JCM -- Table of Contents (March 1 2005, 43 [3])

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Contents: March 2005, Volume 43, Issue 3

       Parasitology

       Bacteriology

       Epidemiology

       Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes

       Virology

       Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology

       Mycology

       Clinical Veterinary Microbiology

       Case Reports

       Letters to the Editor

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Parasitology:

Detection of Cryptosporidium and Identification to the Species Level by Nested PCR and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
Stephane Coupe, Claudine Sarfati, Samia Hamane, and Francis Derouin
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1017-1023;
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Ascariasis Is a Zoonosis in Denmark
Peter Nejsum, E. Davis Parker, Jr., Jane Frydenberg, Allan Roepstorff, Jaap Boes, Rashidul Haque, Ingrid Astrup, Jørgen Prag, and Uffe B. Skov Sørensen
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1142-1148;
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Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assay Using Scorpion Probes and DNA Capture for Genotype-Specific Detection of Giardia lamblia on Fecal Samples
Cherie T. Ng, Carol A. Gilchrist, Ariel Lane, Shantanu Roy, Rashidul Haque, and Eric R. Houpt
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1256-1260;
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Leishmania Promastigote Membrane Antigen-Based Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay and Immunoblotting for Differential Diagnosis of Indian Post-Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis
Samiran Saha, Tuhina Mazumdar, Khairul Anam, Rajesh Ravindran, Bibhas Bairagi, Bibhuti Saha, Ramapada Goswami, Netai Pramanik, Subhashis K. Guha, Sourjya Kar, Dwijadas Banerjee, and Nahid Ali
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1269-1277;
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Bacteriology:

Use of Diagnostic Microarrays for Determination of Virulence Gene Patterns of Escherichia coli K1, a Major Cause of Neonatal Meningitis
Bozena Korczak, Joachim Frey, Jacques Schrenzel, Gerd Pluschke, Riccardo Pfister, Ralf Ehricht, and Peter Kuhnert
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1024-1031;
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First Description of Curtobacterium spp. Isolated from Human Clinical Specimens
Guido Funke, Max Aravena-Roman, and Reinhard Frodl
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1032-1036;
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Establishment of a Universal Size Standard Strain for Use with the PulseNet Standardized Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocols: Converting the National Databases to the New Size Standard
Susan B. Hunter, Paul Vauterin, Mary Ann Lambert-Fair, M. Susan Van Duyne, Kristy Kubota, Lewis Graves, Donna Wrigley, Timothy Barrett, and Efrain Ribot
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1045-1050;
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Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase-Producing Shiga Toxin Gene (stx₁)-Positive Escherichia coli O26:H11: a New Concern
Yoshikazu Ishii, Soichiro Kimura, Jimena Alba, Katsuaki Shiroto, Masanobu Otsuka, Naotaka Hashizume, Kazumichi Tamura, and Keizo Yamaguchi
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1072-1075;
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Sensitive and Specific Detection of Staphylococcal Epidermolysins A and B in Broth Cultures by Flow Cytometry-Assisted Multiplex Immunoassay
Olivier Joubert, Daniel Keller, Anne Pinck, Henri Monteil, and Gilles Prévost
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1076-1080;
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Evaluation of Four Commercially Available Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Phenotypic Confirmation Tests
Andrea J. Linscott and William J. Brown
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1081-1085;
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Rapid Identification of Staphylococcal Strains from Positive-Testing Blood Culture Bottles by Internal Transcribed Spacer PCR Followed by Microchip Gel Electrophoresis
Shin-Ichi Fujita, Yasuko Senda, Thikako Iwagami, and Takuma Hashimoto
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1149-1157;
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Comparative Typing of Campylobacter jejuni by Heat-Stable Serotyping and PCR-Based Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
Ulla-Maija Nakari, Katja Laaksonen, Maija Korkeila, and Anja Siitonen
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1166-1170;
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Potential Limitations of the 16S-23S rRNA Intergenic Region for Molecular Detection of Bartonella Species
Ricardo G. Maggi and Edward B. Breitschwerdt
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1171-1176;
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Clinical Evaluation of the DiversiLab Microbial Typing System Using Repetitive-Sequence-Based PCR for Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus Strains
Cheryl K. Shutt, June I. Pounder, Sam R. Page, Barbara J. Schaecher, and Gail L. Woods
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1187-1192;
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Molecular Characterization of an Epidemic Clone of Panantibiotic-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
A. Deplano, O. Denis, L. Poirel, D. Hocquet, C. Nonhoff, B. Byl, P. Nordmann, J. L. Vincent, and M. J. Struelens
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1198-1204;
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Characterization of Virulence Plasmids and Serotyping of Rhodococcus equi Isolates from Submaxillary Lymph Nodes of Pigs in Hungary
László Makrai, Saki Takayama, Béla Dénes, István Hajtós, Yukako Sasaki, Tsutomu Kakuda, Shiro Tsubaki, Andrea Major, László Fodor, János Varga, and Shinji Takai
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1246-1250;
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Cytotoxin and Pyrogenic Toxin Superantigen Gene Profiles of Staphylococcus aureus Associated with Subclinical Mastitis in Dairy Cows and Relationships with Macrorestriction Genomic Profiles
J. M. Fueyo, M. C. Mendoza, M. R. Rodicio, J. Muñiz, M. A. Alvarez, and M. C. Martín
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1278-1284;
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Comparison of Easy-Flow Copan Liquid Stuart's and Starplex Swab Transport Systems for Recovery of Fastidious Aerobic Bacteria
Cheryl Drake, Joan Barenfanger, Jerry Lawhorn, and Steven Verhulst
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1301-1303;
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Evaluation of a Point-of-Care Test, BVBlue, and Clinical and Laboratory Criteria for Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis
C. S. Bradshaw, A. N. Morton, S. M. Garland, L. B. Horvath, I. Kuzevska, and C. K. Fairley
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1304-1308;
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Molecular Epidemiology of Shigella flexneri in a Long-Stay Psychiatric Nursing Center during 2001 to 2003
Yeong-Sheng Lee, Ming-Ching Liu, Ching-Fen Ko, Cheng-Hsiung Lu, and Yi-Hsiung Tseng
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1353-1360;
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Loss of the mecA Gene during Storage of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains
Arjanne van Griethuysen, Inge van Loo, Alex van Belkum, Christina Vandenbroucke-Grauls, Wim Wannet, Peter van Keulen, and Jan Kluytmans
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1361-1365;
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Predominance of afr2 and ral Fimbrial Genes Related to Those Encoding the K88 and CS31A Fimbrial Adhesins in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Isolates from Rabbits with Postweaning Diarrhea in Central Europe
Mohamed A. Dow, István Tóth, Pavel Alexa, Michael Davies, Anna Malik, Eric Oswald, and Béla Nagy
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1366-1371;
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Genomic Relatedness of the New Matlab Variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 to the Classical and El Tor Biotypes as Determined by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis
Ashrafus Safa, Nurul Amin Bhuiyan, Munirul Alam, David A. Sack, and G. Balakrish Nair
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1401-1404;
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Infective Endocarditis Caused by Granulicatella elegans Originating in the Oral Cavity
Yuko Ohara-Nemoto, Kayo Kishi, Mamoru Satho, Shihoko Tajika, Minoru Sasaki, Akiko Namioka, and Shigenobu Kimura
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1405-1407;
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The pls Gene Found in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Is Common in Clinical Isolates of Staphylococcus sciuri
Katri Juuti, Salha Ibrahem, Anni Virolainen-Julkunen, Jaana Vuopio-Varkila, and Pentti Kuusela
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1415-1419;
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Sugars Inhibit Expression of the Rugose Phenotype of Vibrio cholerae
Afsar Ali, J. Glenn Morris, Jr., and Judith A. Johnson
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1426-1429;
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Survey of emm-Like Gene Sequences from Pharyngeal Isolates of Group C and Group G Streptococci Collected in Spain
Sebastián Albertí, Cesar García-Rey, María Isabel García-Laorden, Rafael Dal-Ré, Juan García-de-Lomas the Spanish Surveillance Group for Respiratory Pathogens
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1433-1436;
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Comparison of COBAS AMPLICOR Neisseria gonorrhoeae PCR, Including Confirmation with N. gonorrhoeae-Specific 16S rRNA PCR, with Traditional Culture
Dirk S. Luijt, Petra A. J. Bos, Anton A. van Zwet, Pieter C. van Voorst Vader, and Jurjen Schirm
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1445-1447;
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Erroneous Reporting of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci as Kocuria spp. by the Vitek 2 System
R. Ben-Ami, S. Navon-Venezia, D. Schwartz, Y. Schlezinger, Y. Mekuzas, and Y. Carmeli
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1448-1450;
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Epidemiology:

Nosocomial Outbreak Caused by Salmonella enterica Serotype Livingstone Producing CTX-M-27 Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase in a Neonatal Unit in Sousse, Tunisia
Olfa Bouallègue-Godet, Youssef Ben Salem, Laëtitia Fabre, Marie Demartin, Patrick A. D. Grimont, Ridha Mzoughi, and François-Xavier Weill
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1037-1044;
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Molecular Epidemiology of Norovirus Infections in Stockholm, Sweden, during the Years 2000 to 2003: Association of the GGIIb Genetic Cluster with Infection in Children
Annika Tiveljung Lindell, Lena Grillner, Lennart Svensson, and Benita Zweygberg Wirgart
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1086-1092;
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Multiprefectural Spread of Gastroenteritis Outbreaks Attributable to a Single Genogroup II Norovirus Strain from a Tourist Restaurant in Nagasaki, Japan
Yoichi Hirakata, Kokichi Arisawa, Osamu Nishio, and Osamu Nakagomi
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1093-1098;
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Role of Real-Time Molecular Typing in the Surveillance of Campylobacter Enteritis and Comparison of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Profiles from Chicken and Human Isolates
Sophie Michaud, Suzanne Ménard, and Robert D. Arbeit
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1105-1111;
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Vi Antigen Expression in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Clinical Isolates from Pakistan
John Wain, Deborah House, Afia Zafar, Stephen Baker, Satheesh Nair, Claire Kidgell, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Gordon Dougan, and Rumina Hasan
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1158-1165;
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Molecular Subtyping and Characterization of Bovine and Human Streptococcus agalactiae Isolates
Sharinne Sukhnanand, Belgin Dogan, Maranatha O. Ayodele, Ruth N. Zadoks, Mary Patricia J. Craver, Nellie B. Dumas, Ynte H. Schukken, Kathryn J. Boor, and Martin Wiedmann
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1177-1186;
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Risk Factors Associated with Colonization by Pneumococci with Reduced Susceptibility to Fluoroquinolones in Adult Outpatients
M. Raquel Marín Jiménez, Juan Luis Muñoz Bellido, and José Ángel García Rodríguez
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1193-1197;
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Analysis of Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Patterns Associated with International Travel
K. Kubota, T. J. Barrett, M. L. Ackers, P. S. Brachman, and E. D. Mintz
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1205-1209;
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Epidemiologic Import of Tuberculosis Cases Whose Isolates Have Similar but Not Identical IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Patterns
M. D. Cave, Z. H. Yang, R. Stefanova, N. Fomukong, K. Ijaz, J. Bates, and K. D. Eisenach
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1228-1233;
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Trends in Drug Resistance, Serotypes, and Molecular Types of Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonizing Preschool-Age Children Attending Day Care Centers in Lisbon, Portugal: a Summary of 4 Years of Annual Surveillance
S. Nunes, R. Sá-Leão, J. Carriço, C. R. Alves, R. Mato, A. Brito Avô, J. Saldanha, J. S. Almeida, I. Santos Sanches, and H. de Lencastre
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1285-1293;
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Molecular Epidemiology of Macrolide-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Europe
Ralf René Reinert, Adrian Ringelstein, Mark van der Linden, Murat Yücel Cil, Adnan Al-Lahham, and Franz-Josef Schmitz
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1294-1300;
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Epidemiology of Human Sporotrichosis Investigated by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism
Edgar Neyra, Pierre-Alain Fonteyne, Danielle Swinne, Frederic Fauche, Beatriz Bustamante, and Nicole Nolard
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1348-1352;
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Molecular Epidemiology of Meningococci Isolated in Niger in 2003 Shows Serogroup A Sequence Type (ST)-7 and Serogroup W135 ST-11 or ST-2881 Strains
P. Nicolas, S. Djibo, A. Moussa, B. Tenebray, P. Boisier, and S. Chanteau
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1437-1438;
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Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes:

Identification of Mycobacterium Species by secA1 Sequences
Adrian M. Zelazny, Leslie B. Calhoun, Li Li, Yvonne R. Shea, and Steven H. Fischer
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1051-1058;
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Systematic Molecular Characterization of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolates from Spain
S. Samper, M. J. Iglesias, M. J. Rabanaque, L. I. Gómez, M. C. Lafoz, M. S. Jiménez, A. Ortega, M. A Lezcano, D. Van Soolingen, C. Martín The Spanish Working Group on MDR-TB
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1220-1227;
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Genetic Diversity of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates and Identification of 11 Novel rpoB Alleles in Taiwan
Ruwen Jou, Huang-Yau Chen, Chen-Yuan Chiang, Ming-Chih Yu, and Ih-Jen Su
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1390-1394;
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Virology:

Comparison of Specimen Processing and Nucleic Acid Extraction by the Swab Extraction Tube System versus the MagNA Pure LC System for Laboratory Diagnosis of Herpes Simplex Virus Infections by LightCycler PCR
N. C. Issa, M. J. Espy, J. R. Uhl, W. S. Harmsen, J. N. Mandrekar, R. E. Gullerud, M. D. Davis, and T. F. Smith
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1059-1063;
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Multiplex PCR Assay for Rapid Identification of Oculopathogenic Adenoviruses by Amplification of the Fiber and Hexon Genes
Urmila Banik, Arun Kumar Adhikary, Eiko Suzuki, Toshiki Inada, and Nobuhiko Okabe
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1064-1068;
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Rapid Identification of the Coxsackievirus A24 Variant by Molecular Serotyping in an Outbreak of Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis
Sang-Won Park, Chang-Seop Lee, Hee-Chang Jang, Eui-Chong Kim, Myoung-don Oh, and Kang-Won Choe
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1069-1071;
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Characterization of Rotavirus Strains in a Danish Population: High Frequency of Mixed Infections and Diversity within the VP4 Gene of P[8] Strains
T. K. Fischer, J. Eugen-Olsen, A. G. Pedersen, K. Mølbak, B. Böttiger, K. Rostgaard, and N. M. Nielsen
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1099-1104;
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Prevalence of Norovirus among Visitors from the United States to Mexico and Guatemala Who Experience Traveler's Diarrhea
Amy R. Chapin, Colleen M. Carpenter, William C. Dudley, Lucy C. Gibson, Rafael Pratdesaba, Olga Torres, Domingo Sanchez, Jaime Belkind-Gerson, Irene Nyquist, Anders Kärnell, Bjorn Gustafsson, Jane L. Halpern, A. Louis Bourgeois, and Kellogg J. Schwab
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1112-1117;
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Novel Antibody-Lectin Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay That Distinguishes Prion Proteins in Sporadic and Variant Cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Tao Pan, Ruliang Li, Boon-Seng Wong, Shin-Chung Kang, James Ironside, and Man-Sun Sy
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1118-1126;
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Detection of Human Metapneumovirus Antigens in Nasopharyngeal Secretions by an Immunofluorescent-Antibody Test
Takashi Ebihara, Rika Endo, Xiaoming Ma, Nobuhisa Ishiguro, and Hideaki Kikuta
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1138-1141;
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Seroepidemiology of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) on the Basis of a Novel Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Utilizing hMPV Fusion Protein Expressed in Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
Jessica Leung, Frank Esper, Carla Weibel, and Jeffrey S. Kahn
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1213-1219;
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Detection of Human Picornaviruses by Multiplex Reverse Transcription-PCR and Liquid Hybridization
Pia Jokela, Päivi Joki-Korpela, Marita Maaronen, Virpi Glumoff, and Timo Hyypiä
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1239-1245;
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Human Cytomegalovirus Reactivation during Lactation and Mother-to-Child Transmission in Preterm Infants
Johannes Meier, Uta Lienicke, Edda Tschirch, Detlev H. Krüger, Roland R. Wauer, and Susanna Prösch
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1318-1324;
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Serotype G9 Rotavirus Infections in Adults in Sweden
Elba Rubilar-Abreu, Kjell-Olof Hedlund, Lennart Svensson, and Christian Mittelholzer
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1374-1376;
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BK and JC Polyomaviruses Are Not Associated with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
G. W. Procop, D. J. Kohn, J. E. Johnson, H. J. Li, J. E. Loyd, B. Yen-Lieberman, and Y. W. Tang
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1385-1386;
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Diminished Replicative Fitness of Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Isolates Harboring the K65R Mutation
Jan Weber, Bikram Chakraborty, Jitka Weberova, Michael D. Miller, and Miguel E. Quiñones-Mateu
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1395-1400;
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Presence of DNA of Human Papillomavirus 16 but No Other Types in Tumor-Free Tonsillar Tissue
Renwei Chen, Peter Sehr, Tim Waterboer, Ilmo Leivo, Michael Pawlita, Antti Vaheri, and Leena-Maija Aaltonen
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1408-1410;
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Detection of Human Metapneumovirus RNA Sequences in Nasopharyngeal Aspirates of Young French Children with Acute Bronchiolitis by Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase PCR and Phylogenetic Analysis
Maude Bouscambert-Duchamp, Bruno Lina, Aurélien Trompette, Hélène Moret, Jacques Motte, and Laurent Andréoletti
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1411-1414;
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Genetic Variability among Serotype G4 Italian Human Rotaviruses
S. Arista, G. M. Giammanco, S. De Grazia, C. Colomba, and V. Martella
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1420-1425;
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Rate and Incidence Estimates of Recent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infections among Pregnant Women in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1991 to 2002
Carmem A. de Freitas Oliveira, Mirthes Ueda, Rosemeire Yamashiro, Rosângela Rodrigues, Haynes W. Sheppard, and Luís Fernando de Macedo Brígido
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1439-1442;
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Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology:

Detection and Identification of Ehrlichia spp. in Ticks Collected in Tunisia and Morocco
M'Hammed Sarih, Youmna M'Ghirbi, Ali Bouattour, Lise Gern, Guy Baranton, and Danièle Postic
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1127-1132;
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Sequence Analysis of the msp4 Gene of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Strains
José de la Fuente, Robert F. Massung, Susan J. Wong, Frederick K. Chu, Hans Lutz, Marina Meli, Friederike D. von Loewenich, Anna Grzeszczuk, Alessandra Torina, Santo Caracappa, Atilio J. Mangold, Victoria Naranjo, Snorre Stuen, and Katherine M. Kocan
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1309-1317;
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Effect of Clarithromycin Treatment on Chlamydia pneumoniae in Vascular Tissue of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
Hans F. Berg, Boulos Maraha, Anneke van der Zee, Siska K. Gielis, Paul J. M. Roholl, Gert-Jan Scheffer, Marcel F. Peeters, and Jan A. J. W. Kluytmans
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1325-1329;
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External Quality Assessment for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis
V. J. Chalker, H. Vaughan, P. Patel, A. Rossouw, H. Seyedzadeh, K. Gerrard, and V. L. A. James
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1341-1347;
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Confirming Positive Results of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAATs) for Chlamydia trachomatis: All NAATs Are Not Created Equal
J. Schachter, E. W. Hook, D. H. Martin, D. Willis, P. Fine, D. Fuller, J. Jordan, W. M. Janda, and M. Chernesky
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1372-1373;
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Mycology:

Typing of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Clinical Strains by Using Microsatellite Sequence Polymorphism
J. Y. Malgoire, S. Bertout, F. Renaud, J. M. Bastide, and M. Mallié
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1133-1137;
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CHROMagar Candida as the Sole Primary Medium for Isolation of Yeasts and as a Source Medium for the Rapid-Assimilation-of-Trehalose Test
Melissa P. Murray, Riva Zinchuk, and Davise H. Larone
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1210-1212;
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Analysis of the Influence of Tween Concentration, Inoculum Size, Assay Medium, and Reading Time on Susceptibility Testing of Aspergillus spp.
Alicia Gomez-Lopez, Amel Aberkane, Eva Petrikkou, Emilia Mellado, Juan Luis Rodriguez-Tudela, and Manuel Cuenca-Estrella
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1251-1255;
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Use of Microsatellite Markers and Gene Dosage To Quantify Gene Copy Numbers in Candida albicans
J.-M. Costa, O. Eloy, F. Botterel, G. Janbon, and S. Bretagne
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1387-1389;
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Differentiation between Atypical Isolates of Candida lusitaniae and Candida pulcherrima by Determination of Mating Type
Thierry Noël, Anne Favel, Annie Michel-Nguyen, Abdelhak Goumar, Karim Fallague, Christiane Chastin, Florence Leclerc, and Jean Villard
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1430-1432;
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Dihydropteroate Synthase and Novel Dihydrofolate Reductase Gene Mutations in Strains of Pneumocystis jirovecii from South Africa
F. J. L. Robberts, L. J. Chalkley, K. Weyer, P. Goussard, and L. D. Liebowitz
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1443-1444;
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Clinical Veterinary Microbiology:

Identification of Streptococcus canis Isolated from Milk of Dairy Cows with Subclinical Mastitis
Abdulwahed Ahmed Hassan, Ömer Akineden, and Ewald Usleber
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1234-1238;
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Distribution of Mycobacterium avium Complex Isolates in Tissue Samples of Pigs Fed Peat Naturally Contaminated with Mycobacteria as a Supplement
Ludmila Matlova, Lenka Dvorska, Wuhib Yayo Ayele, Milan Bartos, Takashi Amemori, and Ivo Pavlik
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1261-1268;
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Systemic Disease in Vaal Rhebok (Pelea capreolus) Caused by Mycoplasmas in the Mycoides Cluster
Melissa M. Nicolas, Ilse H. Stalis, Tracy L. Clippinger, Martin Busch, Robert Nordhausen, Gabriel Maalouf, and Mark D. Schrenzel
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1330-1340;
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Predominance of Porcine Rotavirus G9 in Japanese Piglets with Diarrhea: Close Relationship of Their VP7 Genes with Those of Recent Human G9 Strains
Tamara A. Teodoroff, Hiroshi Tsunemitsu, Kiyotora Okamoto, Ken Katsuda, Mariko Kohmoto, Kenji Kawashima, Toyoko Nakagomi, and Osamu Nakagomi
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1377-1384;
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Case Reports:

Arthrobacter scleromae sp. nov. Isolated from Human Clinical Specimens
Ying Huang, Naixin Zhao, Liang He, Liming Wang, Zhiheng Liu, Min You, and Fulai Guan
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1451-1455;
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False-Positive Histoplasma capsulatum Gen-Probe Chemiluminescent Test Result Caused by a Chrysosporium Species
Mary E. Brandt, Dennis Gaunt, Naureen Iqbal, Shirley McClinton, Sarah Hambleton, and Lynne Sigler
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1456-1458;
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Osteomyelitis Caused by Enterobacter cancerogenus Infection following a Traumatic Injury: Case Report and Review of the Literature
S. Garazzino, A. Aprato, A. Maiello, A. Massé, A. Biasibetti, F. G. De Rosa, and G. Di Perri
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1459-1461;
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Adenovirus Type F Subtype 41 Causing Disseminated Disease following Bone Marrow Transplantation for Immunodeficiency
Mary A. Slatter, Steven Read, Clive E. Taylor, Bruce N. A. Crooks, Mario Abinun, Terence J. Flood, Andrew J. Cant, Christopher Wright, and Andrew R. Gennery
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1462-1464;
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Spondylitis Due to Mycobacterium xenopi in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Infected Patient: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Agnès Meybeck, Claude Fortin, Sophie Abgrall, Homa Adle-Biassette, Gilles Hayem, Raymond Ruimy, and Patrick Yeni
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1465-1466;
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First Isolation of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron from a Patient with a Cholesteatoma and Experiencing Meningitis
Lionel Feuillet, Joseph Carvajal, Isabelle Sudre, Jean Pelletier, Jean Marc Thomassin, Michel Drancourt, and André Ali Cherif
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1467-1469;
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Typhoid Fever Associated with Acute Appendicitis Caused by an H1-j Strain of Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi
Susanna K. P. Lau, Patrick C. Y. Woo, Clair Y. F. Chan, Wai-Lan Woo, Gibson K. S. Woo, and Kwok-Yung Yuen
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1470-1472;
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Pulmonary Mycobacterium intermedium Disease in an Elderly Man with Healed Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Akihide Ito, Fujiya Kishi, Nariyoshi Saito, Yuko Kazumi, and Satoshi Mitarai
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1473-1474;
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Endophthalmitis Caused by Enterococcus mundtii
Tomomi Higashide, Mami Takahashi, Akira Kobayashi, Shinji Ohkubo, Mayumi Sakurai, Yutaka Shirao, Toshihiro Tamura, and Kazuhisa Sugiyama
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1475-1476;
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Mixed Bacterial Meningitis Due to Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis in an 18-Month-Old Child
H. Marchandin, V. Ventura, J.-M. Alonso, and P. Van de Perre
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1477-1479;
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Fatal Peritonitis Caused by Pasteurella multocida Capsular Type F in Calves
Boudewijn Catry, Koen Chiers, Stefan Schwarz, Corinna Kehrenberg, Annemie Decostere, and Aart de Kruif
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1480-1483;
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Airway Colonization by Acrophialophora fusispora in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
Bernard Cimon, Svetlana Challier, Hugues Béguin, Jacqueline Carrère, Dominique Chabasse, and Jean-Philippe Bouchara
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1484-1487;
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Letters to the Editor:

Screening for Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Pathogenic Enterobacteria in District General Hospitals
Nteimam Jonathan
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1488-1490;
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Association between Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis and Enteroviral Meningitis
A. Katherine Graham and David R. Murdoch
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1491
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Amplification of Coccidioidal DNA in Clinical Specimens by PCR
Ralf Bialek, Suzanne M. Johnson, and Keira A. Pappagianis
J. Clin. Microbiol. March 2005 43: 1492-1493;
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