Bacterial Toxins

Bacteriology
Evaluation of the cobas Cdiff Test for Detection of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile in Stool Samples
Lance R. Peterson, Stephen A. Young, Thomas E. Davis, Zi-Xuam Wang, John Duncan, Christopher Noutsios, Oliver Liesenfeld, John C. Osiecki, Michael A. Lewinski
Bacteriology
Molecular Tests That Target the RTX Locus Do Not Distinguish between Kingella kingae and the Recently Described Kingella negevensis Species
Nawal El Houmami, Janek Bzdrenga, Guillaume André Durand, Philippe Minodier, Hervé Seligmann, Elsa Prudent, Sofiane Bakour, Stéphane Bonacorsi, Didier Raoult, Pablo Yagupsky, Pierre-Edouard Fournier
Bacteriology
Clostridium difficile PCR Cycle Threshold Predicts Free Toxin
Fiona Senchyna, Rajiv L. Gaur, Saurabh Gombar, Cynthia Y. Truong, Lee F. Schroeder, Niaz Banaei
Bacteriology
Evaluation of Correlation between Pretest Probability for Clostridium difficile Infection and Clostridium difficile Enzyme Immunoassay Results
Jennie H. Kwon, Kimberly A. Reske, Tiffany Hink, Carey-Ann D. Burnham, Erik R. Dubberke
Bacteriology
Assessment of Clostridium difficile Infections by Quantitative Detection of tcdB Toxin by Use of a Real-Time Cell Analysis System
Alex B. Ryder, Ying Huang, Haijing Li, Min Zheng, Xiaobo Wang, Charles W. Stratton, Xiao Xu, Yi-Wei Tang
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
First Isolation of SCCmec IV- and Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Positive, Sequence Type 8, Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Israel
Daniel Glikman, Sima Davidson, Raya Kudinsky, Yuval Geffen, Hanna Sprecher
Epidemiology
Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Positive Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Auckland, New Zealand
S. Muttaiyah, G. Coombs, S. Pandey, P. Reed, S. Ritchie, D. Lennon, S. Roberts
Epidemiology
Ability of Bacillus cereus Group Strains To Cause Food Poisoning Varies According to Phylogenetic Affiliation (Groups I to VII) Rather than Species Affiliation
Marie-Hélène Guinebretière, Philippe Velge, Olivier Couvert, Frédéric Carlin, Marie-Laure Debuyser, Christophe Nguyen-The
Bacteriology
Evaluation of the C.Diff Quik Chek Complete Assay, a New Glutamate Dehydrogenase and A/B Toxin Combination Lateral Flow Assay for Use in Rapid, Simple Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Disease
Susan E. Sharp, Lila O. Ruden, Julie C. Pohl, Patricia A. Hatcher, Linda M. Jayne, W. Michael Ivie
Bacteriology
Cyclomodulins in Urosepsis Strains of Escherichia coli
Damien Dubois, Julien Delmas, Anne Cady, Frédéric Robin, Adeline Sivignon, Eric Oswald, Richard Bonnet

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