Infection

Antibiotic stewardship and horizontal infection control are more effective than screening, isolation and eradication

S. W. Lemmen, K. Lewalter

Incidental intraoperative diagnosis of Mycobacterium abscessus meningeal infection: a case report and review of the literature

Francesca Giovannenze, Vito Stifano, Giancarlo Scoppettuolo, Fernando Damiano, Federico Pallavicini, Giovanni Delogu, Ivana Palucci, Alessandro Rapisarda, Cosimo Sturdà, Angelo Pompucci

Dual antiretroviral therapy with tenofovir (TDF) and darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/RTV) in an HIV-1 positive patient: a case report, review, and meta-analysis of the literature on dual treatment strategies using protease inhibitors in combination with an NRTI

S. Höring, B. Löffler, M. W. Pletz, S. Rößler, S. Weis, B. T. Schleenvoigt

Safety and efficacy of ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir/dasabuvir plus ribavirin in patients over 65 years with HCV genotype 1 cirrhosis

Antonio Ascione, Massimo De Luca, Mario Melazzini, Simona Montilla, Maria Paola Trotta, Salvatore Petta, Massimo Puoti, Vincenzo Sangiovanni, Vincenzo Messina, Savino Bruno, Antonio Izzi, Erica Villa, Alessio Aghemo, Anna Linda Zignego, Alessandra Orlandini, Luca Fontanella, Antonio Gasbarrini, Marco Marzioni, Edoardo G. Giannini, Antonio Craxì, Giuseppe Abbati, Alfredo Alberti, Pietro Andreone, Massimo Andreoni, Paolo Angeli, Mario Angelico, Gioacchino Angarano, Debora Angrisani, Andrea Antinori, Cinzia Antonini, Ivo Avancini, Michele Barone, Raffaele Bruno, Antonio Benedetti, Veronica Bernabucci, Pier Blanc, Chiara Boarini, Nicola Boffa, Lucio Boglione, Vanni Borghi, Guglielmo Borgia, Giuseppina Brancaccio, Maurizia Brunetto, Irene Cacciola, Paolo Calabrese, Vincenza Calvaruso, Davide Campagnolo, Benedetta Canovari, Nicola Caporaso, Franco Capra, Giada Carolo, Giovanni Cassola, Francesco Castelli, Roberto Cauda, Francesca Ceccherini Silberstein, Roberto Cecere, Luchino Chessa, Alessandro Chiodera, Antonio Chirianni, Alessia Ciancio, Serena Cima, Barbara Coco, Massimo Colombo, Nicola Coppola, Giampaolo Corti, Lucio Cosco, Silvia Corradori, Raffaele Cozzolongo, Antonio Cristaudo, Elena Danieli, Antonella D’Arminio Monforte, Marco delle Monache, Paolo Del Poggio, Andrea de Luca, Chiara Dentone, Antonio Di Biagio, Alfredo Di Leo, Giovanni Di Perri, Marco Di Stefano, Giampiero D’Offizi, Francesca Donato, Emanuele Durante, Elke Erne, Stefano Fagiuoli, Katia Falasca, Alessandro Federico, Martina Felder, Carlo Ferrari, Giovanni Battista Gaeta, Roberto Ganga, Pietro Gatti, Vania Giacomet, Andrea Giacometti, Alice Gianstefani, Maria Giordani, Alessia Giorgini, Antonio Grieco, Michele Guerra, Roberto Gulminetti, Donatella Ieluzzi, Michele Imparato, Valentina Iodice, Silvia La Monica, Adriano Lazzarin, Marco Lenzi, Massimo Levrero, Myriam Lichtner, Raffaella Lionetti, Carmela Lo Guercio, Salvatore Madonna, Silvia Magnani, Ivana Maida, Massimo Marignani, Aldo Marrone, Fabio Marsetti, Silvia Martini, Mario Masarone, Renato Maserati, Claudio Maria Mastroianni, Massimo Memoli, Barbara Menzaghi, Manuela Merli, Luca Miele, Michele Milella, Mario Mondelli, Marzia Montalbano, Monica Monti, Olivia Morelli, Filomena Morisco, Gaetano Nardone, Sergio Novara, Giovanna Onnelli, Mirella Onofrio, Simona Paganin, Luca Pani, Maria Rita Parisi, Giustino Parruti, Caterina Pasquazzi, Luisa Pasulo, Carlo Federico Perno, Marcello Persico, Guido Piai, Antonino Picciotto, Grazielle Marie Pigozzi, Sara Piovesan, Maria Chiara Piras, Massimo Pirisi, Anna Maria Piscaglia, Laura Ponti, Domenico Potenza, Cecilia Pravadelli, Mariano Quartini, Tiziana Quirino, Giovanni Raimondo, Gian Ludovico Rapaccini, Maria Rendina, Giuliano Rizzardini, Mario Rizzetto, Salvatore Rizzo, Dante Romagnoli, Antonietta Romano, Cristina Rossi, Maria Grazia Rumi, Maurizio Russello, Francesca Paolo Russo, Maria Luisa Russo, Domenico Ettore Sansonno, Teresa Antonia Santantonio, Giorgio Saracco, Anna Maria Schimizzi, Gaetano Serviddio, Filomena Simeone, Attilio Solinas, Alessandro Soria, Marco Tabone, Gloria Taliani, Giuseppe Tarantino, Pierluigi Tarquini, Marcello Tavio, Antonio Termite, Elisabetta Teti, Pierluigi Toniutto, Carlo Torti, Paolo Tundi, Giacomo Vecchiet, Gabriella Verucchi, Umberto Vespasiani Gentilucci, Maria Vinci, Vincenzo Vullo, Teresa Zolfino, Massimo Zuin

Prolonged antibiotic prophylaxis after thoracoabdominal esophagectomy does not reduce the risk of pneumonia in the first 30 days: a retrospective before-and-after analysis

Marcel Hochreiter, Maria Uhling, Leila Sisic, Thomas Bruckner, Alexandra Heininger, Andreas Hohn, Katja Ott, Thomas Schmidt, Marc Moritz Berger, Daniel Christoph Richter, Markus Büchler, Markus Alexander Weigand, Cornelius Johannes Busch

A prediction rule for early recognition of patients with candidemia in Internal Medicine: results from an Italian, multicentric, case–control study

Emanuela Sozio, Filippo Pieralli, Anna Maria Azzini, Giancarlo Tintori, Federica Demma, Gianluca Furneri, Francesco Sbrana, Giacomo Bertolino, Simona Fortunato, Simone Meini, Damiano Bragantini, Alessandro Morettini, Carlo Nozzoli, Francesco Menichetti, Ercole Concia, Carlo Tascini

Prevalence of, and risk factors for, hematogenous fungal endophthalmitis in patients with Candida bloodstream infection

Hideaki Kato, Yukihiro Yoshimura, Yoshihiro Suido, Kazuo Ide, Yoshifumi Sugiyama, Kasumi Matsuno, Hideaki Nakajima

Invasive Candida auris infections in Kuwait hospitals: epidemiology, antifungal treatment and outcome

Ziauddin Khan, Suhail Ahmad, Khalifa Benwan, Prashant Purohit, Inaam Al-Obaid, Ritu Bafna, Maha Emara, Eiman Mokaddas, Aneesa Ahmed Abdullah, Khaled Al-Obaid, Leena Joseph

Onset of symptoms, diagnostic confirmation, and occurrence of multiple infective foci in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: a look into the order of events and potential clinical implications

Jesper Smit, Siegbert R. Rieg, Andreas F. Wendel, Winfried V. Kern, Harald Seifert, Henrik C. Schønheyder, Achim J. Kaasch

Refugees and family-reunified immigrants have a high incidence of HIV diagnosis and late presentation compared with Danish born: a nationwide register-based cohort study

Laura Deen, Susan Cowan, Christian Wejse, Jørgen Holm Petersen, Marie Norredam

Diabetes was the only comorbid condition associated with mortality of invasive pneumococcal infection in ICU patients: a multicenter observational study from the Outcomerea research group

Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Elie Azoulay, Stéphane Ruckly, Carole Schwebel, Etienne de Montmollin, Jean-Pierre Bedos, Bertrand Souweine, Guillaume Marcotte, Christophe Adrie, Dany Goldgran-Toledano, Anne-Sylvie Dumenil, Hatem Kallel, Samir Jamali, Laurent Argaud, Michael Darmon, Jean-Ralph Zahar, J. F. Timsit

Native vertebral osteomyelitis in aged patients: distinctive features. An observational cohort study

Juan Aguilar-Company, Carles Pigrau, Nuria Fernández-Hidalgo, Dolors Rodríguez-Pardo, Vicenç Falcó, Mayli Lung, Ferran Pellisé, Benito Almirante

Minimum Quality Threshold in Pre-Clinical Sepsis Studies (MQTiPSS): an international expert consensus initiative for improvement of animal modeling in sepsis

Marcin F. Osuchowski, Alfred Ayala, Soheyl Bahrami, Michael Bauer, Mihaly Boros, Jean-Marc Cavaillon, Irshad H. Chaudry, Craig M. Coopersmith, Clifford Deutschman, Susanne Drechsler, Philip Efron, Claes Frostell, Gerhard Fritsch, Waldemar Gozdzik, Judith Hellman, Markus Huber-Lang, Shigeaki Inoue, Sylvia Knapp, Andrey V. Kozlov, Claude Libert, John C. Marshall, Lyle L. Moldawer, Peter Radermacher, Heinz Redl, Daniel G. Remick, Mervyn Singer, Christoph Thiemermann, Ping Wang, W. Joost Wiersinga, Xianzhong Xiao, Basilia Zingarelli

Epidemiology, management and outcome of varicella in pregnancy: a 20-year experience at the Tuscany Reference Centre for Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy

Michele Trotta, Beatrice Borchi, Alessandra Niccolai, Elisabetta Venturini, Susanna Giaché, Gaetana Sterrantino, Maria Grazia Colao, Gian Maria Rossolini, Alessandro Bartoloni, Lorenzo Zammarchi

A nationwide passive surveillance on fungal infections shows a low burden of azole resistance in molds and yeasts in Tyrol, Austria

Cornelia Lass-Flörl, Astrid Mayr, Maria Aigner, Michaela Lackner, Dorothea Orth-Höller

Disseminated nocardiosis caused by Nocardia elegans: a case report and review of the literature

Yi You, Wenchief Chen, Baiyu Zhong, Ziqiang Song, Xichuan Yang

Mycotic aneurysm caused by Clostridium septicum in a patient with colorectal cancer

Winesh Ramphal, Niels J. Raaijmakers, Marjolein van der Klift, Jan H. Wijsman, Jan A. J. W. Kluytmans, Eelco J. Veen

HCV very late relapse following an atypical viral kinetics in a HIV patient treated for hepatitis C with direct-acting antivirals

Viola Guardigni, Valeria Cento, Stefano Ianniruberto, Lorenzo Badia, Marianna Aragri, Matteo Conti, Carlo Federico Perno, Pierluigi Viale, Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein, Gabriella Verucchi

A challenging case of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae septic thrombophlebitis and right mural endocarditis successfully treated with ceftazidime/avibactam

Alessandra Iacovelli, Martina Spaziante, Samir Al Moghazi, Alessandra Giordano, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Mario Venditti

Autochthonous acute hepatitis E: treatment with sofosbuvir and ribavirin

Elisa Biliotti, Cristiana Franchi, Martina Spaziante, Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Lorenzo Volpicelli, Donatella Palazzo, Maurizio De Angelis, Rozenn Esvan, Gloria Taliani

An unexpected Campylobacter fetus infection

Eric Nulens, Eva-Line Decoster, Marie-Christine Schoonooghe, Astrid Muyldermans

Charité Hospital and infectious diseases

R. Bianucci, C. Qualls, D. Lippi, P. Charlier, A. Perciaccante, O. Appenzeller

The African Sepsis Alliance: making a difference in the fight against sepsis in Africa

Jamie Rylance, Emmanuel Nsutebu, Kamal Osman Mergani, Martin Peter Grobusch, Shevin T. Jacob

Pancoast’s syndrome: an unusual presentation of invasive pneumococcal disease

Kyong-Hee Lee, Kiyozumi Suzuki, Masashi Tsuru, Arifumi Takazawa

Necrotizing tracheobronchitis caused by influenza and Staphylococcus aureus co-infection

Saeko Takahashi, Morio Nakamura

Nachruf Prof. Dr. med. Georg Peters

Correction to: A challenging case of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae septic thrombophlebitis and right mural endocarditis successfully treated with ceftazidime/avibactam

Alessandra Iacovelli, Martina Spaziante, Samir Al Moghazi, Alessandra Giordano, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Mario Venditti

Correction to: Minimum Quality Threshold in Pre-Clinical Sepsis Studies (MQTiPSS): an international expert consensus initiative for improvement of animal modeling in sepsis

Marcin F. Osuchowski, Alfred Ayala, Soheyl Bahrami, Michael Bauer, Mihaly Boros, Jean-Marc Cavaillon, Irshad H. Chaudry, Craig M. Coopersmith, Clifford Deutschman, Susanne Drechsler, Philip Efron, Claes Frostell, Gerhard Fritsch, Waldemar Gozdzik, Judith Hellman, Markus Huber-Lang, Shigeaki Inoue, Sylvia Knapp, Andrey V. Kozlov, Claude Libert, John C. Marshall, Lyle L. Moldawer, Peter Radermacher, Heinz Redl, Daniel G. Remick, Mervyn Singer, Christoph Thiemermann, Ping Wang, W. Joost Wiersinga, Xianzhong Xiao, Basilia Zingarelli