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1 JUNE 2013 VOLUME 51 NO. 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS PHOTO QUIZ A 38-Year-Old Man with Uveitis, Cholestasis, and Rash Answer to Photo Quiz MINIREVIEW Michelle Kim, Leonor Echevarria, Elena Savilo Michelle Kim, Leonor Echevarria, Elena Savilo Automation in Clinical Microbiology Paul P. Bourbeau, Nathan A. Ledeboer BACTERIOLOGY Serial Testing from a 3-Day Collection Period by Use of the Bartonella Alphaproteobacteria Growth Medium Platform May Enhance the Sensitivity of Bartonella Species Detection in Bacteremic Human Patients Colistin MIC Variability by Method for Contemporary Clinical Isolates of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli Molecular Characterization of Extraintestinal Escherichia coli Isolates in Japan: Relationship between Sequence Types and Mutation Patterns of Quinolone Resistance-Determining Regions Analyzed by Pyrosequencing Impact of Hourly Emergency Department Patient Volume on Blood Culture Contamination and Diagnostic Yield Characterization of Extended-Spectrum-Beta-Lactamase- Producing Escherichia coli Strains Involved in Maternal-Fetal Colonization: Prevalence of E. coli ST131 Direct Bacterial Identification in Positive Blood Cultures by Use of Two Commercial Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Systems Detection of IMP Metallo- -Lactamase in Carbapenem- Nonsusceptible Enterobacteriaceae and Non-Glucose- Fermenting Gram-Negative Rods by Immunochromatography Assay Comparison of Typing Methods with a New Procedure Based on Sequence Characterization for Salmonella Serovar Prediction Development of Doxycycline MIC and Disk Diffusion Interpretive Breakpoints and Revision of Tetracycline Breakpoints for Streptococcus pneumoniae Elizabeth L. Pultorak, Ricardo G. Maggi, Patricia E. Mascarelli, Edward B. Breitschwerdt Janet A. Hindler, Romney M. Humphries Nozomi Aoike, Tomoo Saga, Ryuji Sakata, Ayumi Yoshizumi, Soichiro Kimura, Morihiro Iwata, Sadako Yoshizawa, Yasuyuki Sugasawa, Yoshikazu Ishii, Keizo Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Tateda Schuyler Halverson, Preeti N. Malani, Duane W. Newton, Andrea Habicht, Kenneth Vander Have, John G. Younger André Birgy, Patricia Mariani- Kurkdjian, Philippe Bidet, Catherine Doit, Nathalie Genel, Céline Courroux, Guillaume Arlet, Edouard Bingen Jonathan H. K. Chen, Pak-Leung Ho, Grace S. W. Kwan, Kevin K. K. She, Gilman K. H. Siu, Vincent C. C. Cheng, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Wing-Cheong Yam Shigeyuki Notake, Mari Matsuda, Kiyoko Tamai, Hideji Yanagisawa, Keiichi Hiramatsu, Ken Kikuchi Matthew L. Ranieri, Chunlei Shi, Andrea I. Moreno Switt, Henk C. den Bakker, Martin Wiedmann Steven D. Dallas, Lesley McGee, Brandi Limbago, Jean B. Patel, M. Leticia McElmeel, Letitia C. Fulcher, David R. Lonsway, James H. Jorgensen Analysis of the Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrum of Staphylococcus aureus Identifies Mutations That Allow Differentiation of the Main Clonal Lineages Michaele Josten, Marion Reif, Christiane Szekat, Nahed Al-Sabti, Terry Roemer, Katrin Sparbier, Markus Kostrzewa, Holger Rohde, Hans-Georg Sahl, Gabriele Bierbaum

2 Identification of Gram-Positive Cocci by Use of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry: Comparison of Different Preparation Methods and Implementation of a Practical Algorithm for Routine Diagnostics Identification of Clinical Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates among other Alpha and Nonhemolytic Streptococci by Use of the Vitek MS Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry System Use of Faropenem as an Indicator of Carbapenemase Activity in the Enterobacteriaceae Validation of a Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Method Using Peptide Nucleic Acid Probes for Detection of Helicobacter pylori Clarithromycin Resistance in Gastric Biopsy Specimens Evaluation of the Fully Automated BD MAX Cdiff and Xpert C. difficile Assays for Direct Detection of Clostridium difficile in Stool Specimens Evaluation of a Modular Multiplex-PCR Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Detection Assay Adapted for mecc Detection Comparison of the Vitek 2, MicroScan, and Etest Methods with the Agar Dilution Method in Assessing Colistin Susceptibility of Bloodstream Isolates of Acinetobacter Species from a Korean University Hospital Molecular Characterization of Achromobacter Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis and Non-Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Madrid, Spain Detection of non-jejuni and -coli Campylobacter Species from Stool Specimens with an Immunochromatographic Antigen Detection Assay Detection of New Delhi Metallo- -Lactamase (Encoded by bla NDM-1 )inacinetobacter schindleri during Routine Surveillance Analytical Evaluation of GeneXpert CT/NG, the First Genetic Point-of-Care Assay for Simultaneous Detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis Evaluation of the NucliSENS EasyQ KPC Assay for Detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Bettina Schulthess, Katharina Brodner, Guido V. Bloemberg, Reinhard Zbinden, Erik C. Böttger, Michael Hombach Damien Dubois, Christine Segonds, Marie-Françoise Prere, Nicole Marty, Eric Oswald Kathryn M. Day, Rachel Pike, Trevor G. Winstanley, Clare Lanyon, Stephen P. Cummings, Muhammad W. Raza, Neil Woodford, John D. Perry Laura Cerqueira, Ricardo M. Fernandes, Rui M. Ferreira, Mónica Oleastro, Fátima Carneiro, Catarina Brandão, Pedro Pimentel-Nunes, Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Céu Figueiredo, Charles W. Keevil, Maria J. Vieira, Nuno F. Azevedo Alexander H. Dalpke, Marjeta Hofko, Markus Zorn, Stefan Zimmermann Karsten Becker, Anders R. Larsen, Robert L. Skov, Gavin K. Paterson, Mark A. Holmes, Artur J. Sabat, Alexander W. Friedrich, Robin Köck, Georg Peters, André Kriegeskorte Seung Yeob Lee, Jong Hee Shin, Kyungwon Lee, Min Young Joo, Kyung Hwa Park, Myung Geun Shin, Soon Pal Suh, Dong Wook Ryang, Soo Hyun Kim Laura Barrado, Patricia Brañas, M. Ángeles Orellana, M. Teresa Martínez, Gloria García, Joaquín R. Otero, Fernando Chaves Brianne A. Couturier, Marc Roger Couturier, Kim J. Kalp, Mark A. Fisher Patrick McGann, Michael Milillo, Robert J. Clifford, Erik Snesrud, Lindsay Stevenson, Michael G. Backlund, Helen B. Viscount, Reyes Quintero, Yoon I. Kwak, Michael J. Zapor, Paige E. Waterman, Emil P. Lesho Sepehr N. Tabrizi, Magnus Unemo, Daniel Golparian, Jimmy Twin, Athena E. Limnios, Monica Lahra, Rebecca Guy, on behalf of the TTANGO Investigators A. S. McEwan, A. Derome, D. Meunier, P. J. Burns, N. Woodford, A. R. Dodgson

3 Evaluation of the LACTA Test, a Novel Commercial Chromogenic Test for Rapid Detection of Ceftazidime- Nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates CHLAMYDIOLOGY AND RICKETTSIOLOGY Performance of the Cepheid CT/NG Xpert Rapid PCR Test for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae MYCOBACTERIOLOGY AND AEROBIC ACTINOMYCETES Multicenter Evaluation of Genechip for Detection of Multidrug- Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Absence of Mycobacterium intracellulare and Presence of Mycobacterium chimaera in Household Water and Biofilm Samples of Patients in the United States with Mycobacterium avium Complex Respiratory Disease Does Neutralization of Gastric Aspirates from Children with Suspected Intrathoracic Tuberculosis Affect Mycobacterial Yields on MGIT Culture? Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis and Bloodstream Infection Due to Mycobacterium chimaera Mobile Digital Fluorescence Microscopy for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Epidemic Spread of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Johannesburg, South Africa Direct Comparison of Xpert MTB/RIF Assay with Liquid and Solid Mycobacterial Culture for Quantification of Early Bactericidal Activity Terry Laurent, Te-Din Huang, Pierre Bogaerts, Youri Glupczynski Charlotte A. Gaydos, Barbara Van Der Pol, Mary Jett-Goheen, Mathilda Barnes, Nicole Quinn, Carey Clark, Grace E. Daniel, Paula B. Dixon, Edward W. Hook III, The CT/NG Study Group Yu Pang, Hui Xia, Zhiying Zhang, Junchen Li, Yi Dong, Qiang Li, Xichao Ou, Yuanyuan Song, Yufeng Wang, Richard O Brien, Kai Man Kam, Junying Chi, Shitong Huan, Daniel P. Chin, Yanlin Zhao Richard J. Wallace, Jr., Elena Iakhiaeva, Myra D. Williams, Barbara A. Brown- Elliott, Sruthi Vasireddy, Ravikiran Vasireddy, Leah Lande, Donald D. Peterson, Janet Sawicki, Rebecca Kwait, Wellington S. Tichenor, Christine Turenne, Joseph O. Falkinham III Deepak Parashar, Sushil K. Kabra, Rakesh Lodha, Varinder Singh, Aparna Mukherjee, Tina Arya, Harleen M. S. Grewal, Sarman Singh, Delhi Pediatric TB Study Group Yvonne Achermann, Matthias Rössle, Matthias Hoffmann, Vanessa Deggim, Stefan Kuster, Dieter R. Zimmermann, Guido Bloemberg, Michael Hombach, Barbara Hasse Asa Tapley, Neil Switz, Clay Reber, J. Lucian Davis, Cecily Miller, John Baptist Matovu, William Worodria, Laurence Huang, Daniel A. Fletcher, Adithya Cattamanchi Ben J. Marais, Charmaine K. Mlambo, Nalin Rastogi, Thierry Zozio, Adriano G. Duse, Thomas C. Victor, Else Marais, Robin M. Warren Xavier A. Kayigire, Sven O. Friedrich, Amour Venter, Rodney Dawson, Stephen H. Gillespie, Martin J. Boeree, Norbert Heinrich, Michael Hoelscher, Andreas H. Diacon, on behalf of the Pan African Consortium for the Evaluation of Anti-tuberculosis Antibiotics

4 MYCOLOGY Broad-Range Direct Detection and Identification of Fungi by Use of the PLEX-ID PCR-Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (ESI-MS) System Development of a Singleplex PCR Assay for Rapid Identification and Differentiation of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii, Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans, Cryptococcus gattii, and Hybrids Comparison of MICs of Fluconazole and Flucytosine When Dissolved in Dimethyl Sulfoxide or Water PARASITOLOGY Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection and Quantification of Leishmania (Viannia) Organisms in Skin and Mucosal Lesions: Exploratory Study of Parasite Load and Clinical Parameters Impact of Routine Real-Time PCR Testing of Imported Malaria over 4 Years of Implementation in a Clinical Laboratory Retrospective Assessment of Transcription-Mediated Amplification-Based Screening for Trichomonas vaginalis in Male Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic Patients A Novel High-Resolution Melt PCR Assay Discriminates Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis VIROLOGY Rapid Detection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Types 1 and 2 by Use of an Improved Piezoelectric Biosensor A Pragmatic Approach to HIV-1 Drug Resistance Determination in Resource-Limited Settings by Use of a Novel Genotyping Assay Targeting the Reverse Transcriptase-Encoding Region Only Identification and Characterization of a Peptide Affinity Reagent for Detection of Noroviruses in Clinical Samples Development and Evaluation of an Affordable Real-Time Qualitative Assay for Determining HIV-1 Virological Failure in Plasma and Dried Blood Spots Patricia J. Simner, James R. Uhl, Leslie Hall, Michelle M. Weber, Robert C. Walchak, Seanne Buckwalter, Nancy L. Wengenack Xiaobo Feng, Xiaohua Fu, Bo Ling, Lei Wang, Wanqing Liao, Zhirong Yao Annette W. Fothergill, Carmita Sanders, Nathan P. Wiederhold Marlene Jara, Vanessa Adaui, Braulio M. Valencia, Dalila Martinez, Milena Alba, Carlos Castrillon, Maria Cruz, Israel Cruz, Gert Van der Auwera, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Jean-Claude Dujardin, Jorge Arevalo Sandra Shokoples, Shamir N. Mukhi, Allison N. Scott, Stephanie K. Yanow Erik Munson, David Wenten, Paula Phipps, Roger Gremminger, Mary Kay Schuknecht, Maureen Napierala, Deb Hamer, Robin Olson, Ronald F. Schell, Jeanne E. Hryciuk Jürgen Krücken, Cécile Schreiber, Denny Maaz, Mareen Kohn, Janina Demeler, Stefanie Beck, Eberhard Schein, Philipp Olias, Dania Richter, Franz-Rainer Matuschka, Stefan Pachnicke, Klemens Krieger, Barbara Kohn, Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna Marco Bisoffi, Virginia Severns, Darren W. Branch, Thayne L. Edwards, Richard S. Larson Susan C. Aitken, Michelle Bronze, Carole L. Wallis, Lieven Stuyver, Kim Steegen, Sheila Balinda, Cissy Kityo, Wendy Stevens, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit, Rob Schuurman Jennifer D. Rogers, Nadim J. Ajami, Bartlomiej G. Fryszczyn, Mary K. Estes, Robert L. Atmar, Timothy Palzkill Susan C. Aitken, Aletta Kliphuis, Michelle Bronze, Carole L. Wallis, Cissy Kityo, Sheila Balinda, Wendy Stevens, Nicole Spieker, Tulio de Oliveira, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit, Rob Schuurman

5 Performance of Two Commercial Assays for Detecting Hepatitis E Virus RNA in Acute or Chronic Infections Fifty Percent Tissue Culture Infective Dose Assay for Determining the Titer of Infectious Human Herpesvirus 8 CLINICAL VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY A Continuous Bovine Kidney Cell Line Constitutively Expressing Bovine V 6 Integrin Has Increased Susceptibility to Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus EPIDEMIOLOGY Quantitative PCR for Detection of Shigella Improves Ascertainment of Shigella Burden in Children with Moderateto-Severe Diarrhea in Low-Income Countries Prevalence and Characteristics of the Epidemic Multiresistant Escherichia coli ST131 Clonal Group among Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing E. coli Isolates in Copenhagen, Denmark Microbiological Diagnosis of Severe Diarrhea in Kidney Transplant Recipients by Use of Multiplex PCR Assays Optimized Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis Assay and Its Complementarity with Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and Multilocus Sequence Typing for Listeria monocytogenes Clone Identification and Surveillance Rapid Spread of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Variant in Odisha, Eastern India, in 2008 and 2009 Clostridium difficile Ribotype Diversity at Six Health Care Institutions in the United States Florence Abravanel, Sabine Chapuy- Regaud, Sébastien Lhomme, Martine Dubois, Jean-Marie Peron, Laurent Alric, Lionel Rostaing, Nassim Kamar, Jacques Izopet Sagar V. Nadgir, Heather R. Hensler, Emilee R. Knowlton, Charles R. Rinaldo, Giovanna Rappocciolo, Frank J. Jenkins Michael LaRocco, Peter W. Krug, Ed Kramer, Zaheer Ahmed, Juan M. Pacheco, Hernando Duque, Barry Baxt, Luis L. Rodriguez Brianna Lindsay, John B. Ochieng, Usman N. Ikumapayi, Aliou Toure, Dilruba Ahmed, Shan Li, Sandra Panchalingam, Myron M. Levine, Karen Kotloff, David A. Rasko, Carolyn R. Morris, Jane Juma, Barry S. Fields, Michel Dione, Dramane Malle, Stephen M. Becker, Eric R. Houpt, James P. Nataro, Halvor Sommerfelt, Mihai Pop, Joe Oundo, Martin Antonio, Anowar Hossain, Boubou Tamboura, O. Colin Stine Bente Olesen, Dennis S. Hansen, Frida Nilsson, Jakob Frimodt-Møller, Rikke Fleron Leihof, Carsten Struve, Flemming Scheutz, Brian Johnston, Karen A. Krogfelt, James R. Johnson Jean-François Coste, Vincent Vuiblet, Betoul Moustapha, Alexis Bouin, Sylvie Lavaud, Olivier Toupance, Alexis de Rougemont, Lucie Benejat, Francis Megraud, Aurore Wolak-Thierry, Isabelle Villena, Cathy Chemla, Elisabeth Le Magrex, Christophe de Champs, Laurent Andreoletti, Philippe Rieu, Nicolas Leveque Viviane Chenal-Francisque, Laure Diancourt, Thomas Cantinelli, Virginie Passet, Coralie Tran-Hykes, Hélène Bracq-Dieye, Alexandre Leclercq, Christine Pourcel, Marc Lecuit, Sylvain Brisse H. K. Khuntia, B. B. Pal, S. K. Samal, S. K. Kar Sheila Waslawski, Eugene S. Lo, Sarah A. Ewing, Vincent B. Young, David M. Aronoff, Susan E. Sharp, Susan M. Novak-Weekley, Arthur E. Crist, Jr., W. Michael Dunne, Joan Hoppe-Bauer, Michelle Johnson, Stephen M. Brecher, Duane W. Newton, Seth T. Walk

6 CASE REPORTS Severe Soft Tissue Infection Caused by a Non-Beta-Hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes Strain Harboring a Premature Stop Mutation in the sagc Gene Cache Valley Virus in a Patient Diagnosed with Aseptic Meningitis Septic Arthritis Caused by Noncapsulated Haemophilus influenzae First Case of Pseudoclavibacter bifida Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Host with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Dietzia papillomatosis Bacteremia Evidence for Reactivation of Human Herpesvirus 6 in Generalized Lymphadenopathy in a Patient with Drug-Induced Hypersensitivity Syndrome Use of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry To Resolve Complex Clinical Cases of Patients with Recurrent Bacteremias Septic Arthritis and Concern for Osteomyelitis in a Child with Rat Bite Fever A Case of Endocarditis Caused by Lactococcus garvieae and Suggested Methods for Identification First Case of Pulmonary Disease Caused by a Mycobacterium avium Complex Strain of Presumed Veterinary Origin in an Adult Human Patient Nonsurgical Management of Mitral Valve Endocarditis Due to Cardiobacterium valvarum in a Patient with a Ventricular Septal Defect Intra-Abdominal Infections Due to Comamonas kerstersii Jonathan Jantsch, Roman G. Gerlach, Armin Ensser, Samira Dahesh, Isabel Popp, Christiane Heeg, Oliver Bleiziffer, Thomas Merz, Theresia Schulz, Raymund E. Horch, Christian Bogdan, Victor Nizet, Mark van der Linden Nang L. Nguyen, Guoyan Zhao, Rene Hull, Mark A. Shelly, Susan J. Wong, Guang Wu, Kirsten St. George, David Wang, Marilyn A. Menegus Sandra Le Quellec, Olivier Gaillot, Franck Chotel, Anne-Marie Freydière, Frédéric Laurent, François Vandenesch, Anne Doléans-Jordheim Matthijs Oyaert, Thierry De Baere, Joke Breyne, Emmanuel De Laere, Stan Mariën, Peter Waets, Wim Laffut Paul Rammer, Henrik Calum, Claus Moser, Maria K. Björnsdóttir, Heidi Smedegaard, Niels Høiby, Thomas Bjarnsholt Takeshi Saraya, Michiaki Mikoshiba, Harumi Kamiyama, Masakazu Yoshizumi, Shigeru Tsuchida, Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi, Taisei Ishioka, Miho Terada, Eiichi Tanabe, Chizuko Tomioka, Haruyuki Ishii, Hirokazu Kimura, Kunihisa Kozawa, Tetsuo Shiohara, Hajime Takizawa, Hajime Goto Priya Nori, Belinda Ostrowsky, Olena Dorokhova, Philip Gialanella, Morgan Moy, Victoria Muggia, Robert Grossberg, John Kornblum, Ying Lin, Michael H. Levi Dustin D. Flannery, Ibukunoluwa Akinboyo, Jennifer M. Ty, Lauren W. Averill, Abigail Freedman Maria Eugenia Navas, Geraldine Hall, Dalia El Bejjani Su-Young Kim, Sung Jae Shin, Nam Yong Lee, Won-Jung Koh Saugata Choudhury, Florante Santos Isais, Cheng Chuan Lee Marisa N. Almuzara, Rosana Cittadini, Cecilia Vera Ocampo, Romina Bakai, German Traglia, Maria S. Ramirez, Marcelo del Castillo, Carlos A. Vay

7 Two Cases of Kerstersia gyiorum Isolated from Sites of Chronic Infection LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Epidemiology of Commercial Rhesus Monkey Kidney Cells Contaminated with Coccidioides posadasii Identification of an Influenza A H1N1/2009 Virus with Mutations in the Matrix Gene Causing a Negative Result by a Commercial Molecular Assay Extended-Spectrum- -Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli Isolate Possessing the Shiga Toxin Gene (stx 1 ) Belonging to the O64 Serogroup Associated with Human Disease in India Viability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis after Processing with Commercial Nucleic Acid Extraction Kits Mistaken Identity of Brucella Infection Reply to Mistaken Identity of Brucella Infection Calibration Technologies for Correct Determination of Epstein- Barr Virus, Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), and HHV-8 Antiviral Drug Susceptibilities by Use of Real-Time-PCR-Based Assays Reply to Calibration Technologies for Correct Determination of Epstein-Barr Virus, Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), and HHV-8 Antiviral Drug Susceptibilities by Use of Real-Time- PCR-Based Assays ERRATUM Evaluation of a Microarray-Based Assay for Rapid Identification of Gram-Positive Organisms and Resistance Markers in Positive Blood Cultures Morgan A. Pence, Jeffrey Sharon, Erin McElvania Tekippe, Brittany L. Pakalniskis, Bradley A. Ford, Carey- Ann D. Burnham Anne Purfield, Nina Ahmad, Benjamin J. Park, Daniel Kuhles, Kirsten St. George, Christine Ginocchio, Julie R. Harris Matthew J. Binnicker, Larry M. Baddour, Thomas E. Grys, Mark J. Espy, D. Jane Hata, Jason T. Wotton, Robin Patel T. K. Dutta, Iadarilin Warjri, P. Roychoudhury, H. Lalzampuia, I. Samanta, S. N. Joardar, S. Bandyopadhyay, Rajesh Chandra Richard Clinghan, Trevor P. Anderson, Valerie Everett, David R. Murdoch Jing Yang, Xiao-qing Ren, Mei-ling Chu, Dong-ya Meng, Wen-cheng Xue Rebecca T. Horvat, Wissam El Atrouni, Kassem Hammoud, Dana Hawkinson, Scott Cowden Francesco Broccolo, Paolo Lusso, Mauro Malnati Lotfi Bounaadja, Jocelyne Piret, Nathalie Goyette, Guy Boivin Linoj P. Samuel, Robert J. Tibbetts, Adam Agotesku, Margaret Fey, Rhonda Hensley, Frederick A. Meier

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