JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

volume 37 , No. 3 , March 1999

BACTERIOLOGY

Associations between Virulence Factors of Shiga Toxin- Patrick Boerlin, Scott A. McEwen, 497-503 ,
Producing Escherichia coti and Disease in Humans Franziska BoerIm-Petzold, Jeffrey B.
Wilson, Roger P. Johnson, and
Cariton L. Gyles

Dissemination of Two Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Po-Ren Hsueh, Lee-Jene Teng, 504-509
aureus Clones Exhibiting Negative Staphylase Reactions in Pan-Chyr Yang, Hui-Ju Pan, Yu-Chi
Intensive Care Units Chen, Li-Hua Wang, Shen-Wu Ho, l
and Kwen-Tay Luh

Identification of the EnteropathogensCampylobacterjejuni Michael E.Konkel,Sean A. Gray, 510-517
and Campylobacter coli Based on the cadF Virulence Gene Bong J. Kim, Steven G. Garvis, and
and Its Product Julie Yoon

Comparative Analysis and Serovar-Specific Identification of Fanrong Kong, Xuejun Zhu, 538-543
Multiple-Banded Antigen Genes of Ureaplasma urealyticum Weizhen Wang, Xiangzhao Zhou,
Biovar I Susanna Gordon, and Gwendolyn L.
Gilbert

Comparison ofAgar Dilution, Disk Diffusion, MicroScan, Christine D. Steward, Sheila A. 544-547
and Vitek Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methods to Stocker, Jana M. Swenson, Caroline
Broth Microdilution for Detection of Fluoroquinolone- M. O'Hara, Jonathan R. Edwards,
Resistant Isolates of the Family Enterobacteriaceae Robert P. Gaynes, John E.
McGowan, Jr., and Fred C. Tenover

The Borrelia burgdorferi 37-Kilodalton Immunoblot Band Robert D. Gilmore, Jr., Rendi L. 548-552
(P37) Used in Serodiagnosis of Early Lyme Disease Is the Murphree, Angela M. James, Sarah
flaA Gene Product A. Sullivan, and Barbara J. B.
Johnson

Measurement of Urinary Lactoferrin as a Marker of Shinsuke Arao, Shiro Matsuura, 553-557
Urinary Tract Infection Mitsuo Nonomura, Kanji Miki,
Keigo Kabasawa, and Hisao
Nakanishi

Genetic Diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi in Lyme Disease Dionysios Liveris, Shobha Varde, 565-569
Patients as Determined by Culture versus Direct PCR with Radha lyer, Seth Koenig, Susan
Clinical Specimens Bittker, Denise Cooper, Donna
McKenna, John Nowakowski,
Robert B. Nadelman, Gary P.
Wormser, and Ira Schwartz

Rapid Identification and Typing of Staphylococcus aureus by Javier Yuglieros Marcos, Alberto 570-574
PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis Gascon Soriano, Maria Sanchez
of the aroA Gene Salazar, Carmen Hernanz Moral,
Susana Suarez Ramos, Mark S.
Smeltzer, and German Naharro
Cairasco

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Vibrio Pilar Beltran, Gabriela Delgado, 581-590
cholerae Armando Navarro, Francisca
Trujillo, Robert K. Selander, and
Alejandro Cravioto

Nested Duplex PCR To Detect Bordetella pertussis and D. J. Farrell, G. Daggard, and 606-610
Bordetella parapertussis and Its Application in Diagnosis of T. K. S. Mukklir
Pertussis in Nonmetropolitan Southeast Queensland,
Australia

Improved Silica-Guanidiniurnthiocyanate DNA Isolation René Boom, Cees Sol, Marcel Beld, 615-619
Procédure Based on Sélective Binding of Bovine Alpha- Jan Weel, Jaap Goudsmit, and
Casein to Silica Particles Pauline Wertheim-van Dillen
Application of pbplA PCR in Identification of Penicillin- Mignon du Plessis, Anthony M. 628-632
Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Smith, and Keith P. Klugman

Pneumolysin PCR-Based Diagnosis of Invasive Pia Toikka, Simo Nikkari, Olli 633-637
Pneumococcal Infection in Children Ruuskanen, Maija Leinonen, and
Jussi Mertsola

Rapid Detection of Epidemic Strains of Methicillin- Thomas A. Wichelhaus, Sylvia Kern, 690-693
Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Volker Schafer, and Volker Brade

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Aeromonasjandaei, Timothy L. Overman and J. Michael 706-708
A. schubertii, A. trota, and A. veronii Biotype veronii Janda

Usefulness of PCR and Antigen Latex Agglutination Test Amparo Garcfa, Beatriz Roson, 709-714
with Samples Obtained by Transthoracic Needle Aspiration José Luis Pérez, Ricard Verdaguer,
for Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia Jordi Dorca, Jordi Carratala,
Aurora Casanova, Frederic
Manresa, and Francesc Gudiol

Lactobacillus Species Identification, H2O2 Production, and Annie Felten, Claude Barreau, 729-733
Antibiotic Resistance and Correlation with Human Clinical Chantai Bizet, Philippe Henri
Status Lagrange, and Alain Philippon

Cholera in Vietnam: Changes in Genotypes and Emergence A. Dalsgaard, A. Forslund, N. V. 734-741
of Class l Intégrons Containing Aminoglycoside Resistance Tarn, D. X. Vinh, and P. D. Cam
Gene Cassettes in Vibrio cholerae 01 Strains Isolated from
1979 to 1996

Evaluation of Two Commercial Kits and Arbitrarily Primed Bagak Dogan, Sirkka Asikainen, and 742-747
PCR for Identification and Differentiation of Actinobacillus Hannele Jousimies-Somer
actinomyceterncomitans, Haemophilus aphrophilus, and
Haemophilus paraphrophilus

Impact of Microbiology Practice on Cumulative Prevalence Michael R. Shreve, Steven Butler, 753-757
of Respiratory Tract Bacteria in Patients with Cystic Haley J. Kaplowitz, Harvey R.
Fibrosis Rabin, Dennis Stokes, Michael
Light, and Warren E. Regelmann

Comparison of CHROMagar Salmonella Medium and Olivier Caillot, Patrick Di Camillo, 762-765
Hektoen Enteric Agar for Isolation of Salmonellae from Patrick Berche, René Courcol, and
Stool Samples Colette Savage

ABC Medium, a New Chromogenic Agar for Selective John D. Perry, Michael Ford, Jeffrey 766-768
Isolation of Salmonella spp. Taylor, Amanda L. Jones, Roger
Freeman, and Frances K. Gould

Isolation ofAbiotrophia adiacens from a Brain Abscess C. Biermann, G. Fries, P. Jehmchen, 769-771
Which Developed in a Patient after Neurosurgery S. Bhakdi, and M. Husmann

Comparison of Five PCR Methods for Detection of Jang-Jih Lu, Cherng-Lih Perng, 772-774
Helicobacter pylori DNA in Gastric Tissues Rong-Yaun Shyu, Chi-Hsiang Chen,
Oinyuan Lou, Sonny K. F. Chong,
and Chao-Hung Lee

Clonal Diversity of Chilean Isolates of Enterohemorrhagic Maritza Rios, Valeria Prado, 778-781
Escherichia coli from Patients with Hemolytic-Uremic Michéle Trucksis, Carolina
Syndrome, Asymptomatic Subjects, Animal Reservoirs, and Arellano, Consuelo Borie, Marcela
Food Products Alexandre, Alberto Fica, and Myron
M, Levine

Isolation of Legionella pneumophila by Centrifugation of Bernard La Scola, Gérard Michel, 785-787
Shell Vial Cell Cultures from Multiple Liver and Lung and Didier Raoult
Abscesses

Comparison of Simple and Rapid Methods for Identifying Kevan L. Hanson and Charles P. 815-817
Enterococci Intrinsically Resistant to Vancomycin Cartwright

Variation in Structure and Location of VanA Glycopeptide Catherine H. Tremlett, Derek F. J. 818-820
Resistance Elements among Enterococci from a Single Brown, and Neil Woodford
Patient

Unexpected Cross-Reaction with Fusobacterium necrophorum Jorgen Skov Jensen, Brita Bruun, 828-829
in a PCR for Detection of Mycoplasmas and Bente Gahrn-Hansen
Aérobie and Aiiaerobic Microbiology of Surgical-Site Itzhak Brook and Edith II. Frazier 841-843
Infection Following Spinal Fusion

Streptococcus bovis Clone Causing Two Episodes of Kathrin Muhlernann, Slisanne Graf, 862-863
Endocarditis 8 Years Apart and Martin G. Tauber

Identification of Seven Treponema Species in Health- and S. G. Willis, K. S. Smith, V. L. 867-869
Disease-Associated Dental Plaque by Nested PCR Dunn, L. A. Gapter, K. 11. Rivière,
and G. R. Rivière

CHLAMYDIOLOGY AND RICKETTSIOLOGY

Sérologie Testing for Human Granulocytic Ehriichiosis at a James A. Comer, William L. 558-564
National Referrai Center Nicholson, James G. Oison, and
James E. Childs

Rapid Detection of the Chlamydiaceae and Other Families in Karin D. E. Everett, Linda J. 575-580
the Order Chlamydiales: Three PCR Tests Hornung, and Arthur A. Andersen

Head-to-Head Evaluation of Five Chlamydia Tests Relative Wilbert J. Newhall, Robert E. 681-685
to a Quality-Assured Culture Standard Johnson, Susan DeLisle, David
Fine, Alula Hadgu, Bessie Matsuda,
Donna Osmond, Joyce Campbell,
and Waller E. Stamin

MYCOBACTERIOLOGY AND AEROBIC
ACTINOMYCETES

Safe Determination of Susceptibility of Mycobacterium Andréa V. Moore, Scott M. Kirk, 479-483
tuberculosis to Antimycobacterial Agents by Flow Cytometry Steven M. Callister, Gerald Fl.
Mazurek, and Ronald F. Schell

Detection of Viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Reverse T. J. Hellyer, L. E. DesJardin, 518-523
Transcriptase-Strand Displacement Amplification of niRNA L. Teixeira, M. D. Perkins,
M. D. Cave, and K. D. Eisenach

Typing of Clinical Mycobacterium avium Complex Strains Jeanett Bauer, Ase B. Andersen, 600-605
Cultured during a 2-Year Period in Denmark by Using Dorthe Askgaard, Sten B. Giese,
IS1245 and Birger Larsen

Multicenter Evaluation of the BACTEC MGIT 960 System Bruce A. Hanna, Adeleh 748-752
for Recovery of Mycobacteria Ebrahimzadeh, L. Bruce Elliott,
Margie A. Morgan, Susan M.
Novak, Sabine Rusch-Gerdes, Millie
Acio, Denise F. Dunbar, T. Michéle
Holmes, Charles H. Rexer,
Chiminyan Savthyakumar, and Ann
M. Vannier

Assessment of Use of the COBAS AMPLICOR System with B. Ninet, P. Rohner, C. Metral, and 782-784
BACTEC 12B Cultures for Rapid Detection of Frequently R. Auckenthaler
Identified Mycobacteria

The IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism in Alicia Alito, Nora Morcillo, Silvia 788-791
Particular Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Scipioni, Alberto Dolmann, Maria 1.
Strains May Evolve Too Fast for Reliable Use in Outbreak Romano, Angel Cataldi, and
Investigation Dick van Soolingen

Optimal Detection and Identification ^Mycobacterium Zmira Samra, Lea Kaufmann, 832-834
haemophilum in Specimens from Pédiatrie Patients with Avraham Zeharia, Shai Ashkenazi,
Cervical Lymphadenopathy Jacob Amir, Judy Bahar, Udo
Reischi, and Ludmilla Naumann

hsp65 Sequencing for Identification of Rapidly Growing II. Ringuet, C. Akoua-Koffi) 852-857
Mycobacteria S. Honore, A. Varnerot, V. Vincent,
Trends in Antifungal Use and Epidemiology of Nosocomial Yasmina F. Berrouane, Loreen A. 531-537
Yeast Infections in a University Hospital Herwaldt, and Michael A. Pfaller

Multicenter Comparison of the Sensititre YeastOne A. Espinel-ingroff, M. Ffaller, S. A. 591-595
Colorimetric Antifungal Panel with the National Committee Messer, C. C. Knapp, S. Killian,
for Clinical Laboratory Standards M27-A Reference Method H. A. Norris, and M. A. Ghannourn
for Testing Clinical Isolates of Common and Emerging
Candida spp., Cryptococcus spp., and Other Yeasts and
Yeast-Like Organisms

Phylogenetic Relationships of Varieties and Geographical Takao Kasuga, John W. Taylor, and 653-663
Groups of the Human Pathogenic Fungus Histoplasma Thomas J. White
capsulatum Darling

Detection 'of the 70-Kilodalton Histoplasma capsulatum B. L. Gornez, J. 1. Figueroa, A. J. 675-680
Antigen in Serum of Histoplasmosis Patients: Correlation Hamilton, S. Diez, M. Rojas, A.
between Antigenemia and Therapy during Follow-Up Tobon, A. Restrepo, and R. J. Hay

PCR Detection of DNA Specific for Trichosporon Species in Hiroyuki Nagai, Yuriko Yamakami, 694-699
Serum of Patients with Disseminated Trichosporonosis Atsuro Hashimoto, Issei Tokimatsu,
and Masaru Nasu

Genetic Multilocus Studies of Different Strains of S. Bertout, F. Renaud, D. Swinne, 715-720
Cryptococcus neoformansi Taxonomy and Genetic Structure M. Mallie, and J.-M. Bastide

Human Phaeohyphomycotic Osteomyelitis Caused by the Deanna A. Sutton, William D. 807-811
Coelomycete Phomopsis Saccardo 1905: Criteria for Timm, Gareth Morgan-Jones, and
Identification, Case History, and Therapy Michael G. Rinaldi

Comparison of the API Candida System with the Colin K. Campbell, Kate G. Davey, 821-823
AUXACOLOR System for Identification of Common Yeast Ann D. Holmes, Adrien Szekely,
Pathogens and David W. Warnock

Chronic Urinary Tract Infection Due to Candida utilis Kevin C. Hazen, Gordon W. Theisz, 824-^27
and Susan A. Howell

Identification of Contaminating Fungal DNA Sequences in Dagmar Rimek, Amar P. Garg, 830-831
Zymolyase Walter H. Haas, and Reinhard
Kappe

Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii: Separate Varictal Status Sarah P. Franzot, Ira F. Salkin, and 838-840
for Cryptococcus neoformans Serotype A Isolates Arturo Casadevall

Comparative Study of Susceptibilities of Germinated and Elias K. Manavathu, Jessica 858-861
Ungerminated Conidia otAspergillusfumigatus to Various Cutright, and Pranatharthi H.
Antifungal Agents Chandrasekar

Evaluation of the Fungitest Kit by Using Strains from F. Witthuhn, D. Toubas, l. Béguinot, 864-866
Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients: Study of D. Aubert, C. Rouger, G. Remy,
Azoic Drug Susceptibility and J. M. Pinon

In Vitro Susceptibilities of Candida dubliniensis Isolates M. A. Pfaller, S. A. Messer, S. Gee, 870-872
Tested against the New Triazole and Echinocandin S. Joly, C. Pujol, D. J. Sullivan,
Antifungal Agents D. C. Coleman, and D. R. Soil

PARASITOLOGY


TechLab and Alexon Giardia Enzyme-Linked James H. Boone, Tracy D. Wilkins, 611-614
Immunosorbent Assay Kits Detect Cyst Wall Protein I Theodore E. Nash, Jill E. Brandon,
Elizabeth A. Macias, Robert C.
Jerris, and David M. Lyerly

In Vitro Culture and Drug Sensitivity Assay of Plasmodium Pascal Ringwald, Fleurette Solange 700-705
falciparum with Nonserum Substitute and Acute-Phase Sera Mèche, Jean Bickii, and Leonardo
K. Basco

Sensitivity and Specificity of Dipstick Tests for Rapid T. Jelinek, M. P. Grobusch, S. 721-723
Diagnosis of Malaria in Nonimmune Travelers Schwenke, S. Steidi, F. von
Justification for Use of a Single Trichrome Stain as the Sole James A. Kellogg and Carol J. 835-837
Means for Routine Detection of Intestinal Parasites in Elder
Concentrated Stool Specimens

VIROLOGY

Prospective Comparison of Whole-Blood- and Plasma-Based Jack T. Stapleton, Donna Klinzman, 484-489
Hepatitis C Virus RNA Detection Systems: Improved Warren N. Schmidt, Michael A.
Detection Using Whole Blood as the Source of Viral RNA Pfaller, Ping Wu, Douglas R.
LaBrecque, Jian-Qiu Han, Mary
Jeanne Perino Phillips, Robert
Woolson, and Beth Alden

Detection and Quantitation of Human Papillomavirus by Agnetha Josefsson, Ken Livak, and 490-496
Using the Fluorescent 5' Exonuclease Assay Ulf Gyllensten

Improved Detection of Rhinoviruses in Clinical Samples by Arno C. Andeweg, Théo M. 524-530
Using a Newly Developed Nested Reverse Transcription-PCR Bestebroer, Martijn Huybreghs,
Assay Tjeerd G. Kimman, and Jan C.
de Jong


Laboratory Diagnosis of Toscana Virus Infection by Enzyme Dario Soldateschi, Grazia Maria Dal 649-652
Immunoassay with Recombinant Viral Nucleoprotein Maso, Marcello Valassina, Laura
Santini, Silvia Bianchi, and Maria
Grazia Clisi

PCR Detection of Adenovirus in a Bone Marrow Transplant Marcela S. Echavarria, Stuart C. 686-689
Recipient: Hemorrhagic Cystitis as a Presenting Ray, Richard Ambinder, J. Stephen
Manifestation of Disseminated Disease Dumler, and Patricia Charache

Dual Qualitative-Quantitative Nested PCR for Detection of Darfo Garcfa de Viedma, Roberto 724-728
JC Virus in Cerebrospinal Fluid: High Potential for Creixems, and Ernilio Bouza
Active Antiretroviral Therapy

Case Report and Molecular Analysis of Subacute Sclerosing Eftyhia Vardas, P. M. Leary, Jane 775-777
Panencephalitis in a South African Child Yeats, Waseila Badiodien, and
Stephanie Kreis

Evaluation of the Ultrasensitive Roche Amplicor HIV-l Maria Erali and David R. Hillyard 792-795
Monitor Assay for Quantitation of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Type I RNA

Comparative Evaluation of First- and Second-Generation Mario Poljak, Anja Brencie, Katja 796-797
Digene Hybrid Capture Assays for Detection of Human Seme, Adriana Vince, and Irena J.
Papillomaviruses Associated with High or Intermediate Risk Marin
for Cervical Cancer

Application of Dried Blood Spot Specimens for Sérologie P. Chanhancherd, A. E. Brown, R. 804-806
Subtyping of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I in Trichavaroj, P. Tienamporn, P.
Thailand Puthakird, N. Limpairojn, T. C.
VanCott, and M. S. de Souza

Reproducibility and Performance of the Second-Generation Donald G. Murphy, Patrick Gonin, 812-814
Branched-DNA Assay in Routine Quantification of Human and Micheline Fauvel
Immunodeficiency Virus Type I RNA in Plasma

Use of Restriction Fragment Analysis and Sequencing of a Quan-Gen Li, Anna Henningsson, 844-847
Serotype-Specific Region To Type Adenovirus Isolates Per Juto, Fredrik Eigh) and Goran
Wadell

Quality Control in Nucleic Acid Amplification Methods: Use Daniel S. Shapiro 848-851
of Elementary Probability Theory
CLINICAL VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Potentiation of Porcine Eileen L. Thacker, Patrick G. 620-627
Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus-Induced Halbur, Richard F. Ross, Roongroje
Pneumonia Thanawongnuwech, and Brad J.
Thacker

EPIDEMIOLOGY

Body Lice as Tools for Diagnosis and Surveillance of Véronique Roux and Didier Raoult 596-599
Reemerging Diseases

Molecular Characterization of Penicillin-Resistant Lena Setchanova and Alexander 638-648
Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates from Bulgaria Tomasz

Validation of Binary Typing for Staphylococcus aureus Willem van Lecuwen, Henri 664—674
Strains Verbrugh, Jos van der Velden, Nan
van Leeuwen, Max Heck, and Alex
van Belkum

Spread of Amikacin Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii Jordi Vila, Joaquim Ruiz, Margarita 758-761
Strains Isolated in Spain Due to an Epidemic Strain Navia, Berta Becerril, Isabel Garda,
Sofia Perea, Inmaculada Lopez-
Hernandez, Isabel Alamo, Frederic
Ballester, Anna M. Planes, Jesus
Martinez-Beltran, and Teresa
Jimenez de Anta

Antimicrobial Resistance and Serotype Distribution of Samir K. Saha, N. Rikitomi, M. 798-800
Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains Causing Childhood Ruhulamin, H. Masaki, M. Hanif,
Infections in Bangladesh, 1993 to 1997 Maksuda Islam, K. Watanabe, K.
Ahmed, K. Matsumoto, R. B. Sack,
and T. Nagatake

Prevalence ofEnterotoxigenic Bacteroidesfragilis in Children Naoki Kato, Chengxu Liu, Haru 801-803
with Diarrhea in Japan Kato, Kunitomo Watanabe, Haruhi
Nakamura, Naoichi lwai, and Kazue
Ueno

Identification of Shigella fiexneri Subserotype lc in Rural Atef EI-Gendy, Nemat EI-Ghorab, 873-874
Egypt Edward M. Lane, Remon Abu
Elyazeed, Nils l. A. Carlin, Mary M.
• Mitry, Bradford A. Kay, Stephen J.
Savarino, and Leonard F. Peruski, Jr.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Plates Are Better than Broth for Recovery of Fastidious A. Patrick Gibb 875
Organisms from Some Specimen Material

Use of Laboratory Assays To Predict Cytomegalovirus Cheuk Yan William Tong, Luis 881
Disease in Renal Transplant Recipients Cuevas, Helen Williams, and Ali
Bakran


Sonnenburg, H. D. Nothdurft, E.

Klein, and T. Loscher


P. Berche, J. L. Gaillard, and
C. Pierre-Audigier

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Volume 37, No. 6, June 1999

MINIREVIEW


Principles and Applications of Methods for DNA-Based D. Michael Olive and Pamela Bean 1661-1669
Typing of Microbial Organisms


BACTERIOLOGY

Assessment of Strain Relatedness among Salmonella David C. Old, Shelley C. Rankin, 1687-1692
Serotypes Salinatis, Duisburg, and Sandiego by Biotyping, and Pamela B. Crichton
Ribotyping, IS200 Fingerprinting, and Pulsed-Field Gel
Electrophoresis



Use of a Murine O-Antigen-Specific Monoclonal Antibody Ralph Pantophlet, Lore Brade, and 1693-1698
To Identify Acinetobacter Strains of Unnamed Genomic Helmut Brade
Species 13 Sensu Tjernberg and Ursing


Controlled Clinical Comparison of bioMerieux VITAL and Michael L. Wilson, Stanley Mirrett, 1709-1713
BACTEC NR-660 Blood Culture Systems for Detection of L. Clifford McDonald, Melvin P.
Bacteremia and Fungemia in Adults Weinstein, Jose Fune, and L. Barth
Reller



Incidence of Upper Respiratory Tract Mycoplasma Marie-Paule Layani-Milon, Isabelle 1721-1726
pneumoniae Infections among Outpatients in Rhone-Alpes, Gras, Martine Valette, Jacques
France, during Five Successive Winter Periods Luciani, Jean Stagnara, Michele
Ayrnard, and Bruno Lina



Characterization ofAntimicrobial Resistance in Mary K. York, Laurel Gibbs, 1727-1731
Streptococcus pyogenes Isolates from the San Francisco Bay Francoise Perdreau-Remington, and
Area of Northern California G. F. Brooks


Survey of Extended-Spectrum p-Lactamases in Clinical Hyunjoo Pai, Sen Lyu, Ji Hyang 1758-1763
Isolates ofEscherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: Lee, Jungmin Kirn, Youngmi Kwon,
Prevalence of TEM-52 in Korea Jong-Won Kirn, and Kang Won
Choe



The Calgary Biofilm Device: New Technology for Rapid H. Ceri, M. E. Olson, C. Stremick, 1771-1776
Determination of Antibiotic Susceptibilities of Bacterial R. R. Read, D. Morck, and A.
Biofilms Buret


CDC Group IV c-2: a New Ralstonia Species Close to didier Moissenet, Christophe P 1777-1781
Ralstonia eutropha Goujon, Antoine Garbarg-Chenon,
and Hoang Vu-Thien


Rapid Identification ofThermotolerant Campylobacterjejuni, Leen-Jan van Doom, Anita 1790-1796
Campylobacter coli, Campylobacter lari, and Campylobacter Verschuuren-van Haperen, Andre
upsaliensis from Various Geographic Locations by a GTPase- Burnens, Michael Huysmans, Peter
Based PCR-Reverse Hybridization Assay Vandamme, Belinda A. J.
Giesendorf, Martin J. Blaser,
and Wim G. V. Quint


Ultrasound-Enhanced Latex Immunoagglutination and PCR Stephen J. Gray, Michael A. 1797-1801
as Complementary Methods for Non-Culture-Based Sobanski, Edward B. Kaczmarski,
Confirmation of Meningococcal Disease Malcolm Guiver, W. John Marsh,
Raymond Borrow, Rosemary A.
Barnes, and W. Terence Coakley


Susceptibility Testing ofAnaerobic Bacteria: Evaluation of L. Dubreuil, l. Houcke, and E. 1824-1828
the Redesigned (Version 96) bioMerieux ATB ANA Device Singer




Prevalence of Corynebacterial 16S rRNA Sequences in Michael A. Tanner, Daniel Shoskes, 1863-1870
Patients with Bacterial and "Nonbacterial" Prostatitis Asha Shahed, and Norman R. Pace




Molecular Relationships and Antiinicrobial Susceptibilities H. Wisplinghoff, R. R. Reinert, 0. 1876-1880
of Viridans Group Streptococci Isolated from Blood of Comely, and H. Seifert
Neutropenic Cancer Patients




Highly Reproducible Bactericidal Activity Test Results by Donna M. Hacek, Dana C. Drossel, 1881-1884
Using a Modified National Committee for Clinical and Lance R. Peterson
Laboratory Standards Broth Macrodilution Technique



Genetic Features of Streptococcus agalactiae Strains Causing Karine Rolland, Corinne Marois, 1892-1898
Severe Neonatal Infections, as Revealed by Pulsed-Field Gel Veronique Siquier, Blandine
Electrophoresis and hylB Gene Analysis Cattier, and Roland Quentin



Culture of Bartonella quintana and Bartonella henselae from Bernard La Scola and Didier Raoult 1899-1905
Human Samples: a 5-Year Experience (1993 to 1998)



Phylogenetic Analysis of Ara^ and Ara Burkholderia Tararaj Dharakul, Boonratn 1906-1912
pseudomallei Isolates and Development of a Multiplex PCR Tassaneetrithep, Suwanna
Procedure for Rapid Discrimination between the Two Trakulsomboon, and Sirirurg
Biotypes Songsivilai



Detection of an Archaic Clone of Staphylococcus aureus with Raquel Sä-Leäo, llda Santos 1913-1920
Low-Level Resistance to Methicillin in a Pediatric Hospital Sanches, Dora Dias, Isabel Peres,
in Portugal and in International Samples: Relics of a Rosa M. Barros, and Hermmia de
Formerly Widely Disseminated Strain? Lencastre



High-Resolution Genotyping of Streptococcus pyogenes Meeta Desai, Androulla Efstratiou, 1948-1952
Serotype MI Isolates by Fluorescent Amplified-Fragment Robert George, and John Stanley
Length Polymorphism Analysis



Quantitative Detection otBorrelia burgdorferi by Andreas Pahl, Uta Kühlbrandt, Kay 1958-1963
Real-Time PCR Brune, Martin Röllinghoff, and
Andre Gessner


Rapid and Reliable Identification of Streptococcus M. D. Cima-Cabal, F. Vazquez, 1964-1966
pneumoniae Isolates by Pneumolysin-Mediated Agglutination J. R. de los Toyos, and F. J.
Mendez


PCR Detection of Yersinia pestis in Fleas: Comparison with David M. Engelthaler, Kenneth L. 1980-1984
Mouse Inoculation Gage, John A. Montenieri, May
Chu, and Leon G. Carter



Differentiation otHelicobacter pylori Isolates Based on Lectin Sean O. Hynes, Siiri Hirmo, Torkel 1994-1998
Binding of Cell Extracts in an Agglutination Assay Wadstrom, and Anthony P. Moran


Activity of Gatifloxacin against Haemophilus influenz.ae and Ronald N. Jones, Douglas J. 1999-2002
Moraxella catarrhalis, Including Susceptibility Test Biedenbach, Meredith E. Erwin,
Development, E-Test Comparisons, and Quality Control Mondell L. Beach, Michael A.
Guidelines for H, influenzae Pfaller, and The Quality Control
Study Group



Characterization ^Bacteroidesforsythus Strains from Cat M. K. Hudspeth, S. Hunt Gerardo, 2003-2006
and Dog Bite Wounds in Humans and Comparison with M. F. J. Maiden, D. M. Citron, and
Monkey and Human Oral Strains E. J. C. Goldstein


Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Imported from West Africa: Alje P. van Dam, Tom van Gool, 2027-2030
Diagnosis by Quantitative Buffy Coat Analysis and In Vitro Jose C. F. M. Wetsteyn, and Jacob
Culture of Borrelia crocidurae Dankert



Oxacillin Susceptibility Testing of Staphylococci Directly M. Kubina, B. Jaulhac, 2034-2036
from Bactec Plus Blood Cultures by the BBL Crystal MRSA X. Delabranche, C. Lindenmann,
ID System Y. Piemont, and H. Monteil


One-Step Reverse Transcriptase PCR Method for Detection F. X. Limbach, B. Jaulhac, 2037-2039
of Borrelia burgdorferi mRNA in Mouse Lyme Arthritis Y. Piemont, J. L. Kuntz,
Tissue Samples H. Monteil, and J. Sibilia


Increased Frequency of Detection of Ureaplasma urealyticum F. Martinelli, E. Garrafa, A. 2042-2044
and Mycoplasma genitalium in AIDS Patients without Turano, and A. Caruso
Urethral Symptoms


Use of Dorset Egg Medium for Maintenance and Transport Avril D. Wasas, Robin E. Huebner, 2045-2046
of Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae Type b and Keith P. Klugman



Disk with High Oxacillin Content Discriminates between Ann Cathrine Petersson, Carl 2047-2050
Methicillin-Resistant and Borderline Methicillin-Susceptible Kamme, and Hakan Miorner
Staphylococcus aureus Strains in Disk Diffusion Assays Using
a Low Salt Concentration



Aroplified-Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis versus Johan Van Eldere, Paul Janssen, 2053-2057
Macro-Restriction Fragment Analysis for Molecular Typing Annette Hoefnagels-Schuermans,
of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates Stefaan van Lierde, and Willy E.
Peetermans



Typing otSalmonella enterica Scrotype Paratyphi C Isolates S. Kariuki, J. Cheesbrough, A. K. 2058-2060
from Various Countries by Plasmid Profiles and Pulsed- Mavridis, and C. A. Hart
Field Gel Electrophoresis



Bacteremia Caused by a Novel Isolate Resembling Jean Baldus Patel, Jill Clarridge, 2064-2067
Leptotrichia Species in a Neutropenic Patient Mindy S. Schuster, Michael
Waddington, Janet Osborne, and
lrving Nacharnkin


Two Cases of Chromobacterium violaceum Infection after J. Lee, J. S. Kim, C. H. Nahm, J. W. 2068-2070
Injury in a Subtropical Region Choi, J. Kim, S. H. Pai, K. H.
Moon, K. Lee, and Y. Chong



Infection of Laboratory Mice with the Human Granulocytic Joseph E. Bunnell, Louis A. 2077-2079
Ehrlichiosis Agent Docs Not Induce Antibodies to Magnarelli, and J. Stephen Durnler
Diagnostically Significant Borrelia burgdorferi Antigens



Septic Shock Due to Helicobacterfennelliae in a Non-Human Po-Ren Hsueh, Lee-Jene Teng, 2084-2086
Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Heterosexual Patient Chien-Chin Hung, Yu-Chi Chen,
Pan-Chyr Yang, Shen-Wu Ho, and
Kwen-Tay Luh



Isolation of DNA after Extraction of RNA To Detect the Kei Amemiya, Henry Schaefer, and 2087-2089
Presence of Borrelia burgdorferi and Expression of Host Andrew R. Pachner
Cellular Genes from the Same Tissue Sample



Detection of Clinically Relevant Genotypes of Vancomycin- P. Jayaratne and C. Rutherford 2090-2092
Resistant Enterococci in Nosocomial Surveillance Specimens
byPCR



PCR Amplification from Fixed Tissue Indicates Frequent Andrew S. J. Mikosza, Tom La, C. 2093-2098
Involvement of Brachyspira aalborgi in Human Intestinal Josephine Brooke, Christian F.
Spirochetosis Lindboe, Peter B. Ward, Ralf G.
Heine, John G. Guccion, W.
Bastiaan de Boer, and David J.
Hampson



MYCOBACTERIOLOGY AND AEROBIC
ACTINOMYCETES

Multisite Reproducibility of Results Obtained by the Broth Gail L. Woods, John S. Bergmann, 1676-1682
Microdilution Method for Susceptibility Testing of Frank G. Witebsky, Gary A. Fahle,
Mycobacterium abscessus, Mycobacterium chelonae, and Audrey Wanger, Betty Boulet,
Mycobacteriumfortuitum Marianne Plaunt, Barbara A.
Brown, and Richard J. Wallace, Jr.


Identification ofMycobacterial Species by Comparative Bum-Joon Kim, Seung-Hyun Lee, 1714-1720
Sequence Analysis of the RNA Polymerase Gene {rpoB) Mi-Ae Lyu, Seo-Jeong Kim, Gill-
Han Bai, Sang-Jae Kim, Gue-Tae
Chae, Eui-Chong Kim, Chang-Yong
Cha, and Yoon-Hoh Kook


Molecular Epidemiologie Evaluation ofTransmissibility and Jeanne T. Rhee, Amy S. Piatek, 1764-1770
Virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Peter M. Small, Lisa M. Harris,
Sandra V. Chaparro, Fred Russell


Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Richard Frothingham, Percy L. 1921-1926
Mycobacterillin africanum Isolates from West Africa Strickland, Gisela Bretzel, Srinivas
Ramaswamy, James M. Musser, and
Diana L. Williams



Use of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Molecular Samir P. Singh, Hugh Salamon, 1927-1931
Epidemiologie and Population Genetic Studies of Carol J. Lahti, Mehran Farid-
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Moyer, and Peter M. Small



Evaluation of Three Nucleic Acid Amplification Methods for S. X. Wang and L. Tay 1932-1934
Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in
Respiratory Specimens




Distribution of a Nocardia brasiliensis Catalase Gene Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Wendy M. 1971-1976
Fragment in Members of the Genera Nocardia, Gordona, and Johnson, Oliverio Welsh, Francisco
Rhodococcus L. Resendiz-Uresti, and Mario C.
Salinas-Carmona



Evaluation of the New MB Redox System for Detection of Emmanuelle Cambau, Claudine 2013-2015
Growth of Mycobacteria Wichlacz, Chantal Truffot-Pernot,
and Vincent Jarlier



Species-Specific Identification of Mycobacterium leprae by Nalin Rastogi, Khye Seng Geh, and 2016-2019
PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis Mylene Berchel
of the hsp65 Gene



Enhanced Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct John S. Bergmann and Gail L. 2099-2101
Test for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Woods
Positive BACTEC 12B Broth Cultures of Respiratory
Specimens

MYCOLOGY



Epidemiology of Visceral Mycoses: Analysis of Data in Toshikazu Yamazaki, Hikaru Kume, 1732-1738
Annual of the Pathological Autopsy Cases in Japan Setsuko Murase, Eriko Yamashita,
and Mikio Arisawa


Rapid Identification of Fungi by Using the ITS2 Genetic Christine Y. Turenne, Steven E. 1846-1851
Region and an Automated Fluorescent Capillary Sanche, Daryl J. Hoban, James A.
Electrophoresis System Karlowsky, and Amm M. Kabani



PCR-Restriction Enzyme Analysis for Detection of Candida Giulia Morace, Livio Pagano, 1871-1875
DNA in Blood from Febrile Patients with Hematological Maurizio Sanguinetti, Brunella
Malignancies Posteraro, Luca Mele, Francesco
Equitani, Giuseppina D'Amore,
Giuseppe Leone, and Giovanni
Fadda



Comparison of Three Commercial Systems for Identification Jill K. Wadlin, Gayle Hanko, 1967-1970
of Yeasts Commonly Isolated in the Clinical Microbiology Rebecca Stewart, John Pape, and
Laboratory lrving Nacharnkin



Identification of Medically Relevant Trichosporon Species Takashi Sugita, Akemi Nishikawa, 1985-1993
Based on Sequences of Internal Transcribed Spacer Regions Reiko Ikeda, and Takako Shinoda
and Construction of a Database for Trichosporon
Identification



Times to Detection of Bacteria and Yeasts in BACTEC 9240 Barbara S. Reisner and Gail L. 2024-2026
Blood Culture Bottles Woods



Lacazia loboi gen. nov., comb. nov., the Etiologic Agent of Paulo R. Taborda, Valeria A. 2031-2033
Lobomycosis Taborda, and Michael R. McGmnis



Simple Strategy for Direct Identification of Medically Donald C. Sheppard, Pierre Rene, 2040-2041
Important Yeast Species from Positive Blood Culture Vials Anthony D. Harris, Mark A. Miller,
Michel Laverdiere, Edwige
DeSouza, and Hugh G. Robson



Variation in Microbial Identification System Accuracy for James A. Kellogg, David A. 2080-2083
Yeast Identification Depending on Commercial Source of Bankert, and Vishnu Chaturvedi
Sabouraud Dextrose Agar





PARASITOLOGY

Use of PCR m Diagnosis of Human American Tegumentary Claude Pirmez, Valeria da Silva 1819-1823
Leishmaniasis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Trajano, Manoel Paes-Oliveira
Neto, Alda Maria da-Cruz, Sylvio
CelsoGoncalves-da-Costa, Marcos
Catanho, Wim Degrave, and
Octavio Fernandes



Occurrence ofLeishmania infantum Parasitemia in Yves Le Fichoux, Jean-Frangois 1953-1957
Asymptomatic Blood Donors Living in an Area of Quaranta, Jean-Pierre Aufeuvre,
Endemicity in Southern France Alain Leiievre, Pierre Marty,
lsabelle Suffia, Deborah Rousseau,
and Joanna Kubar




Southern Extension of the Range of Human Babesiosis in Eugene S. Eskow, Peter J. Krause, 2051-2052
the Eastern United States Andrew Spielman, Kathy Freeman,
and Jaber Aslanzadeh



VIROLOGY

Detection of Poliovirus Circulation by Environmental Y. Manor, R. Handsher, T. Haimut, 1670-1675
Surveillance in the Absence of Clinical Cases in Israel and M. Neuman, A. Bobrov, H. Rudich,
the Palestinian Authority A. Vonsover, L. Shulman, O. Kew,
and E. Mendelson





Effect of Multiple Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Hepatitis B Virus Mel Krajden, James M. Minor, 1683-1686
DNA and Hepatitis C Virus RNA Quantification as Oretta Rifkin, and Lorraine
Measured with Branched-DNA Technology Comanor




VP4 and VP7 Genotyping of Rotavirus Samples Recovered Jim O'Mahony, Barbara Foley, 1699-1703
from Infected Children in Ireland over a 3-Year Period Sheila Morgan, John G. Morgan,
and Colin Hill




Improved Mg(2+) -Based Reverse Transcriptase Assay for Johnna F. Sears, Roy Repaske, and 1704-1708
Detection of Primate Retroviruses Arifa S. Khan






Development of a Simple and Highly Sensitive Enzyme Katsumi Aoyagi, Chiharu Ohue, 1802-1808
Immunoassay for Hepatitis C Virus Core Antigen Kumiko lida, Tatsuji Kimura, Eiji
Tanaka, Kendo Kiyosawa, and
Shintaro Yagi




Design and Evaluation of a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Michel P. de Baar, Audrey M. van 1813-1818
Type I RNA Assay Using Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based der Schoot, Jaap Goudsmit, Femke
Amplification Technology Able To Quantify Both Group M Jacobs, Ron Ehren, Karin H. M.
and 0 Viruses by Using the Long Terminal Repeat as van der Horn, Peter Oudshoorn,
Target Frank de Wolf, and Anthony De
Ronde




High Prevalence of TT Virus Infection in Healthy Children Sen-Yung Hsieh, Yin-Hua Wu, 1829-1831
and Adults and in Patients with Liver Disease in Taiwan Yu-Pin Ho, Kuo-Chien Tsao,
Chau-Ting Yeh, and Yun-Fan Liaw





Serotyping ofAdenoviruses on Coijunctival Scrapings by Satoshi Takeuchi, Norihiko ltoh, 1839-1845
PCR and Sequence Analysis Eiichi Uchio, Koki Aoki, and
Shigeaki Ohno



Nonisotopic Detection and Typing of Human Papillomavirus Francois Coutlee, Patti Gravitt, 1852-1857
DNA in Genital Samples by the Line Blot Assay Harriet Richardson, Catherine
Hankins, Eduardo Franco, Normand
Lapointe, Helene Voyer, and The
Canadian Women's HIV Study
Group



Evidence of High-Frequency Genomic Reassortment of Leanne E. Unicomb, Goutam 1885-1891
Group A Rotavirus Strains in Bangladesh: Emergence of Podder, Jon R. Gentsch, Patricia A.
Type G9 in 1995 Woods, K. Zahid Hasan, A. S. G.
Faruque, M. John Albert, and
Roger I. Glass



Use of Base Excision Sequence Scanning for Detection of Remi N. Charrel, Nicolas Levy, 1935-1940
Genetic Variations in St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Isolates Robert B. Tesh, and Laura J.
Chandler



Development of a High-Throughput Quantitative Assay for Alexander J. Ryncarz, James 1941-1947
Detecting Herpes Simplex Virus DNA in Clinical Samples Goddard, Anna Wald, Meei-Li
Huang, Bernard Roizman, and
Lawrence Corey



Evaluation of the ImmunoCardSTAT! Rotavirus Assay for Penelope H. Dennehy, Michele 1977-1979
Detection of Group A Rotavirus in Fecal Specimens Hartin, Sara M. Nelson, and Shirley
F. Reising



Immunochromatography Test for Rapid Diagnosis of Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, Kazunobu 2007-2009
Adenovirus Respiratory Tract Infections: Comparison with Ouchi, Masaya Ohsaki, Tatsuru
Virus Isolation in Tissue Culture Yamanaka, Yoshinori Kuniya,
Yoshinao Takeuchi, Chiaki Nakai,
Chiba



Detection of Toscana Virus-Specific Immunoglobulins G and Maria Grazia Ciufolmi, Cristiano 2010-2012
M by an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Based on Fiorentini, Paola De Bonito,
Recombinant Viral Nucleoprotein Stefania Mochi, and Colomba
Giorgi



Detection of Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus in Dried Blood S. P. Parker, H. 1. Khan, and W. D. 2061-2063
Spot Samples from Mothers and Their Offspring in Lahore, Cubitt
Pakistan




Relative Frequencies of G and P Types among Rotaviruses Baldev R. Gulati, Osamu Nakagomi, 2074-2076
from Indian Diarrheic Cow and Buffalo Calves Yumi Koshimura, Toyoko
Nakagomi, and Ramayan Pandey



CLINICAL VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY


Epidemiological Study of Paratuberculosis in Wild Rabbits Alastair Greig, Karen Stevenson, 1746-1751
in Scotland Dennis Henderson, Valentin Perez,
Valeric Hughes, lvo Pavlik, Murray
E. Hines II, lain McKendrick, and
J. Michael Sharp




Simultaneous Detection of Bovine Theileria and Babesia J. M. Gubbels, A. P. de Vos, M. van 1782-1789
Species by Reverse Line Blot Hybridization der Weide, J. Viseras, L. M.
Schouls, E. de Vries, and F.
Jongejan


Evaluation of a Nested Reverse Transcription-PCR Assay Jean-Francois Valarcher, Herve 1858-1862
Based on the Nucleoprotein Gene for Diagnosis of Bourhy, Jacqueline Geifi, and
Spontaneous and Experimental Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Francois Schelcher
Virus Infections

Typing of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Viruses Directly from S. A. Gilbert, K. M. Burton, S. E . 2020-2023
Blood of Persistently Infected Cattle by Multiplex PCR Prins, and D. Deregt

EPIDEMIOLOGY

Multidrug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Poland: Karin Overweg, Peter W. M. 1739-1745
Identification of Emerging Clones Hermans, Krzysztof Trzcinski,
Marcel Sluijter, Ronald de Groot,
and Waleria Hryniewicz


Density and Molecular Epidemiology of Aspergillus in Air Alexander C. A. P. Leenders, Alex 1752-1757
and Relationship to Outbreaks ofAspergillus Infection van Belkum, Myra Behrendt, Ad
Luijendijk, and Henri A. Verbrugh

Molecular Typing of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolates, Hin-Chung Wong, Chi-Chang Liu, 1809-1812
Obtained from Patients Involved in Food Poisoning Tze-Ming Pan, Tien-Kuei Wang,
Outbreaks in Taiwan, by Random Amplified Polymorphic Chih-Lung Lee, and Daniel
DNA Analysis Yang-Chih Shih


Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Penicillin-Resistant Surang Dejsirilert, Karin Overweg, 1832-1838
Streptococcus pneumoniae among Children with Acute Marcel Sluijter, Leelawadee
Respiratory Tract Infections in Thailand: a Molecular Saengsuk, Mike Gratten, Takayuki
Epidemiological Survey Ezaki, and Peter W. M. Hermans




Epidemiological Analysis of Sequential Pseudomonas I. Pujana, L. Gallego, G. Martin, F. 2071-2073
aeruginosa Isolates from Chronic Bronchiectasis Patients Lopez, J. Canduela, and R. Cisterna
without Cystic Fibrosis




CASE REPORTS


Scopulariopsis chartarum Systemic Mycosis in a Dog Ronald D. Welsh and Ray W. Ely 2102-2103




Primary Shewanella alga Septicemia in a Patient on Morihiro lwata, Kazuhiro Tateda, 2104-2105
Hemodialysis Tetsuya Matsumoto, Nobuhiko
Furuya, Sonoo Mizuiri, and Keizo
Yamaguchi



Mycobacterium bovis BCG Causing Vertebral Osteomyelitis Ibrahim S. Aljada, John K. Crane, 2106-2108
(Pott's Disease) Following Intravesical BCG Therapy Nancy Corriere, Datta G. Wagle,
and Daniel Amsterdam


FAST-TRACK COMMUNICATION

Emergence ofCarbapenem-Hydrolyzing Enzymes in Gabriela J. Da Silva, Rui Leitao, 2109-2110
Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates and Lufsa Peixe



LETTERS TO THE EDITOR


Rapid Immunochromatographic Assay for Diagnosis of Letter: Roger Freeman, John 2111-2112
Tuberculosis: Antibodies Detected May Not Be Specific Magee, Anne Barratt, Janice
Wheeler, Michael Steward,
Maureen Lee, and Nigel Piggot.
Reply: Martin P. Grobusch

cagA and vacA Status of Spanish Helicobacter pylori Clinical Letter: Diego Domingo, Teresa 2113-2114
Isolates Alarcon, Nuria Prieto, Isabel
Sanchez, and Manuel Lopez-Brea.
Reply: Jochen Rudi and Wolfgang
Stremmel



Interpretation ofPneumococcal Susceptibility Tests with Letter: David A. Preston. Reply: 2115
Cefaclor Chen-Chia Christine Chiou



Classification of Hepatitis C Virus Type 2 Isolates by Mauro Pistello, Fabrizio Maggi, 2116-2117
Phylogenetic Analysis of Core and NS5 Regions Claudia Fornai, Alessandro
Leonildi FornI Alessandro
Linda Vatterini and Maur
Bendinelli



Treatment Strategies for Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis Letter: James A. Kellogg. Reply: 2118-2119
Cynthia A. Needham, Kenneth A.
MePherson, and Kenneth H. Webb



Ideal Carrier Particles for Agglutination Tests Muralidhar K. Katti 2120


Phenylpropionic Acid Metabolism: a Marker for Valerio Monteiro-Neto and Luiz 2121
Enteropathogenic Eschrichia coli Clonal Group 2 Strains Rachid Trabuisi



Ability of the Modified Vitek Card To Detect Coagulase- Steven A. Marshall, Michael A. 2122-2123
Negative Staphylococci with mecA and Oxacillin-Resistant Pfaller, and Ronald N. Jones
Phenotypes

ERRATUM

Diagnosis of Trichomonas vagmalis Infection by PCR Using Guillermo Madico, Thomas C. 2124
Vaginal Swab Samples Quinn, Anne Rompalo, Kelly T.
McKee, Jr., and Charlotte A.
Gaydos

AUTHOR'S CORRECTION

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Vibrio Pilar Beiträn, Gabriela Delgado, 2125
cholerae Armando Navarro, Francisca
Trujillo, Robert K. Seiander, and
Alejandro Cravioto
Krämer, and David Alland

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Volume 37 , No. 7, July 1999



MINIREVIEW

Molecular Diagnosis of Herpes Simplex Virus Infections in Yi-Wei Tang, P. Shawn Mitchell, 2127-2136
the Central Nervous System Mark J. Espy, Thomas F. Smith,
and David H. Persing



BACTERIOLOGY

Borrelia burgdorferi in Tick Cell Culture Modulates Marygorret Obonyo, Ulrike G. 2137-2141
Expression of Outer Surface Proteins A and C in Response Munderloh, Volker Fingerle,
to Temperature Bettina Wilske, and Timothy J.
Kurtti



Subtyping of Haemophilus influenwe Strains by Pulsed-Field Mitsumasa Saito, Akiko Urneda, 2142-2147
Gel Electrophoresis and Shin-ichi Yoshida



Proficiency of Clinical Laboratories in Spain in Detecting Juan Alonso-Echanove, Beleh 2148-2152
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus spp. Robles, William R. Jarvis, and The
Spanish VRE Study Group



Identification otBurkholderia spp. in the Clinical Cindy van Pelt, Gees M. Verduin, 2158-2164
Microbiology Laboratory: Comparison of Conventional and Wil H. F. Goessens, Margreet C.
Molecular Methods Vos, Burkhard' Tümmler, Christine
Segonds, Frans Reubsaet, Henri
Verbrugh, and Alex van Belkum



Most Enterobacter aerogenes Strains in France Belong to a Claude Bosi, Anne Davin-Regli, 2165-2169
Prevalent Clone Charleric Bornet, Monique Mallea,
Jean-Marie Pages, and Claude
Bollet



Evaluation of the Discriminatory Power of Typing Methods M. Van Looveren, C. A. lson, M. 2183-2188
for Neisseria gonorrhoeae leven, P. Vandamme, I. M. Martin,
K. Vermeulen, A. Renton, and H.
Goossens



Multiple Types of Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 6 in a Paolo Visca, Paola Goldoni, P. 2189-2196
Hospital Heated-Water System Associated with Sporadic Christian Luck, Jürgen H. Heibig,
Infections Lorena Cattani, Giuseppe Giltri,
Simone Bramati, and Maddalena
Castellani Pastoris


Differentiation of Burkholderia Species by PCR-Restriction Christine Segonds, Thierry Heulin, 2201-2208
Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of the 16S rDNA Nicole Marty, and Gerard
Gene and Application to Cystic Fibrosis Isolates Chabanon



Molecular Subtyping of Clostridium perfringens by Pulsed- Susan E. Maslanka, Jared G. Kerr , 2209-2214
Field Gel Electrophoresis To Facilitate Food-Borne-Disease Glen Williams, James M. Barbaree,
Outbreak Investigations Loretta A. Carson, J. Michael
Miller, and Bala Swaminathan



Detection and Identification of Ehrlichia, Borrelia burgdorferi Leo M. Schouls, Ingrid Van De Pol, 2215-2222
Sensu Lato, and Bartonella Species in Dutch lxodes ricinus Sjoerd G. T. Rijpkerna, and Corrie
Ticks S. Schot



Comparison of the PACE 2 Assay, Two Amplification Tsai-Ling Lauderdale, Lenore 2223-2229
Assays, and Clearview EIA for Detection of Chlamydia Landers, lan Thorneycroft, and
trachomatis in Female Endocervical and Urine Specimens Kimberle Chapin



Detection of Helicobacter pylori DNA in Fecal Samples from William A. Gramley, Ali Asghar, 2236-2240
Infected Individuals Henry F. Frierson, Jr., and Steven



Validity of Interpretation Criteria for Standardized Western Ulrike Häuser, Gisela Lehnert, and 2241-2247
Blots (Immunoblots) for Serodiagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis Bettina Wilske
Based on Sera Collected throughout Europe




Usefulness of Fatty Acid Composition for Differentiation of Alexandra Diogo, Antonio 2248-2254
Legionella Species Verfssimo, M. Fernanda Nobre, and
Milton S. Da Costa



Relationship between Helicobacter pylori iceA, cagA, and vacA Yoshio Yamaoka, Tadashi Kodama, 2274-2279
Status and Clinical Outcome: Studies in Four Different Oscar Gutierrez, Jong G. Kirn, Kei
Countries Kashima, and David Y. Graham




Distinct Variants o! Helicobacter pylori cagA Are Associated Leen-Jan Van Doom, Ceu 2306-2311
ith vacA Subtypes Figueiredo, Ricardo Sanna, Martin
J, Blaser, and Wirn G. V. Quint



Evaluation of Statens Serum Institut Enteric Medium for Marianne Blorn, Aase Meyer, Peter 2312-2316
Detection of Enteric Pathogens Gerner-Smidt, Knud Gaarslev, and
Frank Espersen




Dissemination of a Chloramphenicol- and Tetracycline- Monica Tarnayo, Raquel Sä-Leäo, 2337-2342
Resistant but Penicillin-Susceptible Invasive Clone of IIda Santos Sanches, Elizabeth
Serotype 5 Streptococcus pneumoniae in Colombia Castaneda, and Hermmia de
Lencastre



Analysis of vacA, cagA, and tS605 Genotypes and Those Nathalie E. M. van Doom, Ferry 2348-2349
Determined by PCR Amplification of DNA between Namavar, Leen-Jan van Doom,
Repetitive Sequences of Helicobacter pylori Strains Isolated Zarmina Durrani, Ernst J. Kuipers,
from Patients with Nonulcer Dyspepsia or Mucosa- and Christina M. J. E.
Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma Vandenbroucke-Grauls




An Untypeable Shigella flexneri Strain Associated with an Rosalie T. Trevejo, Sharon L. 2352-2353
Outbreak in California Abbott, Mitchell l. Wolfe, Jerry
Meshulam, David Yong, and
George R. Flores



Evaluation of the AnaeroPack Campylo System for Growth Kenneth Van Horn and Clara Toth 2376-2377
of Microaerophilic Bacteria

MYCOBACTERIOLOGY AND AEROBIC
ACTINOMYCETES


Improved Methods for Immunoassay of Mycothiol Mia D. Unson, Gerald L. Newton, 2153-2157
Karen F. Arnold, Charles E. Davis,
and Robert C. Fahey



Development of Amplified 16S Ribosomal DNA Restriction Val Hall, G. L. O'Neill, J. T. 2255-2261
Analysis for Identification ofActinoinyces Species and Magee, and B. L. Duerden
Comparison with Pyrolysis-Mass Spectrometry and
Conventional Biochemical Tests



Nocardia Thyroiditis: Unusual Location of Infection Christian Carriere, Helene 2323-2325
Marchandin, Jean Michel Andrieu,
Anne Vandome, and Colette Perez



Amplification of a 500-Base-Pair Fragment from Cultured Juan German Rodriguez, Juan 2330-2332
Isolates of Mycobacterium bovis Carlos Fissanoti, Patricia Del
Portillo, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo,
Marfa Isabel Rornano, and Angel
Cataldi




Inactivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for DNA Typing P. Bemer-Melchior and H. B. 2350-2351
Analysis Drugeon


MYCOLOGY

Fluconazole Susceptibilities of Bloodstream Candida sp. Emilia Canton, Javier Peman, 2197-2200
Isolates as Determined by National Committee for Clinical Alfonso Carrillo-Munoz, Ana Orero,
Laboratory Standards Method M27-A and Two Other Pedro Ubeda, Angel Viudes, and
Methods Miguel Gobernado





Evaluation of Mycology Laboratory Proficiency Testing Andrew A. Reilly, Ira F. Salkin, 2297-2305
Michael R. McGinms, Sally
Grornadzki, Lester Pasarell, Maggi
Kemna, Nancy Higgins, and Max
Salfinger





In Vitro Amphotericin B Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Deanna A. Sutton, Stephen E. 2343-2345
Aspergillus terreus, with a Head-to-Head Comparison to Sanche, Sanjay G. Revankar,
Voriconazole Annette W. Fothergill, and Michael
G. Rinaldi


PARASITOLOGY

Detection by an Immunofluorescence Test of Encephalitozoon H. Moura, F. C. Sodre, F. J. 2317-2322
intestinalis Spores in Routinely Formalin-Fixed Stool Bornay-Llinares, G. J. Leitch, T.
Samples Stored at Room Temperature Navin, S. Wahlquist, R. Bryan, I.
Meseguer, and G. S. Visvesvara




Delayed versus Immediate Bedside Inoculation of Culture Jane R. Schwebke, Moira F. 2369-2370
Media for Diagnosis of Vaginal Trichomonosis Venglarik, and Shellie C. Morgan


VIROLOGY

Detection of Human Papillomavirus Types 6 and II in Ingeborg L. A. Boxman, Arjan 2270-2273
Pubic and Perianal Hair from Patients with Genital Warts Hogewoning, Linda H. C. Mulder,
Jan Nico Bouwes Bavinck, and Jan
ter Schegget



Worldwide Evaluation of DNA Sequencing Approaches for Rob Schuurrnan, Lisa Derneter, 2291-2296
Identification of Drug Resistance Mutations in the Human Patricia Reichelderfer, Jolanda
Immunodeficiency Virus Type I Reverse Transcriptase Tijnagel, Torn de Groot, and
Charles Boucher



Prenatal Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19-lnduced Hydrops M. Musiani, P. Pasini, M. Zerbini, 2326-2329
Fetalis by Chemiluminescence In Situ Hybridization G. Gentilomi, A. Roda, G.
Gallinella, E. Manaresi, and S.
Venturoli




Molecular Evidence of Mother-to-infant Transmission of Clara Menendez, Jose-Mana 2333-2336
Hepatitis G Virus among Women without Known Risk Sanchez-Tapias, Pedro-Luis Alonso,
Factors for Parenteral Infections Mireia Girnenez-Barcons, Elizeus
Kahigwa, John-Jairo Aponte,
Hassan Mshinda, Margarita-Marfa
Navia, Marfa-Teresa Jimenez de
Anta, Juan Rodes, and Juan-Carlos
Saiz



Rapid Detection of Respiratory Viruses by Shell Vial Assay Jose M. Navarro-Marf, Sara 2346-2347
Using Simultaneous Culture of HEp-2, LLC-MK2, and Sanbonmatsu-Garnez, Mercedes
MDCK Cells in a Single Vial Perez-Ruiz, and Manuel De La
Rosa-Fraile



Level of Human Immunodeficiency Virus DNA in Peripheral Jennifer L. McDermott, Adriana A. 2361-2365
Blood Mononuclear Cells Correlates with Efficacy of Giri, Isabella Martini, Maria Bono,
Antiretroviral Therapy Mauro Giacornini, Antonio
Carnpelli, Luigi Tagliaferro, Andrea
Cara, and Oliviero E. Varnier



Evaluation of an Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Immunoglobulin D. Tranchand-Bunel, H. Gras-Masse, 2366-2368
M Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Using a Synthetic B. Bourez, L. Dedecker, and
Convergent Peptide Library, or Mixotope, for Diagnosis of C. Auriault
Primary EBV Infection




Distribution of Human Rotavirus G Types Circulating in Elyanne Gault, Roxane Chikhi- 2373-2375
aris, France, during the 1997-1998 Epidemic: High Brächet, Sandrine Delon, Nathalie
Prevalence of Type G4 schnepf, Laurence Albiges,
Emmanuel Grirnprel, Jean-Philippe
Girardet, Pierre Begue, and Antoine
Garbarg-Chenon



CLINICAL VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY


Upper Respiratory Tract Discase in the Gopher Tortoise Is M. B. Brown, G. S. McLaughIm, 2262-2269
Caused by Mycoplasma agasskii P. A. Klein, B. C. Crenshaw,I. M.
Schumacher, D. R. Brown, and
E. R. Jacobson



Detection of Equine Antibodies to Babesia caballi by Lowell S. Kappmeyer, Lance E. 2285-2290
Recombinant B. caballi Rhoptry-Associated Protein I in a Perryman, Stephen A. Hines,
Competitive-Inhibition Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Timothy V. Baszier, Jonathan B.
Assay Katz, Steven G. Hennager, and
Donald P. Knowles



Chlamydia pneumoniae in a Free-Ranging Giant Barred Frog Lee Berger, Kym Volp, Sarah 2378-2380
(Mixophyes iteratus) from Australia Mathews, Rick Speare, and Peter
Timms



EPIDEMIOLOGY

Epidemiological Study of an Acinetobacter baumannii M. Biendo, G. Laurans, J. K 2170-2175
Outbreak by Using a Combination of Antibiotyping and Lefebvre, F. Daoudi, and F. Eb
Ribotyping



Salmonella Enteritidis Phage Types I and 4: Pheno- and Susanna Lukinmaa, Raili Schildt, 2176-2182
Genotypic Epidemiology of Recent Outbreaks in Finland Teemu Rinttila, and Anja Siitonen

Molecular and Epidemiological Characterization of Vaginal Brunella Posteraro, Maurizio 2230-2235
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Isolates Sanguinetti, Giuseppina D'Amore,
Luca Masucci, Giulia Morace, and
Giovanni Fadda



Nosocomial Pseudoepidemic Caused by Bacillus cereus Po-Ren Hsueh, Lee-Jene Teng, 2280-2284
Traced to Contaminated Ethyl Alcohol from a Liquor Pan-Chyr Yanng, Hui-Lu Pan,
Factory Shen-Wu Ho, and Kwen-Tay Luh




Clonal Diversity among Recently Emerged Strains of Vibrio Prasanta K. Bag, Suvobroto Nandi, 2354-2357
parahaemolyticus 03:K6 Associated with Pandemic Spread Rupak K. Bhadra, T. Ramamurthy,
S. K. Bhattacharya, M. Nishibuchi,
T. Hamabata, Shinji Yamasaki,
Yoshifumi Takeda, and G. Balakrish
Nair



Molecular Epidemiology of an Outbreak of Febrile M. K, Miettinen, A. Siitonen, P. 2358-2360
Gastroenteritis Caused by Listeria monocytogenes in Cold- Heiskanen, H. Haajanen, K. J.
Smoked Rainbow Trout Bjorkroth, and H. J. Korkeala



Molecular Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in an Alberto R. Osella, Laura Sonzogni, 2371-2372
Area of Hyperendemicity in Southern Italy: a Population- Aldo Cavallini, Luciana Foti, Vito
Based Study Guerra, Alfredo Di Leo, Mario U.
Mondelli, Giovanni Misciagna, and
Enrico M. Silini



CASE REPORT

Typhoid Fever Due to Salmonella Kapemba Infection in an Hans-Eckart Sarnighausen, Claus 2381-2382
Otherwise Healthy Middle-Aged Man Benz, Martin Eickenberg, J.
Bockemuhl, H. Tschape, and Jürgen



LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Large Conjugative vanA Plasmids in Vancomycin-Resistant Guido Werner, Ingo Klare, and 2383-2384
Enterococcusfaecium Wolfgang Witte


Detection and Characterization of Novel Rotavirus Strains Letter: Vera Gouvea and Norma 2385-2386
in the United States Santos. Reply: Jon R. Gentsch and
Roger I. Glass



Histoplasma capsulatum Antigen Detection: Comparison of Letter: Joe Wheat. Reply: B. Gornez, 2387
the Performance Characteristics of a New Inhibition A. Restrepo, A. J. Hamilton, J. 1.
Immunoassay to Those of an Established Antibody Figueroa, and R. J. Hay
Sandwich Immunoassay



Rare Case of Failure by an Automated System To Detect Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis, Alkiviadis 2388
Extended-Spectrum P-Lactamase in a Cephalosporin- C. Vatopoulos, George Katsanis,
Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolate and Eva Tzelepi



Diagnosis and Management of Nocardia Keratitis Letter: Savitri Sharma and M. S. 2389
Sridhar. Reply: Urna M. Tendolkar



Detection of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Samples Frozen Gulden Yilmaz, Nilgun lsik, Nilgun 2390
at -20°C Kansak, Selirn Badur, Ozdem Ang,
Serpil Ugur Baysal, and Nedret
Uzel



ERRATUM

Comparison of Simple and Rapid Methods for Identifying Kevan L. Hanson and Charles P. 2391
Enterococci Intrinsically Resistant to Vancomycin Cartwright



AUTHORS' CORRECTIONS

Detection and Characterization of Novel Rotavirus Strains M. Ramachandran, J. R. Gentsch, 2392
in the United States U. D. Parashar, S. Jin, P. A. Woods,
J. L. Holmes, C. D. Kirkwood, R. F.
Bishop, H. B. Greenberg, S.
Urasawa, G. Gerna, B. S. Coulson,
K. Taniguchi, J. S. Bresee, R. I.
Glass, and The National Rotavirus
Strain Surveillance System

________________________

Collaborating Laboratories


Corneal Ulcer Caused by Nocardia asteroides in a Patient Uma M. Tendolkar, Ami Varaiya, 2392
with Leprosy A. S. Ahuja, S. A. Motwane, and
A. S. Gogate

F. Riemann

M. Powell

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Volume 37, No. 1, January 1999


BACTERIOLOGY

Clinical Spectrum of Infections Due to the Newly Described Luc J. M. Sabbe, Dick Van De 8-13
Actinomyces Species A, turicensis, A. radingae, and Merwe, Leo Schouls, Anneke
A. europaeus Bergmans, Mario Vaneechoutte,
and Peter Vandamme



Comparison ofPCR, Culture, and Serological Tests for J. W. Dorigo-Zetsma, S. A. J. Zaat, 14-17
Diagnosis of My coplasma pneumoniae Respiratory Tract P. M. E. Wertheim-van Dillen,
Infection in Children L. Spanjaard, J. Rijntjes, G. van
Waveren, J. S. Jensen,
A. F. Angulo, and J. Dankert




E Test versus Agar Dilution for Antimicrobial Susceptibility S. J. Rosser, M. J. Alfa, S. Hoban, 26-30
Testing of Viridans Group Streptococci J. Kennedy, and G. K. Harding



Diagnosis of Human Ehrlichiosis by PCR Assay of James A. Comer, William L. 31-34
Acute-Phase Serum Nicholson, John W. Surnner, James
G. Olson, and James E. Childs




Heterogeneously Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus Krzysztof Sieradzki, Richard B. 39-44
epidermidis Strain Causing Recurrent Peritonitis in a Roberts, David Serur, Judie
Dialysis Patient during Vancomycin Therapy Hargrave, and Alexander Tomasz



Klebsiella pneumoniae LipopolysaccharideO Typing: Revision Dennis S. Hansen, Francesca 56-62
of Prototype Strains and O-Group Distribution among Mestre, Sebastian Albertf, Santiago
Clinical Isolates from Different Sources and Countries Hernandez-Alles, Dolores Alvarez,
Antonio Domenech-Sanchez, Jose
Gil, Susana Merino, Juan M.
Tomas, and Vicente J. Benedf


Typing of Listeria monocytogenes Strains by Repetitive B. Jersek, P. Gilot, M. Gubina, 103-109
Element Sequence-Based PCR N. Klun, J. Mehle, E. Tcherneva,
N. Rijpens, and L. Herman



Homogeneity of 16S-23S Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Hans Peter Hinrikson, Fabrizio 152-156
Regions of Tropheryma whippeUi in Swiss Patients with Dutly, and Martin Altwegg
Whippier Disease



Detection of Penicillin Susceptibility in Streptococcus A. M. O'Neill, S. H. Gillespie, and 157-160
pneumoniae by pbp2b PCR-Restriction Fragment Length G. C. Whiting
Polymorphism Analysis



Proficiencies of Three Anaerobic Culture Systems for Nguyen Dean, Adolfe Contreras, 171-174
Recovering Periodontal Pathogenic Bacteria Jane Flynn, John Morrison, and
Jorgen Slots



Usefulness of Leifson Staining Method in Diagnosis of Raffaele Piccolomini, Giovanni Di 199-201
Helicobacter pylori Infection Bonaventura, Matteo Neri, Arturo
Di Girolamo, Giovanni Catamo, and
Eligio Pizzigallo



Identification ofYersinia Species by the Vitek GNI Card Hans-Jörg Linde, Heinrich 211-214
Neubauer, Hermann Meyer,
Stojanca Aleksic, and Norbert Lehn



Determination of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole M. Lovgren, l.. DcIl'Acqua, R. 215-217
Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae by Using the E Test Palacio, G. Echaniz-Avilcs,
with Mueller-Hinton Agar Supplemented with Sheep or A. Soto-Noguerön, E. Castaneda,
Horse Blood May Be Unreliable C. I. Agudelo, I. Heitmann,
M. C. Brandileone, R. C. Zanella,




Rapid Identification of Burkholderia pseudomallei by Latex I. Steinmetz, A. Reganzerowski, 225-228
Agglutination Based on an Exopolysaccharide-Spedfic B. Brenneke, S. Haussier, A.
Monoclonal Antibody Simpson, and N. J. White


Ochrobactrum intermedium Infection after Liver Lieke V. M. Möller, Jan P. Arends, 241-244
Transplantation Hermie J. M. Harmsen, Adriaan
Talons, Peter Terpstra, and Maarten
J. H. Slooff




Systemic Infection of an Immunocoinpromised Patient with B. Hornei, E. Lüneberg, H. 248-250
Methylobacterium zatmanii Schmidt-Rotte, M. Maa beta , K. Weber,
F. Heits, M. Frosch, and W. Solbach



Analysis of Legionella pnenmophila Serogroup I Isolates by Thomas J. Marrie, Shaun Tyler, 251-254
Pulsed-Field Gel Electroplioresis Gregory Bezanson, Charles Dendy,
and Wendy Johnson


Evaluation of the Oxoid Dryspot Streptococcal Grouping Kit D. N. Petts 255-257
for Grouping Beta-Hemolytic Streptococci



Serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae by Coagglutination M. K. Lalitha, Kurien Thomas, 263-265
with 12 Pooled Antisera R. Satish Kumar, Mark C. Steinhoff,
and The IBIS Study Group



Increasing Incidence and Comparison of Nalidixic Acid- Christine Heurtin-Le Corre, Pierre- 266-269
Resistant Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serotype Yves Donnio, Monique Perrin,
Typhimurium Isolates from Humans and Animals Marie-France Travert, and Jean-
Loup Avril


CHLAMYDIOLOGY AND RICKETTSIOLOGY

Rapid Identification of Nine Microorganisms Causing Acute Britta Grondahl, Wolfram Puppe, 1-7
Respiratory Tract Infections by Single-Tube Multiplex Andrea Hoppe, Inka Kühne,
Reverse Transcription-PCR: Feasibility Study Josef A. I. Weigl, and
Heinz-Josef Schmitt



Multicenter Evaluation of the Fully Automated COBAS Jean Vincelette, Jurjen Schirm, 74-80
AMPLICOR PCR Test for Detection of Chlamydia Marc Bogard, Anne-Marie
tradlomatis in Urogenital Specimens Bourgault, Dirk S. Luijt, Anne
Bianchi, Pieter C. van Voorst
Vader, Ann Butcher, and Maurice
Rosenstraus


Identity of Ehrlichial DNA Sequences Derived from lxodes M. Petrovec, J. W. Sumner, W. L. 209-210
ricinus Ticks with Those Obtained from Patients with Nicholson, J. E. Childs, F. Strle, J.
Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in Slovenia Barlic, S. LotriC-Furlan, and T.
Avsic Zupanc


MYCOBACTERIOLOGY AND AEROBIC
ACTINOMYCETES
Multicenter Evaluation of the Mycobacteria Growth Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes, Cornelia 45-48
Indicator Tube for Testing Susceptibility of Mycobacterium Domehl, Giampietro Nardi, Maria
tuberculosis to First-Line Drugs Rita Gismondo, Hans-Martin
Welscher, and Gaby E. Pfyffer


Mycobacterium Species Identification and Rifampin A. Troesch, H. Nguyen, C. G. 49-55
Resistance Testing with High-Density DNA Probe Arrays Miyada, S. Desvarenne, T. R.
Gingeras, P. M. Kaplan, P. Cros,
and C. Mabilat


Use of PCR in Detection of Mycobacterium avium Complex Rob Roy MacGregor, Kimberly 90-94
(MAC) Bacteremia: Sensitivity of the Assay and Effect of Dreyer, Steve Herman, Peter K.
Treatment for MAC Infection on Concentrations of Human Hocknell, Lan Nghiem, Vincent J.
Immunodeficiency Virus in Plasma Tevere, and Amy L. Williams



Rapid Identification of Clinically Relevant Nocardia Species Frederic J. Laurent, Frederique 99-102
to Genus Level by 16S rRNA Gene PCR Provost, and Patrick Boiron






Performance Characteristics of the BDProbeTec System for Gaby E. Pfyffer, Pascale Funke- 137-140
Direct Detection otMycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Kissling, Eva Rundler, and Rainer
Respiratory Specimens Weber



False-Positive Gen-Probe Direct Mycobacterium tuberculosis James H. Jorgensen, Jesse R. 175-178
Amplification Test Results for Patients with Pulmonary M, Salinas, Rosemary Paxson, Karen
kansasii and M. avium Infections Magnon, Jan E. Patterson, and
Thomas F. Patterson



Comparison of Two PCRs for Detection of Mycobacterium A. Guimaraes-Peres, F. Portaels, 206-208
ulcerans P. de Rijk, K. Fissette, S. R. Pattyn,
J.-P. van Vooren, and
P.-A. Fonteyne



Evaluation of the Abbott LCx Mycobacterium tuberculosis Maria Grazia Garrino, Youri 229-232
Assay for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Glupczynski, Josiane Degraux,
Complex in Human Samples Henri Nizet, and Michel Deirnee




MYCOLOGY

Disseminated Infection Due to Chrysosporium zonatuin in a Emmanuel Roilides, Lynne Sigler, 18-25
Patient with Chronic Granulomatous Disease and Review of Evangelia Bibashi, Helen Katsifa,
Non-Aspergillus Fungal Infections in Patients with This Nicolas Flaris, and Christos
Disease Panteliadis



Diagnosis otPenicillium marneffei Infection by Quantitation V. Desakorn, M. D. Smith, 117-121
of Urinary Antigen by Using an Enzyme Immunoassay A. L. Walsh, A. J. H. Simpson,
D. Sahassananda, A. Rajanuwong,
V. Wuthiekanun, P. Howe,
B. J. Angus, P. Suntharasamai, and
N. J. White


Detection otPneumocystis carinii DNA in Blood Specimens Meja Rabodonirina, Laurent Cotte, 127-131
from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients by Andre Boibieux, Karine Kaiser,
Nested PCR Martine Mayencon, Didier Raffenot,
Christian Trepo, Dominique
Peyramond, and Stephane Picot



Influence of Incubation Time, Inoculum Size, and Glucose M. Hong Nguyen and 141-145
Concentrations on Spectrophotometric Endpoint Christine Y. Yu
Determinations for Amphotericin B, Fluconazole, and
ltraconazole



Rapid Identification of up to Three Candida Species in a Jong Hee Shin, Frederick S. Nolte, 165-170
Single Reaction Tube by a 5' Exonuclease Assay Using Brian P. Holloway, and Christine J.
Fluorescent DNA Probes Morrison



Metarrhiuum anisopliae as a Cause of Sinusitis in Sanjay G. Revankar, Deanna A. 195-198
Immunocompetent Hosts Sutton, Stephen E. Sanche, Jyothi
Rao, Marcus Zervos, Farnaz Dashti,
and Michael G. Rinaldi



Rapid Identification of Candida glabrata by Using a Dipstick Heidrun Peltroche-Llacsahuanga, 202-205
To Detect Trehalase-Generated Glucose Norbert Schnitzier, Rudolf
Lutticken, and Gerhard Haase



Comparison between PCR and Detection of Antigen in Sera Sumio Kawamura, Shigefumi 218-220
for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Aspergillosis Maesaki, Tetsuhiro Noda, Youichi
Hirakata, Kazunori Tomono,
Takayoshi Tashiro, and Shigeru
Kohno


Case of Onychomycosis Caused by Microsporum racemosum Pedro Garefa-Martos, Josepa Gene, 258-260
Maria Sole, Jose Mira, Ricardo





PARASITOLOGY

Development of a Plasmodium PCR for Monitoring Efficacy Liliane Ciceron, Ginette 35-38
of Antimalarial Treatment Jaureguiberry, Frederick Gay, and
Martin Danis

Improvement of Immunoglobulin M Capture Immunoassay Tamara Tuuminen, Helena 270-273
Specificity: Toxoplasma Antibody Detection Method as a Seppanen, Eeva-Marja Pitkänen,
Model Pekka Palomaki, and Kirsti
Kapyaho



VIROLOGY

Detection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I M. P. de Baar, K. H. M. van der 63-67
Nucleocapsid Protein p7 In Vitro and In Vivo Horn, J. Goudsmit, A. de Ronde,
and F. de Wolf


Quantitative Detection of Hepatitis B Virus DNA in Two Klaus-Hinrich Heermann, Wolfram 68-73
International Reference Plasma Preparations H. Gerlich, Michael Chudy, Stephan
Schaefer, Reiner Thornssen, and
The Eurohep Pathobiology Group



Molecular Epidemiology of Outbreaks of Gastroenteritis Alison J. Maguire, Jon Green, 81-89
Associated with Small Round-Structured Viruses in East David W. G. Brown, Ulrich
Anglia, United Kingdom, During the 1996-1997 Season Desselberger, and James J. Gray



Evaluation of a Novel Dry Latex Preparation for Richard Rogers, Alison Windust, 95-98
Demonstration of Infectious Mononucleosis Hetcrophile and Josie Gregory
Antibody in Comparison with Three Established Tests


Efficiencies of Four Versions of the AMPLICOR HIV-I K. Triques, J. Coste, J. L. Perret, 110-116
MONITOR Test for Quantification of Different Subtypes of C. Segarra, E. Mpoudi, J. Reynes,
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type E. Delaporte, A. Butcher, K.
Dreyer, S. Herman, J. Spadoro, and
M. Peeters



New York I and Sin Nombre Viruses Are Serotypically Irina Gavrilovskaya, Rachel 122-126
Distinct Viruses Associated with Hantavirus Pulmonary LaMonica, Mary-Ellen Fay, Brian
Syndrome Hjelle, Connie Schmaljohn, Robert
Shaw, and Erich R. Mackow



Quantitative Analysis of Epstein-Barr Virus Load by Using Hiroshi Kirnura, Makoto Morita, 132-136
a Real-Time PCR Assay Yumi Yabuta, Kiyotaka Kuzushirna,
Koji Kato, Seiji Kojima, Takaharu
Matsuyama, and Tsuneo Morishima



Nucleic Acid-Based Cross-Linking Assay for Detection and Vicky C. H. Lai, Richard Guan, 161-164
Quantification of Hepatitis B Virus DNA Michael L. Wood, Su Kong Lo,
Man-Fung Yuen, and Ching-Lung
Lai




Molecular Finc-Specificity Analysis of Antibody Responses Astrid E. Greijer, Jos M. G. van de 179-188
to Human Cytomegalovirus and Design of Novel Synthetic- Crommert, Servi J. C. Stevens, and
Peptide-Based Serodiagnostic Assays Jaap M. Middeldorp




Definition of False-Positive Reactions in Screening for Matthias SchrÖter, Heinz-Hubert 233-234
Hepatitis C Virus Antibodies Feucht, Peter Schäfer, Bernhard
Zöllner, Susanne Polywka, and
Rainer Laufs



Viral Superinfection in Previously Unrecognized Chronic Chia-Ming Chu, Chau-Ting Yeh, 235-237
Carriers of Hepatitis B Virus with Superimposed Acute and Yun-Fan Liaw
Fulminant versus Nonfulminant Hepatitis



Molecular Evidence for Transmission of Human W. V. Bolton, A. R. Davis, Y. C. Ge, 238-240
T-Lymphotropic Virus Type II Infection by a Human Bite D. E. Dwyer, K. G. Kenrick, A. L.
Cunningharn, and N. K. Saksena



Optimal Activation of Isopsoralen To Prevent Amplicon Gary A. Fahle, Vee J. Gill, and 261-262
Carryover Steven H. Fischer

Rufz-Henestrosa, and Josep Guarro

A. Rossi. J. Pace J. A. Tidbot , and
The Pneumococcal Study Group

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MINIREVIEW
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Recent Advances in Determining the Pathogencsis of Canine Shimon Harrus, Trevor Waner, 2745-2749
Monocytic Ehriichiosis Hylton Bark, Frans Jongejan, and
Albert W. C. A, Cornelissen


BACTERIOLOGY

PCR-Based Methods for Genotyping Viridans Group Sharinin Alam, Susan R. Braiisford, 2772-2776
Streptococci Robert A. Whiley, and David
Beighton



Outbreak ofMupirocin-Resistant Staphylococci in a Tomasz A. Leski, Marck 2781-2788
Hospital in Warsaw, Poland, Due to Plasmid Transmission Gniadkowski, Anna Skoczyriska,
and Clonal Spread of Several Strains Elzbicta Stefaniuk, Krzysztof
Trzciriski, and Waleria Hryniewicz

Rapid Slide Latex Agglutination Test for Detection of Arjanne van GnethLiyscn, Miranda 2789-2792
Methicillin Resistance in Staphyhcoccus aureus Pouw, Nan van Leeuwcn, Max
Heck, Piet Willernse, Anton Buiting,
and Jan Kluytmans

Prospective Cohort Study of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Gloria I. Viboud, Mabel J. Jouve, 2829-2833
Infections in Argentinean Children Norma Binsztein, Marta Vergara,
Marta Rivas, Marina Quiroga, and
Ann-Mari Svennerhoirn

Evidence of Clonal Dissemination ofMultidrug-Resistant Margaret lp, Donald J. Lyon, 2834-2839
Streptococcus pneumoniae in Hong Kong Raymond W. H. Yung, Colin Chan,
and Augustine F, B. Cheng


Molecutar Characterization of the Genera Proteus, S, Pignato, G, M, Giammanco, 2840-2847
Morganella, and Providencia by Ribotyping F, Grirnont, P, A. D. Grimont, and
G. Giammanco


Comparison of PCR, Culture, and Direct Fluorescent- Mike J. Loeffelholz, Curt J. 2872-2876
Antibody Testing for Detection of Bordeteila pertussis Thompson, Karia S. Long, and
Mary J. R. Gilchrist


Value of a Single-Tube Widal Test in Diagnosis of Typhoid Christopher M. Parry, Nguycn Thi 2882-2886
Fever in Vietnam Tuyet Hoa, To Song Dicp, John
Wain, Nguyen Tran Chinh, Ha
Vinh, Tran Tinh Hien, Nicholas J.
White, and Jcrcmy J. Farrar


International Multicenter Evaluation of the Clinical Utility Henk L, Smits, Ylilm V. Ananyina, 2904-2909
of a Dipstick Assay for Detection of Lepfospira-Specific Annette Chereshsky, Louella
IminunoglobuHn M Antibodies in Human Serum Specimens Dancel, Rudy F, M, Lai-A-Fat,
Howard D. Chee, Paul N. Levett,
Toshiyuki Masuzawa, Yasutake
Yanagihara, M, A, Muthlisethupathi,
Eduarcl J. Sanders, David M. Sasaki,
Harry Domen, Claude Yersin, Tin
Aye; Sandra L. Bragg, George C.
Gussenhoven, Marga G. A, Goris,
Wiepko J. Terpstra, and Rudy A,
Hartskeeri



Isolation of Rifampin-Resistant Mutants ofListeria Robert Morse, Karcn O'Hanlon, 2913-2919
monocytogenes and Their Characterization by rpoB Gene Mumtaz Virji, and Matthew D,
Sequencing, Temperature Sensitivity for Growth, and Collins
Interaction with an Epithelial Cell Line




Comparison of Susceptibility Testing Methods with mecA P. Kohner, J. Uhl, C. Kolbert, 2952-2961
Gene Analysis for Determining Oxacillin (Methicillin) D. Persing, and F. Cockerill III
Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Staphytococcus aureus and


Coagulase-Negative Staphytococcus spp,


Skin Carriage ofAcinetobacters in Hong Kong Y, W. Chu, C. M, Leung, E. T. S. 2962-2967
Houang, K, C Ng, C- B. Leung,
H, Y, Lcung, and A. F. B. Cheng


Vlienotypic Diversity of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Leonard F. Peruski, Jr., Bradford A. 2974-2978
Strains from a Community-Based Study of Pediatric Kay, Remon Abu EI-Yazeed, Sahar
Diarrhea in Periurban Egypt H. EI-Etr, Alejandro Cravioto,
Thomas F. Wierzba, Malla Rao,
Nemat El-Ghorab, Hind Shahccn,
Sami B. Khalil, Karim Kamal,
Momtaz O. Wasfy, Ann-Mari
Svennerholm, John D. Clemens, and
Stephen J. Savarino


Simple and Accurate PCR-Based System for Typing J. C. Atherton, T. L. Cover, R. J. 2979-2982
Vacuolating Cytotoxin Alleles of HeUcobacter pylori Twells, M. R. Morales, C. J.
Hawkey, and M, J. Blaser


Evaluation of Reference Dilution Test Methods for Lisa Saiman, Jane L. Burns, Susan 2987-2991
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Pseudomonas Whitticr, Jay Krzewinski, Steve A.
aeruginosa Strains Isolated from Patients with Cystic Marshall, and Ronald N. Jones
Fibres is


Colonization of Mexican Patients by Multiple Helicobacter Rosario Morales-Espinosa, Gonzalo 3001-3004
pylori Strains with Different vacA and cagA Genotypes Castillo-Rojas, Gerardo Gonzalez-
Valencia, Sergio Ponce de Leon,
Alejandro Cravioto, John C.
Atherton, and Yolanda Lopez-Vidal


Common Ancestry of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Strains D, Postic, N. Marti Ras, R. S. Lane, 3010-3012
from North America and Europe P.-R Humair, M. M. Wittenbrink,
and G. Baranton


Comparison of Commercial Amies Transport Systems with Dorma S. Thompson and Susanne 3020-3021
In-House Amies Medium for Recovery of Neisseria A. French
gonorrhoeae


Phenotypic and Genetic Characterization of a Novel Borrelia Guiqing Wang, Alje P. van Dam, 3025-3028
burgdorferi Sensu Lato Isolate from a Patient with Lyme and Jacob Dankert
Borreliosis


Rapid Detection of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus WilIem B. van Leeuwen, Cindy van 3029-3030
aureus Isolates by the MRSA-Screen Latex Agglutination Pelt, Ad Luljendijk, Menri A.
Test Verbrugh, and Wil H. R Goessens



Molecular Characteruatlon and Antibiotic Susceptibilities Leonardo A. Sechi, Antonio Pinna, 3031-3033
of Ocular Isolates otStaphyhcoccus epidermidis Cinzia Pusccddu, Giovanni Fadda,
Francesco Carta, and Stefania
Zanetti


Evaluation of the Effects of Storage in Two Different Swab E, Roelofsen, M, van Leeuwen, 3041-3043
Fabrics and under Three Different Transport Conditions on G. J. Meijer-Severs, M. H. F,
Recovery ofAerobic and Anaerohic Bacteria Wilkinson, and J. E. Degener


Evaluation of Two Rapid Assays for Detection of Clostridium Daniel P. Fedorko, Howard D, 3044-3047
dijficile Toxin A in Stool Specimens Engler, Elizabeth M.
O'Shaughnessy, Esther C. Williams,
Cynthia J. Reichelderfer, and
William I, Smith, Jr.


Isolation of Providencia heimbachae from Human Feces Caroline Mohr O'Hara, Arnic G. 3048-3050
Steigerwalt, Donna Green, Michael
McDowell, Bertha C. Hill, Don L
Brenner, and J. Michael Miller


Evaluation of the Lcukocyte Esterase and Nitrite Urine Heather Semeniuk and Deirdre 3051-3052
Dipstick Screening Tests for Detection of Bacteriuria in Church
Women with Suspected Uncornplicated Urinary Tract
Infections


Replacement for 30-Milliliter Flat-Bottomed, Glass- Victoria Pope and Arnold Castro 3053-3054
Stoppered, Round Bottles Used in VDRL Antigen
Preparation



Identification of and Hydrogen Peroxide Production by Fecal Yu-Li Song, Naoki Kato, Yoshiko 3062-3064
and Vaginal Lactobacilli Isolated from Japanese Women Matsumiya, Cheng-Xu Liu, Haiu
and Newborn Infants Kato, and Kunitomo Watanabc



Interactions between Methicillin and Vancomycin in Robin A. Howe, Mandy Wootton, 3068-3071
Methicillin-Resistant Staphytococcus aureus Strains Peter M. Bennett, Alasdair P.
Displaying Different Phenotypes of Vancomycin MaeGowan, and Timothy R. Walsh
Susceptibility



CHLAMYDIOLOGY AND RICKETTSIOLOGY


Impact of Reference Standard Sensitivity on Accuracy of M, Chernesky, D, Jang, J. Krepel, 2777-2780
Rapid Antigen Detection Assays and a Lcukocyte Esterase J. Sellers, and J. Mahony
Dipstick for Diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in
First-Void Urine Specimens from Men



Infection with Agents of Human Granulocytic Ehriichiosis, Kirby C Stafford III, Robert R 2887-2892
Lyme Discase, and Babesiosis in Wild White-Footed Mice Massung, Louis A. Magnarelli,
(Peromyscus leucopus) in Connecticut Jacob W, IJdo, and John F.
Anderson


Inter- and Intralaboratory Comparison of EhrUchia equi and Jennifer J. Walls, Maria Agucro- 2968-2973
Huoian Granulocytic Ehriichiosis (HGE) Agent Strains for Roscnfeld, Johan S. Bakken, Jesse
Serodiagnosis of HGE by the Immunofluorescent-Antibody L. Goodman, Deloar Hossain,
Test Russell C. Johnson, and L Stephen
Dumler


Outcome of Diagnostic Tests Using Samples from Patients James E. Childs, John W, Sumner, 2997-3000
with Culture-Proven Human Monocytic Ehriichiosis: William L. Nicholson, Robert R
Implications for Surveillance Massung, Steven M, Standaert, and
Christopher D. Paddock


Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis Endocervical Infections K. B. Waites, K, R, Smith, M, A. 3072- 3073
hy Ligase Chain Reaction versus ACCESS Chlamydia Crum, R, D. Hockett, A. H. Wells,
Antigen Assay and EL W. Hook Til


MYCOBACTERIOLOGY AND AEROBIC
ACTINOMYCETES

Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Assay Using Peptide Henrik Stender, Kaare Lund, 2760-2765
Nucleic Acid Probes for Differentiation between Tuberculous Kenneth HL Petersen, Ole F.
and Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Species in Smears of Rasmussen, Poonpilas Hongrnanee,
Mycobacterium Cultures Hakan Miorner, and Sven E.
Clodlfredsen


Discrimmation ofMultidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium Isabel Portugal, Sara Maia, and Jose 3022-3024
tuberculosis IS6110 Fingerprint Subclusters by rpoB Gene Moniz-Pereira
Mutation Analysis


Recurrent, Disseminated Mycobacterium marinum Infection G. Frank Hoirncs, Susan M. 3059-3061
Caused by the Same Genotypically Defined Strain in an Harrington, Mark J. Romagnoli,
lmniunocomproinised Padent and William G, Merz


MYCOLOGY

Phylogenetic Analysis of Rhinosporidium seeberi's18S Small- Roger A, Herr, Libero Ajello, John 2750-2754
Subunit Ribosomal DNA Groups This Pathogen among W. Taylor, Sarath N, Arseculeratnc,
Members of the Protoctistan Mesomycetozoa Clade and Leonel Mendoza

Voriconazole Susceptibility Testing of Candida: Effects of M, Lozano-Chiu, S. Arikan, V, L 2755-2759
Incubation Time, Endpoint Rule, Species of Candida, and Paetznick, E. J, Anaissie, and L H.
Level of Fluconazole Susceptibility Rex



Elucidating the Origins ofNosocoinial Infections with F. Marco, S. R, Lockhart, M. A. 2817-2828
Candida albicans by DNA Fingerprinting with the Complex Pfaller, C. Pujol, M. S. Rangel-
Probe Ca3 Frausto, T. Wiblin, H, M, Blumberg,
J. E. Edwards, W. Jarvis, L. Saiman,
J. E. Patterson, M. G. Rinaldi, R. P.
Wenzel, The NEMIS Study Group,
and D. R, Soil


Presence of a and a Mating Types in Environmental and C. L Halliday, T. Bui, 2920-2926
Clinical CoHectiuns of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii M. Kiockenberger, R. Malik, D. H.
Strains from Australia EIHs, and D. A. Carter


Onychomycosis Caused by Blastoschizomyces capitalus Domenico D'Antonio, Ferdinando 2927-2930
Roniano, Antonio lacone, Beatrice
Violante, Paolo Fazii, Eugenio
Pontieri, Tommaso Staniscia,
Claudia Caracciolo, Stefano
Bianchini, Roberta Sferra,
Antonella Vctuschi, Eugenio
Gaudio, and Giuseppe Carruba


PARASITOLOGY

Value of Prenatal Diagnosis and Early Postnatal Diagnosis Florence Robert-Gangneux, Marie- 2893-2898
of Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Retrospective Study of 110 Francoise Gavinet, Thierry Ancellc,
Cases Josette Raymond, Claudine Tourte-
Schaefer, and Jean Dupouy-Camet


Detection of the Plasmodium fakiparum Antigen Histidine- Rose F. G. Leke, Rosine R. 2992-2996
Rich Protein 2 in Blood of Pregnant Women: Implications Djokarn, Robinson Mbu, Robert J,
for Diagnosing Placental Malaria Leke, Josephine Fogako, Rosette
Megnekou, Simon Metenou, Grace
Sama, Yuan Zhou, Timothy
Cadigan, Marcela Parra, and Diane
Wallace Taylor


Immunochromatographic Strip-Based Detection of Dylan R. Pillai and Kevin C. Kain 3017-3019
FMamoeba histolytica-E. dispar and Giardio lamblia
Coproantigen


Analysis by Enzyme-Linked linmunosorhent Assay and PCR G. Zcngzhu, R. Bracha, 3034-3036
of Human Liver Abscess Aspirates from Patients in China Y.Nuchamowitz,W.Cheng-i,and
for Entamoeba histolyca D.Mirelman



VIROLOGY

Automated Quantitative Analysis of Hepatitis B Virus DNA Ulrika Noborg, Annkatrin Gusdal. 2793-2797
by Using the Cobas Amplicor HBV Monitor Test Eva K. Pisa, Anders Hedrum, and
Magnus Lindh


Use of Molecular Assays in Diagnosis and Monitoring of Celia Aitken, Winsome Barrett- 2804-2807
Cytomegalovirus Disease following Renal Transplantation Muir, Colin Millar, Kate TempiGlun,
Janice Thomas, Fran Sheridan,
Donald Jeffries, Magdi Yaqoob. and
Judith Breuer


Rapid Detection of Human Rhinoviruses in Nasopharyngeal S. Blomqvist, A. Skytta, M. 2813-2816
Aspirates by a Microwell Reverse Transcription-PCR- Roivainen, and T Hovi
Hybridization Assay
Monitoring of Epstein-Barr Virus DNA Load in Peripheral Servi J. C Stevcns, Marcel B, II, L 2852-2857
Blood by Quantitative Competitive PCR Vervoort, Adriaan J. C van den
Brute, Pieter L, Meenhorst, Chris
J.L. M, Mcijcr, and Jaap M.
Middeldorp


Antigenic Domains of the Open Reading Frame 2-Encoded Yury E, Khudyakov, Elena N. 2863-2871
Protein of Hepatitis E Virus Lopareva, Danny L. Juc, Tamara K.
Crews, S. P, Thyagarajan, and
Howard A. Fields



Qnantitation of Hepatitis B Virus Genomic DNA by Real- Aki Abe, Kazuaki Inouc, Takeshi 2899-2903
Time Detecti