European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Reduction in pediatric invasive pneumococcal disease in the Basque Country and Navarre, Spain, after introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

J. Aristegui, E. Bernaola, I. Pocheville, C. García, L. Arranz, G. Durán, L. Pérez, M. Bastida, C. Canduela, M. Herranz Aguirre, E. Garrote, M. A. Fletcher, C. Pérez

Detection by PCR of eight groups of enteric pathogens in 4,627 faecal samples: re-examination of the English case-control Infectious Intestinal Disease Study (1993–1996)

C. F. L. Amar, C. L. East, J. Gray, M. Iturriza-Gomara, E. A. Maclure, J. McLauchlin

Differentiation of Candida albicans from non-albicans yeast directly from blood cultures by Gram stain morphology

A. Harrington, K. McCourtney, D. Nowowiejski, A. Limaye

Laboratory-based surveillance of patients with bacterial meningitis in Egypt (1998–2004)

S. Afifi, M. O. Wasfy, M. A. Azab, F. G. Youssef, G. Pimentel, T. W. Graham, H. Mansour, N. Elsayed, K. Earhart, R. Hajjeh, F. Mahoney

Q fever osteoarticular infection: four new cases and a review of the literature

C. Landais, F. Fenollar, A. Constantin, C. Cazorla, C. Guilyardi, H. Lepidi, A. Stein, J. M. Rolain, D. Raoult

Prevalence and predictive features of bacteremic urinary tract infection in emergency department patients

Y. Bahagon, D. Raveh, Y. Schlesinger, B. Rudensky, A. M. Yinnon

Efficacy and tolerability of prolonged linezolid therapy in the treatment of orthopedic implant infections

A. Soriano, J. Gómez, L. Gómez, J.R. Azanza, R. Pérez, F. Romero, M. Pons, F. Bella, M. Velasco, J. Mensa

Aspergillus infection of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and pacemakers: case report and literature review

M. Cobo, A. Ramos, J. Toquero, E. Muñez, T. Alvárez-Espejo, M. Muñoz, I. Fernández

In vitro susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium to daptomycin and other antibiotics

Z. Samra, O. Ofir, H. Shmuely

Methadone-induced Torsade de pointes after stopping lopinavir–ritonavir

B. Lüthi, A. Huttner, R. F. Speck, N. J. Mueller

Teaching fever aphorisms: Osler revisited

B. A. Cunha

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