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Journal of Medical Microbiology — Volume 58, Issue 3

17 articles in this issue

The frequency of molecular detection of virulence genes encoding cytolysin A, high-pathogenicity island and cytolethal distending toxin of Escherichia coli in cases of sudden infant death syndrome does not differ from that in other infant deaths and healthy infants

Highet, Amanda R., Berry, Anne M., Bettelheim, Karl A., Goldwater, Paul N.

p. 285 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.005322-0

PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE

A URA3 null mutant of Candida albicans (CAI-4) causes oro-oesophageal and gastric candidiasis and is lethal for gnotobiotic, transgenic mice (Tgϵ26) that are deficient in both natural killer and T cells

Edward Balish

p. 290–295 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.004846-0

Evaluation of sequential multiplex PCR for direct detection of multiple serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae from nasopharyngeal secretions

Antonio, Martin, Hakeem, Ishrat, Sankareh, Kawsu, Cheung, Yin Bun, Adegbola, Richard A.

p. 296 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.006031-0

Assignment of the group A rotavirus NSP4 gene into genotypes using a hemi-nested multiplex PCR assay: a rapid and reproducible assay for strain surveillance studies

Banyai, Krisztian, Bogdan, Agnes, Szucs, Gyorgy, Arista, Serenella, De Grazia, Simona, Kang, Gagandeep, Banerjee, Indrani, Iturriza-Gomara, Miren et al.

p. 303 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.005124-0

Application of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 BED enzyme immunoassay on dried blood spots in India

Lakshmi, Vemu, Sudha, Talasila, Dandona, Rakhi, Teja, Vijay D., Kumar, G. Anil, Dandona, Lalit

p. 312 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.005249-0

Characterization of the charge variants of L2 {beta}-lactamase in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Hu, Rouh-Mei, Chiang, Kai-Hung, Chang, Yi-Chih, Yang, Tsuey-Ching

p. 318 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.000380-0

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Effect of free versus liposomal-complexed pentamidine isethionate on biological characteristics of Acanthamoeba castellanii in vitro

Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Abdul Syed, Salvador Tomas, Jose Prieto-Garcia, Naveed Ahmed Khan

p. 327–330 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.006494-0

Cell-wall thickness: possible mechanism of acriflavine resistance in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Kawai, Mako, Yamada, Sakuo, Ishidoshiro, Ai, Oyamada, Yoshihiro, Ito, Hideaki, Yamagishi, Jun-ichi

p. 331 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.004184-0

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Peruvian Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains possess a distinct region in the Vibrio seventh pandemic island-II that differentiates them from the prototype seventh pandemic El Tor strains

Nusrin, Suraia, Gil, Ana I., Bhuiyan, N. A., Safa, Ashrafus, Asakura, Masahiro, Lanata, Claudio F., Hall, E., Miranda, H. et al.

p. 342 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.005397-0

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Comparative evaluation of three commercial Toxoplasma-specific IgG antibody avidity tests and significance in different clinical settings

Bobic, Branko, Klun, Ivana, Vujanic, Marija, Nikolic, Aleksandra, Ivovic, Vladimir, Zivkovic, Tijana, Djurkovic-Djakovic, Olgica

p. 358 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.006668-0

Comparison of the performance of the rapid antigen detection actim Influenza A&B test and RT-PCR in different respiratory specimens

Ghebremedhin, B., Engelmann, I., Konig, W., Konig, B.

p. 365 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.004358-0

CASE REPORTS

Olecranon bursitis secondary to Mycobacterium kansasii infection in a patient receiving infliximab for Behçet's disease

Joanne Malkin, Anna Shrimpton, Martin Wiselka, Michael R. Barer, Michael Duddridge, Nelun Perera

p. 371–373 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.006809-0

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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Aspergillus lentulus and Aspergillus fumigatus isolates in a patient with probable invasive aspergillosis

Graciela Montenegro, Silvia Sánchez Puch, Virginia M. Jewtuchowicz, Maria V. Pinoni, Silvia Relloso, Elena Temporitti, Cristina A. Iovannitti, Maria T. Mujica

p. 391–395 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.005942-0