OBITUARY
	In memoriam – John Jaques Bullen (1920–2009)
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1125-1126. [Free Full Text] [PDF]   IMMEDIATE OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

REVIEWS
	Quest for a broad-range vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B: implications of genetic variations of the surface-exposed proteins
	Ivano de Filippis
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1127-1132. [Abstract] [Free Full Text] [PDF]   IMMEDIATE OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
	Pseudomonas aeruginosa – a phenomenon of bacterial resistance
	Tanya Strateva and Daniel Yordanov
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1133-1148. [Abstract] [Free Full Text] [PDF]   IMMEDIATE OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

DIAGNOSTICS, TYPING AND IDENTIFICATION
	Assessment of East Asian-type cagA-positive Helicobacter pylori using stool specimens from asymptomatic healthy Japanese individuals
	Itaru Hirai, Tadahiro Sasaki, Ai Kimoto, Saori Fujimoto, Toshiki Moriyama, and Yoshimasa Yamamoto
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1149-1153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Rapid and cost-effective identification of Bartonella species using mass spectrometry
	Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Carine Couderc, Sylvain Buffet, Christophe Flaudrops, and Didier Raoult
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1154-1159. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Detection of virulence-associated and regulatory protein genes in association with phage typing of human Vibrio cholerae from several geographical regions of the world
	Tushar Suvra Bhowmick, Mayukh Das, Werner Ruppitsch, Anna Stoeger, Ariane Tatjana Pietzka, Franz Allerberger, D. P. Rodrigues, and B. L. Sarkar
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1160-1167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Evaluation of real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification for detection of Chikungunya virus in clinical samples
	J.-N. Telles, K. Le Roux, P. Grivard, G. Vernet, and A. Michault
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1168-1172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Distribution of the leptospiral immunoglobulin-like (lig) genes in pathogenic Leptospira species and application of ligB to typing leptospiral isolates
	Gustavo M. Cerqueira, Alan J. A. McBride, Mathieu Picardeau, Samuel G. Ribeiro, Ângela N. Moreira, Viviane Morel, Mitermayer G. Reis, Albert I. Ko, and Odir A. Dellagostin
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1173-1181. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Rapid electrochemical identification of pathogenic Candida species
	Alastair Muir, A. Toby A. Jenkins, Gordon Forrest, John Clarkson, and Alan Wheals
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1182-1189. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Distribution of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus spa types isolated from health-care workers and patients in a Scottish university teaching hospital
	Reham S. Soliman, Gabby Phillips, Patrick Whitty, and David H. Edwards
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1190-1195. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
	Reduced susceptibility to carbapenems in Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates associated with plasmid-mediated β-lactamase production and OmpK36 porin deficiency
	Xuan Ding Wang, Jia Chang Cai, Hong Wei Zhou, Rong Zhang, and Gong-Xiang Chen
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1196-1202. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	In vivo activity of anprocide alone, and in vitro activity in combination with conventional antibiotics against Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms
	Robin K. Pettit, Christine A. Weber, Stacey B. Lawrence, George R. Pettit, Melissa J. Kean, and Gary D. Cage
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1203-1206. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

EPIDEMIOLOGY
	Prevalence of Chlamydophila psittaci infections in a human population in contact with domestic and companion birds
	Taher Harkinezhad, Kristel Verminnen, Marc De Buyzere, Ernst Rietzschel, Sofie Bekaert, and Daisy Vanrompay
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1207-1212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Characteristics of community- and hospital-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying SCCmec type IV isolated in Malaysia
	Norazah Ahmad, Izayu Nurfarha Ruzan, Mohamed Kamel Abd Ghani, Azura Hussin, Salbiah Nawi, Mohamad Nazri Aziz, Nurahan Maning, and Victor Lim Kok Eow
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1213-1218. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Characterization of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal province, Republic of South Africa
	Adebayo Shittu, Ulrich Nübel, Edet Udo, Johnson Lin, and Sedio Gaogakwe
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1219-1226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Human leptospirosis cases and the prevalence of rats harbouring Leptospira interrogans in urban areas of Tokyo, Japan
	Nobuo Koizumi, Maki Muto, Tsutomu Tanikawa, Hiroshi Mizutani, Yoshiko Sohmura, Eiji Hayashi, Nobuaki Akao, Mayu Hoshino, Hiroki Kawabata, and Haruo Watanabe
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1227-1230. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]

CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY
	Bacterial colonization and granulocyte activation in chronic maxillary sinusitis in asthmatics and non-asthmatics
	Kreso Zurak, Davor Vagic, Petar Drvis, Carmen Prohaska Potocnik, Senka Dzidic, and Livije Kalogjera
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1231-1235. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Salmonella expressing a T-cell epitope from Sendai virus are able to induce anti-infection immunity
	He Huang, Ye-Jun Wang, Aaron P. White, Jia-Zi Meng, Gui-Rong Liu, Shu-Lin Liu, and Yue-Dan Wang
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1236-1242. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]

CASE REPORTS
	Systemic phaeohyphomycosis resembling primary sclerosing cholangitis caused by Exophiala dermatitidis
	Erkin Oztas, Bulent Odemis, Murat Kekilli, Mevlut Kurt, Bedia Mert Dinc, Erkan Parlak, Ayse Kalkanci, and Nurgul Sasmaz
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1243-1246. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Central nervous system invasion by community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
	Reinout Naesens, Mark Ronsyn, Patrick Druwé, Olivier Denis, Margareta Ieven, and Axel Jeurissen
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1247-1251. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Neonatal bacterial meningitis caused by Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus
	Sagano Onoyama, Reina Ogata, Akihito Wada, Mitsumasa Saito, Kenji Okada, and Tatsuo Harada
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1252-1254. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Septic shock induced by Lecythophora mutabilis in a patient with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy
	Yuki Taniguchi, Takeshi Taketani, Hidehiko Moriyama, Shoji Moriki, Kazuko Nishimura, Emi Sato, Yasuko Notsu, Tsuyoshi Higuchi, Yuichiro Sugitani, Kenji Yasuda, Atsushi Nagai, Seiji Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Shibata, and Junichi Masuda
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1255-1258. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Sphingomonas paucimobilis bacteraemia and septic arthritis in a diabetic patient presenting with septic pulmonary emboli
	I-Ching Kuo, Po-Liang Lu, Wei-Ru Lin, Chun-Yu Lin, Yu-Wei Chang, Tun-Chieh Chen, and Yen-Hsu Chen
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1259-1263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CORRESPONDENCE
	Epidemiology of pharyngeal carriage of Fusobacterium necrophorum
	Hugo Ludlam, Julia Howard, Barry Kingston, Linda Donachie, Joanne Foulkes, Simantee Guha, and Martin D. Curran
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1264-1265. [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]
	ScreenTape as a tool for the rapid differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates
	Kim Mallard, Ghada S. Sharaf Eldin, and Ruth McNerney
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1266-1268. [Full Text] [PDF]

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