ASM Minireviews published in the last 12 months

      down to minireviews Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
      down to minireviews Applied and Environmental Microbiology
      down to minireviews Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
      down to minireviews Eukaryotic Cell
      down to minireviews Infection and Immunity
      down to minireviews Journal of Bacteriology
      down to minireviews Journal of Clinical Microbiology
      down to minireviews Journal of Virology
      down to minireviews Molecular and Cellular Biology

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Minireviews:

VanA-Type Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  Bruno Perichon, Patrice Courvalin
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2009. 53:4580-4587. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
 
Molecular Basis and Phenotype of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and Insights into New β-Lactams That Meet the Challenge
  Leticia I. Llarrull, Jed F. Fisher, Shahriar Mobashery
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2009. 53:4051-4063. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Antiretroviral Drug Resistance in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2
  Michel L. Ntemgwa, Thomas d'Aquin Toni, Bluma G. Brenner, Ricardo J. Camacho, Mark A. Wainberg
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2009. 53:3611-3619. [HTML] [PDF]
 
A Balancing Act: Efflux/Influx in Mycobacterial Drug Resistance
  G. E. Louw, R. M. Warren, N. C. Gey van Pittius, C. R. E. McEvoy, P. D. Van Helden, T. C. Victor
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2009. 53:3181-3189. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Resistance Plasmid Families in Enterobacteriaceae
  Alessandra Carattoli
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2009. 53:2227-2238. [HTML] [PDF]
 
New Drugs against Tuberculosis: Problems, Progress, and Evaluation of Agents in Clinical Development
  Jossy van den Boogaard, Gibson S. Kibiki, Elton R. Kisanga, Martin J. Boeree, Rob E. Aarnoutse
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2009. 53:849-862. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Genetic Elements Responsible for Erythromycin Resistance in Streptococci
  Pietro E. Varaldo, Maria Pia Montanari, Eleonora Giovanetti
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2009. 53:343-353. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Antifungal Therapeutic Drug Monitoring: Established and Emerging Indications
  David Andes, Andres Pascual, Oscar Marchetti
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2009. 53:24-34. [HTML] [PDF]
 
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology Minireviews:

Surface Colonization by Marine Roseobacters: Integrating Genotype and Phenotype
  Rachael N. Slightom, Alison Buchan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2009. 75:6027-6037. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
 
Application of PCR-Based Methods To Assess the Infectivity of Enteric Viruses in Environmental Samples
  Roberto A. Rodriguez, Ian L. Pepper, Charles P. Gerba
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2009. 75:297-307. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Evaluation of the Effect of Temperature on the Die-Off Rate for Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts in Water, Soils, and Feces
  X. Peng, T. Murphy, N. M. Holden
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008. 74:7101-7107. [HTML] [PDF]
 
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Clinical and Vaccine Immunology Minireviews:

Vaccines: the Fourth Century
  Stanley A. Plotkin
Clin.??Vaccine Immunol. 2009. 16:1709-1719. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
 
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Eukaryotic Cell Minireviews:

Our Paths Might Cross: the Role of the Fungal Cell Wall Integrity Pathway in Stress Response and Cross Talk with Other Stress Response Pathways
  Beth Burgwyn Fuchs, Eleftherios Mylonakis
Eukaryotic Cell 2009. 8:1616-1625. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
 
Glucose Sensing Network in Candida albicans: a Sweet Spot for Fungal Morphogenesis
  Jeffrey Sabina, Victoria Brown
Eukaryotic Cell 2009. 8:1314-1320. [HTML] [PDF]
 
An Overview of Nested Genes in Eukaryotic Genomes
  Anuj Kumar
Eukaryotic Cell 2009. 8:1321-1329. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Forward Genetics in Toxoplasma gondii Reveals a Family of Rhoptry Kinases That Mediates Pathogenesis
  L. David Sibley, Wei Qiu, Sarah Fentress, Sonya J. Taylor, Asis Khan, Raymond Hui
Eukaryotic Cell 2009. 8:1085-1093. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Lessons from Fungal F-Box Proteins
  Wilfried Jonkers, Martijn Rep
Eukaryotic Cell 2009. 8:677-695. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Acidic Ca2+ Stores, Excitability, and Cell Patterning in Dictyostelium discoideum
  Julian D. Gross
Eukaryotic Cell 2009. 8:696-702. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Master and Commander in Fungal Pathogens: the Two-Component System and the HOG Signaling Pathway
  Yong-Sun Bahn
Eukaryotic Cell 2008. 7:2017-2036. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Transgenic Rodent Plasmodium berghei Parasites as Tools for Assessment of Functional Immunogenicity and Optimization of Human Malaria Vaccines
  Godfree Mlambo, Nirbhay Kumar
Eukaryotic Cell 2008. 7:1875-1879. [HTML] [PDF]
 
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Infection and Immunity Minireviews:

Toxin-Mediated Effects on the Innate Mucosal Defenses: Implications for Enteric Vaccines
  Gregory M. Glenn, David H. Francis, E. Michael Danielsen
Infect. Immun. 2009. 77:5206-5215. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
 
Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases Based on Antimicrobial Peptide Production
  Bruno Rivas-Santiago, Carmen J. Serrano, J. Antonio Enciso-Moreno
Infect. Immun. 2009. 77:4690-4695. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
 
Approaches to Malaria Vaccine Development Using the Retrospectroscope
  Vanessa Sarda, David C. Kaslow, Kim C. Williamson
Infect. Immun. 2009. 77:3130-3140. [HTML] [PDF]
 
This Is Not Your Mother's Repressor: the Complex Role of Fur in Pathogenesis
  Beth M. Carpenter, Jeannette M. Whitmire, D. Scott Merrell
Infect. Immun. 2009. 77:2590-2601. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Molecular Darwinian Evolution of Virulence in Yersinia pestis
  Dongsheng Zhou, Ruifu Yang
Infect. Immun. 2009. 77:2242-2250. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Vibrio vulnificus: Disease and Pathogenesis
  Melissa K. Jones, James D. Oliver
Infect. Immun. 2009. 77:1723-1733. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Host-Parasite Interactions in Trypanosomiasis: on the Way to an Antidisease Strategy
  Nicolas Antoine-Moussiaux, Philippe Buscher, Daniel Desmecht
Infect. Immun. 2009. 77:1276-1284. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Neutrophil Recruitment to the Lungs during Bacterial Pneumonia
  Ann Craig, John Mai, Shanshan Cai, Samithamby Jeyaseelan
Infect. Immun. 2009. 77:568-575. [HTML] [PDF]
 
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Journal of Bacteriology Minireviews:

Group I Introns and Inteins: Disparate Origins but Convergent Parasitic Strategies
  Rahul Raghavan, Michael F. Minnick
J. Bacteriol. 2009. 191:6193-6202. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Are There Lateral as Well as Polar Engines for A-Motile Gliding in Myxobacteria?
  Dale Kaiser
J. Bacteriol. 2009. 191:5336-5341. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Escherichia coli DegP: a Structure-Driven Functional Model
  Joaquin Ortega, Jack Iwanczyk, Ahmad Jomaa
J. Bacteriol. 2009. 191:4705-4713. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Acid Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  Omar H. Vandal, Carl F. Nathan, Sabine Ehrt
J. Bacteriol. 2009. 191:4714-4721. [HTML] [PDF]
 
FhuA (TonA), the Career of a Protein
  Volkmar Braun
J. Bacteriol. 2009. 191:3431-3436. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Gene Expression Profiling and the Use of Genome-Scale In Silico Models of Escherichia coli for Analysis: Providing Context for Content
  Nathan E. Lewis, Byung-Kwan Cho, Eric M. Knight, Bernhard O. Palsson
J. Bacteriol. 2009. 191:3437-3444. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Polyhydroxyalkanoate Granules Are Complex Subcellular Organelles (Carbonosomes)
  Dieter Jendrossek
J. Bacteriol. 2009. 191:3195-3202. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Bioinformatics Resources for the Study of Gene Regulation in Bacteria
  Julio Collado-Vides, Heladia Salgado, Enrique Morett, Socorro Gama-Castro, Veronica Jimenez-Jacinto, Irma Martinez-Flores, Alejandra Medina-Rivera, Luis Muniz-Rascado, Martin Peralta-Gil, Alberto Santos-Zavaleta
J. Bacteriol. 2009. 191:23-31. [HTML] [PDF]
 
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Journal of Clinical Microbiology Minireviews:

Optimal Sampling Sites and Methods for Detection of Pathogens Possibly Causing Community-Acquired Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
  K. Loens, L. Van Heirstraeten, S. Malhotra-Kumar, H. Goossens, M. Ieven
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2009. 47:21-31. [HTML] [PDF]
 
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Journal of Virology Minireviews:

Regulation of Gene Expression in Primate Polyomaviruses
  Martyn K. White, Mahmut Safak, Kamel Khalili
J. Virol. 2009. 83:10846-10856. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
 
Virus-Encoded Homologs of Cellular Interleukin-10 and Their Control of Host Immune Function
  Barry Slobedman, Peter A. Barry, Juliet V. Spencer, Selmir Avdic, Allison Abendroth
J. Virol. 2009. 83:9618-9629. [HTML] [PDF]
 
T-Cell Vaccine Strategies for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the Virus with a Thousand Faces
  Bette T. Korber, Norman L. Letvin, Barton F. Haynes
J. Virol. 2009. 83:8300-8314. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Coinfection with Hepatitis C Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Virological, Immunological, and Clinical Outcomes
  Yaron Rotman, T. Jake Liang
J. Virol. 2009. 83:7366-7374. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Advances in RNA Structure Prediction from Sequence: New Tools for Generating Hypotheses about Viral RNA Structure-Function Relationships
  Susan J. Schroeder
J. Virol. 2009. 83:6326-6334. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Virology in the 21st Century
  L. W. Enquist, for the Editors of the Journal of Virology
J. Virol. 2009. 83:5296-5308. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Adenovirus E1B 55-Kilodalton Protein: Multiple Roles in Viral Infection and Cell Transformation
  Andrew N. Blackford, Roger J. A. Grand
J. Virol. 2009. 83:4000-4012. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Macrophages in Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus Infections
  Mathis Heydtmann
J. Virol. 2009. 83:2796-2802. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Herpesvirus Interactions with the Host Cytoskeleton
  Mathew G. Lyman, Lynn W. Enquist
J. Virol. 2009. 83:2058-2066. [HTML] [PDF]
 
The Unfolded Protein Response and Autophagy: Herpesviruses Rule!
  Dong Yun Lee, Jisook Lee, Bill Sugden
J. Virol. 2009. 83:1168-1172. [HTML] [PDF]
 
Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus-Induced Central Nervous System Disease: a Model for Studying the Role of Chemokines in Regulating the Acute Antiviral CD8+ T-Cell Response in an Immune-Privileged Organ
  Allan Randrup Thomsen
J. Virol. 2009. 83:20-28. [HTML] [PDF]
 
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Molecular and Cellular Biology Minireviews:

The Emerging Role of HP1 in the DNA Damage Response
  Christoffel Dinant, Martijn S. Luijsterburg
Mol. Cell. Biol. 2009. 29:6335-6340. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
 
Regulating the Activity of Class II Transactivator by Posttranslational Modifications: Exploring the Possibilities
  Xiaoyan Wu, Xiaocen Kong, Larry Luchsinger, Barbara D. Smith, Yong Xu
Mol. Cell. Biol. 2009. 29:5639-5644. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
 
Sp1 Phosphorylation and Its Regulation of Gene Transcription
  Nicole Y. Tan, Levon M. Khachigian
Mol. Cell. Biol. 2009. 29:2483-2488. [HTML] [PDF]
 
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