Table of contents

Basic science

• A real-time quadriplex PCR assay for the diagnosis of rectal lymphogranuloma venereum and non-lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis infections

  (18 February, 2008)

  C-Y Chen, K H Chi, S Alexander, C A Ison, R C Ballard
• Validation of COBAS Taqman CT for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in vulvo-vaginal swabs

  (27 February, 2008)

  S Skidmore, M Kaye, D Bayliss, S Devendra
• Prediction of antibiotic resistance using Neisseria gonorrhoeae multi-antigen sequence typing

  (6 February, 2008)

  H M Palmer, H Young, C Graham, J Dave
• National surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in 2005–2006 and recommendations of first-line antimicrobial drugs for gonorrhoea treatment in Russia

  (6 February, 2008)

  A Kubanova, N Frigo, A Kubanov, S Sidorenko, T Priputnevich, T Vachnina, N Al-Khafaji, S Polevshikova, V Solomka, M Domeika, M Unemo
• Using strain typing to characterise a fluoroquinolone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae transmission network in southern California

  (13 March, 2008)

  S R Morris, J S Knapp, D F Moore, D L Trees, S A Wang, G Bolan, H M Bauer
• Evaluation of a rapid one-step immunochromatographic test and two immunoenzymatic assays for the detection of anti-Treponema pallidum antibodies

  (23 January, 2008)

  L van Dommelen, A Smismans, V J Goossens, J Damoiseaux, C A Bruggeman, F H van Tiel, C J P A Hoebe
• Field evaluation of the performance and testing costs of a rapid point-of-care test for syphilis in a red-light district of Manaus, Brazil (27 February, 2008)

  A S Benzaken, M Sabidó, E G Galban, V Pedroza, F Vasquez, A Araújo, R W Peeling, P Mayaud