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, JOURNAL OF ae MICROBIOLOGICAL hs METHODS — ta > ELSEVIER Journal of Microbiological Methods 23 (1995) 351-352 Contents of Volume 23 No. 1, July 1995 Foreword C.J. Knowles and D.C. White Amplification methods in diagnostic microbiology M. Altwegg and J. Verhoef Nucleic acid amplification methods J.J. Carrino and H.H. Lee (USA) General problems associated with diagnostic applications of amplification methods M. Altwegg (Switzerland) Nucleic acid amplification methods in diagnostic virology D. Germann and A. Telenti (Switzerland ) PCR amplification reactions in parasitology H.L. Smits and R.A. Hartskeerl (The Netherlands) Amplification methods in diagnostic bacteriology (selected examples) H. Karch, A. Schwarzkopf and H. Schmidt (Germany) Amplification reactions in mycobacteriology P.R. Klatser (The Netherlands) Polymerase chain reaction in food microbiology U. Candrian (Switzerland) Amplification methods for the detection of bacterial resistance genes M.R. Visser and A.C. Fluit (The Netherlands) Phylogenetic amplification for the detection of uncultured bacteria and the analysis of complex microbiota U.B. Gobel (Germany) Amplification methods for epidemiologic investigations of infectious diseases B. Swaminathan and T.J. Barrett (USA) Announcement No. 2, August 1995 Review Article Methods for the study of rock-inhabiting microorganisms—A. mini review P. Hirsch, F.E.W. Eckhardt and R.J. Palmer Jr. (Germany, USA) Research Papers A quantitative method to study co-adhesion of microorganisms in a parallel plate flow chamber. II: Analysis of the kinetics of co-adhesion R. Bos, H.C. van der Mei and H.J. Busscher (The Netherlands) 352 Contents of volume 23 Evaluation of media for the enumeration of faecal streptococci from natural water samples L. Po Catalao Dionisio and J.J. Borrego (Portugal, Spain) 183 Selective solid media for isolating and enumerating acidophilic bacteria D.B. Johnson (UK) 205 Ultrastructural characterization of the stages of spheroplast preparation of Borrelia burgdorferi D.K. Bruck, M.L. Talbot, R.G. Cluss and J.T. Boothby (USA) 219 A goat-anti-human IgG modified piezoimmunosensor for Staphylococcus aureus detection D. Le, F.-j. He, T. Jiao Jiang, L. Nie and §. Yao (China) 229 A combined ecological and physiological approach to studying sulphate reduction within deep marine sediment layers R.J. Parkes, B.A. Cragg, S.J. Bale, K. Goodman and J.C. Fry (UK) 235 Announcement 251 No. 3, September 1995 Rapid method for preparation of pure veratryl alcohol for the assay of lignin peroxidase K. Kirtikara, K.M. Schaich, J.M. Fagan and C. Frenkel (USA) 253 Streptokinase-mediated plasminogen activation using a recombinant dual fusion protein construct. A novel approach to study bacterial—host protein interactions S. Lizano and K.H. Johnston (USA) 261 Survival of /ac-lux marked Pseudomonas aeruginosa UG2Lr cells encapsulated in «-car- rageenan and alginate M.B. Cassidy, K.T. Leung, H. Lee and J.T. Trevors (Canada) A new capacitance medium for presumptive detection of Listeria spp. from cheese samples M.J.R.M. Rodrigues, C.J. Capell and R.M. Kirby (Portugal) Total microcolony counting on the moving narrow culture band C. Jiang, P. Chen and S. Shan (People’s Republic of China) Precision replicas of microbially contaminated surfaces for optical and SEM-analyses K. Sterflinger and W.E. Krumbein (Germany) 301 Methods for the detection of Campylobacter in sewage: evaluation of efficacy of enrichment and isolation media, applicability of Polymerase Chain Reaction and Latex Agglutination Assay P.M.F.J. Koenraad, B.A.J. Giesendorf, M.H.C. Henkens, R.R. Beumer and W.G.V. Quint (The Netherlands) 309 Methodology for the isolation of Helicobacter pylori from faeces of persons in the United Kingdom G.R. Gibson, S.M. Kelly, S. Macfarlane and G.T. Macfarlane (UK) 321 Computer-assisted video motion analysis: A powerful technique for investigating motility and chemotaxis G. Lopez-de-Victoria, R.K. Zimmer-Faust and C.R. Lovell (USA) 329 Short Communication Preservation of Neisseria meningitidis group B by freeze-drying T. Moreira, E. Iglesias and H. Delgado (Cuba) 343 Author Index of Volume 23 347 Subject Index of Volume 23 349 Contents of Volume 23