PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE
	Role of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing systems in a mouse model of chronic respiratory infection
	Yoshifumi Imamura, Katsunori Yanagihara, Kazunori Tomono, Hideaki Ohno, Yasuhito Higashiyama, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Yoichi Hirakata, Yohei Mizuta, Jun-ichi Kadota, Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, and Shigeru Kohno
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 515-518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates associated with ulcerative keratitis
	Craig Winstanley, Stephen B Kaye, Timothy J Neal, Helen J Chilton, Silvia Miksch, C Anthony Hart and the Microbiology Ophthalmic Group
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 519-526. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

HOST RESPONSE
	Reduced interleukin-18 secretion in Brucella abortus 2308-infected murine peritoneal macrophages and in spleen cells obtained from B. abortus 2308-infected mice
	Luis Fernández-Lago, Antonio Orduña, and Nieves Vizcaíno
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 527-531. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Correlation of antigenic expression with progress in antibiotic therapy of acute human brucellosis
	A AA Kwaasi, F A Al-Mohanna, S M Nakeeb, G T Roberts, S Al-Thawadi, A Y Hassan, A Al-Hokail, and M G Elfaki
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 533-538. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

DIAGNOSTICS, TYPING AND IDENTIFICATION
	Diagnosis of partially treated culture-negative bacterial meningitis using 16S rRNA universal primers and restriction endonuclease digestion
	Lekha Pandit, Sanath Kumar, Indrani Karunasagar, and Iddya Karunasagar
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 539-542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Subtyping of Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 001 by REP-PCR and PFGE
	Gemma Northey, Micaela Gal, Ahmed Rahmati, and Jon S Brazier
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 543-547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
	In vitro antifungal activity of 2-(3,4-dimethyl-2,5-dihydro-1H-pyrrol-2-yl)-1-methylethyl pentanoate, a dihydropyrrole derivative
	Rajesh Dabur, A K Chhillar, V Yadav, Pradeep K Kamal, J Gupta, and G L Sharma
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 549-552. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Long-term effects on the nasopharyngeal flora of children following antimicrobial therapy of acute otitis media with cefdinir or amoxycillin-clavulanate
	Itzhak Brook and Alan E Gober
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 553-556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Susceptibilities to antiseptic agents and distribution of antiseptic-resistance genes qacA/B and smr of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Asia during 1998 and 1999
	Norihisa Noguchi, Junichi Suwa, Koji Narui, Masanori Sasatsu, Teruyo Ito, Keiichi Hiramatsu, and Jae-Hoon Song
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 557-565. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Helicobacter pylori antibiotic-resistance patterns and risk factors in adult dyspeptic patients from ethnically diverse populations in central and south London during 2000
	Nicola C Elviss, Robert J Owen, Aodhan Breathnach, Catherine Palmer, and Nandini Shetty
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 567-574. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

EPIDEMIOLOGY
	Origins and properties of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in London
	Jeremy W Dale, Graham H Bothamley, Francis Drobniewski, Stephen H Gillespie, Timothy D McHugh, and Richard Pitman
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 575-582. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ORAL MICROBIOLOGY
	Phospholipase B enzyme expression is not associated with other virulence attributes in Candida albicans isolates from patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection
	Y H Samaranayake, R S Dassanayake, J AMS Jayatilake, B PK Cheung, J YY Yau, K WS Yeung, and L P Samaranayake
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 583-593. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Bacteriology of chronic maxillary sinusitis associated with nasal polyposis
	Itzhak Brook and Edith H Frazier
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 595-597. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Frequency of four different mutacin genes in Streptococcus mutans genotypes isolated from caries-free and caries-active individuals
	Regianne U Kamiya, Marcelo H Napimoga, José F Höfling, and Reginaldo B Gonçalves
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 599-604. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CASE REPORTS
	Isolation of Escherichia coli O5 : H–, possessing genes for Shiga toxin 1, intimin-ß and enterohaemolysin, from an intestinal biopsy from an adult case of bloody diarrhoea: evidence for two distinct O5 : H– pathotypes
	Catriona McLean, Karl A Bettelheim, Alexander Kuzevski, Linda Falconer, and Steven P Djordjevic
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 605-607. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Bilateral orbital cellulitis due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Staphylococcus aureus: a previously unreported case
	N S Raja and N N Singh
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 609-611. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CORRESPONDENCE
	Siderophores – potential candidate in the therapy of neonatal meningitis
	Tapen Dam
	J Med Microbiol 2005. 54: 613. [Full Text] [PDF]

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