| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveBacteriology Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates from Nosocomial Outbreaks in Los Angeles County, California Sonya C. Valentine, Deisy Contreras, Stephanie Tan, Lilian J. Real, Sheena Chu, and H. Howard Xu PMCID: PMC2519477 Evaluation of New Vitek 2 Card and Disk Diffusion Method for Determining Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus to Oxacillin Sandrine Roisin, Claire Nonhoff, Olivier Denis, and Marc J. Struelens PMCID: PMC2519473 Relationship between Escherichia coli Strains Causing Acute Cystitis in Women and the Fecal E. coli Population of the Host Eva Moreno, Antonia Andreu, Carles Pigrau, Michael A. Kuskowski, James R. Johnson, and Guillem Prats PMCID: PMC2519474 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy for Rapid Identification of Nonfermenting Gram-Negative Bacteria Isolated from Sputum Samples from Cystic Fibrosis Patients Alejandra Bosch, Alejandro Miñán, Cecilia Vescina, José Degrossi, Blanca Gatti, Patricia Montanaro, Matías Messina, Mirta Franco, Carlos Vay, Juergen Schmitt, Dieter Naumann, and Osvaldo Yantorno PMCID: PMC2519462 European Emergence of Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Escherichia coli Clonal Groups O25:H4-ST 131 and O15:K52:H1 Causing Community-Acquired Uncomplicated Cystitis Simone Cagnacci, Laura Gualco, Eugenio Debbia, Gian Carlo Schito, and Anna Marchese PMCID: PMC2519467 Gram Stain-Specific-Probe-Based Real-Time PCR for Diagnosis and Discrimination of Bacterial Neonatal Sepsis Yi-Dong Wu, Li-Hua Chen, Xiu-Jing Wu, Shi-Qiang Shang, Jin-Tu Lou, Li-Zhong Du, and Zheng-Yan Zhao PMCID: PMC2519463 Effect of Swab Composition and Use of Swabs versus Swab-Containing Skim Milk-Tryptone-Glucose-Glycerol (STGG) on Culture- or PCR-Based Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Simulated and Clinical Respiratory Specimens in STGG Transport Medium Lorry G. Rubin, Atqia Rizvi, and Aryeh Baer PMCID: PMC2519464 Multicenter Evaluation of the Vitek 2 Anaerobe and Corynebacterium Identification Card Robert P. Rennie, Cheryl Brosnikoff, LeeAnn Turnbull, L. Barth Reller, Stanley Mirrett, William Janda, Kathy Ristow, and Ann Krilcich PMCID: PMC2519455 Multicenter Evaluation of the New Vitek 2 Neisseria-Haemophilus Identification Card Robert P. Rennie, Cheryl Brosnikoff, Sandy Shokoples, L. Barth Reller, Stanley Mirrett, William Janda, Kathy Ristow, and Ann Krilcich PMCID: PMC2519493 Characterization of Small-Colony Variants of Enterococcus faecalis Isolated from Chickens with Amyloid Arthropathy Andreas Petersen, Mark S. Chadfield, Jens P. Christensen, Henrik Christensen, and Magne Bisgaard PMCID: PMC2519495 Optimal Probe Length and Target Location for Electrochemical Detection of Selected Uropathogens at Ambient Temperature Mitra Mastali, Jane T. Babbitt, Yang Li, Elliot M. Landaw, Vincent Gau, Bernard M. Churchill, and David A. Haake PMCID: PMC2519458 Distribution, Organization, and Ecology of Bacteria in Chronic Wounds Klaus Kirketerp-Møller, Peter Ø. Jensen, Mustafa Fazli, Kit G. Madsen, Jette Pedersen, Claus Moser, Tim Tolker-Nielsen, Niels Høiby, Michael Givskov, and Thomas Bjarnsholt PMCID: PMC2519454 Quantitative Survival of Aerobic and Anaerobic Microorganisms in Port-A-Cul and Copan Transport Systems Kevin A. Stoner, Lorna K. Rabe, Michele N. Austin, Leslie A. Meyn, and Sharon L. Hillier PMCID: PMC2519491 Duplex Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Clinical Samples and Determination of Penicillin Susceptibility Kathryn A. Harris, Paul Turner, Elaine A. Green, and John C. Hartley PMCID: PMC2519471 Evaluation and Validation of a PulseNet Standardized Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocol for Subtyping Vibrio parahaemolyticus: an International Multicenter Collaborative Study Kai Man Kam, Cindy K. Y. Luey, Michele B. Parsons, Kara L. F. Cooper, G. B. Nair, M. Alam, M. Atiqul Islam, Danny T. L. Cheung, Y. W. Chu, T. Ramamurthy, G. P. Pazhani, S. K. Bhattacharya, H. Watanabe, J. Terajima, E. Arakawa, O.-A. Ratchtrachenchai, S. Huttayananont, Efrain M. Ribot, Peter Gerner-Smidt, Bala Swaminathan, and for the Vibrio parahaemolyticus PulseNet PFGE Protocol Working Group PMCID: PMC2519496 Recovery of Herbaspirillum Species from Persons with Cystic Fibrosis Theodore Spilker, Ahmet Z. Uluer, Francisco M. Marty, Wendy W. Yeh, Julie H. Levison, Peter Vandamme, and John J. LiPuma PMCID: PMC2519502 Evaluation of StrepB Carrot Broth versus Lim Broth for Detection of Group B Streptococcus Colonization Status of Near-Term Pregnant Women D. L. Church, Heather Baxter, Tracie Lloyd, Beverley Miller, and Sameer Elsayed PMCID: PMC2519488 Lewis Antigen Expression by Helicobacter pylori Strains Colonizing Different Regions of the Stomach of Individual Patients Gerardo González-Valencia, Leopoldo Muñoz-Perez, Rosario Morales-Espinosa, Margarita Camorlinga-Ponce, Onofre Muñoz, and Javier Torres PMCID: PMC2519492 Extended-Spectrum-Beta-Lactamase Production in a Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi Strain from the Philippines Nashwan Al Naiemi, Bastiaan Zwart, Martine C. Rijnsburger, Robert Roosendaal, Yvette J. Debets-Ossenkopp, Janet A. Mulder, Cees A. Fijen, Willemina Maten, Christina M. Vandenbroucke-Grauls, and Paul H. Savelkoul PMCID: PMC2519485 Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Rapid Detection of Common Strains of Escherichia coli Joshua Hill, Shilpa Beriwal, Ishwad Chandra, Vinod K. Paul, Aarti Kapil, Tripti Singh, Robert M. Wadowsky, Vinita Singh, Ankur Goyal, Timo Jahnukainen, James R. Johnson, Phillip I. Tarr, and Abhay Vats PMCID: PMC2519505 Characterization of Clonal Relatedness among the Natural Population of Staphylococcus aureus Strains by Using spa Sequence Typing and the BURP (Based upon Repeat Patterns) Algorithm Alexander Mellmann, Thomas Weniger, Christoph Berssenbrügge, Ursula Keckevoet, Alexander W. Friedrich, Dag Harmsen, and Hajo Grundmann PMCID: PMC2519486 Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes Rifampin Resistance, Beijing-W Clade-Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Cluster Group 2 Phylogeny, and the Rv2629 191-C Allele in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains Soumitesh Chakravorty, Bola Aladegbami, Alifiya S. Motiwala, Yang Dai, Hassan Safi, Michael Brimacombe, Danica Helb, and David Alland PMCID: PMC2519504 Evaluation and Strategy for Use of MIRU-VNTRplus, a Multifunctional Database for Online Analysis of Genotyping Data and Phylogenetic Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolates Caroline Allix-Béguec, Dag Harmsen, Thomas Weniger, Philip Supply, and Stefan Niemann PMCID: PMC2519508 Association between 16S-23S Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequence Groups of Mycobacterium avium Complex and Pulmonary Disease Jason E. Stout, Gregory W. Hopkins, Jay R. McDonald, Anita Quinn, Carol D. Hamilton, L. Barth Reller, and Richard Frothingham PMCID: PMC2519484 Mycology Molecular Phylogenetic Diversity, Multilocus Haplotype Nomenclature, and In Vitro Antifungal Resistance within the Fusarium solani Species Complex Kerry O'Donnell, Deanna A. Sutton, Annette Fothergill, Dora McCarthy, Michael G. Rinaldi, Mary E. Brandt, Ning Zhang, and David M. Geiser PMCID: PMC2519483 In Vitro Survey of Triazole Cross-Resistance among More than 700 Clinical Isolates of Aspergillus Species M. A. Pfaller, S. A. Messer, L. Boyken, C. Rice, S. Tendolkar, R. J. Hollis, and D. J. Diekema PMCID: PMC2519461 Correlation of MIC with Outcome for Candida Species Tested against Caspofungin, Anidulafungin, and Micafungin: Analysis and Proposal for Interpretive MIC Breakpoints M. A. Pfaller, D. J. Diekema, L. Ostrosky-Zeichner, J. H. Rex, B. D. Alexander, D. Andes, S. D. Brown, V. Chaturvedi, M. A. Ghannoum, C. C. Knapp, D. J. Sheehan, and T. J. Walsh PMCID: PMC2519503 Single-Step PCR Using (GACA)4 Primer: Utility for Rapid Identification of Dermatophyte Species and Strains Atef S. Shehata, Pranab K. Mukherjee, Hassan N. Aboulatta, Atef I. El Akhras, Said H. Abbadi, and Mahmoud A. Ghannoum PMCID: PMC2519465 Geographic Distribution and Antifungal Susceptibility of the Newly Described Species Candida orthopsilosis and Candida metapsilosis in Comparison to the Closely Related Species Candida parapsilosis Shawn R. Lockhart, Shawn A. Messer, Michael A. Pfaller, and Daniel J. Diekema PMCID: PMC2519489 Parasitology Assessment of Cryptodiag for Diagnosis of Cryptosporidiosis and Genotyping Cryptosporidium Species C. Savin, C. Sarfati, J. Menotti, J. Jaouhari, S. Wurtzer, Y. J. F. Garin, and F. Derouin PMCID: PMC2519490 Comparison of Two Immunoassays for Detection of Entamoeba histolytica Sarah Buss, Mamun Kabir, William A. Petri, Jr., and Rashidul Haque PMCID: PMC2519511 Virology Detection of All Known Parechoviruses by Real-Time PCR W. Allan Nix, Kaija Maher, E. Susanne Johansson, Bo Niklasson, A. Michael Lindberg, Mark A. Pallansch, and M. Steven Oberste PMCID: PMC2519456 Sensitive Detection of Multiple Rotavirus Genotypes with a Single Reverse Transcription-Real-Time Quantitative PCR Assay Ion Gutiérrez-Aguirre, Andrej Steyer, Jana Boben, Kristina Gruden, Mateja Poljšak-Prijatelj, and Maja Ravnikar PMCID: PMC2519481 Universal Primer Set for Amplification and Sequencing of HA0 Cleavage Sites of All Influenza A Viruses Astrid Gall, Bernd Hoffmann, Timm Harder, Christian Grund, and Martin Beer PMCID: PMC2519470 Human Papillomavirus Genotype Specificity of Hybrid Capture 2 Philip E. Castle, Diane Solomon, Cosette M. Wheeler, Patti E. Gravitt, Sholom Wacholder, and Mark Schiffman PMCID: PMC2519476 Development and Validation of a Negative-Strand-Specific Reverse Transcription-PCR Assay for Detection of a Chicken Strain of Hepatitis E Virus: Identification of Nonliver Replication Sites P. Billam, F. W. Pierson, W. Li, T. LeRoith, R. B. Duncan, and X. J. Meng PMCID: PMC2519487 Sensitive and Broadly Reactive Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays To Detect Novel Paramyxoviruses Suxiang Tong, Shur-Wern Wang Chern, Yan Li, Mark A. Pallansch, and Larry J. Anderson PMCID: PMC2519498 Discriminating between Varicella-Zoster Virus Vaccine and Wild-Type Strains by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Yuki Higashimoto, Masaru Ihira, Akane Ohta, Shigeki Inoue, Chie Usui, Yoshizo Asano, and Tetsushi Yoshikawa PMCID: PMC2519472 Marked Variability of BK Virus Load Measurement Using Quantitative Real-Time PCR among Commonly Used Assays Noah G. Hoffman, Linda Cook, Ederlyn E. Atienza, Ajit P. Limaye, and Keith R. Jerome PMCID: PMC2519469 Multicenter Comparison of PCR Assays for Detection of Human Herpesvirus 6 DNA in Serum Louis Flamand, Annie Gravel, David Boutolleau, Roberto Alvarez-Lafuente, Steve Jacobson, Mauro S. Malnati, Debra Kohn, Yi-Wei Tang, Tetsushi Yoshikawa, and Dharam Ablashi PMCID: PMC2519497 Application of a Novel, Rapid, and Sensitive Oligonucleotide Ligation Assay for Detection of Cancer-Predicting Mutations in the Precore and Basal Core Promoter of Hepatitis B Virus M. E. Mendy, S. Kaye, E. Le Roux, G. D. Kirk, A. Jeng-Barry, S. McConkey, M. Cotten, M. H. Kuniholm, A. Leligdowicz, P. Hainaut, S. Rowland-Jones, and H. Whittle PMCID: PMC2519494 Evaluation of Linear Array Human Papillomavirus Genotyping Using Automatic Optical Imaging Software J. Jeronimo, N. Wentzensen, R. Long, M. Schiffman, S. T. Dunn, R. A. Allen, J. L. Walker, M. A. Gold, R. E. Zuna, M. E. Sherman, S. Wacholder, and S. S. Wang PMCID: PMC2519466 Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Displays Atypical Melting-Temperature Profiles at Low Viral Titers Jason J. LeBlanc, Sarah Campbell, Janice Pettipas, Todd F. Hatchette, and Ross J. Davidson PMCID: PMC2519468 Clinical Veterinary Microbiology Real-Time PCR Assays To Address Genetic Diversity among Strains of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Erin L. Strait, Melissa L. Madsen, F. Chris Minion, Jane Christopher-Hennings, Matthew Dammen, Katherine R. Jones, and Eileen L. Thacker PMCID: PMC2519509 Epidemiology Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains Colonizing Children Attending Day-Care Centers in Norway Didrik F. Vestrheim, E. Arne Høiby, Ingeborg S. Aaberge, and Dominique A. Caugant PMCID: PMC2519506 Pediatric Norovirus Diarrhea in Nicaragua Filemon Bucardo, Johan Nordgren, Beatrice Carlsson, Margarita Paniagua, Per-Eric Lindgren, Felix Espinoza, and Lennart Svensson PMCID: PMC2519475 Salmonella Serovar Identification Using PCR-Based Detection of Gene Presence and Absence Nabil Arrach, Steffen Porwollik, Pui Cheng, Ann Cho, Fred Long, Sang-Ho Choi, and Michael McClelland PMCID: PMC2519459 Prevalence of Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 (TSST-1)-Producing Strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Antibody to TSST-1 among Healthy Japanese Women Jeffrey Parsonnet, Richard V. Goering, Melanie A. Hansmann, Michaelle B. Jones, Kumiko Ohtagaki, Catherine C. Davis, and Kyoichi Totsuka PMCID: PMC2519460 Use of Phenotypic and Molecular Serotype Identification Methods To Characterize Previously Nonserotypeable Group B Streptococci Fanrong Kong, Lotte Munch Lambertsen, Hans-Christian Slotved, Danny Ko, Hui Wang, and Gwendolyn L. Gilbert PMCID: PMC2519501 High Rate of Intestinal Colonization with Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Organisms in Household Contacts of Infected Community Patients Aránzazu Valverde, Fabio Grill, Teresa M. Coque, Vicente Pintado, Fernando Baquero, Rafael Cantón, and Javier Cobo PMCID: PMC2519510 Case Reports Invasive Infections with Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus after Kidney Transplantation Oluwadamilola A. Adeyemi, Chao Qi, Teresa R. Zembower, Michael G. Ison, Thomas H. Grant, Brian J. Hartigan, Michael Malczynski, and Valentina Stosor PMCID: PMC2519499 Cord Formation in a Clinical Isolate of Mycobacterium marinum John F. Staropoli and John A. Branda PMCID: PMC2519507 Purulent Pericarditis with Greenish Pericardial Effusion Caused by Shewanella algae Che-Kim Tan, Chih-Cheng Lai, Wei-Khie Kuar, and Po-Ren Hsueh PMCID: PMC2519482 Streptobacillus moniliformis as the Causative Agent in Spondylodiscitis and Psoas Abscess after Rooster Scratches Damien Dubois, Frédéric Robin, Damien Bouvier, Julien Delmas, Richard Bonnet, Olivier Lesens, and Claire Hennequin PMCID: PMC2519479 Letters to the Editor Detection of Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans Strains by a Novel Real-Time PCR Regina Schuhegger, Marion Lindermayer, Rudolf Kugler, Jürgen Heesemann, Ulrich Busch, and Andreas Sing PMCID: PMC2519500 Filtration of Cerebrospinal Fluid Improves Isolation of Mycobacteria P. Kumar, M. V. P. Srivatsava, S. Singh, and H. K. Prasad PMCID: PMC2519457 Lack of Evidence for “Acinetobacter septicus” as a Species Different from Acinetobacter ursingii? Alexandr Nemec, Martin Musílek, Mario Vaneechoute, Enevold Falsen, and Lenie Dijkshoorn PMCID: PMC2519480 Volume of Blood Cultured and APACHE II Score: an Intriguing Diptych for Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections? Theodoros N. Sergentanis and Anargiros Mariolis PMCID: PMC2519478 |
