Microbiology Publications 2004

 Laboratory Publications: June - December 2004

June 2004

• Choi KS, Grab DJ, Dumler JS. Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection induces protracted neutrophil degranulation. Infect Immun. 2004; 72:3680-3.
• von Loewenich FD, Scorpio DG, Reischl U, Dumler JS, Bogdan, C. Control of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, an obligate intracellular pathogen, in the absence of inducible nitric oxide synthase, phagocyte NADPH oxidase, tumor necrosis factor, Toll-like receptor (TLR)2 and TLR4, or the TLR adaptor molecule MyD88. Eur J Immunol 2004; 34:1789-1797.
• Carrie L. Byington, MD, F. Rene Enriquez, BS, Charles Hoff, PhD, Richard Tuohy, MIBS, E. William Taggart, BS, David R. Hillyard, MD, Karen C. Carroll, MD and John C. Christenson, MD. 2004. Serious Bacterial Infections in Febrile Infants 1 to 90 Days Old With and Without Viral Infections. Pediatrics 113:1662-1666.

 July 2004

• Bhally, H.S., C. Shields, S.Y. Lin and W.G. Merz.  2004.  Otitis caused by Scedosporium apiospermum in an immunocompetent child.  Internat. J. Ped. Otorhinolaryn. 68: 975-978.
• Dumler JS, Brouqui P. Molecular diagnosis of human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2004; 4:559-69. 
• von Loewenich FD, Scorpio DG, Reischl U, Dumler JS, Bogdan C. Frontline: control of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, an obligate intracellular pathogen, in the absence of inducible nitric oxide synthase, phagocyte NADPH oxidase, tumor necrosis factor, Toll-like receptor (TLR)2 and TLR4, or the TLR adaptor molecule MyD88. Eur J Immunol. 2004; 34:1789-97.

August 2004

• Flayhart D, Lema, C, Borek A, Carroll KC. Comparison of the BBL CHROMagar Staph aureus agar medium to conventional media for detection of Staphylococcus aureus in respiratory samples. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Aug;42(8):3566-9.
• Cosgrove SE, Carroll K, Perl T. Vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Infect Dis 2004. Aug.
• Park J, Kim KJ, Choi K-S, Grab DJ, Dumler JS. Anaplasma phagocytophilum AnkA binds to granulocyte DNA and nuclear proteins. Cell Microbiol 2004; 6:743-751.
• Santos AS, Santos-Silva MM, Almeida VC, Bacellar F, Dumler JS. Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA in Ixodes ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from Madeira Island and Setubal District, Mainland Portugal. Emerg Infect Dis 2004; 10:1643-1648.
• Foley JE, Foley P, Brown RN, Lane RS, Dumler JS, Madigan JE. Ecology of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi in the western United States. J Vector Ecol. 2004; 29:41-50.
• Hyon J-Y, Joo M-J, Hose S, Sinha D, Dick JD, O'Brien TP. Comparative efficacy of topical gatifloxacin with ciprofloxacin, amikacin, and clarithromycin in the treatment of experimental Mycobacterium cheloae keratitis. Arch Ophthalmol. 2004; 122:1166-1169.
• Frank C. Odds, Mary Motyl, Roberto Andrade, Jacques Bille, Emilia Cantón, Manuel Cuenca-Estrella, Amanda Davidson, Christian Durussel, David Ellis, Elyse Foraker, Annette W. Fothergill, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, Robert A. Giacobbe, Miguel Gobernado, Rosemary Handke, Michel Laverdière, Wendy Lee-Yang, William G. Merz, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Javier Pemán, Sophia Perea, John R. Perfect, Michael A. Pfaller, Laurie Proia, John H. Rex, Michael G. Rinaldi, Juan-Luis Rodriguez-Tudela, Wiley A. Schell, Christine Shields, Deanna A. Sutton, Paul E. Verweij, and David W. Warnock. Interlaboratory Comparison of Results of Susceptibility Testing with Caspofungin against Candida and Aspergillus Species. J Clin Microbiol, 2004 Aug; 42(8):3475-82.
• M.S. Forman and A. Valsamakis.  Increased sensitivity of the Roche COBAS AMPLICOR HCV test v.2.0, using modified extraction techniques.  J. Molec. Diag. 6:225-30, 2004.
• M.S. Forman and A. Valsamakis.  Verification of an assay for quantification of HCV RNA using an analyte specific reagent and two different extraction methods.  J. Clin. Micro. 42:3581-8, 2004.  

 September 2004

• Scorpio DG, Akkoyunlu M, Fikrig E, Dumler JS. CXCR2 Blockade influences Anaplasma phagocytophilum propagation but not histopathology in the mouse model of human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 2004; 11:963-8. 
• Lepidi H, Fenollar F, Dumler JS, Gauduchon V, Chalabreysse L, Bammert A, Bonzi MF, Thivolet-Bejui F, Vandenesch F, Raoult D. Cardiac valves in patients with Whipple endocarditis: microbiological, molecular, quantitative histologic, and immunohistochemical studies of 5 patients. J Infect Dis. 2004; 190:935-45.
• Santos AS, Santos-Silva MM, Almeida VC, Bacellar F, Dumler JS. Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA in Ixodes ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from Madeira Island and Setúbal District, Mainland Portugal. Emerg Infect Dis 2004; 10:1643-1648.
• Foley JE, Foley P, Brown RN, Lane RS, Dumler JS, Madigan JE. Ecology of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi in the western United States. J Vector Ecol. 2004; 29:41-50.
• Nicole M. Parrish, Chiew G. Ko, Minerva A. Hughes, Craig A. Townsend, and James D. Dick.  2004.  Effect of n-octanesulphonylacetamide (OSA) on ATP and protein expression in Mycobacterium bovis BCG.  J. Antimicrob. Chemother.  54(4): 722-9.
• Liu Z, Netski DM, Mao Q, Laeyendecker O, Ticehurst JR, Wang XH, Thomas DL, Ray SC.  Accurate representation of the hepatitis C virus quasispecies in 5.2-kilobase amplicons. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Sep;42(9):4223-9. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15365015]
• Bakken JS, Dumler JS. Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasmosis. Infect Med 2004; 21: 433-451

November 2004

• Dumler JS, Walker DH.  Murine typhus (Chapter 188). In: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, Sixth Edition; Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R (eds), Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, Phila. PA. 2004, pages 2306-2309.
• Walker DH, Dumler JS.  Ehrlichia chaffeensis (human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis), Anaplasma phagocytophilum (human anaplasmosis), and other ehrlichiae (Chapter 190).  In: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, Fifth Edition; Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R (eds), Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, Phila. PA. 2004, pages 2310-2318.
• Stone JH, Dierberg K, Aram G, Dumler JS.  Human monocytic ehrlichiosis. JAMA. 2004; 292:2263-70.
• Dumler JS, Walker DH. Ehrlichiosis. In: Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 18th Edition; Heymann D.L. (ed.). American Public Health Association, Washington, DC. 2004; pages 187-190.

 December 2004 

• Harrington SM, Ross TL, Gebo KA, Merz WG. 2004. Vancomycin resistance, esp, and strain relatedness: a 1-year study of enterococcal bacteremia. J Clin Microbiol. 42(12):5895-8.
• James J. Mcdevitt, Peter S. J. Lees, William G. Merz, Kellogg J. Schwab. 2004. Development of a method to detect and quantify Aspergillus fumigatus conidia by quantitative PCR for environmental air samples. Mycopathologia 158: pp. 325-335
• Maragakis LL, Cosgrove SE, Song X, Kim D, Rosenbaum P, Ciesla N, Srinivasan A, Ross T, Carroll K, Perl TM. An outbreak of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii associated with pulsatile lavage wound treatment.  JAMA. 2004 Dec 22;292(24):3006-11.
• Headley SA, Vidotto O, Scorpio D, Dumler JS, Mankowski J.  Suspected cases of neorickettsia-like organisms in brazilian dogs. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2004; 1026:79-83. (November, but pubmed listed in Dec)