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Bacteriology

• Bacteriology

  Identification and Susceptibility Testing of Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Direct Inoculation from Positive BACTEC Blood Culture Bottles into Vitek 2

  Marjan J. Bruins, Peter Bloembergen, Gijs J. H. M. Ruijs, Maurice J. H. M. Wolfhagen
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  Clonal and Horizontal Dissemination of Klebsiella pneumoniae Expressing SHV-5 Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase in a Mexican Pediatric Hospital

  Guadalupe Miranda, Natividad Castro, Blanca Leaños, Adriana Valenzuela, Ulises Garza-Ramos, Teresa Rojas, Fortino Solórzano, Lilia Chihu, Jesús Silva
• Bacteriology

  Practical Bench Comparison of BBL CHROMagar Orientation and Standard Two-Plate Media for Urine Cultures

  Holly A. D'Souza, Mary Campbell, Ellen Jo Baron
• Bacteriology

  Adaptive Resistance to Biocides in Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli O157 and Cross-Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents

  M. Braoudaki, A. C. Hilton
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  Comparison of DNA Dot Blot Hybridization and Lancefield Capillary Precipitin Methods for Group B Streptococcal Capsular Typing

  Stephanie M. Borchardt, Betsy Foxman, Donald O. Chaffin, Craig E. Rubens, Patricia A. Tallman, Shannon D. Manning, Carol J. Baker, Carl F. Marrs
• Bacteriology

  Detection of the Bacillus anthracis gyrA Gene by Using a Minor Groove Binder Probe

  William Hurtle, Elizabeth Bode, David A. Kulesh, Rebecca Susan Kaplan, Jeff Garrison, Deanna Bridge, Michelle House, Melissa S. Frye, Bonnie Loveless, David Norwood
• Bacteriology

  Characterization of Group C and G Streptococcal Strains That Cause Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome

  Shinnosuke Hashikawa, Yoshitsugu Iinuma, Manabu Furushita, Teruko Ohkura, Toshi Nada, Keizo Torii, Tadao Hasegawa, Michio Ohta
• Bacteriology

  Demonstration of Streptococcus mutans with a Cell Wall Polysaccharide Specific to a New Serotype, k, in the Human Oral Cavity

  Kazuhiko Nakano, Ryota Nomura, Ichiro Nakagawa, Shigeyuki Hamada, Takashi Ooshima
• Bacteriology

  Diagnostic Assessment of Mycoplasma genitalium in Culture-Positive Women

  Joel B. Baseman, Marianna Cagle, Jeffrey E. Korte, Caleb Herrera, Wanda G. Rasmussen, Janet G. Baseman, Rochelle Shain, Jeanna M. Piper
• Bacteriology

  Typing of Clinical and Environmental Aeromonas sp. Strains by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA PCR, Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic PCR, and Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus Sequence PCR

  Ewa Szczuka, Adam Kaznowski
• Bacteriology

  Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Genotyping of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli Strains and Its Relationship with Host Specificity, Serotyping, and Phage Typing

  Katie L. Hopkins, Meeta Desai, Jennifer A. Frost, John Stanley, Julie M. J. Logan
• Bacteriology

  Validation of Roche COBAS Amplicor Assay for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in Rectal and Pharyngeal Specimens by an omp1 PCR Assay

  N. A. Lister, S. N. Tabrizi, C. K. Fairley, S. Garland
• Bacteriology

  Serotype 14 Variants of the France 9V⁻³ Clone from Baltimore, Maryland, Can Be Differentiated by the cpsB Gene

  M. Catherine McEllistrem, Anna C. Noller, Shyam Visweswaran, Jennifer M. Adams, Lee H. Harrison
• Bacteriology

  Prevalence of Bartonella henselae in Italian Stray Cats: Evaluation of Serology To Assess the Risk of Transmission of Bartonella to Humans

  Massimo Fabbi, Luciana De Giuli, Massimo Tranquillo, Roldano Bragoni, Maurizio Casiraghi, Claudio Genchi
• Bacteriology

  Effects of Inoculum and β-Lactamase Activity in AmpC- and Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase (ESBL)-Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae Clinical Isolates Tested by Using NCCLS ESBL Methodology

  Anne Marie Queenan, Barbara Foleno, Colleen Gownley, Ellyn Wira, Karen Bush
• Bacteriology

  Comparative Analysis of Multilocus Sequence Typing and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Characterizing Listeria monocytogenes Strains Isolated from Environmental and Clinical Sources

  Tamara Revazishvili, Mamuka Kotetishvili, O. Colin Stine, Arnold S. Kreger, J. Glenn Morris, Alexander Sulakvelidze
• Bacteriology

  Utility of NCCLS Guidelines for Identifying Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases in Non-Escherichia coli and Non-Klebsiella spp. of Enterobacteriaceae

  Mitchell J. Schwaber, Patti M. Raney, J. Kamile Rasheed, James W. Biddle, Portia Williams, John E. McGowan, Fred C. Tenover
• Bacteriology

  Serotypes, Virulence Genes, and Intimin Types of Shiga Toxin (Verotoxin)-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates from Human Patients: Prevalence in Lugo, Spain, from 1992 through 1999

  J. E. Blanco, M. Blanco, M. P. Alonso, A. Mora, G. Dahbi, M. A. Coira, J. Blanco
• Bacteriology

  Use of Real-Time PCR To Resolve Slide Agglutination Discrepancies in Serogroup Identification of Neisseria meningitidis

  Elizabeth A. Mothershed, Claudio T. Sacchi, Anne M. Whitney, Gwen A. Barnett, Gloria W. Ajello, Susanna Schmink, Leonard W. Mayer, Maureen Phelan, Thomas H. Taylor, Scott A. Bernhardt, Nancy E. Rosenstein, Tanja Popovic
• Bacteriology

  Nissui Glucose Fermentative Gram-Negative Rod Identification System EB-20 Gives a Unique Profile for Typical Non-Sorbitol-Fermenting Escherichia coli O157:H7

  H. Kodaka, Y. Uesaka, F. Kashitani
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  Helicobacter Species in the Intestinal Mucosa of Patients with Ulcerative Colitis

  Adriana Gonçalves Oliveira, Maria das Graças Pimenta Sanna, Gifone Aguiar Rocha, Andreia Maria Camargos Rocha, Adriana Santos, Renato Dani, Frederico Passos Marinho, Liano Sia Moreira, Maria de Lourdes Abreu Ferrari, Sílvia Beleza Moura, Lúcia Porto Fonseca Castro, Dulciene Maria Magalhães Queiroz
• Bacteriology

  Susceptibilities to Different Antibiotics of Helicobacter pylori Strains Isolated from Patients at the Pediatric Medical Center of Tehran, Iran

  Tahereh Falsafi, Fatemeh Mobasheri, Farahnaz Nariman, Mehri Najafi
• Bacteriology

  Reduced Etiological Role for Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in Cases of Diarrhea in Brazilian Infants

  Josias Rodrigues, Cristiane M. Thomazini, Alexandra Morelli, Georgea C. M. de Batista
• Bacteriology

  Use of Genome Selected Repeated Sequences Increases the Sensitivity of PCR Detection of Tropheryma whipplei

  Florence Fenollar, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Catherine Robert, Didier Raoult
• Bacteriology

  Impact of DNA Polymerases and Their Buffer Systems on Quantitative Real-Time PCR

  Petra Wolffs, Halfdan Grage, Oskar Hagberg, Peter Rådström
• Bacteriology

  Survival of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis Frozen in Skim Milk- Tryptone-Glucose-Glycerol Medium

  Tarja Kaijalainen, Esa Ruokokoski, Pentti Ukkonen, Elja Herva
• Bacteriology

  Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Serogroup D Nontyphoidal Salmonella in a University Hospital in Taiwan

  Cheng-Hsun Chiu, Lin-Hui Su, Ching-Chi Hung, Kuo-Lung Chen, Chishih Chu
• Bacteriology

  Evaluation of Four Commercial Test Systems for Identification of Actinomyces and Some Closely Related Species

  Anne-Marie Santala, Nanna Sarkonen, Val Hall, Petteri Carlson, Hannele Jousimies-Somer, Eija Könönen
• Bacteriology

  Clinical and Environmental Distributions of Legionella Strains in France Are Different

  Anne Doleans, Helena Aurell, Monique Reyrolle, Gerard Lina, Jean Freney, Francois Vandenesch, Jerome Etienne, Sophie Jarraud
• Bacteriology

  Comparison of Diagnostic Sensitivities of Three Assays (Bartels Enzyme Immunoassay [EIA], Biotest EIA, and Binax NOW Immunochromatographic Test) for Detection of Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Antigen in Urine

  Carmen Guerrero, Carmen M. Toldos, Genoveva Yagüe, Cristobal Ramírez, Tomás Rodríguez, Manuel Segovia