid Heitmann

Analysis of Molecular Epidemiology of Chilean Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis Isolates by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and Bacteriophage Typing
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1617-1622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emma Meats, Edward J. Feil, Suzanna Stringer, Alison J. Cody, Richard Goldstein, J. Simon Kroll, Tanja Popovic, and Brian G. Spratt

Characterization of Encapsulated and Noncapsulated Haemophilus influenzae and Determination of Phylogenetic Relationships by Multilocus Sequence Typing
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1623-1636. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Henri Dabernat, Marie-Anne Plisson-Sauné, Catherine Delmas, Martine Séguy, Gèneviéve Faucon, Roselyne Pélissier, Hélène Carsenti, Christian Pradier, Micheline Roussel-Delvallez, Joël Leroy, Marie-Jeanne Dupont, Frédéric De Bels, and Pierre Dellamonica

Haemophilus influenzae Carriage in Children Attending French Day Care Centers: a Molecular Epidemiological Study
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1664-1672. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susanna Lukinmaa, Maria Miettinen, Ulla-Maija Nakari, Hannu Korkeala, and Anja Siitonen

Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from Invasive Infections: Variation of Sero- and Genotypes during an 11-Year Period in Finland
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1694-1700. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Javier Sánchez-Céspedes, Margarita M. Navia, Rocío Martínez, Beatriz Orden, Rosario Millán, Joaquín Ruiz, and Jordi Vila

Clonal Dissemination of Yersinia enterocolitica Strains with Various Susceptibilities to Nalidixic Acid
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1769-1771. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sybille Lair-Fulleringer, Jacques Guillot, Christophe Desterke, Dominique Seguin, Stephan Warin, Arnaud Bezille, René Chermette, and Stéphane Bretagne

Differentiation between Isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus from Breeding Turkeys and Their Environment by Genotyping with Microsatellite Markers
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1798-1800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case Reports:

H. Yera, M. E. Bougnoux, C. Jeanrot, M. T. Baixench, G. De Pinieux, and J. Dupouy-Camet

Mycetoma of the Foot Caused by Fusarium solani: Identification of the Etiologic Agent by DNA Sequencing
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1805-1808. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Tse Hsien Koh, Lily Siew Yong Ng, Joanna Lee Foon Ho, Li-Hwei Sng, Grace Chee Yeng Wang, and Raymond Valentine Tzer Pin Lin

Automated Identification Systems and Burkholderia pseudomallei
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1809. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrick F. MCDermott and Robert D. Walker

Standardizing Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Campylobacter Species
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003 41: 1810. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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