Bacterial Zoonoses Branch - Publications

• Avashia SB, Riggins WS, Lindley C, et al. Fatal Pneumonia among Metalworkers Due to Inhalation Exposure to Bacillus cereus containing Bacillus anthracis Toxin Genes. Clin Infect Dis 2007;44:414-16.
• Brown JM, Cowley KD, Manninen KI and McNeil MM. Phenotypic and molecular epidemiologic evaluation of a Nocardia farcinica mastitis epizootic. Vet Microbiol 2007;125:66-72.
• Carvalho MG, Tondella ML, McCaustland K, et al. Evaluation and improvement of real-time PCR assays targeting lytA, ply, and psaA genes for detection of pneumococcal DNA. J Clin Microbiol 2007;45:2460-6.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Update: potential exposures to attenuated vaccine strain Brucella abortus RB51 during a laboratory proficiency test--United States and Canada, 2007. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2008;57:36-9.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Laboratory-acquired brucellosis--Indiana and Minnesota, 2006. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2008;57:39-42.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Public health consequences of a false-positive laboratory test result for Brucella--Florida, Georgia, and Michigan, 2005. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2008;57:603-5.
• Cooksey RC, de Waard JH, Yakrus MA, et al. Mycobacterium cosmeticum Ohio and Venezuela. Emerg Infect Dis 2007;13:1267-9.
• De BK, Stauffer L, Koylass MS, et al. Novel Brucella Strain (BO1) Associated with a Prosthetic Breast Implant Infection. J Clin Microbiol 2008;46:43-9.
• Dobardzic A, Izurieta H, Woo EJ, et al. Safety review of the purified chick embryo cell rabies vaccine: Data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1997-2005. Vaccine 2007;25:4244-51.
• Foster JT, Okinaka RT, Svensson R, et al. Real-time PCR assays of single-nucleotide polymorphisms defining the major Brucella clades. J Clin Microbiol 2008;46:296-301.
• Galloway RL, Levett PN. Evaluation of a modified pulsed-field gel electrophoresis approach for the identification of Leptospira serovars. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008;78:628-32.
• Gaynor K, Katz AR, Park SY, Nakata M, Clark TA and Effler PV. Leptospirosis on Oahu: an outbreak associated with flooding of a university campus. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2007;76:882-5.
• Gee JE, Glass MB, Novak RT, et al. Recovery of a Burkholderia thailandensis-like isolate from an Australian water source. BMC Microbiol 2008;8:54.
• Helsel LO, Hollis D, Steigerwalt AG, et al. Identification of "Haematobacter," a new genus of aerobic Gram-negative rods isolated from clinical specimens, and reclassification of Rhodobacter massiliensis as "Haematobacter massiliensis comb. nov." J Clin Microbiol 2007;45:1238-43.
• Lehman JA, Hinckley AF, Kniss KL, et al. Effect of Hurricane Katrina on arboviral disease transmission. Emerg Infect Dis 2007;13:1273-5.
• Logan NA, Hoffmaster A and Popovic T. Bacillus and Other Aerobic Endospore-Forming Bacteria. In: Murray PR, Baron EJ, Jorgensen JH, Landry ML and Pfaller MA, eds. Histoplasma, Blastomyces, Coccidioides and other dimorphic fungi causing symptoms in mycoses. Vol. 9th. Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2007:1802-38.
• Marston CK, Beesley C, Helsel L and Hoffmaster AR. Evaluation of two selective media for the isolation of Bacillus anthracis. Lett Appl Microbiol 2008;47:25-30.
• Matthias MA, Ricaldi JN, Cespedes M, et al. Human leptospirosis caused by a new, antigenically unique leptospira associated with a rattus species reservoir in the peruvian Amazon. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2008;2:e213.
• Sabotic J, Trcek T, Popovic T and Brzin J. Basidiomycetes harbour a hidden treasure of proteolytic diversity. J Biotechnol 2007;128:297-307.
• Shadomy S, Rosenstein N. Anthrax. In: Wallace R, Kohatsu N, eds. Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine. 15 ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007:427-431.
• Shadomy S, Saile E, Rosenstein N and LaForce M. Pathogenesis and epidemiology of anthrax. In: Rose B, ed. UpToDate. Wellesley, MA: UpToDate, 2007.
• Shewmaker PL, Camus AC, Bailiff T, Steigerwalt AG, Morey RE and Carvalho M da G. Streptococcus ictaluri sp. nov., isolated from Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus broodstock. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007;57:1603-6.
• Sue D, Marston CK, Hoffmaster AR and Wilkins PP. Genetic diversity in a Bacillus anthracis historical collection (1954 to 1988). J Clin Microbiol 2007;45:1777-82.
• Walsh JJ, Pesik N, Quinn CP, et al. A case of naturally acquired inhalation anthrax: clinical care and analyses of anti-protective antigen immunoglobulin G and lethal factor. Clin Infect Dis 2007;44:968-971.