1. Phase and antigenic variation mediated by genome modifications

   • Florence Wisniewski-Dyé
   • Ludovic Vial

   Review paper 29 July 2008 Pages: 493 - 515

   

2. Yeasts and filamentous fungi carried by the gynes of leaf-cutting ants

   • Fernando C. Pagnocca
   • André Rodrigues
   • Maurício Bacci Jr.

   Original Paper 30 July 2008 Pages: 517 - 526

   

3. The detection of hipO gene by real-time PCR in thermophilic Campylobacter spp. with very weak and negative reaction of hippurate hydrolysis

   • Vildan Caner
   • Yavuz Cokal
   • Nedim Karagenc

   Original Paper 30 July 2008 Pages: 527 - 532

   

4. Culture-independent nested PCR method reveals high diversity of actinobacteria associated with the marine sponges Hymeniacidon perleve and Sponge sp.

   • Yanjuan Xin
   • Jianyu Huang
   • Wei Zhang

   Original Paper 01 August 2008 Pages: 533 - 542

   

5. Usefulness of Multiple-Locus VNTR Fingerprinting in detection of clonality of community- and hospital-acquired Staphylococcus aureus isolates

   • Agnieszka Luczak-Kadlubowska
   • Artur Sabat
   • Waleria Hryniewicz

   Original Paper 27 July 2008 Pages: 543 - 553

   

6. Assessment of environmental enterococci: bacterial antagonism, pathogenic capacity and antibiotic resistance

   • Domenico Pangallo
   • Hana Drahovská
   • Jozef Timko

   Original Paper 06 August 2008 Pages: 555 - 562

7. A flax-retting endopolygalacturonase-encoding gene from Rhizopus oryzae

   • Zhizhuang Xiao
   • Shaozhao Wang
   • Peter C. K. Lau

   Original Paper 14 August 2008 Pages: 563 - 571

   

8. Evaluation of (GTG)₅-PCR for rapid identification of Streptococcus mutans

   • Pavel Švec
   • Dana Nováková
   • Ivo Sedláček

   Original Paper 17 August 2008 Pages: 573 - 579

   

9. Biosystematics of alkaliphilic streptomycetes isolated from seven locations across a beach and dune sand system

   • Sanjay Antony-Babu
   • Michael Goodfellow

   Original Paper 07 September 2008 Pages: 581 - 591

   

10. Methanosarcina as the dominant aceticlastic methanogens during mesophilic anaerobic digestion of putrescible waste

    • Vasily A. Vavilin
    • Xian Qu
    • Theodore Bouchez

    Original Paper 13 September 2008 Pages: 593 - 605

    

11. Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) characterization and panton-valentine leukocidin gene occurrence for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Turkey, from 2003 to 2006

    • Abdullah Kilic
    • Aylin Uskudar Guclu
    • A. Celal Basustaoglu

    Original Paper 28 August 2008 Pages: 607 - 614

12. Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal isolates from Turkey

    • Abdullah Kilic
    • Gurkan Mert
    • Peter C. Appelbaum

    Short Communication 06 August 2008 Pages: 615 - 619

    

13. Transesterification activity of a novel lipase from Acinetobacter venetianus RAG-1

    • Erick A. Snellman
    • Rita R. Colwell

    Short Communication 22 August 2008 Pages: 621 - 625