REVIEW
	Principia ætiologica: taking causality beyond Koch's postulates
	Timothy J. J. Inglis
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1419-1422. [Abstract] [Free Full Text] [PDF]   IMMEDIATE OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE
	Differential binding of Shiga toxin 2 to human and murine neutrophils
	Thomas P. Griener, George L. Mulvey, Paola Marcato, and Glen D. Armstrong
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1423-1430. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Influence of geographical origin, host animal and stx gene on the virulence characteristics of Escherichia coli O26 strains
	Ilknur Aktan, Ben Carter, Hendrik Wilking, Roberto M. La Ragione, Lothar Wieler, Martin J. Woodward, and Muna F. Anjum
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1431-1439. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Chemical structure and immunobiological activity of lipid A from Serratia marcescens LPS
	Yutaka Makimura, Yasuyuki Asai, Akiko Sugiyama, and Tomohiko Ogawa
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1440-1446. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

HOST RESPONSE
	Common epitopes in LPS of different Enterobacteriaceae are associated with an immune response against Escherichia coli O157 in bovine serum samples
	Armando Navarro, Carlos Eslava, Guadalupe García de la Torre, Luis Antonio León, Delia Licona, Lemuel León, Luis Alberto Zarco, and Alejandro Cravioto
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1447-1454. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

DIAGNOSTICS, TYPING AND IDENTIFICATION
	Prevalence of aflatoxin B1 in liver biopsies of proven hepatocellular carcinoma in India determined by an in-house immunoperoxidase test
	K. G. Murugavel, P. P. Naranatt, E. M. Shankar, S. Mathews, K. Raghuram, P. Rajasambandam, V. Jayanthi, R. Surendran, A. Murali, U. Srinivas, K. R. Palaniswamy, D. Srikumari, and S. P. Thyagarajan
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1455-1459. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Multilocus sequence typing analysis of Shigella flexneri isolates collected in Asian countries
	Seon Young Choi, Yoon-Seong Jeon, Je Hee Lee, Boram Choi, Sun Hwa Moon, Lorenz von Seidlein, John D. Clemens, Gordon Dougan, John Wain, Jun Yu, Je Chul Lee, Sung Yong Seol, Bok Kwon Lee, Jae-Hoon Song, Manki Song, Cecil Czerkinsky, Jongsik Chun, and Dong Wook Kim
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1460-1466. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]
	Development of a multiplex PCR assay for identification of Campylobacter coli, Campylobacter fetus, Campylobacter hyointestinalis subsp. hyointestinalis, Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter lari and Campylobacter upsaliensis
	Wataru Yamazaki-Matsune, Masumi Taguchi, Kazuko Seto, Ryuji Kawahara, Kentaro Kawatsu, Yuko Kumeda, Miyoshi Kitazato, Masafumi Nukina, Naoaki Misawa, and Teizo Tsukamoto
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1467-1473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Evaluation of vt2-subtyping methods for identifying vt2g in verotoxigenic Escherichia coli
	Alejandra Krüger, Paula M. A. Lucchesi, and Alberto E. Parma
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1474-1478. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Molecular epidemiology of community-acquired invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella among children aged 2–29 months in rural Gambia and discovery of a new serovar, Salmonella enterica Dingiri
	Usman N. Ikumapayi, Martin Antonio, Jacob Sonne-Hansen, Ekow Biney, Godwin Enwere, Brown Okoko, Claire Oluwalana, Adeola Vaughan, Syed M. A. Zaman, Brian M. Greenwood, Felicity T. Cutts, and Richard A. Adegbola
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1479-1484. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
	Evaluation of the ability of erythromycin-resistant and -susceptible pharyngeal group A Streptococcus isolates from Spain to enter and persist in human keratinocytes
	Maria A. Oliver, César García-Rey, Rafael Bosch, and Sebastián Albertí
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1485-1489. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	In vitro activity of azithromycin, newer quinolones and cephalosporins in ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella causing enteric fever
	Malini R. Capoor, Deepti Rawat, Deepthi Nair, Azra S. Hasan, Monorama Deb, Pushpa Aggarwal, and Parukutty Pillai
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1490-1494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

EPIDEMIOLOGY
	Detection of acute Toxoplasma gondii infection in early pregnancy by IgG avidity and PCR analysis
	Jamshaid Iqbal and Nabila Khalid
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1495-1499. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY
	Lactobacillus fermentum Ess-1 with unique growth inhibition of vulvo-vaginal candidiasis pathogens
	Daniel Rönnqvist, Ulla Forsgren-Brusk, Ulrika Husmark, and Eva Grahn-Håkansson
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1500-1504. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
	Multilocus sequence typing of Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from cows with mastitis in Brazilian dairy herds
	Renata F. Rabello, Beatriz M. Moreira, Regina M. M. Lopes, Lúcia M. Teixeira, Lee W. Riley, and Angela C. D. Castro
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1505-1511. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Molecular typing divides marine mammal strains of Brucella into at least three groups with distinct host preferences
	Pauline Groussaud, Stephen J. Shankster, Mark S. Koylass, and Adrian M. Whatmore
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1512-1518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]

ORAL MICROBIOLOGY
	Evidence that the cytolethal distending toxin locus was once part of a genomic island in the periodontal pathogen Aggregatibacter (Actinobacillus) actinomycetemcomitans strain Y4
	Sombhun Doungudomdacha, Alla Volgina, and Joseph M. DiRienzo
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1519-1527. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Expression of biofilm-associated genes of Streptococcus mutans in response to glucose and sucrose
	Moshe Shemesh, Avshalom Tam, and Doron Steinberg
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1528-1535. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]
	Characterization of RagA and RagB in Porphyromonas gingivalis: study using gene-deletion mutants
	Keiji Nagano, Yukitaka Murakami, Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Junpei Sakakibara, Kazuo Shimozato, and Fuminobu Yoshimura
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1536-1548. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

MODELS OF INFECTION
	Species interactions in mixed-community crystalline biofilms on urinary catheters
	Sarah M. Macleod and David J. Stickler
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1549-1557. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CASE REPORTS
	Cerebellar abscess and meningitis, caused by Shewanella putrefaciens and Klebsiella pneumoniae, associated with chronic otitis media
	Gurdal Yilmaz, Kemalettin Aydin, Devrim Bektas, Rahmet Caylan, Refik Caylan, and Iftihar Koksal
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1558-1560. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Liver abscess due to Neisseria sicca after repeated transcatheter arterial embolization
	Hsing-Chun Chung, Lee-Jene Teng, and Po-Ren Hsueh
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1561-1562. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Tracheobronchitis caused by Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria after near-drowning
	Mara Bossi-Küpfer, Aaron Genini, Raffaele Peduzzi, and Antonella Demarta
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1563-1564. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Campylobacter insulaenigrae causing septicaemia and enteritis
	Kyra Chua, Volker Gürtler, Janet Montgomery, Margaret Fraenkel, Barrie C. Mayall, and M. Lindsay Grayson
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1565-1567. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CORRESPONDENCE
	Identification of pathogenic Aspergillus species by a PCR-restriction enzyme method
	Hossein Mirhendi, Kambiz Diba, Parivash Kordbacheh, Nilufar Jalalizand, and Kuichi Makimura
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1568-1570. [Full Text] [PDF]
	Difficulty in the identification and differentiation of clinically relevant Ochrobactrum species
	Peter Kämpfer, Diane M. Citron, Ellie J. C. Goldstein, and Holger C. Scholz
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1571-1573. [Full Text] [PDF]
	speA and speC toxin genes among group A streptococcus isolates from school children in Chennai, India
	Charmaine Lloyd and Thangam Menon
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1574-1575. [Full Text] [PDF]
	Comparative activity of ertapenem and piperacillin–tazobactam in a murine systemic infection model with Bacteroides fragilis and Escherichia coli
	Kênia Valéria dos Santos, Jacques Robert Nicoli, Wanderlany Amancio Martins, Simone Cristina Coutinho, Ana Carolina Morais Apolônio, Cláudio Galuppo Diniz, Maria Auxiliadora Roque de Carvalho, and Luiz de Macêdo Farias
	J Med Microbiol 2007. 56: 1576-1579. [Full Text] [PDF]

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