REVIEW
	Novel peptide therapeutics for treatment of infections
	P. C. F. Oyston, M. A. Fox, S. J. Richards, and G. C. Clark
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 977-987. [Abstract] [Free Full Text] [PDF]   IMMEDIATE OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE
	Distribution of espM and espT among enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli
	Ana Arbeloa, Miguel Blanco, Fabiana C. Moreira, Richard Bulgin, Cecilia López, Ghizlane Dahbi, Jesús E. Blanco, Azucena Mora, María Pilar Alonso, Rosalia Ceferina Mamani, Tânia A. T. Gomes, Jorge Blanco, and Gad Frankel
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 988-995. [Abstract] [Free Full Text] [PDF]   IMMEDIATE OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
	Lactobacillus salivarius modulates cytokine induction and virulence factor gene expression in Helicobacter pylori
	Kieran A. Ryan, Ann M. O'Hara, Jan-Peter van Pijkeren, François P. Douillard, and Paul W. O'Toole
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 996-1005. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Uropathogens from diabetic patients in Libya: virulence factors and phylogenetic groups of Escherichia coli isolates
	Khalifa Sifaw Ghenghesh, Einass Elkateb, Nuri Berbash, Rania Abdel Nada, Salwa F. Ahmed, Amal Rahouma, Nadia Seif-Enasser, Mohamed-Abdulwahab Elkhabroun, Taher Belresh, and John D. Klena
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1006-1014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]

HOST RESPONSE
	Bacteroides fragilis signals through Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and not through TLR4
	Mohammad Alhawi, John Stewart, Clett Erridge, Sheila Patrick, and Ian R. Poxton
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1015-1022. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

DIAGNOSTICS, TYPING AND IDENTIFICATION
	Role of PCR in the diagnosis of pertussis infection in infants: 5 years' experience of provision of a same-day real-time PCR service in England and Wales from 2002 to 2007
	Norman K. Fry, John Duncan, Karen Wagner, Oceanis Tzivra, Nita Doshi, David J. Litt, Natasha Crowcroft, Elizabeth Miller, Robert C. George, and Timothy G. Harrison
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1023-1029. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Guidelines for interpretation of 16S rRNA gene sequence-based results for identification of medically important aerobic Gram-positive bacteria
	Patrick C. Y. Woo, Jade L. L. Teng, Jeff K. L. Wu, Fion P. S. Leung, Herman Tse, Ami M. Y. Fung, Susanna K. P. Lau, and Kwok-yung Yuen
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1030-1036. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]
	An improved rapid quantitative detection and identification method for a wide range of fungi
	Nobutoshi Soeta, Masanori Terashima, Mitsukazu Gotoh, Shuichi Mori, Kyoko Nishiyama, Ken Ishioka, Hisatoshi Kaneko, and Tatsuo Suzutani
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1037-1044. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	A new multiplex PCR-based reverse line-blot hybridization (mPCR/RLB) assay for rapid staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing
	Lin Cai, Fanrong Kong, Qinning Wang, Huiping Wang, Meng Xiao, Vitali Sintchenko, and Gwendolyn L. Gilbert
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1045-1057. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
	Pro-apoptotic effect of the landrace Bangla Mahoba of Piper betle on Leishmania donovani may be due to the high content of eugenol
	Pragya Misra, Awanish Kumar, Prashant Khare, Swati Gupta, Nikhil Kumar, and Anuradha Dube
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1058-1066. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Role of persisters and small-colony variants in antibiotic resistance of planktonic and biofilm-associated Staphylococcus aureus: an in vitro study
	Rachna Singh, Pallab Ray, Anindita Das, and Meera Sharma
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1067-1073. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Antifungal activity of thymol against clinical isolates of fluconazole-sensitive and -resistant Candida albicans
	Na Guo, Jingbo Liu, Xiuping Wu, Xingming Bi, Rizeng Meng, Xuelin Wang, Hua Xiang, Xuming Deng, and Lu Yu
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1074-1079. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Relevance of resistance levels to carbapenems and integron-borne blaIMP-1, blaIMP-7, blaIMP-10 and blaVIM-2 in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
	Wei-Hua Zhao, Gelin Chen, Ribu Ito, and Zhi-Qing Hu
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1080-1085. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Triclosan resistance in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii
	Yagang Chen, Borui Pi, Hua Zhou, Yunsong Yu, and Lanjuan Li
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1086-1091. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Reduced susceptibility to amoxicillin of oral streptococci following amoxicillin exposure
	H. Chardin, K. Yasukawa, N. Nouacer, C. Plainvert, P. Aucouturier, A. Ergani, V. Descroix, R. Toledo-Arenas, J. Azerad, and A. Bouvet
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1092-1097. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY
	Detection of Cryptococcus by conventional, serological and molecular methods
	Dolan Champa Saha, Immaculata Xess, Ashutosh Biswas, Dipankar M. Bhowmik, and M. V. Padma
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1098-1105. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Rapid diagnosis of candidaemia by real-time PCR detection of Candida DNA in blood samples
	Nele Wellinghausen, Dunja Siegel, Juliane Winter, and Susanne Gebert
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1106-1111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
	Distribution of Escherichia coli F4 adhesion phenotypes in pigs of 15 Chinese and Western breeds and a White DurocxErhualian intercross
	Xueming Yan, Xiang Huang, Jun Ren, Zhengzhi Zou, Shujin Yang, Jing Ouyang, Weihong Zeng, Bin Yang, Shijun Xiao, and Lusheng Huang
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1112-1117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CASE REPORTS
	Colonization of the tip of a thoracic catheter by Enterococcus faecalis resistant to vancomycin and linezolid
	Franca Cian, Roberto Luzzati, Maria Luisa Deiana, Nicoletta Ferrantelli, Enrico Tonin, Cristina Lagatolla, and Lucilla Dolzani
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1118-1121. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CORRESPONDENCE
	Proposal for a reliable enterococcal cytolysin production assay avoiding apparent incongruence between phenotype and genotype
	F. B. Gaspar, M. T. B. Crespo, and M. F. S. Lopes
	J Med Microbiol 2009. 58: 1122-1124. [Full Text] [PDF]

To see an article, click its [Full Text] or [PDF] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.