REVIEW
	Burkholderia cepacia complex: epithelial cell–pathogen confrontations and potential for therapeutic intervention
	Siobhán McClean and Máire Callaghan
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1-12. [Abstract] [Free Full Text] [PDF]   IMMEDIATE OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE
	Associations between enterotoxin gene cluster types egc1, egc2 and egc3, agr types, enterotoxin and enterotoxin-like gene profiles, and molecular typing characteristics of human nasal carriage and animal isolates of Staphylococcus aureus
	Mark M. Collery, Davida S. Smyth, John J. G. Tumilty, Jane M. Twohig, and Cyril J. Smyth
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 13-25. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	The subcutaneous inoculation of pH 6 antigen mutants of Yersinia pestis does not affect virulence and immune response in mice
	Andrey P. Anisimov, Irina V. Bakhteeva, Evgeniy A. Panfertsev, Tat'yana E. Svetoch, Tat'yana B. Kravchenko, Mikhail E. Platonov, Galina M. Titareva, Tat'yana I. Kombarova, Sergey A. Ivanov, Alexander V. Rakin, Kingsley K. Amoako, and Svetlana V. Dentovskaya
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 26-36. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]
	A mixture containing galactooligosaccharide, produced by the enzymic activity of Bifidobacterium bifidum, reduces Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection in mice
	Laura E. J. Searle, Angus Best, Alejandro Nunez, Francisco J. Salguero, Linda Johnson, Ute Weyer, Alexandra H. Dugdale, William A. Cooley, Ben Carter, Gareth Jones, George Tzortzis, Martin J. Woodward, and Roberto M. La Ragione
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 37-48. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

HOST RESPONSE
	Interaction analyses of human monocytes co-cultured with different forms of Aspergillus fumigatus
	Juergen Loeffler, Ziad Haddad, Michael Bonin, Nele Romeike, Markus Mezger, Ulrike Schumacher, Markus Kapp, Florian Gebhardt, Goetz-Ulrich Grigoleit, Stefan Stevanovic, Hermann Einsele, and Holger Hebart
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 49-58. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

DIAGNOSTICS, TYPING AND IDENTIFICATION
	Assessment of Chlamydia trachomatis infection by Cobas Amplicor PCR and in-house LightCycler assays using PreservCyt and 2-SP media in voluntary legal abortions
	Henri Sevestre, Jacques Mention, Jean-François Lefebvre, François Eb, and Farida Hamdad
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 59-64. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Molecular diagnosis of Kingella kingae osteoarticular infections by specific real-time PCR assay
	Abdessalam Cherkaoui, Dimitri Ceroni, Stéphane Emonet, Yan Lefevre, and Jacques Schrenzel
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 65-68. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Molecular detection of all 34 distinct O-antigen forms of Shigella
	Yayue Li, Boyang Cao, Bin Liu, Dan Liu, Qili Gao, Xia Peng, Junli Wu, David A. Bastin, Lu Feng, and Lei Wang
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 69-81. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Characterization and genotyping of strains of Francisella tularensis isolated in Bulgaria
	Krustyu T. Marinov, Elena D. Georgieva, Ivan N. Ivanov, and Todor V. Kantardjiev
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 82-85. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Characterization of bacteriophages used in the Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis phage-typing scheme
	N. De Lappe, G. Doran, J. O'Connor, C. O'Hare, and M. Cormican
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 86-93. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
	Evaluation of clinical and socio-demographic risk factors for antibacterial resistance of Helicobacter pylori in Bulgaria
	Lyudmila Boyanova, Juliana Ilieva, Galina Gergova, Zoya Spassova, Rossen Nikolov, Lubomir Davidkov, Ivailo Evstatiev, Victor Kamburov, Nikolai Katsarov, and Ivan Mitov
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 94-100. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

EPIDEMIOLOGY
	Adult invasive pneumococcal disease pre- and peri-pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction in a tertiary hospital in Singapore
	Li-Yang Hsu, See Weng Lui, Jia Ling Lee, Hazwany Md Mahrom Hedzlyn, Debra Han-Lin Kong, Suku Shameen, Nur Puteri Mohammad Siti, Wei Yu Tan, Xin Yi Toh, Tse-Yuen Koh, and Tse-Hsien Koh
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 101-104. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Multilocus genetic analysis reveals that the Australian strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 are similar to the pre-seventh pandemic strains of the El Tor biotype
	Ashrafus Safa, Nurul A. Bhuiyan, Denise Murphy, John Bates, Suraia Nusrin, Richard Y. C. Kong, Manas Chongsanguan, Wanpen Chaicumpa, and G. Balakrish Nair
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 105-111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	An outbreak of oropharyngeal tularaemia linked to natural spring water
	A. Willke, M. Meric, R. Grunow, M. Sayan, E. J. Finke, W. Splettstößer, E. Seibold, S. Erdogan, O. Ergonul, Z. Yumuk, and S. Gedikoglu
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 112-116. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY
	Endocervical swabs transported in first void urine as combined specimens in the detection of Mycoplasma genitalium by real-time PCR
	Andreas Edberg, Fredrik Aronsson, Eva Johansson, Elisabeth Wikander, Thomas Ahlqvist, and Hans Fredlund
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 117-120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Modifications of residual viraemia in human immunodeficiency virus-1-infected subjects undergoing repeated highly active antiretroviral therapy interruptions
	Lucia Palmisano, Marina Giuliano, Raffaella Bucciardini, Mauro Andreotti, Vincenzo Fragola, Maria F. Pirillo, Liliana E. Weimer, Maria G. Mancini, and Stefano Vella
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 121-124. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

MODELS OF INFECTION
	Vibrio cholerae O139 requires neither capsule nor LPS O side chain to grow inside Acanthamoeba castellanii
	Hadi Abd, Amir Saeed, Andrej Weintraub, and Gunnar Sandström
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 125-131. [Abstract] [Free Full Text] [PDF]   IMMEDIATE OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
	Influence of surface porosity and pH on bacterial adherence to hydroxyapatite and biphasic calcium phosphate bioceramics
	Teemu J. Kinnari, Jaime Esteban, Nieves Z. Martin-de-Hijas, Orlando Sánchez-Muñoz, Sandra Sánchez-Salcedo, Montserrat Colilla, María Vallet-Regí, and Enrique Gomez-Barrena
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 132-137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CASE REPORTS
	Chronic prosthetic joint infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes
	Peter Kleemann, Eugen Domann, Trinad Chakraborty, Irene Bernstein, and Michael Lohoff
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 138-141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens bacteraemia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
	M. N. Fadzilah, L. J. Faizatul, M. S. Hasibah, I.-C. Sam, M. Kahar Bador, G. G. Gan, and S. AbuBakar
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 142-143. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Pseudomonas mosselii
	Elizabeth McLellan and David Partridge
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 144-145. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Rhinocerebral zygomycosis with pulmonary aspergillosis in a non-HIV-infected patient: an unusual case report from India
	Shalini Malhotra, Shalini Duggal, Nirmaljeet Kaur Bhatia, Nishi Sharma, and Charoo Hans
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 146-150. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CORRESPONDENCE
	Analysis of Vibrio cholerae isolates from the Northern Cape province of South Africa
	Anthony M. Smith, Arvinda Sooka, Husna Ismail, Sandrama Nadan, Noreen Crisp, Eunice Weenink, Karen H. Keddy, and for the Group for Enteric, Respiratory and Meningeal Disease Surveillance in South Africa (GERMS-SA)
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 151-154. [Full Text] [PDF]

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