Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 4 - Number: 25 - February 15, 2004

Outstanding

Clinical Utility of Urinary Antigen Detection for Diagnosis of Community-Acquired, Travel-Associated, and Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease

Direct Identification of Staphylococcus aureus from Positive Blood Culture Bottles

Diversity of Bacterial Populations on the Tongue Dorsa of Patients with Halitosis and Healthy Patients

Clostridium difficile Testing: after 20 Years, Still Challenging

Bacteriology

Analysis of a Viridans Group Strain Reveals a Case of Bacteremia Due to Lancefield Group G Alpha-Hemolytic Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis in a Patient with Pyomyositis and Reactive Arthritis

Bartonella Strains from Ground Squirrels Are Identical to Bartonella washoensis Isolated from a Human Patient

Characterization of Some Actinomyces-Like Isolates from Human Clinical Sources: Description of Varibaculum cambriensis gen. nov., sp. nov.

Clinical Utility of Urinary Antigen Detection for Diagnosis of Community-Acquired, Travel-Associated, and Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease

Clonal Diversity among Streptogramin A-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Collected in French Hospitals

Comparison of a New Quantitative ompA-Based Real-Time PCR TaqMan Assay for Detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA in Respiratory Specimens with Four Conventional PCR Assays

Detection of Helicobacter pylori in Paraffin-Embedded and in Shock-Frozen Gastric Biopsy Samples by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization

Development of a 5' Fluorogenic Nuclease-Based Real-Time PCR Assay for Quantitative Detection of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and Porphyromonas gingivalis

Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Method for Analysis of Listeria monocytogenes Clones

Direct Identification of Staphylococcus aureus from Positive Blood Culture Bottles

Diversity of Bacterial Populations on the Tongue Dorsa of Patients with Halitosis and Healthy Patients

Evaluation of Four Commercially Available Rapid Serologic Tests for Diagnosis of Leptospirosis

Evaluation of Semiautomated Multiplex PCR Assay for Determination of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotypes and Serogroups

Evaluation of the Specificities of Five DNA Amplification Methods for the Detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology

Comparison of PCR Assays for Detection of the Agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Epidemiology

Candida tropicalis in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Epidemiologic and Molecular Analysis of an Outbreak of Infection with an Uncommon Neonatal Pathogen

Comparative Analysis of Multidrug-Resistant, Non-Multidrug-Resistant, and Archaic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Central Sydney, Australia

Micology

AFLMP1 Encodes an Antigenic Cell Wall Protein in Aspergillus flavus

Apophysomyces elegans: an Emerging Zygomycete in India

Catheter-Related Sepsis Due to Rhodotorula glutinis

Clonal Reproduction and Limited Dispersal in an Environmental Population of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii Isolates from Australia

Highly Polymorphic Microsatellite for Identification of Candida albicans Strains

Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes

Analysis of an IS2404-Based Nested PCR for Diagnosis of Buruli Ulcer Disease in Regions of Ghana Where the Disease Is Endemic

Parasitology

Evaluation of Three Commercial Assays for Detection of Giardia and Cryptosporidium Organisms in Fecal Specimens

Reviews

Clostridium difficile Testing: after 20 Years, Still Challenging

Virology

Diagnosing Herpesvirus Infections by Real-Time Amplification and Rapid Culture

Diagnosis of Enterovirus Infection by Genus-Specific PCR and Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays

Evaluation of Neuraminidase Enzyme Assays Using Different Substrates To Measure Susceptibility of Influenza Virus Clinical Isolates to Neuraminidase Inhibitors: Report of the Neuraminidase Inhibitor Susceptibility Network

Genetic Analysis of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Russia