JCM -- Table of Contents (January 1 2007, 45 [1])

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Contents: January 2007, Volume 45, Issue 1

       Instructions To Authors

       Minireviews

       Bacteriology

       Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes

       Epidemiology

       Mycology

       Virology

       Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology

       Case Reports

       Letters To The Editor

       Errata

       Author's Correction

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Instructions To Authors:

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY: 2007 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 1-20;
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Minireviews:

Molecular Diagnosis of Leishmaniasis: Current Status and Future Applications
Richard Reithinger and Jean-Claude Dujardin
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 21-25; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.02029-06
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Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Diagnostic Aspects of Coccidioidomycosis
Michael A. Saubolle, Peter P. McKellar, and Den Sussland
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 26-30; published ahead of print November 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.02230-06
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Bacteriology:

Helicobacter cinaedi Cellulitis and Bacteremia in Immunocompetent Hosts after Orthopedic Surgery
Toshio Kitamura, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Kiyofumi Ohkusu, Takayuki Masaki, Hirofumi Iwashita, Tomohiro Sawa, Shigemoto Fujii, Tatsuya Okamoto, and Takaaki Akaike
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 31-38; published ahead of print November 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01507-06
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Strain-Specific Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Assays for the Bacillus anthracis Ames Strain
Matthew N. Van Ert, W. Ryan Easterday, Tatum S. Simonson, Jana M. U'Ren, Talima Pearson, Leo J. Kenefic, Joseph D. Busch, Lynn Y. Huynh, Megan Dukerich, Carla B. Trim, Jodi Beaudry, Amy Welty-Bernard, Timothy Read, Claire M. Fraser, Jacques Ravel, and Paul Keim
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 47-53; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01233-06
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Genetic Profiling of the Oral Microbiota Associated with Severe Early-Childhood Caries
Y. Li, Y. Ge, D. Saxena, and P. W. Caufield
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 81-87; published ahead of print November 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01622-06
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Development of a Real-Time PCR Assay To Detect Treponema pallidum in Clinical Specimens and Assessment of the Assay's Performance by Comparison with Serological Testing
David E. Leslie, Franca Azzato, Theo Karapanagiotidis, Jennie Leydon, and Janet Fyfe
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 93-96; published ahead of print October 25, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01578-06
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Characterization of In Vitro Biofilm-Associated Pneumococcal Phase Variants of a Clinically Relevant Serotype 3 Clone
M. Catherine McEllistrem, Jennifer V. Ransford, and Saleem A. Khan
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 97-101; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01658-06
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Clonal Complexes of Campylobacter jejuni Identified by Multilocus Sequence Typing Are Reliably Predicted by Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analyses of the flaA Gene
Steven P. Djordjevic, Leanne E. Unicomb, Penelope J. Adamson, Lance Mickan, Rosa Rios, and the Australian Campylobacter Subtyping Study Group
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 102-108; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01012-06
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Association of Putative Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Virulence Genes and Biofilm Production in Isolates from Travelers to Developing Countries
Jamal A. Mohamed, David B. Huang, Zhi-Dong Jiang, Herbert L. DuPont, James P. Nataro, Jaime Belkind-Gerson, and Pablo C. Okhuysen
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 121-126; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01128-06
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Validation of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and spa Typing for Long-Term, Nationwide Epidemiological Surveillance Studies of Staphylococcus aureus Infections
M. Hallin, A. Deplano, O. Denis, R. De Mendonça, R. De Ryck, and M. J. Struelens
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 127-133; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01866-06
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Identification of Vibrio Isolates by a Multiplex PCR Assay and rpoB Sequence Determination
Cheryl L. Tarr, Jayna S. Patel, Nancy D. Puhr, Evangeline G. Sowers, Cheryl A. Bopp, and Nancy A. Strockbine
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 134-140; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01544-06
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Rapid Multiplex PCR Assay for Identification of USA300 Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates
Kristin K. Bonnstetter, Daniel J. Wolter, Fred C. Tenover, Linda K. McDougal, and Richard V. Goering
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 141-146; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01228-06
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Combined Use of Pastorex Staph-Plus and Either of Two New Chromogenic Agars, MRSA ID and CHROMagar MRSA, for Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Veerle Compernolle, Gerda Verschraegen, and Geert Claeys
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 154-158; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01115-06
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Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Staphylococcus aureus Small-Colony Variants in Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease
Silke Besier, Christina Smaczny, Christian von Mallinckrodt, Andreas Krahl, Hanns Ackermann, Volker Brade, and Thomas A. Wichelhaus
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 168-172; published ahead of print November 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01510-06
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Effects of Phenotype and Genotype on Methods for Detection of Extended-Spectrum-ß-Lactamase-Producing Clinical Isolates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in Norway
Ståle Tofteland, Bjørg Haldorsen, Kristin H. Dahl, Gunnar S. Simonsen, Martin Steinbakk, Timothy R. Walsh, Arnfinn Sundsfjord, and the Norwegian ESBL Study Group
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 199-205; published ahead of print November 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01319-06
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tcdC Genotypes Associated with Severe TcdC Truncation in an Epidemic Clone and Other Strains of Clostridium difficile
Scott R. Curry, Jane W. Marsh, Carlene A. Muto, Mary M. O'Leary, A. William Pasculle, and Lee H. Harrison
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 215-221; published ahead of print October 11, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01599-06
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Multicenter Studies of Tigecycline Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Results for Acinetobacter spp.
Ronald N. Jones, Mary Jane Ferraro, L. Barth Reller, Paul C. Schreckenberger, Jana M. Swenson, and Helio S. Sader
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 227-230; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01588-06
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Prevalence and Characterization of Class I Integrons among Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from Patients in Nanjing, China
Bing Gu, Mingqing Tong, Wenjun Zhao, Genyan Liu, Mingzhe Ning, Shiyang Pan, and Wangsheng Zhao
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 241-243; published ahead of print November 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01318-06
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Comparison between Nasal Swabs and Nasopharyngeal Aspirates for, and Effect of Time in Transit on, Isolation of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis
Kylie S. Carville, Jacinta M. Bowman, Deborah Lehmann, and Thomas V. Riley
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 244-245; published ahead of print November 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01131-06
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Comparison of Serological Test Kits for Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever in the Philippines
Razel L. Kawano, Susan A. Leano, and Dorothy May A. Agdamag
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 246-247; published ahead of print October 25, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01403-06
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Laribacter hongkongensis Isolated from a Patient with Community-Acquired Gastroenteritis in Hangzhou City
Xiao-Ping Ni, Shu-Hua Ren, Jian-Rong Sun, Hai-Qing Xiang, Yan Gao, Qing-Xin Kong, Jie Cha, Jing-Chao Pan, Hua Yu, and Hua-Ming Li
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 255-256; published ahead of print October 4, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01400-06
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Use of Partial 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing for Identification of Legionella pneumophila and Non-pneumophila Legionella spp.
D. A. Wilson, U. Reischl, G. S. Hall, and G. W. Procop
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 257-258; published ahead of print November 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01552-06
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Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes:

Role of Large Sequence Polymorphisms (LSPs) in Generating Genomic Diversity among Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Utility of LSPs in Phylogenetic Analysis
David Alland, David W. Lacher, Manzour Hernando Hazbón, Alifiya S. Motiwala, Weihong Qi, Robert D. Fleischmann, and Thomas S. Whittam
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 39-46; published ahead of print November 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.02483-05
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Comparative Evaluation of Löwenstein-Jensen Proportion Method, BacT/ALERT 3D System, and Enzymatic Pyrazinamidase Assay for Pyrazinamide Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Pushpendra Singh, Clement Wesley, G. P. S. Jadaun, Sunil Kumar Malonia, R. Das, P. Upadhyay, J. Faujdar, P. Sharma, P. Gupta, Abhay Kumar Mishra, Kalpana Singh, D. S. Chauhan, V. D. Sharma, U. D. Gupta, K. Venkatesan, and V. M. Katoch
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 76-80; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.00951-06
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Detection of Multidrug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Jun-ichiro Sekiguchi, Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopec, Zofia Zwolska, Fumiko Kirikae, Emiko Toyota, Intetsu Kobayashi, Koji Morita, Koichiro Kudo, Seiya Kato, Tadatoshi Kuratsuji, Toru Mori, and Teruo Kirikae
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 179-192; published ahead of print November 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.00750-06
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Spoligotype Signatures in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
E. M. Streicher, T. C. Victor, G. van der Spuy, C. Sola, N. Rastogi, P. D. van Helden, and R. M. Warren
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 237-240; published ahead of print October 25, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01429-06
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Newly Developed Primers for Comprehensive Amplification of the rpoB Gene and Detection of Rifampin Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Leen Rigouts, Oscar Nolasco, Pim de Rijk, Elie Nduwamahoro, Armand Van Deun, Andy Ramsay, Jorge Arevalo, and Françoise Portaels
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 252-254; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01489-06
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Epidemiology:

Double-Locus Sequence Typing Using clfB and spa, a Fast and Simple Method for Epidemiological Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
G. Kuhn, P. Francioli, and D. S. Blanc
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 54-62; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01457-06
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Analysis of Changes in Recent Tuberculosis Transmission Patterns after a Sharp Increase in Immigration
Jesús Iñigo, Darío García de Viedma, Araceli Arce, Elia Palenque, Noelia Alonso Rodríguez, Elena Rodríguez, María Jesús Ruiz Serrano, Sandra Andrés, Emilio Bouza, and Fernando Chaves
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 63-69; published ahead of print November 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01644-06
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Clonal Structure of Enterococcus faecalis Isolated from Polish Hospitals: Characterization of Epidemic Clones
Magdalena Kawalec, Zbigniew Pietras, Emilia Danilowicz, Aleksandra Jakubczak, Marek Gniadkowski, Waleria Hryniewicz, and Rob J. L. Willems
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 147-153; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01704-06
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IS1301 Fingerprint Analysis of Neisseria meningitidis Strains Belonging to the ET-15 Clone
Johannes Elias and Ulrich Vogel
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 159-167; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01322-06
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Probe Hybridization Array Typing: a Binary Typing Method for Escherichia coli
U. Srinivasan, L. Zhang, A. M. France, D. Ghosh, W. Shalaby, J. Xie, C. F. Marrs, and B. Foxman
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 206-214; published ahead of print November 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01543-06
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Mycology:

Use of Fluconazole as a Surrogate Marker To Predict Susceptibility and Resistance to Voriconazole among 13,338 Clinical Isolates of Candida spp. Tested by Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute-Recommended Broth Microdilution Methods
M. A. Pfaller, S. A. Messer, L. Boyken, C. Rice, S. Tendolkar, R. J. Hollis, and D. J. Diekema
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 70-75; published ahead of print November 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01551-06
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Statistical Analyses of Correlation between Fluconazole MICs for Candida spp. Assessed by Standard Methods Set Forth by the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (E.Dis. 7.1) and CLSI (M27-A2)
Juan Luis Rodriguez-Tudela, J. Peter Donnelly, Michael A. Pfaller, Erja Chryssantou, Peter Warn, David W. Denning, Ana Espinel-Ingroff, Francesco Barchiesi, and Manuel Cuenca-Estrella
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 109-111; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01969-06
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Detection of Coccidioides Species in Clinical Specimens by Real-Time PCR
M. J. Binnicker, S. P. Buckwalter, J. J. Eisberner, R. A. Stewart, A. E. McCullough, S. L. Wohlfiel, and N. L. Wengenack
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 173-178; published ahead of print November 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01776-06
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Quality Control Limits for Posaconazole Disk Susceptibility Tests on Mueller-Hinton Agar with Glucose and Methylene Blue
S. Brown and M. Traczewski
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 222-223; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01732-06
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Virology:

Quantitative Detection of Plasma Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 Subtype A RNA by the Nuclisens EasyQ Assay (Version 1.1)
Berta Rodés, Julie Sheldon, Carlos Toro, Laureano Cuevas, Esperanza Pérez-Pastrana, Inmaculada Herrera, and Vincent Soriano
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 88-92; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01613-06
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Genetic Diversity of Coxsackievirus A16 Associated with Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Epidemics in Japan from 1983 to 2003
Mitsuaki Hosoya, Yukihiko Kawasaki, Masatoki Sato, Ken Honzumi, Akio Hayashi, Toyomasa Hiroshima, Hiroaki Ishiko, Kazuo Kato, and Hitoshi Suzuki
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 112-120; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.00718-06
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Age-Related Urinary Excretion of BK Polyomavirus by Nonimmunocompromised Individuals
Shan Zhong, Huai-Ying Zheng, Motofumi Suzuki, Qin Chen, Hiroshi Ikegaya, Naoto Aoki, Shuzo Usuku, Nobuyoshi Kobayashi, Souichi Nukuzuma, Yukiharu Yasuda, Noboru Kuniyoshi, Yoshiaki Yogo, and Tadaichi Kitamura
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 193-198; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01645-06
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Rapid Molecular Strategy for Filovirus Detection and Characterization
Junhui Zhai, Gustavo Palacios, Jonathan S. Towner, Omar Jabado, Vishal Kapoor, Marietjie Venter, Allen Grolla, Thomas Briese, Janusz Paweska, Robert Swanepoel, Heinz Feldmann, Stuart T. Nichol, and W. Ian Lipkin
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 224-226; published ahead of print November 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01893-06
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Evaluation of Commercial Rubella Immunoglobulin G Avidity Assays
Samira Mubareka, Hannah Richards, Michael Gray, and Graham A. Tipples
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 231-233; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01243-06
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Penile, Urethral, and Seminal Sampling for Diagnosis of Human Papillomavirus Infection in Men
Lucia Giovannelli, Maria Colomba Migliore, Giuseppina Capra, Maria Pia Caleca, Carmelina Bellavia, Antonio Perino, Enza Viviano, Domenica Matranga, and Pietro Ammatuna
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 248-251; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01576-06
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Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology:

Serological Cross-Reactivity between Different Chlamydia-Like Organisms
Nicola Casson, José M. Entenza, and Gilbert Greub
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 234-236; published ahead of print October 25, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01867-06
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Case Reports:

Propionibacterium acnes as a Cause of Prosthetic Valve Aortic Root Abscess
Federico Hinestrosa, Svetolik Djurkovic, Paul P. Bourbeau, and Michael A. Foltzer
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 259-261; published ahead of print October 25, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01598-06
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Nocardia nova as the Causative Agent in Spondylodiscitis and Psoas Abscess
Farida Hamdad, Barbara Vidal, Youcef Douadi, Genevieve Laurans, Brigitte Canarelli, Gabriel Choukroun, Veronica Rodriguez-Nava, Patrick Boiron, Blaine Beaman, and François Eb
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 262-265; published ahead of print October 18, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.00669-06
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Nocardia nova as the Causative Agent in Spondylodiscitis and Psoas Abscess
Farida Hamdad, Barbara Vidal, Youcef Douadi, Genevieve Laurans, Brigitte Canarelli, Gabriel Choukroun, Veronica Rodriguez-Nava, Patrick Boiron, Blaine Beaman, and François Eb
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 262-265;
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Nosocomial Liver Abscess Caused by Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
Jung-Chung Lin, L. K. Siu, Chang-Phone Fung, Kao-Ming Yeh, and Feng-Yee Chang
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 266-269; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01413-06
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Isolation of Bartonella quintana from a Woman and a Cat following Putative Bite Transmission
Edward B. Breitschwerdt, Ricardo G. Maggi, Betsy Sigmon, and William L. Nicholson
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 270-272; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01451-06
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Letters To The Editor:

Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection Caused by Mycobacterium mageritense
Sadia Ali, Fida A. Khan, and Melanie Fisher
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 273 published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.01224-06
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Association between the Presence of the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Encoding Gene and a Lower Rate of Survival among Hospitalized Pulmonary Patients with Staphylococcal Disease
C. Lopez-Aguilar, E. Perez-Roth, S. Mendez-Alvarez, A. Moreno, M. C. Duran, C. Casanova, and A. Aguirre-Jaime
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 274-276; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/JCM.02032-06
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Errata:

Two-Year Evaluation of Borrelia burgdorferi Culture and Supplemental Tests for Definitive Diagnosis of Lyme Disease
Peggy Coulter, Clara Lema, Diane Flayhart, Amy S. Linhardt, John N. Aucott, Paul G. Auwaerter, and J. Stephen Dumler
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 277
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Author's Correction:

Comparison of Real-Time PCR Assays for Monitoring Serum Hepatitis B Virus DNA Levels during Antiretroviral Therapy
Chee-Kin Hui, Scott Bowden, Hai-Ying Zhang, Anita Wong, Sharon Lewin, Frank Rousseau, Herve Mommeja-Marin, Nikki P. Lee, John M. Luk, Stephen Locarnini, Nancy Leung, Nikolai V. Naoumov, and George K. K. Lau
J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2007 45: 278
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