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Bacteriology Characterization of a Tandem Repeat Polymorphism in Legionella pneumophila and Its Use for Genotyping C. Pourcel, Y. Vidgop, F. Ramisse, G. Vergnaud, and C. Tram PMCID: PMC154723 Evaluation of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis as a Tool for Determining the Degree of Genetic Relatedness between Strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Margaret A. Davis, Dale D. Hancock, Thomas E. Besser, and Douglas R. Call PMCID: PMC154664 Rapid Detection of Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma hominis, Ureaplasma parvum, and Ureaplasma urealyticum Organisms in Genitourinary Samples by PCR-Microtiter Plate Hybridization Assay Takashi Yoshida, Shin-Ichi Maeda, Takashi Deguchi, Takamaro Miyazawa, and Hiroaki Ishiko PMCID: PMC154667 Evaluation of Coxiella burnetii Antibiotic Susceptibilities by Real-Time PCR Assay Robert E. Brennan and James E. Samuel PMCID: PMC154715 Evaluation of a New Cellulose Sponge-Tipped Swab for Microbiological Sampling: a Laboratory and Clinical Investigation Monica Österblad, Helinä Järvinen, Kurt Lönnqvist, Solja Huikko, Pekka Laippala, Jouko Viljanto, Heikki Arvilommi, and Pentti Huovinen PMCID: PMC154727 Quality Control for β-Lactam Susceptibility Testing with a Well-Defined Collection of Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains in Spain Rafael Cantón, Elena Loza, María Del Carmen Conejo, Fernando Baquero, Luis Martínez-Martínez, and MENSURA Collaborative Group PMCID: PMC154698 Antimicrobial Resistance and Genetic Diversity of Shigella sonnei Isolates from Western Ireland, an Area of Low Incidence of Infection Niall DeLappe, Fiona O'Halloran, Seamus Fanning, G. Corbett-Feeney, T. Cheasty, and M. Cormican PMCID: PMC154704 BVBlue Test for Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis Linda Myziuk, Barbara Romanowski, and Stephen C. Johnson PMCID: PMC154737 Genomic Diversity of Clinical and Environmental Vibrio cholerae Strains Isolated in Brazil between 1991 and 2001 as Revealed by Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis Fabiano L. Thompson, Cristiane C. Thompson, Ana C. P. Vicente, Grace N. D. Theophilo, Ernesto Hofer, and Jean Swings PMCID: PMC154745 Validation of the Automated Reading and Incubation System with Sensititre Plates for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Kimberle C. Chapin and Michael C. Musgnug PMCID: PMC154729 Microbial Population Diversity in the Urethras of Healthy Males and Males Suffering from Nonchlamydial, Nongonococcal Urethritis W. A. Riemersma, C. J. C. van der Schee, W. I. van der Meijden, H. A. Verbrugh, and A. van Belkum PMCID: PMC154717 Usefulness of the MicroSeq 500 16S Ribosomal DNA-Based Bacterial Identification System for Identification of Clinically Significant Bacterial Isolates with Ambiguous Biochemical Profiles Patrick C. Y. Woo, Kenneth H. L. Ng, Susanna K. P. Lau, Kam-tong Yip, Ami M. Y. Fung, Kit-wah Leung, Dorothy M. W. Tam, Tak-lun Que, and Kwok-yung Yuen PMCID: PMC154750 DNA-Level Characterization of Helicobacter pylori Strains from Patients with Overt Disease and with Benign Infections in Bangladesh Motiur Rahman, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Shamsun Nahar, Simanti Datta, Milan Mashhud Ahmad, Safique Sarker, Ibna M. Masud, Lars Engstrand, M. John Albert, G. Balakrish Nair, and Douglas E. Berg PMCID: PMC154730 Characterization of Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Harboring the astA Gene That Were Associated with a Waterborne Outbreak of Diarrhea in Japan Jun Yatsuyanagi, Shioko Saito, Yoshimichi Miyajima, Ken-Ichi Amano, and Katsuhiko Enomoto PMCID: PMC154716 Multilocus Sequence Typing and Evolutionary Relationships among the Causative Agents of Melioidosis and Glanders, Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei Daniel Godoy, Gaynor Randle, Andrew J. Simpson, David M. Aanensen, Tyrone L. Pitt, Reimi Kinoshita, and Brian G. Spratt PMCID: PMC154742 Evaluation of the Vitek 2 ID-GNB Assay for Identification of Members of the Family Enterobacteriaceae and Other Nonenteric Gram-Negative Bacilli and Comparison with the Vitek GNI+ Card Caroline M. O'Hara and J. Michael Miller PMCID: PMC154679 Identification and Characterization of a New Variant of Shiga Toxin 1 in Escherichia coli ONT:H19 of Bovine Origin Christine Bürk, Richard Dietrich, Gabriele Açar, Maximilian Moravek, Michael Bülte, and Erwin Märtlbauer PMCID: PMC154714 Rapid Identification of Escherichia coli Pathotypes by Virulence Gene Detection with DNA Microarrays Sadjia Bekal, Roland Brousseau, Luke Masson, Gabrielle Prefontaine, John Fairbrother, and Josée Harel PMCID: PMC154688 Multiplex PCR for Detection of Three Plasmid-Borne Genes of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Strains Jorge F. Cerna, James P. Nataro, and Teresa Estrada-Garcia PMCID: PMC154749 Usefulness of Urinary Antigen Detection by an Immunochromatographic Test for Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Children J. Domínguez, S. Blanco, C. Rodrigo, M. Azuara, N. Galí, A. Mainou, A. Esteve, A. Castellví, C. Prat, L. Matas, and V. Ausina PMCID: PMC154691 A Serotype V Clone Is Predominant among Erythromycin-Resistant Streptococcus agalactiae Isolates in a Southwestern Region of Germany Ulrich von Both, Michael Ruess, Urban Mueller, Kirsten Fluegge, Anna Sander, and Reinhard Berner PMCID: PMC154707 Rapid Screening for Streptococcus agalactiae in Vaginal Specimens of Pregnant Women by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization Laura A. Artz, Volkhard A. J. Kempf, and Ingo B. Autenrieth PMCID: PMC154702 Multilocus Sequence Typing Has Better Discriminatory Ability for Typing Vibrio cholerae than Does Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and Provides a Measure of Phylogenetic Relatedness Mamuka Kotetishvili, O. Colin Stine, Yuansha Chen, Arnold Kreger, Alexander Sulakvelidze, Shanmuga Sozhamannan, and J. Glenn Morris, Jr. PMCID: PMC154734 Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Enzymes in Clinical Isolates of Enterobacter Species from Lagos, Nigeria I. E. Aibinu, V. C. Ohaegbulam, E. A. Adenipekun, F. T. Ogunsola, T. O. Odugbemi, and B. J. Mee PMCID: PMC154721 Influence of Lack of CO2 on Anaerobic Bacteria: a Quick Method To Verify the Absence of CO2 Robbin L. Killam, Joan Barenfanger, and Mike Cox PMCID: PMC154685 Search for Cytolethal Distending Toxin Production among Fecal Escherichia Coli Isolates from Brazilian Children with Diarrhea and without Diarrhea Lilian R. M. Marques, Ana T. Tavechio, Cecília M. Abe, and TÂnia A. T. Gomes PMCID: PMC154697 Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology Detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae-Specific Antibodies Binding to the VD2 and VD3 Regions of the Major Outer Membrane Protein Marcus Klein, Arne Kötz, Katussevani Bernardo, and Martin Krönke PMCID: PMC154690 Pilot Study of COBAS PCR and Ligase Chain Reaction for Detection of Rectal Infections Due to Chlamydia trachomatis Matthew R. Golden, Sabina G. Astete, Rosa Galvan, Aldo Lucchetti, Jorge Sanchez, Connie L. Celum, William L. H. Whittington, Walter E. Stamm, King K. Holmes, and Patricia A. Totten PMCID: PMC154739 Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes Specific Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity Responses to ESAT-6 Identify Tuberculosis-Infected Cattle J. M. Pollock, J. McNair, H. Bassett, J. P. Cassidy, E. Costello, H. Aggerbeck, I. Rosenkrands, and P. Andersen PMCID: PMC154711 Snapshot of Moving and Expanding Clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Their Global Distribution Assessed by Spoligotyping in an International Study Ingrid Filliol, Jeffrey R. Driscoll, Dick van Soolingen, Barry N. Kreiswirth, Kristin Kremer, Georges Valétudie, Dang Duc Anh, Rachael Barlow, Dilip Banerjee, Pablo J. Bifani, Karine Brudey, Angel Cataldi, Robert C. Cooksey, Debby V. Cousins, Jeremy W. Dale, Odir A. Dellagostin, Francis Drobniewski, Guido Engelmann, Séverine Ferdinand, Deborah Gascoyne-Binzi, Max Gordon, M. Cristina Gutierrez, Walter H. Haas, Herre Heersma, Eric Kassa-Kelembho, Ho Minh Ly, Athanasios Makristathis, Caterina Mammina, Gerald Martin, Peter Moström, Igor Mokrousov, Valérie Narbonne, Olga Narvskaya, Antonino Nastasi, Sara Ngo Niobe-Eyangoh, Jean W. Pape, Voahangy Rasolofo-Razanamparany, Malin Ridell, M. Lucia Rossetti, Fritz Stauffer, Philip N. Suffys, Howard Takiff, Jeanne Texier-Maugein, Véronique Vincent, Jacobus H. de Waard, Christophe Sola, and Nalin Rastogi PMCID: PMC154710 Controlled Comparison of BACTEC 13A, MYCO/F LYTIC, BacT/ALERT MB, and ISOLATOR 10 Systems for Detection of Mycobacteremia John A. Crump, David C. Tanner, Stanley Mirrett, Celeste M. McKnight, and L. Barth Reller PMCID: PMC154703 Simple and Fast Lateral Flow Test for Classification of Leprosy Patients and Identification of Contacts with High Risk of Developing Leprosy S. Bührer-Sékula, H. L. Smits, G. C. Gussenhoven, J. van Leeuwen, S. Amador, T. Fujiwara, P. R. Klatser, and L. Oskam PMCID: PMC154748 Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis: Evidence for Limited Strain Diversity, Strain Sharing, and Identification of Unique Targets for Diagnosis Alifiya S. Motiwala, Megan Strother, Alongkorn Amonsin, Beverly Byrum, Saleh A. Naser, Judith R. Stabel, William P. Shulaw, John P. Bannantine, Vivek Kapur, and Srinand Sreevatsan PMCID: PMC154725 Characterization of Mycobacterium montefiorense sp. nov., a Novel Pathogenic Mycobacterium from Moray Eels That Is Related to Mycobacterium triplex Michael H. Levi, John Bartell, Leanne Gandolfo, Sandra C. Smole, Sylvia F. Costa, Louis M. Weiss, Linda K. Johnson, Gerard Osterhout, and Lawrence H. Herbst PMCID: PMC154687 Mutations in the rpoB Gene of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from China Jun Yue, Wei Shi, Jingping Xie, Yao Li, Erliang Zeng, and Honghai Wang PMCID: PMC154692 Novel Polymorphic Region of the rpoB Gene Containing Mycobacterium Species-Specific Sequences and Its Use in Identification of Mycobacteria Hyeyoung Lee, Hye-Eun Bang, Gill-Han Bai, and Sang-Nae Cho PMCID: PMC154678 Mycology Development of a LightCycler PCR Assay for Detection and Quantification of Aspergillus fumigatus DNA in Clinical Samples from Neutropenic Patients Birgit Spiess, Dieter Buchheidt, Corinna Baust, Heyko Skladny, Wolfgang Seifarth, Udo Zeilfelder, Christine Leib-Mösch, Handan Mörz, and Rüdiger Hehlmann PMCID: PMC154665 Persistence of Oropharyngeal Candida albicans Strains with Reduced Susceptibilities to Fluconazole among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Seropositive Children and Adults in a Long-Term Care Facility Natalya U. Makarova, V. V. Pokrowsky, A. V. Kravchenko, L. V. Serebrovskaya, Michael J. James, Michael M. McNeil, Brent A. Lasker, David W. Warnock, and Errol Reiss PMCID: PMC154751 Racial Distribution of Candida dubliniensis Colonization among South Africans Elaine Blignaut, Claude Pujol, Sophie Joly, and David R. Soll PMCID: PMC154709 Evaluation of the Etest and Disk Diffusion Methods for Determining Susceptibilities of 235 Bloodstream Isolates of Candida glabrata to Fluconazole and Voriconazole M. A. Pfaller, D. J. Diekema, L. Boyken, S. A. Messer, S. Tendolkar, and R. J. Hollis PMCID: PMC154736 Candida dubliniensis at a University Hospital in Saudi Arabia R. Fotedar and S. S. A. Al Hedaithy PMCID: PMC154754 Detection of Fluconazole-Resistant Isolates of Candida glabrata by Using an Agar Screen Assay Susan M. Nelson and Charles P. Cartwright PMCID: PMC154706 Variation in Susceptibility of Bloodstream Isolates of Candida glabrata to Fluconazole According to Patient Age and Geographic Location M. A. Pfaller, S. A. Messer, L. Boyken, S. Tendolkar, R. J. Hollis, and D. J. Diekema PMCID: PMC154732 Detection of Circulating Aspergillus fumigatus Galactomannan: Value and Limits of the Platelia Test for Diagnosing Invasive Aspergillosis Claudine Pinel, Hélène Fricker-Hidalgo, Bernadette Lebeau, Frédéric Garban, Rébecca Hamidfar, Pierre Ambroise-Thomas, and Renée Grillot PMCID: PMC154675 Genotyping of Candida albicans Oral Strains from Healthy Individuals by Polymorphic Microsatellite Locus Analysis Frédéric Dalle, Laure Dumont, Norélie Franco, David Mesmacque, Denis Caillot, Pierre Bonnin, Caroline Moiroux, Odile Vagner, Bernadette Cuisenier, Sarab Lizard, and Alain Bonnin PMCID: PMC154696 Parasitology Epidemiology of Cyclospora cayetanensis and Other Intestinal Parasites in a Community in Haiti Adriana S. Lopez, Jean M. Bendik, Jean Y. Alliance, Jacquelin M. Roberts, Alexandre J. da Silva, Iaci N. S. Moura, Michael J. Arrowood, Mark L. Eberhard, and Barbara L. Herwaldt PMCID: PMC154728 Virology Multicenter Evaluation of Use of Dried Blood and Plasma Spot Specimens in Quantitative Assays for Human Immunodeficiency Virus RNA: Measurement, Precision, and RNA Stability Don Brambilla, Cheryl Jennings, Grace Aldrovandi, James Bremer, Anne Marie Comeau, Sharon A. Cassol, Ruth Dickover, J. Brooks Jackson, Jane Pitt, John L. Sullivan, Ann Butcher, Lynell Grosso, Patricia Reichelderfer, and Susan A. Fiscus PMCID: PMC154666 New Enzyme Immunoassay for Detection of Hepatitis B Virus Core Antigen (HBcAg) and Relation between Levels of HBcAg and HBV DNA Tatsuji Kimura, Akinori Rokuhara, Akihiro Matsumoto, Shintaro Yagi, Eiji Tanaka, Kendo Kiyosawa, and Noboru Maki PMCID: PMC154683 Improved Detection of Rhinoviruses by Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification after Nucleotide Sequence Determination of the 5′ Noncoding Regions of Additional Rhinovirus Strains K. Loens, M. Ieven, D. Ursi, C. de Laat, P. Sillekens, P. Oudshoorn, and H. Goossens PMCID: PMC154662 Detection of Anti-West Nile Virus Immunoglobulin M in Chicken Serum by an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Alison J. Johnson, Stanley Langevin, Katherine L. Wolff, and Nicholas Komar PMCID: PMC154686 Monitoring Cytomegalovirus Infection in Adult and Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients by a Real-Time PCR Assay Performed with Blood Plasma Marianne Leruez-Ville, Marie Ouachée, Richard Delarue, Anne-Sophie Sauget, Stéphane Blanche, Agnès Buzyn, and Christine Rouzioux PMCID: PMC154722 Applications of Competitor RNA in Diagnostic Reverse Transcription-PCR Steven B. Kleiboeker PMCID: PMC154720 Development and Verification of an Automated Sample Processing Protocol for Quantitation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA in Plasma Brenda G. Lee, Kristin R. Fiebelkorn, Angela M. Caliendo, and Frederick S. Nolte PMCID: PMC154724 Evaluation of a New Serotyping Assay for Detection of Anti-Hepatitis C Virus Type-Specific Antibodies in Serum Samples Elyanne Gault, Patrick Soussan, Yoann Morice, Lara Sanders, Assia Berrada, Brian Rogers, and Paul Dený PMCID: PMC154718 Genetic Characterization of a Novel, Naturally Occurring Recombinant Human G6P[6] Rotavirus Mustafizur Rahman, Karolien De Leener, Truus Goegebuer, Elke Wollants, Ingrid Van der Donck, Lieve Van Hoovels, and Marc Van Ranst PMCID: PMC154672 Recombinant VP7-Based Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Detection of Immunoglobulin G Antibodies to Colorado Tick Fever Virus Fauziah Mohd Jaafar, Houssam Attoui, Pierre Gallian, Philippe Biagini, Jean-François Cantaloube, Philippe de Micco, and Xavier de Lamballerie PMCID: PMC154693 Real-Time PCR Assay of Individual Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Variants in Coinfected Human Lymphoid Tissues Yoshinori Ito, Jean-Charles Grivel, and Leonid Margolis PMCID: PMC154674 Comparison of Lateral-Flow Immunoassay and Enzyme Immunoassay with Viral Culture for Rapid Detection of Influenza Virus in Nasal Wash Specimens from Children Andreea C. Cazacu, Jewel Greer, Moe Taherivand, and Gail J. Demmler PMCID: PMC154694 Failure To Genotype Herpes Simplex Virus by Real-Time PCR Assay and Melting Curve Analysis Due to Sequence Variation within Probe Binding Sites Trevor P. Anderson, Anja M. Werno, Kirsten A. Beynon, and David R. Murdoch PMCID: PMC154719 Kinetics and Significance of Serum Hepatitis C Virus Core Antigen in Patients with Acute Hepatitis C Agostino Cividini, Antonella Cerino, Alba Muzzi, Milena Furione, Chiara Rebucci, Laura Segagni, Marta Gatti, Vincenzo Barnaba, and Mario U. Mondelli PMCID: PMC154695 Performance of the OraQuick Rapid Antibody Test for Diagnosis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection in Patients with Various Levels of Exposure to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Robert J. O'Connell, Teresa M. Merritt, Jennifer A. Malia, Thomas C. VanCott, Matthew J. Dolan, Hassan Zahwa, William P. Bradley, Bernard M. Branson, Nelson L. Michael, and Caroline C. De Witt PMCID: PMC154669 Risk of Occupational Human Herpesvirus 8 Infection for Health Care Workers Barbara C. Gärtner, Alexandra Kloss, Harald Kaul, Urban Sester, Klaus Roemer, Hans Pees, Hans Köhler, and Nikolaus Mueller-Lantzsch PMCID: PMC154731 Frequency of Amantadine-Resistant Influenza A Viruses during Two Seasons Featuring Cocirculation of H1N1 and H3N2 Reiko Saito, Takatsugu Sakai, Isamu Sato, Yasuko Sano, Hitoshi Oshitani, Mizuho Sato, and Hiroshi Suzuki PMCID: PMC154689 Comparison of the Denka-Seiken INFLU A·B-Quick and BD Directigen Flu A+B Kits with Direct Fluorescent-Antibody Staining and Shell Vial Culture Methods for Rapid Detection of Influenza Viruses James J. Dunn, Chris Gordon, Christy Kelley, and Karen C. Carroll PMCID: PMC154708 Human Group B Rotavirus Infections Cause Severe Diarrhea in Children and Adults in Bangladesh Takeshi Sanekata, Muzahed Uddin Ahmed, Abdul Kader, Koki Taniguchi, and Nobumichi Kobayashi PMCID: PMC154663 Clinical Veterinary Microbiology Comparison of the Pathogenesis of Two Genetically Different H3N2 Influenza A Viruses in Pigs Gabriele A. Landolt, Alexander I. Karasin, Lynette Phillips, and Christopher W. Olsen PMCID: PMC154671 Epidemiology Virulence Markers of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Isolated from Children and Adults with Diarrhea in Brasília, Brazil Iriane C. Piva, Alex L. Pereira, Lúcia R. Ferraz, Rejane S. N. Silva, Ataíza C. Vieira, Jesus E. Blanco, Miguel Blanco, Jorge Blanco, and Loreny G. Giugliano PMCID: PMC154701 Evaluation and Utilization as a Public Health Tool of a National Molecular Epidemiological Tuberculosis Outbreak Database within the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001 F. A. Drobniewski, A. Gibson, M. Ruddy, and M. D. Yates PMCID: PMC154681 DNA Fingerprinting of Lactobacillus crispatus Strain CTV-05 by Repetitive Element Sequence-Based PCR Analysis in a Pilot Study of Vaginal Colonization May A. D. Antonio and Sharon L. Hillier PMCID: PMC154705 Escherichia coli Strains from Pregnant Women and Neonates: Intraspecies Genetic Distribution and Prevalence of Virulence Factors Stéphane Watt, Philippe Lanotte, Laurent Mereghetti, Maryvonne Moulin-Schouleur, Bertrand Picard, and Roland Quentin PMCID: PMC154741 Regional Variation among vacA Alleles of Helicobacter pylori in China Jingtong Wang, Leen-Jan van Doorn, Philip A. Robinson, Xuhuai Ji, Dong Wang, Yu Wang, Lianying Ge, John L. Telford, and Jean E. Crabtree PMCID: PMC154746 Two International Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones Endemic in a University Hospital in Patras, Greece M. Aires de Sousa, C. Bartzavali, I. Spiliopoulou, I. Santos Sanches, M. I. Crisóstomo, and H. de Lencastre PMCID: PMC154747 pgi Genotyping Is a Surrogate for Serotyping of Encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae Juliana N. Anyanwu, Carina A. Rodriguez, Katherine E. Fleming, and Elisabeth E. Adderson PMCID: PMC154673 O-Antigen Serotypes and Type III Secretory Toxins in Clinical Isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Karine Faure, David Shimabukuro, Temitayo Ajayi, Leonard R. Allmond, Teiji Sawa, and Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish PMCID: PMC154700 Case Reports Subcutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Veronaea botryosa in the People’s Republic of China A. Matsushita, L. Jilong, M. Hiruma, M. Kobayashi, T. Matsumoto, H. Ogawa, and A. A. Padhye PMCID: PMC154726 Spondylodiscitis Due to Clostridium ramosum Infection in an Immunocompetent Elderly Patient Jean-Philippe Lavigne, Nicole Bouziges, Albert Sotto, Jean-Louis Leroux, and Sylvie Michaux-Charachon PMCID: PMC154680 Neonatal Sudden Death Due to Legionella Pneumonia Associated with Water Birth in a Domestic Spa Bath Takuhito Nagai, Hisanori Sobajima, Mitsuji Iwasa, Toyonori Tsuzuki, Fumiaki Kura, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, and Haruo Watanabe PMCID: PMC154682 Acute Flaccid Paralysis from Echovirus Type 33 Infection Keith Grimwood, Q. Sue Huang, Lynette G. Sadleir, W. Allan Nix, David R. Kilpatrick, M. Steven Oberste, and Mark A. Pallansch PMCID: PMC154677 Infection with an Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Strain of Serratia marcescens following Tongue Reconstruction Benu Dhawan, Richard Bonnet, N. K. Shukla, Purva Mathur, Bimal K. Das, and Arti Kapil PMCID: PMC154676 Eubacterium callanderi Bacteremia: Report of the First Case Aurélie Thiolas, Claude Bollet, Mohammed Gasmi, Michel Drancourt, and Didier Raoult PMCID: PMC154684 Fatal Case of Endocarditis Due to Weissella confusa James D. Flaherty, Paul N. Levett, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Theodore E. Troe, John R. Warren, and Stuart Johnson PMCID: PMC154740 Soft Tissue Infection and Bacteremia Caused by Shewanella putrefaciens Leonardo Pagani, Adolf Lang, Claudio Vedovelli, Oswald Moling, Giovanni Rimenti, Raffaele Pristerà, and Peter Mian PMCID: PMC154735 Bacteremia Due to a Novel Microbacterium Species in a Patient with Leukemia and Description of Microbacterium paraoxydans sp. nov. Kim Laffineur, Véronique Avesani, Guy Cornu, Jacqueline Charlier, Michèle Janssens, Georges Wauters, and Michel Delmée PMCID: PMC154712 Bacteremia Due to Three Bacillus Species in a Case of Munchausen's Syndrome Jason Galanos, Shalinie Perera, Haydn Smith, David O'Neal, Harsha Sheorey, and Mary Jo Waters PMCID: PMC154744 Babesia bicornis sp. nov. and Theileria bicornis sp. nov.: Tick-Borne Parasites Associated with Mortality in the Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) Ard M. Nijhof, Banie L. Penzhorn, Godelieve Lynen, Johnson O. Mollel, Pete Morkel, Cornelis P. J. Bekker, and Frans Jongejan PMCID: PMC154668 Sepsis, Multiple Organ Failure, and Death Due to Pandoraea pnomenusa Infection after Lung Transplantation Martin E. Stryjewski, John J. LiPuma, Robert H. Messier, Jr., L. Barth Reller, and Barbara D. Alexander PMCID: PMC154699 Peripartum Transmission of Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae L. Clifford McDonald, Kris Bryant, and James Snyder PMCID: PMC154670 Keratitis Caused by Scedosporium apiospermum Successfully Treated with a Cornea Transplant and Voriconazole Eric Nulens, Cathrien Eggink, Antonius J. M. M. Rijs, Pieter Wesseling, and Paul E. Verweij PMCID: PMC154713 Letters to the Editor Detection of Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Antigen in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid by an Immunochromatographic Assay Peter C. Wever, Daan W. Notermans, Igor I. Tulevski, Jan K. M. Eeftinck Schattenkerk, and Menno D. de Jong PMCID: PMC154752 Evidence for Spread of a Clonal Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa among Cystic Fibrosis Clinics David Armstrong, Scott Bell, Michael Robinson, Peter Bye, Barbara Rose, Colin Harbour, Crystal Lee, Helen Service, Michael Nissen, Melanie Syrmis, and Claire Wainwright PMCID: PMC154738 Clinical Microbiology in the Year 2025: Serologic and Host-Oriented Diagnosis Martin Rottman and Jean-Louis Gaillard PMCID: PMC154753 W. Michael Dunne, Jr. doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2268.2003.Criteria for Identification of Cross-Contamination of Cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Routine Microbiology Laboratories Nora M. Carroll, Madalene Richardson, and Paul D. van Helden PMCID: PMC154733 Stephen H. Gillespie and Timothy D. McHugh doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2269-2270.2003.Annette S. de Boer and Dick van Soolingen doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2269-2270.2003.Immunochromatographic Test for Rapid Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the Nasopharynx David R. Murdoch and L. Barth Reller PMCID: PMC154661 Howard Faden doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2271.2003.Contamination Management of Broad-Range or Specific PCR: Is There Any Difference? Patrick Bastien, Elisabeth Chabbert, and Laurence Lachaud PMCID: PMC154743 Beverley C. Millar, Xu Jiru, and John E. Moore doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2272.2003.Erratum Ubiquity of Putative Type III Secretion Genes among Clinical and Environmental Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates in Northern Australia H. C. Smith-Vaughan, D. Gal, P. M. Lawrie, C. Winstanley, K. S. Sriprakash, and B. J. Currie PMCID: PMC154755 Corrects: H. C. Smith-Vaughan, et al. Ubiquity of Putative Type III Secretion Genes among Clinical and Environmental Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates in Northern Australia. J Clin Microbiol. 2003 February; 41(2): 883–885.
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