Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 41 - July 15, 2005

Outstanding

Genetic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus from intravenous drug user lesions

Immunological detection and cytotoxic properties of toxins from toxin A-positive, toxin B-positive Clostridium difficile variants

Characterization of elongated Helicobacter pylori isolated from a patient with gastric-mucosa-associated lymphoid-tissue lymphoma

Relationship between penicillin-binding protein patterns and ß-lactamases in clinical isolates of Bacteroides fragilis with different susceptibility to ß-lactam antibiotics

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Relationship between penicillin-binding protein patterns and ß-lactamases in clinical isolates of Bacteroides fragilis with different susceptibility to ß-lactam antibiotics

Clinical microbiology and virology

Prevalence of childhood diarrhoea-associated Escherichia coli in Thailand

Capnocytophaga canimorsus endocarditis

DIAGNOSTICS, TYPING AND IDENTIFICATION

Laboratory diagnosis of legionnaires’ disease due to Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1: comparison of phenotypic and genotypic methods

Autolysin-targeted LightCycler assay including internal process control for detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae DNA in clinical samples

Immunological detection and cytotoxic properties of toxins from toxin A-positive, toxin B-positive Clostridium difficile variants

Characterization of elongated Helicobacter pylori isolated from a patient with gastric-mucosa-associated lymphoid-tissue lymphoma

Epidemiology

Genetic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus from intravenous drug user lesions

Biotypes of group A streptococci isolated from children

cagA genotype and variants in Chinese Helicobacter pylori strains and relationship to gastroduodenal diseases

Genes and genomes

PsfR, a factor that stimulates psbAI expression in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

MODELS OF INFECTION

Colonization of the neonatal rat intestinal tract from environmental exposure to the anaerobic bacterium Oxalobacter formigenes

PATHOGENICTY AND VIRULENCE

Production of melanin by Aspergillus fumigatus

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY

Bile-salt-mediated induction of antimicrobial and bile resistance in Salmonella typhimurium

Expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoS is controlled by quorum sensing and RpoS

The MspA porin promotes growth and increases antibiotic susceptibility of both Mycobacterium bovis BCG and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Identification and cloning of the gene encoding BmpC: an outer-membrane lipoprotein associated with Brachyspira pilosicoli membrane vesicles

Low-proline environments impair growth, proline transport and in vivo survival of Staphylococcus aureus strain-specific putP mutants

Flagella and curli fimbriae are important for the growth of Salmonella enterica serovars in hen eggs

A DNA adenine methylase mutant of Shigella flexneri shows no significant attenuation of virulence

The role of the Shigella flexneri yihE gene in LPS synthesis and virulence

Physiology

TCA cycle activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a function of the environmentally determined specific growth and glucose uptake rates

Polyol accumulation by Aspergillus oryzae at low water activity in solid-state fermentation

Effect of pyruvate kinase overproduction on glucose metabolism of Lactococcus lactis

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Coronamycins, peptide antibiotics produced by a verticillate Streptomyces sp. (MSU-2110) endophytic on Monstera sp.