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Instructions To Authors:

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY: 2007 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 1-20. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Minireviews:

Richard Reithinger and Jean-Claude Dujardin

Molecular Diagnosis of Leishmaniasis: Current Status and Future Applications
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 21-25. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Michael A. Saubolle, Peter P. McKellar, and Den Sussland

Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Diagnostic Aspects of Coccidioidomycosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 26-30. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bacteriology:

Toshio Kitamura, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Kiyofumi Ohkusu, Takayuki Masaki, Hirofumi Iwashita, Tomohiro Sawa, Shigemoto Fujii, Tatsuya Okamoto, and Takaaki Akaike

Helicobacter cinaedi Cellulitis and Bacteremia in Immunocompetent Hosts after Orthopedic Surgery
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 31-38. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Strain-Specific Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Assays for the Bacillus anthracis Ames Strain
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 47-53. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Y. Li, Y. Ge, D. Saxena, and P. W. Caufield

Genetic Profiling of the Oral Microbiota Associated with Severe Early-Childhood Caries
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 81-87. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

David E. Leslie, Franca Azzato, Theo Karapanagiotidis, Jennie Leydon, and Janet Fyfe

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
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 93-96. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

M. Catherine McEllistrem, Jennifer V. Ransford, and Saleem A. Khan

Characterization of In Vitro Biofilm-Associated Pneumococcal Phase Variants of a Clinically Relevant Serotype 3 Clone
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 97-101. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Steven P. Djordjevic, Leanne E. Unicomb, Penelope J. Adamson, Lance Mickan, Rosa Rios, and the Australian Campylobacter Subtyping Study Group

Clonal Complexes of Campylobacter jejuni Identified by Multilocus Sequence Typing Are Reliably Predicted by Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analyses of the flaA Gene
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 102-108. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jamal A. Mohamed, David B. Huang, Zhi-Dong Jiang, Herbert L. DuPont, James P. Nataro, Jaime Belkind-Gerson, and Pablo C. Okhuysen

Association of Putative Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Virulence Genes and Biofilm Production in Isolates from Travelers to Developing Countries
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 121-126. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

M. Hallin, A. Deplano, O. Denis, R. De Mendonça, R. De Ryck, and M. J. Struelens

Validation of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and spa Typing for Long-Term, Nationwide Epidemiological Surveillance Studies of Staphylococcus aureus Infections
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 127-133. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Cheryl L. Tarr, Jayna S. Patel, Nancy D. Puhr, Evangeline G. Sowers, Cheryl A. Bopp, and Nancy A. Strockbine

Identification of Vibrio Isolates by a Multiplex PCR Assay and rpoB Sequence Determination
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 134-140. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Kristin K. Bonnstetter, Daniel J. Wolter, Fred C. Tenover, Linda K. McDougal, and Richard V. Goering

Rapid Multiplex PCR Assay for Identification of USA300 Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 141-146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Veerle Compernolle, Gerda Verschraegen, and Geert Claeys

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
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 154-158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Silke Besier, Christina Smaczny, Christian von Mallinckrodt, Andreas Krahl, Hanns Ackermann, Volker Brade, and Thomas A. Wichelhaus

Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Staphylococcus aureus Small-Colony Variants in Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 168-172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ståle Tofteland, Bjørg Haldorsen, Kristin H. Dahl, Gunnar S. Simonsen, Martin Steinbakk, Timothy R. Walsh, Arnfinn Sundsfjord, and the Norwegian ESBL Study Group

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
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 199-205. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Scott R. Curry, Jane W. Marsh, Carlene A. Muto, Mary M. O'Leary, A. William Pasculle, and Lee H. Harrison

tcdC Genotypes Associated with Severe TcdC Truncation in an Epidemic Clone and Other Strains of Clostridium difficile
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 215-221. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ronald N. Jones, Mary Jane Ferraro, L. Barth Reller, Paul C. Schreckenberger, Jana M. Swenson, and Helio S. Sader

Multicenter Studies of Tigecycline Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Results for Acinetobacter spp.
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 227-230. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bing Gu, Mingqing Tong, Wenjun Zhao, Genyan Liu, Mingzhe Ning, Shiyang Pan, and Wangsheng Zhao

Prevalence and Characterization of Class I Integrons among Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from Patients in Nanjing, China
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 241-243. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Kylie S. Carville, Jacinta M. Bowman, Deborah Lehmann, and Thomas V. Riley

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
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 244-245. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Razel L. Kawano, Susan A. Leano, and Dorothy May A. Agdamag

Comparison of Serological Test Kits for Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever in the Philippines
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 246-247. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Laribacter hongkongensis Isolated from a Patient with Community-Acquired Gastroenteritis in Hangzhou City
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 255-256. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

D. A. Wilson, U. Reischl, G. S. Hall, and G. W. Procop

Use of Partial 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing for Identification of Legionella pneumophila and Non-pneumophila Legionella spp.
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 257-258. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes:

David Alland, David W. Lacher, Manzour Hernando Hazbón, Alifiya S. Motiwala, Weihong Qi, Robert D. Fleischmann, and Thomas S. Whittam

Role of Large Sequence Polymorphisms (LSPs) in Generating Genomic Diversity among Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Utility of LSPs in Phylogenetic Analysis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 39-46. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Comparative Evaluation of Löwenstein-Jensen Proportion Method, BacT/ALERT 3D System, and Enzymatic Pyrazinamidase Assay for Pyrazinamide Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 76-80. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Detection of Multidrug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 179-192. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

E. M. Streicher, T. C. Victor, G. van der Spuy, C. Sola, N. Rastogi, P. D. van Helden, and R. M. Warren

Spoligotype Signatures in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 237-240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Leen Rigouts, Oscar Nolasco, Pim de Rijk, Elie Nduwamahoro, Armand Van Deun, Andy Ramsay, Jorge Arevalo, and Françoise Portaels

Newly Developed Primers for Comprehensive Amplification of the rpoB Gene and Detection of Rifampin Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 252-254. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Epidemiology:

G. Kuhn, P. Francioli, and D. S. Blanc

Double-Locus Sequence Typing Using clfB and spa, a Fast and Simple Method for Epidemiological Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 54-62. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Analysis of Changes in Recent Tuberculosis Transmission Patterns after a Sharp Increase in Immigration
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 63-69. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Magdalena Kawalec, Zbigniew Pietras, Emilia Danilowicz, Aleksandra Jakubczak, Marek Gniadkowski, Waleria Hryniewicz, and Rob J. L. Willems

Clonal Structure of Enterococcus faecalis Isolated from Polish Hospitals: Characterization of Epidemic Clones
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 147-153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Johannes Elias and Ulrich Vogel

IS1301 Fingerprint Analysis of Neisseria meningitidis Strains Belonging to the ET-15 Clone
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 159-167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

U. Srinivasan, L. Zhang, A. M. France, D. Ghosh, W. Shalaby, J. Xie, C. F. Marrs, and B. Foxman

Probe Hybridization Array Typing: a Binary Typing Method for Escherichia coli
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 206-214. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mycology:

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

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
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 70-75. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

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)
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 109-111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

M. J. Binnicker, S. P. Buckwalter, J. J. Eisberner, R. A. Stewart, A. E. McCullough, S. L. Wohlfiel, and N. L. Wengenack

Detection of Coccidioides Species in Clinical Specimens by Real-Time PCR
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 173-178. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

S. Brown and M. Traczewski

Quality Control Limits for Posaconazole Disk Susceptibility Tests on Mueller-Hinton Agar with Glucose and Methylene Blue
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 222-223. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Virology:

Berta Rodés, Julie Sheldon, Carlos Toro, Laureano Cuevas, Esperanza Pérez-Pastrana, Inmaculada Herrera, and Vincent Soriano

Quantitative Detection of Plasma Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 Subtype A RNA by the Nuclisens EasyQ Assay (Version 1.1)
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 88-92. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mitsuaki Hosoya, Yukihiko Kawasaki, Masatoki Sato, Ken Honzumi, Akio Hayashi, Toyomasa Hiroshima, Hiroaki Ishiko, Kazuo Kato, and Hitoshi Suzuki

Genetic Diversity of Coxsackievirus A16 Associated with Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Epidemics in Japan from 1983 to 2003
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 112-120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Age-Related Urinary Excretion of BK Polyomavirus by Nonimmunocompromised Individuals
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 193-198. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Rapid Molecular Strategy for Filovirus Detection and Characterization
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 224-226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Samira Mubareka, Hannah Richards, Michael Gray, and Graham A. Tipples

Evaluation of Commercial Rubella Immunoglobulin G Avidity Assays
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 231-233. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Lucia Giovannelli, Maria Colomba Migliore, Giuseppina Capra, Maria Pia Caleca, Carmelina Bellavia, Antonio Perino, Enza Viviano, Domenica Matranga, and Pietro Ammatuna

Penile, Urethral, and Seminal Sampling for Diagnosis of Human Papillomavirus Infection in Men
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 248-251. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology:

Nicola Casson, José M. Entenza, and Gilbert Greub

Serological Cross-Reactivity between Different Chlamydia-Like Organisms
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 234-236. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Federico Hinestrosa, Svetolik Djurkovic, Paul P. Bourbeau, and Michael A. Foltzer

Propionibacterium acnes as a Cause of Prosthetic Valve Aortic Root Abscess
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 259-261. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Farida Hamdad, Barbara Vidal, Youcef Douadi, Genevieve Laurans, Brigitte Canarelli, Gabriel Choukroun, Veronica Rodriguez-Nava, Patrick Boiron, Blaine Beaman, and François Eb

Nocardia nova as the Causative Agent in Spondylodiscitis and Psoas Abscess
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 262-265. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jung-Chung Lin, L. K. Siu, Chang-Phone Fung, Kao-Ming Yeh, and Feng-Yee Chang

Nosocomial Liver Abscess Caused by Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 266-269. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Edward B. Breitschwerdt, Ricardo G. Maggi, Betsy Sigmon, and William L. Nicholson

Isolation of Bartonella quintana from a Woman and a Cat following Putative Bite Transmission
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 270-272. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Letters To The Editor:

Sadia Ali, Fida A. Khan, and Melanie Fisher

Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection Caused by Mycobacterium mageritense
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 273. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

C. Lopez-Aguilar, E. Perez-Roth, S. Mendez-Alvarez, A. Moreno, M. C. Duran, C. Casanova, and A. Aguirre-Jaime

Association between the Presence of the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Encoding Gene and a Lower Rate of Survival among Hospitalized Pulmonary Patients with Staphylococcal Disease
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 274-276. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Errata:

Peggy Coulter, Clara Lema, Diane Flayhart, Amy S. Linhardt, John N. Aucott, Paul G. Auwaerter, and J. Stephen Dumler

Two-Year Evaluation of Borrelia burgdorferi Culture and Supplemental Tests for Definitive Diagnosis of Lyme Disease
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 277. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Author's Correction:

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

Comparison of Real-Time PCR Assays for Monitoring Serum Hepatitis B Virus DNA Levels during Antiretroviral Therapy
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007 45: 278. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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