JCM -- Table of Contents (January 1 2006, 44 [1])

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Contents: January 2006, Volume 44, Issue 1

       Instructions To Authors

       Minireviews

       Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes

       Epidemiology

       Clinical Veterinary Microbiology

       Virology

       Bacteriology

       Mycology

       Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology

       Parasitology

       Case Reports

       Letters To The Editor

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Instructions To Authors:

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY: 2006 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 1-19;
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Minireviews:

Current Perspectives on Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex: the Automated Nonradiometric Systems
Claudio Piersimoni, Armando Olivieri, Luca Benacchio, and Claudio Scarparo
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 20-28;
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Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes:

Molecular Analysis of Human and Bovine Tubercle Bacilli from a Local Setting in Nigeria
Simeon Cadmus, Si Palmer, Melissa Okker, James Dale, Karen Gover, Noel Smith, Keith Jahans, R. Glyn Hewinson, and Stephen V. Gordon
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 29-34;
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Direct Identification of Mycobacteria in Primary Liquid Detection Media by Partial Sequencing of the 65-Kilodalton Heat Shock Protein Gene
Alan McNabb, Kathy Adie, Mabel Rodrigues, William A. Black, and Judith Isaac-Renton
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 60-66;
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Long-Term Population-Based Genotyping Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolates in the French Departments of the Americas
Karine Brudey, Ingrid Filliol, Séverine Ferdinand, Vanina Guernier, Philippe Duval, Bertrand Maubert, Christophe Sola, and Nalin Rastogi
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 183-191;
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Use of a Mycobacteriophage-Based Assay for Rapid Assessment of Susceptibilities of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates to Isoniazid and Influence of Resistance Level on Assay Performance
N. Galí, J. Domínguez, S. Blanco, C. Prat, F. Alcaide, P. Coll, V. Ausina the Mycobacteria Research Group of Barcelona
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 201-205;
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Safe Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA Extraction Method That Does Not Compromise Integrity
Robin Warren, Marianna de Kock, Erica Engelke, Roseline Myburgh, Nico Gey van Pittius, Thomas Victor, and Paul van Helden
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 254-256;
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Rapid Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotypes on the Basis of the Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit Locus 26 Signature
K. Rajender Rao, Niyaz Ahmed, Sriramula Srinivas, Leonardo A. Sechi, and Seyed E. Hasnain
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 274-277;
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Epidemiology:

Multilocus Sequence Typing of Porphyromonas gingivalis Strains from Different Geographic Origins
Morten Enersen, Ingar Olsen, Arie J. van Winkelhoff, and Dominique A. Caugant
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 35-41;
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Molecular Characterization of Haemophilus ducreyi Isolates from Different Geographical Locations
J. Mbwana, I. Bölin, E. Lyamuya, F. Mhalu, and T. Lagergård
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 132-137;
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Evolution and Molecular Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Epidemic and Sporadic Clones in Cordoba, Argentina
Claudia Sola, Paulo Cortes, Hector A. Saka, Cordoba MRSA Collaborative Study Group, Ana Vindel, and José Luis Bocco
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 192-200;
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Clonal Spread of Serogroup W135 Meningococcal Disease in Turkey
Abdullah Kilic, Rachel Urwin, Haijing Li, Mehmet A. Saracli, Charles W. Stratton, and Yi-Wei Tang
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 222-224;
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Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Epidemic Clone USA300 in Isolates from Florida and Washington
Jill C. Roberts, Robin L. Krueger, K. Kealy Peak, William Veguilla, Andrew C. Cannons, Philip T. Amuso, and Jacqueline Cattani
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 225-226;
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Serological Evidence for Increased Human Exposure to Burkholderia pseudomallei following the Tsunami in Southern Thailand
Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Wirongrong Chierakul, Jurairat Rattanalertnavee, Sayan Langa, Damrong Sirodom, Charnkij Wattanawaitunechai, Wut Winothai, Nicholas J. White, Nicholas Day, and Sharon J. Peacock
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 239-240;
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Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Typing of Staphylococcus epidermidis
Anders Johansson, Satu Koskiniemi, Per Gottfridsson, Johan Wiström, and Tor Monsen
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 260-265;
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Prevalence and Evolution of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Spanish Hospitals between 1996 and 2002
A. Vindel, P. Trincado, E. Gómez, R. Cabrera, T. Boquete, C. Solá, S. Valdezate, and J. A. Saez-Nieto
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 266-270;
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Clinical Veterinary Microbiology:

Effects of Cow Age and Pregnancy on Bartonella Infection in a Herd of Dairy Cattle
R. Maillard, B. Grimard, S. Chastant-Maillard, B. Chomel, T. Delcroix, C. Gandoin, C. Bouillin, L. Halos, M. Vayssier-Taussat, and H.-J. Boulouis
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 42-46;
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Virology:

Positive Correlation between Epstein-Barr Virus Viral Load and Anti-Viral Capsid Immunoglobulin G Titers Determined for Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patients and Their Relatives
Caroline Besson, Corinne Amiel, Catherine Le-Pendeven, Pauline Brice, Christophe Fermé, Patrice Carde, Olivier Hermine, Martine Raphael, Laurent Abel, and Jean-Claude Nicolas
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 47-50;
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Armored RNA as Virus Surrogate in a Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase PCR Assay Proficiency Panel
S. K. Hietala and B. M. Crossley
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 67-70;
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Detection of Rhinoviruses by Tissue Culture and Two Independent Amplification Techniques, Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification and Reverse Transcription-PCR, in Children with Acute Respiratory Infections during a Winter Season
K. Loens, H. Goossens, C. de Laat, H. Foolen, P. Oudshoorn, S. Pattyn, P. Sillekens, and M. Ieven
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 166-171;
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Virological, Serological, and Clinical Features of an Outbreak of Acute Gastroenteritis Due to Recombinant Genogroup II Norovirus in an Infant Home
Takeshi Tsugawa, Kazuko Numata-Kinoshita, Shinjiro Honma, Shuji Nakata, Masatoshi Tatsumi, Yoshiyuki Sakai, Katsuro Natori, Naokazu Takeda, Shinichi Kobayashi, and Hiroyuki Tsutsumi
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 177-182;
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Bacteriology:

Association between Preterm Birth and Vaginal Colonization by Mycoplasmas in Early Pregnancy
Soromon Kataoka, Takashi Yamada, Kazutoshi Chou, Ryutaro Nishida, Mamoru Morikawa, Mashiho Minami, Hideto Yamada, Noriaki Sakuragi, and Hisanori Minakami
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 51-55;
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Legionella anisa, a Possible Indicator of Water Contamination by Legionella pneumophila
Nathalie van der Mee-Marquet, Anne-Sophie Domelier, Laurence Arnault, Daniel Bloc, Patrice Laudat, Philippe Hartemann, and Roland Quentin
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 56-59;
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Validation of VITEK 2 Version 4.01 Software for Detection, Identification, and Classification of Glycopeptide-Resistant Enterococci
Marianne Abele-Horn, Leif Hommers, René Trabold, and Matthias Frosch
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 71-76;
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Development and Evaluation of a Real-Time PCR Assay Targeting the Type III Secretion System of Burkholderia pseudomallei
Ryan T. Novak, Mindy B. Glass, Jay E. Gee, Daniel Gal, Mark J. Mayo, Bart J. Currie, and Patricia P. Wilkins
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 85-90;
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Absence of Spiroplasma or Other Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes in Brain Tissue of Hamsters with Scrapie
Irina Alexeeva, Ellen J. Elliott, Sandra Rollins, Gail E. Gasparich, Jozef Lazar, and Robert G. Rohwer
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 91-97;
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Seroepidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae in an Australian Tertiary Hospital and Its Implications for Vaccine Development
Adam W. Jenney, Abigail Clements, Jacinta L. Farn, Odilia L. Wijburg, Andrew McGlinchey, Denis W. Spelman, Tyrone L. Pitt, Mary E. Kaufmann, Lisa Liolios, Margaret B. Moloney, Steven L. Wesselingh, and Richard A. Strugnell
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 102-107;
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Characterization of a Strain of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Widely Disseminated in the United States
Fred C. Tenover, Linda K. McDougal, Richard V. Goering, George Killgore, Steven J. Projan, Jean B. Patel, and Paul M. Dunman
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 108-118;
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Faster Identification of Pathogens in Positive Blood Cultures by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization in Routine Practice
Remco P. H. Peters, Paul H. M. Savelkoul, Alberdina M. Simoons-Smit, Sven A. Danner, Christina M. J. E. Vandenbroucke-Grauls, and Michiel A. van Agtmael
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 119-123;
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Sequential Multiplex PCR Approach for Determining Capsular Serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates
Rekha Pai, Robert E. Gertz, and Bernard Beall
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 124-131;
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Identification of Invasive Serotype 1 Pneumococcal Isolates That Express Nonhemolytic Pneumolysin
Lea-Ann S. Kirkham, Johanna M. C. Jefferies, Alison R. Kerr, Yu Jing, Stuart C. Clarke, Andrew Smith, and Tim J. Mitchell
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 151-159;
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Viridans Streptococci Isolated by Culture from Blood of Cancer Patients: Clinical and Microbiologic Analysis of 50 Cases
Xiang Y. Han, Mallika Kamana, and Kenneth V. I. Rolston
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 160-165;
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Detection of cfxA and cfxA2, the ß-Lactamase Genes of Prevotella spp., in Clinical Samples from Dentoalveolar Infection by Real-Time PCR
Kaori Iwahara, Tomoari Kuriyama, Satoshi Shimura, David W. Williams, Maki Yanagisawa, Kiyomasa Nakagawa, and Tadahiro Karasawa
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 172-176;
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Listeria monocytogenes Serotype 4b Strains Belonging to Lineages I and III Possess Distinct Molecular Features
Dongyou Liu, Mark L. Lawrence, Lisa Gorski, Robert E. Mandrell, A. Jerald Ainsworth, and Frank W. Austin
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 214-217;
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Does Nasal Cocolonization by Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci and Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Strains Occur Frequently Enough To Represent a Risk of False-Positive Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Determinations by Molecular Methods?
Karsten Becker, Isabelle Pagnier, Brigitte Schuhen, Frauke Wenzelburger, Alexander W. Friedrich, Frank Kipp, Georg Peters, and Christof von Eiff
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 229-231;
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Novel PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis for Rapid Typing of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec Elements
Jin Ah Yang, Dae Won Park, Jang Wook Sohn, and Min Ja Kim
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 236-238;
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Utility of the VITEK 2 Advanced Expert System for Identification of Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase Production in Enterobacter spp.
Mitchell J. Schwaber, Shiri Navon-Venezia, Inna Chmelnitsky, Azita Leavitt, David Schwartz, and Yehuda Carmeli
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 241-243;
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Diagnostic Oligonucleotide Microarray Fingerprinting of Bacillus Isolates
Darrell P. Chandler, Oleg Alferov, Boris Chernov, Don S. Daly, Julia Golova, Alexander Perov, Miroslava Protic, Richard Robison, Matthew Schipma, Amanda White, and Alan Willse
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 244-250;
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Utility of Extended Blood Culture Incubation for Isolation of Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, Cardiobacterium, Eikenella, and Kingella Organisms: a Retrospective Multicenter Evaluation
Cathy A. Petti, Hasan S. Bhally, Melvin P. Weinstein, Kim Joho, Teresa Wakefield, L. Barth Reller, and Karen C. Carroll
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 257-259;
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Use of Variations in Staphylococcal Interspersed Repeat Units for Molecular Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains
Katherine J. Hardy, Beryl A. Oppenheim, Savita Gossain, Fang Gao, and Peter M. Hawkey
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 271-273;
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Mycology:

Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequencing versus Biochemical Profiling for Identification of Medically Important Yeasts
D. E. Ciardo, G. Schär, E. C. Böttger, M. Altwegg, and P. P. Bosshard
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 77-84;
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Establishing a Method of Inoculum Preparation for Susceptibility Testing of Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes
D. A. Santos, M. E. S. Barros, and J. S. Hamdan
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 98-101;
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Development and Evaluation of a Rapid Latex Agglutination Test Using a Monoclonal Antibody To Identify Candida dubliniensis Colonies
Agnes Marot-Leblond, Bertrand Beucher, Sandrine David, Sandrine Nail-Billaud, and Raymond Robert
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 138-142;
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Use of Quantitative Real-Time PCR To Study the Kinetics of Extracellular DNA Released from Candida albicans, with Implications for Diagnosis of Invasive Candidiasis
Miki Kasai, Andrea Francesconi, Ruta Petraitiene, Vidmantas Petraitis, Amy M. Kelaher, Hee-sup Kim, Joseph Meletiadis, Tin Sein, John Bacher, and Thomas J. Walsh
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 143-150;
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Four-Year Persistence of a Single Candida albicans Genotype Causing Bloodstream Infections in a Surgical Ward Proven by Multilocus Sequence Typing
Maria Anna Viviani, Massimo Cogliati, Maria Carmela Esposto, Anna Prigitano, and Anna Maria Tortorano
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 218-221;
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Comparative Study of the New Colorimetric VITEK 2 Yeast Identification Card versus the Older Fluorometric Card and of CHROMagar Candida as a Source Medium with the New Card
C. L. Aubertine, M. Rivera, S. M. Rohan, and D. H. Larone
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 227-228;
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Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology:

Development and Validation of a Rotor-Gene Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection, Identification, and Quantification of Chlamydia trachomatis in a Single Reaction
Hamid Jalal, Hannah Stephen, Martin D. Curran, Janet Burton, Michelle Bradley, and Christopher Carne
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 206-213;
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Parasitology:

Evaluation of Three Diagnostic Methods, Including Real-Time PCR, for Detection of Dientamoeba fragilis in Stool Specimens
D. Stark, N. Beebe, D. Marriott, J. Ellis, and J. Harkness
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 232-235;
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Rapid, Noninvasive Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis in India: Comparison of Two Immunochromatographic Strip Tests for Detection of Anti-K39 Antibody
Shyam Sundar, Radheshyam Maurya, Rakesh K. Singh, K. Bharti, Jaya Chakravarty, Ashish Parekh, Madhukar Rai, Kailash Kumar, and Henry W. Murray
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 251-253;
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Case Reports:

First Isolation of Bartonella alsatica from a Valve of a Patient with Endocarditis
Didier Raoult, France Roblot, Jean-Marc Rolain, Jean-Marc Besnier, Joëlle Loulergue, Frédéric Bastides, and Patrick Choutet
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 278-279;
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Nocardia cyriacigeorgica Septicemia
Sameer Elsayed, Angela Kealey, Carla S. Coffin, Ron Read, David Megran, and Kunyan Zhang
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 280-282;
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Specimens from a Vesicular Lesion Caused by Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Produced a Cytopathic Effect in Cell Culture That Mimicked That Produced by Herpes Simplex Virus
Constance A. Bell, Allison P. Eberly, Geraldine Takata, Raelene K. Combs, Nathan E. Deweese, and A. Christian Whelen
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 283-286;
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Letters To The Editor:

Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Genes in a Laboratory Quality Control Strain of Staphylococcus aureus
W. Michael Dunne, Jr.
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 287
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An Improved Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Method for Typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Yankuba Kassama, Michael Shemko, Nandini Shetty, Zack Fang, Graham MacIntire, Vanya Gant, Ali Zumla, and Royston Goodacre
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2006 44: 288-289;
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