New Additions to the Literature List on ECA's RMM Website

In addition to the existing list of interesting articles and publications on development, implementation and validation of Rapid Microbiological methods, you will find further reports about basic and advanced knowledge on RMM. Following articles or their abstracts can now be found in the members' area of our new website:

• 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing versus the API 20 NE System and the VITEK 2 ID-GNB Card for Identification of Nonfermenting Gram-Negative Bacteria in the Clinical Laboratory
• Applications of whole-cell matrix-assisted laser-desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry in systematic microbiology
• Comparison of Seven Techniques for Typing International Epidemic Strains of Clostridium difficile: Restriction Endonuclease Analysis, Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis, PCR-Ribotyping, Multilocus Sequence Typing, Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis, Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism, and Surface Layer Protein A Gene Sequence Typing
• Microbial Identification Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry
• Delineation of Stenotrophomonas spp. by multi-locus sequence analysis and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
• Environmental and Clinical Unidentifiable Bacterial Isolates
• Evolutionary Origins of Genomic Repertoires in Bacteria
• High-Throughput Identification of Bacteria and Yeast by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry in Conventional Medical Microbiology Laboratories

Axel H. Schroeder
Administration Manager
ECA Rapid Microbiological Methods Working Group