PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE
	Is lipopolysaccharide a factor in infectivity of Chlamydia trachomatis?
	Sanaa Fadel and Adrian Eley
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 261-266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Differences in virulence attributes between cytolethal distending toxin positive and negative Campylobacter jejuni strains
	Deepika Jain, Kashi Nath Prasad, Sushmita Sinha, and Nuzhat Husain
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 267-272. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

DIAGNOSTICS, TYPING AND IDENTIFICATION
	Recognition of pneumococcal isolates by antisera raised against PspA fragments from different clades
	Michelle Darrieux, Adriana T. Moreno, Daniela M. Ferreira, Fabiana C. Pimenta, Ana Lúcia S. S. de Andrade, Alexandre P. Y. Lopes, Luciana C. C. Leite, and Eliane N. Miyaji
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 273-278. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Glycosyltransferase – a specific marker for the discrimination of Bacillus anthracis from the Bacillus cereus group
	Wonyong Kim, Ji-Yeon Kim, Sung-Lim Cho, Sun-Woo Nam, Jong-Wook Shin, Yang-Soo Kim, and Hyoung-Shik Shin
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 279-286. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Assessment of the clinical utility of serial β-D-glucan concentrations in patients with persistent neutropenic fever
	Michael Ellis, Basel al-Ramadi, Malcolm Finkelman, Ulla Hedstrom, Jorgen Kristensen, Hussein Ali-Zadeh, and Lena Klingspor
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 287-295. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]
	Improving molecular detection of Candida DNA in whole blood: comparison of seven fungal DNA extraction protocols using real-time PCR
	L. Metwally, D. J. Fairley, P. V. Coyle, R. J. Hay, S. Hedderwick, B. McCloskey, H. J. O'Neill, C. H. Webb, W. Elbaz, and R. McMullan
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 296-303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	A comparative study of three different PCR assays for detection of Mycoplasma genitalium in urogenital specimens from men and women
	Andreas Edberg, Margaretha Jurstrand, Eva Johansson, Elisabeth Wikander, Anna Höög, Thomas Ahlqvist, Lars Falk, Jørgen Skov Jensen, and Hans Fredlund
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 304-309. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Performance of chromID ESBL, a chromogenic medium for detection of Enterobacteriaceae producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases
	Hélène Réglier-Poupet, Thierry Naas, Amélie Carrer, Anne Cady, Jean-Marie Adam, Nicolas Fortineau, Claire Poyart, and Patrice Nordmann
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 310-315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	The TUBEX test detects not only typhoid-specific antibodies but also soluble antigens and whole bacteria
	Frankie C. H. Tam, Thomas K. W. Ling, Kam Tak Wong, Danny T. M. Leung, Raphael C. Y. Chan, and Pak Leong Lim
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 316-323. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	A quadruplex real-time PCR assay for the detection of Yersinia pestis and its plasmids
	Alvin Stewart, Benjamin Satterfield, Marissa Cohen, Kim O'Neill, and Richard Robison
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 324-331. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
	High-level carbapenem resistance in a Citrobacter freundii clinical isolate is due to a combination of KPC-2 production and decreased porin expression
	Rong Zhang, Lijiang Yang, Jia Chang Cai, Hong Wei Zhou, and Gong-Xiang Chen
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 332-337. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

EPIDEMIOLOGY
	PorA types in Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B isolated in Argentina from 2001 to 2003: implications for the design of an outer membrane protein-based vaccine
	Cecilia Sorhouet Pereira, Mabel Regueira, and Marta Mollerach
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 338-342. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Isolates of Clostridium perfringens recovered from Costa Rican patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhoea are mostly enterotoxin-negative and susceptible to first-choice antimicrobials
	Natassia Camacho, Carlos Espinoza, César Rodríguez, and Evelyn Rodríguez
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 343-347. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Molecular typing of nasal carriage isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from an Irish university student population based on toxin gene PCR, agr locus types and multiple locus, variable number tandem repeat analysis
	Mark M. Collery, Davida S. Smyth, Jane M. Twohig, Anna C. Shore, David C. Coleman, and Cyril J. Smyth
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 348-358. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Age-specific prevalence of diffusely adherent Escherichia coli in Brazilian children with acute diarrhoea
	Liliana C. Spano, Ana Daniela I. Sadovsky, Paula N. Segui, Ketene W. Saick, Sonia M. S. Kitagawa, Fausto E. L. Pereira, Ulysses Fagundes-Neto, and Isabel C. A. Scaletsky
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 359-363. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY
	Analysis of meticillin-susceptible and meticillin-resistant biofilm-forming Staphylococcus aureus from catheter infections isolated in a large Italian hospital
	Dezemona Petrelli, Antonella Repetto, Stefania D'Ercole, Silvia Rombini, Sandro Ripa, Manuela Prenna, and Luca Agostino Vitali
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 364-372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CASE REPORTS
	Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus meningitis
	M. Jovanovic, G. Stevanovic, T. Tosic, B. Stosovic, and M. J. Zervos
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 373-375. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Neisseria elongata endocarditis complicated by brain embolism and abscess
	Ju-Feng Hsiao, Ming-Hsun Lee, Ju-Hsin Chia, Wan-Jing Ho, Jaw-Ji Chu, and Pao-Hsien Chu
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 376-381. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis in a healthy 2-month-old child
	Meher Rizvi, Nazish Fatima, Indu Shukla, and Kamran Afzal
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 382-383. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Legionnaires' disease in immunocompromised patients: a case report of Legionella longbeachae pneumonia and review of the literature
	Philipp Kümpers, Andreas Tiede, Philip Kirschner, Jutta Girke, Arnold Ganser, and Dietrich Peest
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 384-387. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Co-infection with two different strains of Bordetella pertussis in an infant
	Pamela K. Cassiday, Melissa Tobin-D'Angelo, J. Renee Watson, Kai-Hui Wu, Mahin M. Park, and Gary N. Sanden
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 388-391. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Identification of Acanthamoeba genotype T4 and Paravahlkampfia sp. from two clinical samples
	Soykan Ozkoc, Sema Tuncay, Songul Bayram Delibas, Ciler Akisu, Zeynep Ozbek, Ismet Durak, and Julia Walochnik
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 392-396. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CORRESPONDENCE
	Low recovery rates of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant enterococci could be attributable to restricted usage of aminoglycosides in Indian settings
	Ramalingam Sekar, Ramesh Srivani, Ramachandran Vignesh, Hayath Kownhar, and Esaki Muthu Shankar
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 397-398. [Full Text] [PDF]
	Authors' reply to ‘Misidentification of Bordetella bronchiseptica as Bordetella pertussis using a newly described RT-PCR targeting the pertactin gene’
	Benoit Vincart, Marie Hallin, Marc J. Struelens, and Olivier Denis
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 399-400. [Full Text] [PDF]

ERRATUM
	Imbalance in the composition of the duodenal microbiota of children with coeliac disease
	Inmaculada Nadal, Ester Donat, Carmen Ribes-Koninckx, Miguel Calabuig, and Yolanda Sanz
	J Med Microbiol 2008. 57: 401. [Full Text] [PDF]

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