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Photo Quiz

Photo Quiz
Photo Quiz: An Immunosuppressed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Patient with Fever and Lung Nodules
Luca T. Giurgea, Jessica L. Dillon, Laura J. Tafe, Richard A. Zuckerman
Photo Quiz
Answer to September 2018 Photo Quiz
Luca T. Giurgea, Jessica L. Dillon, Laura J. Tafe, Richard A. Zuckerman

The Brief Case

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The Brief Case
The Brief Case: The Unexpected Souvenir
Kara Asbury, Maria Teresa Seville, Bobbi Pritt, Allison Scotch, Allison Rosenthal, Thomas E. Grys, Katalin Kelemen
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The Brief Case
Closing the Brief Case: The Unexpected Souvenir
Kara Asbury, Maria Teresa Seville, Bobbi Pritt, Allison Scotch, Allison Rosenthal, Thomas E. Grys, Katalin Kelemen

Commentaries

Commentary
“Pathogen Eradication” and “Emerging Pathogens”: Difficult Definitions in Cystic Fibrosis
Peter H. Gilligan, Damian G. Downey, J. Stuart Elborn, Patrick A. Flume, Sebastian Funk, Deirdre Gilpin, Timothy J. Kidd, John McCaughan, B. Cherie Millar, Philip G. Murphy, Jacqueline C. Rendall, Michael M. Tunney, John E. Moore
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Commentary
Lowering the Barriers to Routine Whole-Genome Sequencing of Bacteria in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
Daniel D. Rhoads
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Commentary
Metagenomics for Clinical Infectious Disease Diagnostics Steps Closer to Reality
John P. Dekker
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Commentary
Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae: a Call for Consensus Definition and International Collaboration
Sohei Harada, Yohei Doi

Minireviews

Minireview
Molecular Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis: an Update
Jenell S. Coleman, Charlotte A. Gaydos
Minireview
Laboratory Diagnosis of Neurocysticercosis (Taenia solium)
Hector H. Garcia, Seth E. O'Neal, John Noh, Sukwan Handali, for The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

Bacteriology

Bacteriology
Droplet Digital PCR-Based Detection of Clarithromycin Resistance in Helicobacter pylori Isolates Reveals Frequent Heteroresistance
Lu Sun, Sarah Talarico, Lena Yao, Lihua He, Steve Self, Yuanhai You, Huifang Zhang, Yiyao Zhang, Yongjun Guo, Guodong Liu, Nina R. Salama, Jianzhong Zhang
Bacteriology
Within-a-Day Detection and Rapid Characterization of Carbapenemase by Use of a New Carbapenem Inactivation Method-Based Test, CIMplus
François Caméléna, Aurélie Cointe, Vincent Mathy, Claire Hobson, Catherine Doit, Béatrice Bercot, Dominique Decré, Isabelle Podglajen, Laurent Dortet, Audrey Monjault, Philippe Bidet, Stéphane Bonacorsi, André Birgy
Bacteriology
Prevalence and Genomic Structure of Bacteriophage phi3 in Human-Derived Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from 2000 to 2015
Sarah van Alen, Britta Ballhausen, Ursula Kaspar, Robin Köck, Karsten Becker
Bacteriology
Risk Factors for Colistin Resistance among Gram-Negative Rods and Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates
Stefan E. Richter, Loren Miller, Daniel Z. Uslan, Douglas Bell, Karol Watson, Romney Humphries, James A. McKinnell
Bacteriology
Serratia marcescens Outbreak in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: New Insights from Next-Generation Sequencing Applications
Christine Martineau, Xuejing Li, Cindy Lalancette, Thérèse Perreault, Eric Fournier, Julien Tremblay, Milagros Gonzales, Étienne Yergeau, Caroline Quach
Bacteriology
Performance Validation of Selective Screening Agars for Guiding Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Patients Undergoing Prostate Biopsy
Sofie C. M. Tops, Marlie Bruens, Sacha van Mook-Vermulst, Diane Lamers-Jansen, Tobias Engel, Ger van den Brink, Rob van Duuren, Heiman F. L. Wertheim, Eva Kolwijck
Bacteriology
Rapid Detection of Carbapenemase Production Directly from Blood Culture by Colorimetric Methods: Evaluation in a Routine Microbiology Laboratory
Daiana de Lima-Morales, Helena Ávila, Tatiana Soldi, Tanise Vendruscolo Dalmolin, Larissa Lutz, Valério Aquino, Alexandre Prehn Zavascki, Afonso Luís Barth
Open Access

Bacteriology
Mismatch Amplification Mutation Assay-Based Real-Time PCR for Rapid Detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants in Clinical Specimens
Valentina Donà, Joost H. Smid, Sara Kasraian, Dianne Egli-Gany, Ferah Dost, Fatime Imeri, Magnus Unemo, Nicola Low, Andrea Endimiani
Bacteriology
Whole-Genome Sequence Analysis of Multidrug-Resistant Campylobacter Isolates: a Focus on Aminoglycoside Resistance Determinants
Adrien Fabre, Monica Oleastro, Alexandra Nunes, Andrea Santos, Elodie Sifré, Astrid Ducournau, Lucie Bénéjat, Alice Buissonnière, Pauline Floch, Francis Mégraud, Véronique Dubois, Philippe Lehours
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Bacteriology
Direct Detection and Identification of Prosthetic Joint Infection Pathogens in Synovial Fluid by Metagenomic Shotgun Sequencing
Morgan I. Ivy, Matthew J. Thoendel, Patricio R. Jeraldo, Kerryl E. Greenwood-Quaintance, Arlen D. Hanssen, Matthew P. Abdel, Nicholas Chia, Janet Z. Yao, Aaron J. Tande, Jayawant N. Mandrekar, Robin Patel
Bacteriology
Development and Optimization of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing Methods for Cerebrospinal Fluid Diagnostics
Patricia J. Simner, Heather B. Miller, Florian P. Breitwieser, Gabriel Pinilla Monsalve, Carlos A. Pardo, Steven L. Salzberg, Cynthia L. Sears, David L. Thomas, Charles G. Eberhart, Karen C. Carroll
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Bacteriology
Clinical Evaluation of the iCubate iC-GPC Assay for Detection of Gram-Positive Bacteria and Resistance Markers from Positive Blood Cultures
Paul A. Granato, Melissa M. Unz, Raymond H. Widen, Suzane Silbert, Stephen Young, Kathryn L. Heflin, Matt S. Conover, Blake W. Buchan, Nathan A. Ledeboer
Open Access

Bacteriology
Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Analysis in the Epidemiology of Brucella melitensis Infections
Anna Janowicz, Fabrizio De Massis, Massimo Ancora, Cesare Cammà, Claudio Patavino, Antonio Battisti, Karola Prior, Dag Harmsen, Holger Scholz, Katiuscia Zilli, Lorena Sacchini, Elisabetta Di Giannatale, Giuliano Garofolo
Bacteriology
Ornithodoros savignyi, the Tick Vector of “Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica” in Nigeria
Sally J. Cutler, Jibrin M. Idris, Akeem O. Ahmed, Nusirat Elelu
Bacteriology
Histopathological Diagnosis of Prosthetic Joint Infection: Does a Threshold of 23 Neutrophils Do Better than Classification of the Periprosthetic Membrane in a Prospective Multicenter Study?
Pascale Bémer, Julie Léger, Serge Milin, Chloé Plouzeau, Anne Sophie Valentin, Nathalie Stock, Anne Jolivet-Gougeon, Anne Moreau, Stéphane Corvec, Isabelle Quintin-Roue, Didier Tandé, Geneviève Héry-Arnaud, Marie-Christine Rousselet, Carole Lemarié, Marie Kempf, Patrick Michenet, Laurent Bret, Gonzague de Pinieux, Christophe Burucoa, for the CRIOGO (Centre de Référence des Infections Ostéo-articulaires du Grand Ouest) Study Team
Bacteriology
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) and Peptide Nucleic Acid Probe-Based FISH for Diagnosis of Q Fever Endocarditis and Vascular Infections
Elsa Prudent, Hubert Lepidi, Emmanouil Angelakis, Didier Raoult
Bacteriology
Multicenter Evaluation of the Etest Gradient Diffusion Method for Ceftolozane-Tazobactam Susceptibility Testing of Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Adam L. Bailey, Tom Armstrong, Hari-Prakash Dwivedi, Gerald A. Denys, Janet Hindler, Shelley Campeau, Maria Traczewski, Romney Humphries, Carey-Ann D. Burnham
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Bacteriology
Identification of Biomarkers for Differentiation of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from Classical K. pneumoniae
Thomas A. Russo, Ruth Olson, Chi-Tai Fang, Nicole Stoesser, Mark Miller, Ulrike MacDonald, Alan Hutson, Jason H. Barker, Ricardo M. La Hoz, James R. Johnson
and for the Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Investigator Group (HVKPIG)
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Bacteriology
Accuracy of Different Bioinformatics Methods in Detecting Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence Factors from Staphylococcus aureus Whole-Genome Sequences
Amy Mason, Dona Foster, Phelim Bradley, Tanya Golubchik, Michel Doumith, N. Claire Gordon, Bruno Pichon, Zamin Iqbal, Peter Staves, Derrick Crook, A. Sarah Walker, Angela Kearns, Tim Peto

Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes

Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes
Mycobacterium bovis Persistence in Two Different Captive Wild Animal Populations in Germany: a Longitudinal Molecular Epidemiological Study Revealing Pathogen Transmission by Whole-Genome Sequencing
Thomas A. Kohl, Christian Utpatel, Stefan Niemann, Irmgard Moser
Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes
Diagnostic Accuracy and Utility of FluoroType MTBDR, a New Molecular Assay for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Margaretha de Vos, Brigitta Derendinger, Tania Dolby, John Simpson, Paul D. van Helden, John E. Rice, Lawrence J. Wangh, Grant Theron, Robin M. Warren
Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes
Evaluation of the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra Assay for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Smear-Negative Extrapulmonary Samples
Daniel Perez-Risco, David Rodriguez-Temporal, Ivan Valledor-Sanchez, Fernando Alcaide
Open Access

Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes
Molecular Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Stools in Young Children by Use of a Novel Centrifugation-Free Processing Method
Elisabetta Walters, Lesley Scott, Pamela Nabeta, Anne-Marie Demers, Gary Reubenson, Corné Bosch, Anura David, Marieke van der Zalm, Joshua Havumaki, Megan Palmer, Anneke C. Hesseling, Jabulani Ncayiyana, Wendy Stevens, David Alland, Claudia Denkinger, Padmapriya Banada

Mycology

Mycology
Proof of Concept for MBT ASTRA, a Rapid Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS)-Based Method To Detect Caspofungin Resistance in Candida albicans and Candida glabrata
Mansoureh Vatanshenassan, Teun Boekhout, Cornelia Lass-Flörl, Michaela Lackner, Sören Schubert, Markus Kostrzewa, Katrin Sparbier
Mycology
Comparative Analysis of the Wako β-Glucan Test and the Fungitell Assay for Diagnosis of Candidemia and Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia
Ricarda Friedrich, Elfriede Rappold, Christian Bogdan, Jürgen Held

Virology

Virology
Subpopulation Primers Essential for Exhaustive Detection of Diverse Hemagglutinin Genes of H5 Subtype Avian Influenza Viruses by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method
Y. Furuyama, Y. Takahashi, K. Noguchi, H. Murakami, M. Sakaguchi, Shin Hisamatsu, T. Usui, T. Yamaguchi, T. Ito, K. Tsukamoto

Immunoassays

Immunoassays
Performance of Chlamydia trachomatis OmcB Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay in Serodiagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in Women
Kanupriya Gupta, LaDraka' Brown, Rakesh K. Bakshi, Christen G. Press, Xiaofei Chi, Rachel J. Gorwitz, John R. Papp, William M. Geisler
Immunoassays
A Flowthrough Assay for Rapid Bedside Stratification of Bloodstream Bacterial Infection in Critically Ill Patients: a Pilot Study
Pramod Jagtap, Rohini Singh, Karuna Deepika, Venkataraman Sritharan, Shalini Gupta
Open Access

Immunoassays
Evaluation of Two New Membrane-Based and Microtiter Plate Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays for Detection of Campylobacter jejuni in Stools of Bangladeshi Children
Amanda E. Schnee, Rashidul Haque, Mami Taniuchi, M. Jashim Uddin, William A. Petri

Clinical Veterinary Microbiology

Clinical Veterinary Microbiology
Agreement between Parallel Canine Blood and Urine Cultures: Is Urine Culture the Poor Man's Blood Culture?
Nanelle R. Barash, Adam J. Birkenheuer, Shelly L. Vaden, Megan E. Jacob
Clinical Veterinary Microbiology
Population Structure and Antimicrobial Resistance of Canine Uropathogenic Escherichia coli
Tessa E. LeCuyer, Barbara A. Byrne, Joshua B. Daniels, Dubraska V. Diaz-Campos, G. Kenitra Hammac, Claire B. Miller, Thomas E. Besser, Margaret A. Davis
Clinical Veterinary Microbiology
Modified Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification Overcomes Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion Assay Inhibitors in Deer Saliva To Detect Chronic Wasting Disease Prions
Kristen A. Davenport, Clare E. Hoover, Nathaniel D. Denkers, Candace K. Mathiason, Edward A. Hoover

Epidemiology

Open Access

Epidemiology
Phase Variation of NadA in Invasive Neisseria meningitidis Isolates Impacts on Coverage Estimates for 4C-MenB, a MenB Vaccine
Luke R. Green, Jay Lucidarme, Neelam Dave, Hannah Chan, Stephen Clark, Ray Borrow, Christopher D. Bayliss
Epidemiology
Preventable Patient Harm: a Multidisciplinary, Bundled Approach to Reducing Clostridium difficile Infections While Using a Glutamate Dehydrogenase/Toxin Immunochromatographic Assay/Nucleic Acid Amplification Test Diagnostic Algorithm
Katherine Schultz, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, Ashley Marx, David J. Weber, Lauren M. DiBiase, Stacy Campbell-Bright, Lauren E. Bode, Mike Baker, Tom Belhorn, Mark Buchanan, Sherie Goldbach, Jacci Harden, Emily Hoke, Beth Huenniger, Jonathan J. Juliano, Michael Langston, Heather Ritchie, William A. Rutala, Jason Smith, Shelley Summerlin-Long, Lisa Teal, Peter Gilligan
Epidemiology
Multiplex PCR Analysis for Rapid Detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenem-Resistant (Sequence Type 258 [ST258] and ST11) and Hypervirulent (ST23, ST65, ST86, and ST375) Strains
Fangyou Yu, Jingnan Lv, Siqiang Niu, Hong Du, Yi-Wei Tang, Johann D. D. Pitout, Robert A. Bonomo, Barry N. Kreiswirth, Liang Chen

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor
Performance of the Etest for Susceptibility Testing of Enterobacterales (Enterobacteriaceae) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa toward Ceftazidime-Avibactam
Michael Kresken, Barbara Körber-Irrgang
Letter to the Editor
Rapid Detection of Candida auris Based on Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP)
Mikachi Yamamoto, Mohamed Mahdi Alshahni, Takashi Tamura, Kazuo Satoh, Shigekazu Iguchi, Ken Kikuchi, Masakazu Mimaki, Koichi Makimura
Open Access

Letter to the Editor
Xpert Ultra Can Unambiguously Identify Specific Rifampin Resistance-Conferring Mutations
Kamela C. S. Ng, Armand van Deun, Conor J. Meehan, Gabriela Torrea, Michèle Driesen, Siemon Gabriëls, Leen Rigouts, Emmanuel André, Bouke C. de Jong
Letter to the Editor
Evaluation of a Rapid System for Antimicrobial Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing in Pediatric Bloodstream Infections
Eric Ward, Kevin Weller, Jacquelyn Gomez, Kiana Roman, Ana María Cárdenas
Letter to the Editor
Viability of Candida auris and Other Candida Species after Various Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight (MALDI-TOF) Mass Spectrometry-Based Extraction Protocols
Alana Sterkel, Allen Bateman, Ann Valley, David Warshauer

Erratum

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Erratum
Erratum for Cornick et al., “Epidemiological and Molecular Characterization of an Invasive Group A Streptococcus emm32.2 Outbreak”
Jennifer E. Cornick, Anmol M. Kiran, Roberto Vivancos, Jon Van Aartsen, Jenny Clarke, Edward Bevan, Mansoor Alsahag, Maaike Alaearts, Laura Bricio Moreno, Howard F. Jenkinson, Angela H. Nobbs, James Anson, Aras Kadioglu, Neil French, Dean B. Everett

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