Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 36 - January 15, 2005

Outstanding

What makes resistance to methicillin heterogeneous?

Klebsiella pneumoniae MrkD-mediated biofilm formation on extracellular matrix- and collagen-coated surfaces

Identification and evaluation of LPS antigen for serodiagnosis of uveitis associated with leptospirosis

Ultrastructural observation of Helicobacter pylori in glucose-supplemented culture media

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

Fitness cost of fluoroquinolone resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

Case report

Aeromonas veronii biovar veronii septicaemia and acute suppurative cholangitis in a patient with hepatitis B

Clinical microbiology and virology

Chronic Chlamydophila pneumoniae infection in lung cancer, a risk factor: a case–control study

Diagnostic, typing and identification

Detection and genotyping by real-time PCR/RFLP analyses of Giardia duodenalis from human faeces

Development of broad-range 16S rDNA PCR for use in the routine diagnostic clinical microbiology service

Genetic relatedness of Candida strains isolated from women with vaginal candidiasis in Malaysia

Identification and evaluation of LPS antigen for serodiagnosis of uveitis associated with leptospirosis

Outer-membrane-protein subtypes of Haemophilus influenzae isolates from North India

Ultrastructural observation of Helicobacter pylori in glucose-supplemented culture media

Environmental microbiology

What makes resistance to methicillin heterogeneous?

Epidemiology

Description and clinical treatment of an early outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangzhou, PR China

Prevalent PCR ribotypes of clinical and environmental strains of Clostridium difficile isolated from intensive-therapy unit patients in Kuwait

Genes and genomes

Gene expression level influences amino acid usage, but not codon usage, in the tsetse fly endosymbiont Wigglesworthia

N-Acetylglucosamine-inducible CaGAP1 encodes a general amino acid permease which co-ordinates external nitrogen source response and morphogenesis in Candida albicans

Host response

Reassessment of the microbicidal activity of reactive oxygen species and hypochlorous acid with reference to the phagocytic vacuole of the neutrophil granulocyte

Pathogenicity and virulence

Binding of Candida albicans enolase to plasmin(ogen) results in enhanced invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells

Providencia alcalifaciens strains translocate from the gastrointestinal tract and are resistant to lytic activity of serum complement

Reduced expression of the hyphal-independent Candida albicans proteinase genes SAP1 and SAP3 in the efg1 mutant is associated with attenuated virulence during infection of oral epithelium

The Yersinia high-pathogenicity island and iron-uptake systems in clinical isolates of Escherichia coli

Pathogens and pathogenicity

The roles of SsrA–SsrB and OmpR–EnvZ in the regulation of genes encoding the Salmonella typhimurium SPI-2 type III secretion system

Klebsiella pneumoniae MrkD-mediated biofilm formation on extracellular matrix- and collagen-coated surfaces

Human microvascular endothelial cells resist Shiga toxins by IFN- treatment in vitro

Dissection of homologous translocon operons reveals a distinct role for YopD in type III secretion by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Iron deficiency leads to inhibition of oxygen transfer and enhanced formation of virulence factors in cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

A major catalase (KatB) that is required for resistance to H2O2 and phagocyte-mediated killing in Edwardsiella tarda

Effect of enzyme I of the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate : sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) on virulence in a murine model

Physiology

Amylase-binding proteins A (AbpA) and B (AbpB) differentially affect colonization of rats' teeth by Streptococcus gordonii

Aer and Tsr guide Escherichia coli in spatial gradients of oxidizable substrates

Investigation by 13C-NMR and tricarboxylic acid (TCA) deletion mutant analysis of pathways for succinate formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during anaerobic fermentation

Marinomonas mediterranea is a lysogenic bacterium that synthesizes R-bodies

Plant-microbe interactions

Glucose and trehalose PTS permeases of Spiroplasma citri probably share a single IIA domain, enabling the spiroplasma to adapt quickly to carbohydrate changes in its environment

Review

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): breath-taking progress