Volume 11, Number 8—August 2005

Since 1999, >16,000 cases in the United Stateswere transmitted by Culex mosquitoes.

Laboratory exposures to brucellae indicate unfamiliarity with organism.

Worldwide emergence of variant viruses has prompted a change in the 2005–2006 H3N2 influenza A vaccine strain.

Increasingly resistant bacteria in sickle cell disease patients indicate need to evaluate extendedspectrum cephalosporin therapy.

Increasingly resistant bacteria in sickle cell disease patients indicate need to evaluate extendedspectrum cephalosporin therapy.

Annual trends showed a significant increase in the proportion of MRSA among adult but not among pediatric patients.

Multispacer sequence typing is the first reliable method for typing Coxiella burnetii isolates.

Acinetobacter osteomyelitis appears suppressed with extended antimicrobial drug therapy based on susceptibility patterns.

Coronavirus NL63 was found in hospitalized children with upper and lower respiratory infections.

Non-B HIV-1 was consistent with patients’ area of origin.

Within each of 4 outbreaks of S. Typhimurium among humans and animals at companion animal care facilities, isolates were identical or nearly identical.

Speed of spoligotyping could be a benefit in the clinical setting.

Contact network epidemiology can provide quantitative input even before pathogen is fully characterized.

An estimated 4.0–6.9 million episodes of foodborne gastroenteritis occur in Australia each year.

Optimal point to switch to more expensive drug depends on prevalence of drug resistance and

disease in the population.