REVIEW
	Neisseria meningitidis: an overview of the carriage state
	Siamak P. Yazdankhah and Dominique A. Caugant
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 821-832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE
	Common oligosaccharide moieties inhibit the adherence of typical and atypical respiratory pathogens
	Richard Thomas and Tim Brooks
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 833-840. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Analysis of quorum sensing-deficient clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
	J. Andy Schaber, Nancy L. Carty, Naomi A. McDonald, Eric D. Graham, Rajkumar Cheluvappa, John A. Griswold, and Abdul N. Hamood
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 841-853. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

HOST RESPONSE
	Sensitivity of Helicobacter pylori to an innate defence mechanism, the lactoperoxidase system, in buffer and in human whole saliva
	Anna Haukioja, Riikka Ihalin, Vuokko Loimaranta, Marianne Lenander, and Jorma Tenovuo
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 855-860. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Molecular cloning of the Chlamydophila abortus groEL gene and evaluation of its protective efficacy in a murine model by genetic vaccination
	Céline Héchard, Olivier Grépinet, and Annie Rodolakis
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 861-868. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

DIAGNOSTICS, TYPING AND IDENTIFICATION
	Sensitivity of the BacT/ALERT FA-medium for detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in pre-incubated blood cultures and its temperature-dependence
	Irene Seegmüller, Ursula Eschenbach, Klaus Kamereck, and Thomas Miethke
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 869-874. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Validation of a PCR for diagnosis of typhoid fever and salmonellosis by amplification of the hilA gene in clinical samples from Colombian patients
	M. M. Sánchez-Jiménez and Nora Cardona-Castro
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 875-878. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Discrepancies in the recovery of bacteria from multiple sinuses in acute and chronic sinusitis
	Itzhak Brook
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 879-885. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Distribution of Clostridium difficile variant toxinotypes and strains with binary toxin genes among clinical isolates in an American hospital
	Barbara Geric, Maja Rupnik, Dale N. Gerding, Miklavz Grabnar, and Stuart Johnson
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 887-894. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
	Mechanisms of quinolone resistance and clonal relationship among Aeromonas salmonicida strains isolated from reared fish with furunculosis
	Etienne Giraud, Guillaume Blanc, Agnes Bouju-Albert, François-Xavier Weill, and Claire Donnay-Moreno
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 895-901. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Effect of subinhibitory concentration of piperacillin/tazobactam on Pseudomonas aeruginosa
	A. P. Fonseca, C. Extremina, A. F. Fonseca, and J. C. Sousa
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 903-910. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Risk factors for primary Helicobacter pylori resistance in Bulgarian children
	Lyudmila Boyanova, Galina Gergova, Radka Koumanova, Christo Jelev, Elena Lazarova, Ivan Mitov, and Youlia Kovacheva
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 911-914. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Effect of carbapenems on the transcriptional expression of the oprD, oprM and oprN genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
	Fetiye Kolayli, Aynur Karadenizli, Hakan Savli, Kivanc Ergen, Ozden Hatirnaz, Erdener Balikci, Fatma Budak, and Haluk Vahaboglu
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 915-920. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

EPIDEMIOLOGY
	Invasive culture-confirmed Neisseria meningitidis in Portugal: evaluation of serogroups in relation to different variables and antimicrobial susceptibility (2000–2001)
	Manuela Caniça, Ricardo Dias, Baltazar Nunes, Leonor Carvalho, Eugénia Ferreira, the Meningococci Study Group
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 921-925. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	One-tube cell lysis and DNA extraction procedure for PCR-based detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans in aquatic insects, molluscs and fish
	Roman Kotlowski, Anandi Martin, Anthony Ablordey, Karim Chemlal, Pierre-Alain Fonteyne, and Françoise Portaels
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 927-933. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Cryptococcus neoformans infections at Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre (1997–2002): epidemiology, microbiology and histopathology
	Linda M.N. Hoang, John A. Maguire, Patrick Doyle, Murray Fyfe, and Diane L. Roscoe
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 935-940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY
	Prevalence of methicillin-resistant, coagulase-negative staphylococci in neonatal intensive care units: findings from a tertiary care hospital in India
	Amita Jain, Jyotsna Agarwal, and Seema Bansal
	J Med Microbiol 2004. 53: 941-944. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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