Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 7 - Number: 60 - February 15, 2007

Outstanding

Etiologic Diagnosis of Adult Bacterial Pneumonia by Culture and PCR Applied to Respiratory Tract Samples

Extensive Hospital-Wide Spread of a Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacter cloacae Clone, with Late Detection Due to a Variable Antibiogram and Frequent Patient Transfer

Interpretive Breakpoints for Fluconazole and Candida Revisited: a Blueprint for the Future of Antifungal Susceptibility Testing

Evaluation of the New GenoType Mycobacterium Assay for Identification of Mycobacterial Species

Bacteriology

Etiologic Diagnosis of Adult Bacterial Pneumonia by Culture and PCR Applied to Respiratory Tract Samples

High Interlaboratory Reproducibility of DNA Sequence-Based Typing of Bacteria in a Multicenter Study

Influence of Anti-FloR Antibody on Florfenicol Accumulation in Florfenicol-Resistant Escherichia coli and Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Detection of Florfenicol-Resistant E. coli Isolates

Locus-Specific Mutational Events in a Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis of Escherichia coli O157:H7

Nasopharyngeal versus Oropharyngeal Sampling for Isolation of Potential Respiratory Pathogens in Adults

Case report

Group O Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection That Escaped Detection in Two Immmunoassays

Chlamydiology and rickettsiology

High Analytical Sensitivity and Low Rates of Inhibition May Contribute to Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in Significantly More Women by the APTIMA Combo 2 Assay

Epidemiology

Extensive Hospital-Wide Spread of a Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacter cloacae Clone, with Late Detection Due to a Variable Antibiogram and Frequent Patient Transfer

Identification of Cpgp40/15 Type Ib as the Predominant Allele in Isolates of Cryptosporidium spp. from a Waterborne Outbreak of Gastroenteritis in South Burgundy, France

Micology

Molecular Identification of Zygomycetes from Culture and Experimentally Infected Tissues

Mycobacteriology and aerobic actinomycetes

Evaluation of the New GenoType Mycobacterium Assay for Identification of Mycobacterial Species

False-Positive Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test Results for Samples Containing Mycobacterium leprae

Parasitology

Molecular Epidemiology of Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis in French Guiana

Multilocus Genotyping of Cryptosporidium sp. Isolates from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Individuals in South India

Multilocus Microsatellite Typing as a New Tool for Discrimination of Leishmania infantum MON-1 Strains

Reviews

Interpretive Breakpoints for Fluconazole and Candida Revisited: a Blueprint for the Future of Antifungal Susceptibility Testing

Laboratory Diagnostics of Botulism

Melaleuca alternifolia (Tea Tree) Oil: a Review of Antimicrobial and Other Medicinal Properties

Microbial Adhesion in Flow Displacement Systems

Molecular Mimicry, Bystander Activation, or Viral Persistence: Infections and Autoimmune Disease

Virology

Evaluation of the Invader Assay for Genotyping Hepatitis C Virus

Genotyping Measles Virus by Real-Time Amplification Refractory Mutation System PCR Represents a Rapid Approach for Measles Outbreak Investigations

Molecular Analysis of an Echovirus 3 Strain Isolated from an Individual Concurrently with Appearance of Islet Cell and IA-2 Autoantibodies