Microbiology Publications 2005

Laboratory Publications: 2005

  January 2005: 

• Koutaro M, Santos AS, Dumler JS, Brouqui P. Distribution of 'Ehrlichia walkeri' in Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) from the northern part of Italy. J Med Entomol. 2005; 42:82-5.
• Francis JS, Doherty MC, Lopatin U, Johnston CP, Sinha G, Ross T, Cai M, Hansell NN, Perl T, Ticehurst JR, Carroll K, Thomas DL, Nuermberger E, Bartlett JG.  2005. Severe community-onset pneumonia in healthy adults caused by methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying the Panton Valentine leukocidin genes.  Clin Infect Dis 40:100-7
• Ross TL, Fuss EP, Harrington SM, Cai M, Perl TM, Merz WG. 2005. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus capra in a neonatal intensive care unit. J Clin Micro 43:363-367.

 February 2005: 

• Garyu JW, Choi KS, Grab DJ, Dumler JS. Defective phagocytosis in Anaplasma phagocytophilum-infected neutrophils. Infect Immun. 2005; 73:1187-90. 
• Grab DJ, Perides G, Dumler JS, Kim KJ, Park J, Kim YV, Nikolskaia O, Choi KS, Stins MF, Kim KS. Borrelia burgdorferi, host-derived proteases, and the blood-brain barrier. Infect Immun. 2005; 73:1014-22.

April 2005:

• Alghaferi MY, Anderson JM, Park J, Auwaerter PG, Aucott JN, Norris DE, Dumler JS. Borellia burgdorferi ospC heterogeneity among human and murine isolates from a defined region of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania: lack or correlation with invasive and noninvasive genotypes. J Clin Microbiol. 2005; 43:1879-84.
• Dumler JS, Paddock CP. Clinical and pathologic atlas of tick-borne diseases. In: Goodman JL, Dennis DT, and Soneshine DE (eds) Tick-Borne Diseases of Humans. ASM Press, Washington D, 2005
• Jabs, DA, Martin BK, Forman MS, Ricks MO. Cytomegalovirus Blood DNA Load, Retinitis Progression, and Resistance in Patients With Cytomegalovirus Retinitis; JID

 May 2005:

• Davis, L.E., C.E. Shields and W.G.Merz. 2002.  Use of a commercial reagent leads to reduced germ tube production of Candida dubliniensis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43: 2465-2466.

June 2005:

• Jain,S.K. A. Gupta, B. Glanz, J. Dick, and G.K. Siberry. 2005. Antimicrobial-resistant Shigella sonnei. Limited antimicrobial treatment options for children and challenges of interpreting in vitro azithromycin susceptibility.Pediatr Infect. Dis. J. 24 : 494-497.
• Borek A, Aird DZ, Carroll KC. 2005.  Clostridium difficile toxin assay sample submission frequency for optimal test utilization. J Clin Microbiol 43:2994-95.

July 2005:

• Cloud JL, Carroll KC, Cohen S, Anderson CM, Woods GL.  2005 Interpretive criteria for use of AccuProbe for identification of Mycobacterium avium complex directly from 7H9 broth cultures. J Clin Microbiol 43:3474-8/

August/September 2005:

• Dumler JS, Walker DH. Rocky Mountain spotted fever--changing ecology and persisting virulence. N Engl J Med. 2005; 353:551-3.
• Halasz CL, Niedt GW, Kurtz CP, Scorpio DG, Bakken JS, Dumler JS.  A case of Sweet syndrome associated with human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Arch Dermatol. 2005; 141:887-9.
• Book: The 10^th edition of Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infections Medical Mycology, Ed. William G. Merz and Roderick J. Hay

November 2005:

• Kim,D.H., W.J. Stark, T.P. O'Brien and J.D. Dick.2005. Aqueous penetration and biological activity of moxifloxacin 0.5% ophthalmic solution and gatifloxacin 0.3% solution in cataract surgery patients. Ophthalmology 112:1992-1996 (November)
  Key words: cataract surgery,aqueous penetration, moxifloxacin, gatifloxacin, biological activity.
• As Ross, T.L., W.G. Merz, M. Farkosh and K.C. Carroll.  2005.  Comparison of an automated repetitive element PCR microbial typing system to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for analysis of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.  J. Clin. Microbiol. 43: 5642-5647.
• Flayhart D, Hindler JF, Bruckner DA, Hall G, Shrestha RK, Vogel SA, Richter SS, Howard W, Walther R, and Carroll KC. 2005 Nov.. Multicenter evaluation of BBL CHROMagar MRSA medium for direct detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from nasal surveillance cultures of the anterior nares. Journal Clinical Microbiology 43:5536-40.
  Key words: Staphylococcus aureus, CHROMagar, MRSA, surveillance cultures
• Coulter P, Lema C, Flayhart D, Linhardt AS, Aucott JN, Auwaerter PG, Dumler JS. Two-year evaluation of Borrelia burgdorferi culture and supplemental tests for definitive identification of Lyme disease. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43:5080-4.
• Dumler JS, Rikihisa Y, Dasch GA. Family II.  Rickettsiales.  In: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd Edition, Vol. 2, Part C, the Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria; Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds.); Springer, New York, NY. 2005; page 96
• Dumler JS, Walker DH. Order II.  Anaplasmataceae.  In: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd Edition, Vol. 2, Part C, the Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria;  Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds.); Springer, New York, NY. 2005; pages 117-137.

December 2005:     

• Baron EJ and Carroll KC. 2005. Rapid Diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: What is the optimal method? Infections in Medicine 22:633-637.
• Bhally HS, Lema C, Borek A, Wakefield T and Carroll KC. 2005. Leptotrichia buccalis bacteremia in two patients with acute myelogenous leukemia. Anaerobe 11:350-53.
• Ecker DJ and Carroll KC. 2005. High payoff technology investments to reduce healthcare associated infections. ASM News 71:576-581.
• Carroll KC. 2005. Book Review: Antibiotics in Laboratory Medicine 5th ed. Infections in Medicine 22:616 .
• McDevitt JJ, Lees PS, Merz WG, Schwab KJ. 2005. Use of green fluorescent protein-expressing Aspergillus fumigatus conidia to validate quantitative PCR analysis of air samples collected on filters. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2 : 633-40. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2005 Dec;2(12):633-40. Related Articles, Links
• Choi KS, Park JT, Dumler JS. Anaplasma phagocytophilum delay of neutrophil apoptosis through the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase signal pathway. Infect Immun. 2005; 73):8209-18.
• Earnhart CG, Buckles EL, Dumler JS, Marconi RT. Demonstration of OspC type diversity in invasive human lyme disease isolates and identification of previously uncharacterized epitopes that define the specificity of the OspC murine antibody response. Infect Immun. 2005; 73:7869-77.
• Dumler JS, Choi KS, Garcia-Garcia JC, Barat NS, Garyu JW, Grab DJ, Bakken JS. Human granulocytic anaplasmosis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Emerg Infect Dis 2005; 11:1828-1834.