The Journal of the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology

Vol.18 No.2
Contents
(June 25, 2008)

Review
Fundamentals of Rapidly-progressing Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacterial Pathogens Causing Community-acquired Respiratory Tract Infections ---P75
Kimiko Ubukata

Original Article
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Control Program in Social Insurance Chukyo Hospital -Introduction of Surveillance Cultures for MRSA Was Effective to Control MRSA Infections- ---P85
Kenji Inagaki, Motohiro Shibata, Hidenori Morikawa, Toshiko Tsutumi

Original Article
Comparison of the Four Drug Susceptibility Testing Plates for Haemophilus influenzae, and Comparison with the Gene Mutations of Penicillin-Binding Protein 3 ---P90
Chihiro Shimizu, Tatsuya Nakamura, Mayumi Kasahara, Kazuyuki Okuda, Chiyo Nakata, Hirorko Fujimoto, Hiroe Okura, Hakuo Takahashi

Original Article
Study on IMP-type Metallo-β-lactamase-producing Glucose-non-fermentative Gram-negative Bacteria Isolated from Three Hospitals in Aichi Prefecture ---P100
Atsuko Matsunami, Toshi Nada, Hiroko Tsuchiya, Ryoichi Takeda, Nobuko Sato, Hisashi Baba, Naohiro Shibata, Yoshichika Arakawa

Case Report
An Autopsy Case of Infectious Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Nontyphoid Salmonella: PCR-Based Genus-Specifc invA Gene Detection Aided the Diagnosis ---P109
Yuka Inoue, Makoto Ito, Masaru Okugawa, Hitoshi Kuramae, Natsuko Matsui, Yoshio Izawa, Akiyoshi Sakai