European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Factors Associated with Nosocomial Diarrhea and Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease on the Adult Wards of an Urban Tertiary Care Hospital

M. J. Schwaber, A. Simhon, C. Block, V. Roval, N. Ferderber, M. Shapiro

Intravascular Catheter-Associated Infections

J. A. Crump, P. J. Collignon

Possible Role of Catheters in Saccharomyces boulardii Fungemia

C. Hennequin, C. Kauffmann-Lacroix, A. Jobert, J. P. Viard, C. Ricour, J. L. Jacquemin, P. Berche

Long-Term Outcome of Acute Hepatitis B and C in an Outbreak of Hepatitis in 1969–72

J. Bläckberg, J. H. Braconier, A. Widell, K. Kidd-Ljunggren

Comparison of a Commercial Disk Test with Vancomycin and Colimycin Susceptibility Testing for Identification of Bacteria with Abnormal Gram Staining Reactions

F. Fenollar, D. Raoult

New Colorimetric Microdilution Method for In Vitro Susceptibility Testing of Borrelia burgdorferi Against Antimicrobial Substances

K.-P. Hunfeld, P. Kraiczy, T. A. Wichelhaus, V. Schäfer, V. Brade

Virulence Factors of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium Blood Culture Isolates

H.-A. Elsner, I. Sobottka, D. Mack, R. Laufs, M. Claussen, R. Wirth

Limits of Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Spiked Cerebrospinal Fluid Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction in Tuberculous Meningitis

J. Baran Jr., K. M. Riederer, R. Khatib

Cluster of Cases of Mycobacterium chelonae Bacteraemia

D. McCracken, P. Flanagan, D. Hill, I. Hosein

Localized Mycobacterium genavense Soft Tissue Infection in an Immunodeficient HIV-Negative Patient

S. Léautez, D. Boutoille, P. Bemer-Melchior, T. Ponge, F. Raffi

Clinical Significance of Scedosporium apiospermum in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis

B. Cimon, J. Carrère, J. F. Vinatier, J. P. Chazalette, D. Chabasse, J. P. Bouchara

Candida tropicalis Vertebral Osteomyelitis Complicating Epidural Catheterisation with Disease Paralleled by Elevated D-Arabinitol/L-Arabinitol Ratios

D. P. Eisen, R. MacGinley, B. Christensson, L. Larsson, M. L. Woods

Severe Cytomegalovirus-Triggered Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Complicating Vertically Acquired HIV Infection

M. Häusler, L. Schaade, G. Hutschenreuter, U. Hannig, G. Kusenbach

Isolation of Mycobacteria from Clinical Samples Using the Centrifugation-Shell Vial Technique

P.-E. Fournier, M. Drancourt, H. Lepidi, M.-J. Gevaudan, D. Raoult

Epidemiology of Quinolone Resistance of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella oxytoca in Europe

S. Brisse, D. Milatovic, A. C. Fluit, J. Verhoef, F.-J. Schmitz

Mycobacterium kansasii Abscess of the Chest Wall After Drainage of Bacterial Empyema

A. Tietz, M. Tamm, M. Battegay

Chronic Factitious Illness Presenting as Munchausen's Gonarthritis

G. Ackermann, C. Haugke, R. Schaumann, G. von Salis-Soglio, A. C. Rodloff

Characterization of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria Using a Commercial Identification System

J. Esteban, F. Cabria, E. Rollán, R. Fernández-Roblas, I. Gadea, F. Soriano

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