Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 2 - Number: 9 - August 15, 2002

Outstanding

Characterization of Enteropathogenic and Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Isolated from Diarrheal Outbreaks

Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Detection of Amantadine-Resistant Influenza A Virus Strains in Nursing Homes by PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis with Nasopharyngeal Swabs

Prevalence of Antibodies to Hepatitis E Virus in Veterinarians Working with Swine and in Normal Blood Donors in the United States and Other Countries

Bacteriology

Evaluation of a Strand Displacement Amplification Assay (BD ProbeTec-SDA) for Detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Urine Specimens

Reaction Difference Rule for Phage Typing of Staphylococcus aureus at 100 Times the Routine Test Dilution

Characterization of Enteropathogenic and Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Isolated from Diarrheal Outbreaks

Association of cagA and vacA Genotypes of Helicobacter pylori with Gastric Diseases in Estonia

Antibiotic-Resistant Cell-Detaching Escherichia coli Strains from Nigerian Children

Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology

Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis by Isothermal Ramification Amplification Method: a Feasibility Study

Epidemiology

Change of Major Genotype of Enterovirus 71 in Outbreaks of Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Taiwan between 1998 and 2000

Emergence of Penicillin-Nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae Invasive Clones in Canada

Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes

Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Parasitology

Development and Validation of a PCR-Based Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay with Urine for Use in Clinical Research Settings To Detect Trichomonas vaginalis in Women

Evaluation of the OptiMAL Rapid Antigen Test and Species-Specific PCR To Detect Placental Plasmodium falciparum Infection at Delivery

Diagnosis of Placental Malaria

Primary Meningoencephalitis by Naegleria fowleri: First Reported Case from Mangalore, South India

Virology

Detection of Measles Virus-Specific Immunoglobulin M in Dried Venous Blood Samples by Using a Commercial Enzyme Immunoassay

Precore Stop Mutant in HBeAg-Positive Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B: Clinical Characteristics and Correlation with the Course of HBeAg-to-Anti-HBe Seroconversion

Clinical and Virological Aspects of Blood Donors Infected with Hepatitis B Virus Genotypes B and C

Comparative Analysis of Two Commercial Phenotypic Assays for Drug Susceptibility Testing of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

Immune Reactivity of Human Sera to the Glycoprotein B of Human Herpesvirus 7

Antigenic Heterogeneity of the Hepatitis C Virus NS5A Protein

Detection of Amantadine-Resistant Influenza A Virus Strains in Nursing Homes by PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis with Nasopharyngeal Swabs

Simultaneous Detection of Measles Virus, Rubella Virus, and Parvovirus B19 by Using Multiplex PCR

Prevalence of Antibodies to Hepatitis E Virus in Veterinarians Working with Swine and in Normal Blood Donors in the United States and Other Countries

Molecular Epidemiology of Astrovirus Infection in Barcelona, Spain

Molecular Identification of Enterovirus by Analyzing a Partial VP1 Genomic Region with Different Methods