Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 42 - August 15, 2005

Outstanding

Brachyspira research – special issue on colonic spirochaetes of medical and veterinary significance

Extensive intestinal spirochaetosis in pigs challenged with Brachyspira pilosicoli

Biochemical properties of membrane-associated proteases of Brachyspira pilosicoli isolated from humans with intestinal disorders

Analysis of genetic variation in Brachyspira aalborgi and related spirochaetes determined by partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA and NADH oxidase genes

Case reports

Cyclosporiasis associated with diarrhoea in an immunocompetent patient in Turkey

Enterococcus durans endocarditis in a patient with transposition of the great vessels

Editorial

Brachyspira research – special issue on colonic spirochaetes of medical and veterinary significance

FOCUS ON SPIROCHAETES

Differences in lymphocyte subpopulations and cell counts before and after experimentally induced swine dysentery

Experimental swine dysentery: comparison between infection models

Further characterization of porcine Brachyspira hyodysenteriae isolates with decreased susceptibility to tiamulin

Decreased susceptibility to tiamulin and valnemulin among Czech isolates of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae

Brachyspira hyodysenteriae and other strongly ß-haemolytic and indole-positive spirochaetes isolated from mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)

Immunomagnetic separation of the intestinal spirochaetes Brachyspira pilosicoli and Brachyspira hyodysenteriae from porcine faeces

Extensive intestinal spirochaetosis in pigs challenged with Brachyspira pilosicoli

Brachyspira pilosicoli colonization in experimentally infected mice can be facilitated by dietary manipulation

Biochemical properties of membrane-associated proteases of Brachyspira pilosicoli isolated from humans with intestinal disorders

Prevalence, risk factors and molecular epidemiology of Brachyspira pilosicoli in humans on the island of Bali, Indonesia

Analysis of genetic variation in Brachyspira aalborgi and related spirochaetes determined by partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA and NADH oxidase genes

Demonstration of Brachyspira aalborgi lineages 2 and 3 in human colonic biopsies with intestinal spirochaetosis by specific fluorescent in situ hybridization

Identification of three clusters of canine intestinal spirochaetes by biochemical and 16S rDNA sequence analysis