Ausgabe 12/2018
Inhalt (24 Artikel)
Viral infection and atherosclerosis
Nima Hemmat, Amin Ebadi, Reza Badalzadeh, Mohammad Yousef Memar, Hossein Bannazadeh Baghi
Related carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella isolates detected in both a hospital and associated aquatic environment in Sweden
Faisal Ahmad Khan, Bengt Hellmark, Ralf Ehricht, Bo Söderquist, Jana Jass
Improving timelines in reporting results from positive blood cultures: simulation of impact of rapid identification on therapy on a real-life cohort
Lien Cattoir, Liselotte Coorevits, Isabel Leroux-Roels, Geert Claeys, Bruno Verhasselt, Jerina Boelens
Infective endocarditis due to Streptococcus dysgalactiae: clinical presentation and microbiological features
Anna Bläckberg, Bo Nilson, Volkan Özenci, Lars Olaison, Magnus Rasmussen
Use of Andromas and Bruker MALDI-TOF MS in the identification of Neisseria
Florence Morel, Hervé Jacquier, Marine Desroches, Vincent Fihman, Sylvain Kumanski, Emmanuelle Cambau, Jean-Winoc Decousser, Béatrice Berçot
A comparison of Sensititre™ Anaerobe MIC plate with ATB ANA® test for the routine susceptibility testing of common anaerobe pathogens
Abdessalam Cherkaoui, Adrien Fischer, Nouria Azam, Arnaud Riat, Jacques Schrenzel
A systematic review of randomised clinical trials for oral antibiotic treatment of acute pyelonephritis
Jonathan W. S. Cattrall, Alyss V. Robinson, Andrew Kirby
Variable spectrum of disease and risk factors of peripartum Clostridium difficile infection: report of 14 cases from French hospitals and literature review
Claire de Curraize, Clotilde Rousseau, Stéphane Corvec, Najoua El-Helali, Vincent Fihman, Frédéric Barbut, Anne Collignon, Alban Le Monnier
Novel diagnostic ELISA test for discrimination between infections with Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Tomasz Wielkoszynski, Aliyeh Moghaddam, Assar Bäckman, Jessica Broden, Rafał Piotrowski, Renata Mond-Paszek, Alexander Kozarenko, Tor Ny, Malgorzata Wilczynska
The effect of short-course gentamicin therapy on kidney function in patients with bacteraemia—a retrospective cohort study
Sarah Carlsen, Jonas Boel, Jens Otto Jarløv, Ida Gjørup, Christian Søborg, Magnus Arpi
Laboratory automation reduces time to report of positive blood cultures and improves management of patients with bloodstream infection
Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Francesco Di Donato, Riccardo Paggi, Chiara Gabrielli, Alessandra Belati, Giuseppe Rizza, Martina Savoia, Antonella Repetto, Elio Cenci, Antonella Mencacci
Multiplex real-time PCR for diagnosing malaria in a non-endemic setting: a prospective comparison to conventional methods
R. H. T. Nijhuis, L. van Lieshout, J. J. Verweij, E. C. J. Claas, E. Wessels
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) proteomic profiling of cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of enteroviral meningitis: a proof-of-principle study
Ignacio Torres, Estela Giménez, Víctor Vinuesa, Tania Pascual, Juan Miguel Moya, Juan Alberola, Ana Martínez-Sapiña, David Navarro
Fecal calprotectin concentrations in cancer patients with Clostridium difficile infection
Taojun He, Samuel E. Kaplan, Luz A. Gomez, Xuedong Lu, Lakshmi V. Ramanathan, Mini Kamboj, Yi-Wei Tang
Large variation in ESBL-producing Escherichia coli carriers in six European countries including Russia
Sofia Ny, Roman Kozlov, Uga Dumpis, Petra Edquist, Kirsi Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela, Anna-Maria Kling, Danuta O. Lis, Christoph Lübbert, Monika Pomorska-Wesołowska, Ivan Palagin, Aija Vilde, Jaana Vuopio, Jan Walter, Karin Tegmark Wisell, Kaisu Rantakokko-Jalava, Marianne Gunell, Esa Rintala, Harri Marttila, Tiina Kurvinen, Emilia Lönnqvist, Mari Virta, Anne-Mari Kaarto, Mikko Talja, Tim Eckmanns, Muna Abu Sin, Edward Velasco, Arne C. Rodloff, Felix Samuel Lempp, Norman Lippmann, Natali Ivanchik, Oliver Dyar, Christian Giske, Piotr Z. Brewczyński, Lidia Horoń, Anu Kantele, Sari H. Pakkanen
Clinical heterogeneity of patients with stool samples testing PCR+/Tox− from a two-step Clostridium difficile diagnostic algorithm
Jason Zou, Victor Leung, Sylvie Champagne, Michelle Hinch, Anna Wong, Elisa Lloyd-Smith, Trong Tien Nguyen, Marc G. Romney, Azra Sharma, Michael Payne, Christopher F. Lowe
Implications of stx loss for clinical diagnostics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
Thulasika Senthakumaran, Lin Torstensen Brandal, Bjørn-Arne Lindstedt, Silje Bakken Jørgensen, Colin Charnock, Hege Smith Tunsjø
Vaginal Ureaplasma species increase chorioamnionitis in very preterm infants with preterm premature rupture of the membranes at < 28 weeks of gestation
Yu Suzuki, Kenji Horie, Yukari Yada, Yumi Kono, Chikako Hirashima, Rie Usui, Shigeki Matsubara, Akihide Ohkuchi
How are trainees in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases supervised in Europe? An international cross-sectional questionnaire survey by the Trainee Association of ESCMID
Zaira R. Palacios-Baena, Thea Christine Zapf, David S. Y. Ong, Alberto E. Maraolo, Caroline Rönnberg, Cansu Çimen, Céline Pulcini, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Maurizio Sanguinetti
Real-time quantitative PCR analysis of endoscopic biopsies for diagnosing CMV gastrointestinal disease in non-HIV immunocompromised patients: a diagnostic accuracy study
Yasuhiro Tsuchido, Miki Nagao, Minoru Matsuura, Satoshi Nakano, Masaki Yamamoto, Yasufumi Matsumura, Hiroshi Seno, Satoshi Ichiyama
The association between treatment appropriateness according to EUCAST and CLSI breakpoints and mortality among patients with candidemia: a retrospective observational study
Nesrin Ghanem-Zoubi, Danny Zorbavel, Johad Khoury, Yuval Geffen, Majd Qasum, Svetlana Predescu, Mical Paul
Impact of total laboratory automation on workflow and specimen processing time for culture of urine specimens
Melanie L. Yarbrough, William Lainhart, Allison R. McMullen, Neil W. Anderson, Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospitalization rates in high-risk populations: an observational comparative cohort analysis
B. Resch, C. Puchas, B. Urlesberger