Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 7 - Number: 63 - May 15, 2007

Outstanding

Use of the espZ Gene Encoded in the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement for Molecular Typing of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli

Validation of a Multiplex Pneumococcal Serotyping Assay with Clinical Samples

Innate immunity and the pneumococcus

To have neighbour\'s fare: extending the molecular toolbox for Streptococcus pneumoniae

Bacteriology

Use of the espZ Gene Encoded in the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement for Molecular Typing of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli

Validation of a Multiplex Pneumococcal Serotyping Assay with Clinical Samples

Biochemistry and molecular biology

The DNA-binding domain of the Escherichia coli CpxR two-component response regulator is constitutively active and cannot be fully attenuated by fused adjacent heterologous regulatory domains

The Sinorhizobium meliloti chromosomal origin of replication

Production and properties of the native Chromobacterium violaceum fucose-binding lectin (CV-IIL) compared to homologous lectins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA-IIL) and Ralstonia solanacearum (RS-IIL)

SoxV transfers electrons to the periplasm of Paracoccus pantotrophus – an essential reaction for chemotrophic sulfur oxidation

Functional analysis of the competence transcription factor ComK of Bacillus subtilis by characterization of truncation variants

Regulation of Serratia marcescens ompF and ompC porin genes in response to osmotic stress, salicylate, temperature and pH

The serine/threonine kinase PknB of Mycobacterium tuberculosis phosphorylates PBPA, a penicillin-binding protein required for cell division

Biodiversity and evolution

Metagenomic analysis of mesopelagic Antarctic plankton reveals a novel deltaproteobacterial group

Environmental microbiology

Biofilm formation in Campylobacter jejuni

Putative glycogen-accumulating organisms belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria identified through rRNA-based stable isotope probing

Molecular biology of the pneumococcus

The pneumococcus: ‘old man\'s friend’ and children\'s foe

Molecular biology of the pneumococcus

Innate immunity and the pneumococcus

Versatility of pneumococcal surface proteins

Differential expression of key pneumococcal virulence genes in vivo

Zinc metalloproteinase genes in clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae: association of the full array with a clonal cluster comprising serotypes 8 and 11A

Inhibition of competence development in Streptococcus pneumoniae by increased basal-level expression of the ComDE two-component regulatory system

LuxS impacts on LytA-dependent autolysis and on competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Construction and evaluation of a chromosomal expression platform (CEP) for ectopic, maltose-driven gene expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae

To have neighbour\'s fare: extending the molecular toolbox for Streptococcus pneumoniae

Distribution of epidemic antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal clones in Scottish pneumococcal isolates analysed by multilocus sequence typing

Identification, prevalence and population structure of non-typable Streptococcus pneumoniae in carriage samples isolated from preschoolers attending day-care centres

Dynamics of pneumococcal colonization in healthy Dutch children

Parasitology

Use of PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis To Identify the Main New World Leishmania Species and Analyze Their Taxonomic Properties and Polymorphism by Application of the Assay to Clinical Samples