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European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Issue 8/2020

Content (24 Articles)

Tuberculosis vaccine development: from classic to clinical candidates

Junli Li, Aihua Zhao, Jun Tang, Guozhi Wang, Yanan Shi, Lingjun Zhan, Chuan Qin

Rate of polymyxin resistance among Acinetobacter baumannii recovered from hospitalized patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

William Gustavo Lima, Júlio César Moreira Brito, Bárbara Gatti Cardoso, Valbert Nascimento Cardoso, Magna Cristina de Paiva, Maria Elena de Lima, Simone Odília Antunes Fernandes

Antibiotic Original Article

High prevalence of MDR gram-negative bacteria in feces of healthy blood donors in Mexico

Karla M. Tamez-Torres, Alfredo Ponce-de-Leon, Pedro Torres-Gonzalez, Esteban Perez-Garcia, Estefania Torres-Veintimilla, Miriam Bobadilla-del Valle, Jose Sifuentes-Osornio

Open Access Care Original Article

Performance and ease of use of a molecular point-of-care test for influenza A/B and RSV in patients presenting to primary care

Jan Y Verbakel, Veerle Matheeussen, Katherine Loens, Mandy Kuijstermans, Herman Goossens, Margareta Ieven, Christopher C Butler

Neurologic Lyme Disease Original Article

The predictive value of CXCL13 in suspected Lyme neuroborreliosis: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Fredrikke Christie Knudtzen, Anna Christine Nilsson, Joppe W. Hovius, Sigurdur Skarphedinsson

Ampicillin Original Article

Molecular epidemiology of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in Portugal: an update of the post-vaccine period, 2011–2018

Catarina Isabel Moreira Heliodoro, Célia Rodrigues Bettencourt, Maria Paula Bajanca-Lavado

Original Article

Assessing a diagnosis tool for bacterial vaginosis

Ravesh Singh, Veron Ramsuran, Nireshni Mitchev, Abraham Johannes Niehaus, Khine Swe Swe Han, Farzana Osman, Sinaye Ngcapu, Salim Abdool Karim, Anne Rompalo, Nigel Garrett, Koleka Mlisana

Streptococci Original Article

Significant shifts in the distribution of vaccine capsular polysaccharide types and rates of antimicrobial resistance of perinatal group B streptococci within the last decade in St. Petersburg, Russia

Elena Shipitsyna, Kira Shalepo, Svetlana Zatsiorskaya, Anna Krysanova, Maria Razinkova, Alexey Grigoriev, Alevtina Savicheva

HIV antibodies level as a marker of HIV persistence: the role of hepatitis C virus coinfection

Jorge Arca-Suarez, Manuel Corrales-Cuevas, Susana Pascual-Pérez, Teresa Trujillo-Soto, Clotilde Fernández-Gutiérrez del Álamo, Sara Cuesta-Sancho, Manuel Rodríguez-Iglesias, José-Antonio Girón-González

Pneumococcus Original Article

Bacterial etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent hospitalized patients and appropriateness of empirical treatment recommendations: an international point-prevalence study

Manuela Carugati, S. Aliberti, G. Sotgiu, F. Blasi, A. Gori, R. Menendez, M. Encheva, M. Gallego, P. Leuschner, S. Ruiz-Buitrago, S. Battaglia, R. Fantini, S. Pascual-Guardia, J. Marin-Corral, M. I. Restrepo, Patricia Karina Aruj, Silvia Attorri, Enrique Barimboim, Juan Pablo Caeiro, María I Garzón, Victor Hugo Cambursano, Adrian Ceccato, Julio Chertcoff, Florencia Lascar, Fernando Di Tulio, Ariel Cordon Díaz, Lautaro de Vedia, Maria Cristina Ganaha, Sandra Lambert, Gustavo Lopardo, Carlos M Luna, Alessio Gerardo Malberti, Nora Morcillo, Silvina Tartara, Claudia Pensotti, Betiana Pereyra, Pablo Gustavo Scapellato, Juan Pablo Stagnaro, Sonali Shah, Felix Lötsch, Florian Thalhammer, Jean Louis Vincent, Kurt Anseeuw, Camille A Francois, Eva Van Braeckel, Marcel Zannou Djimon, Jules Bashi, Dodo Roger, Simone Aranha Nouér, Peter Chipev, Milena Encheva, Darina Miteva, Diana Petkova, Balkissou Adamou Dodo, Mbatchou Ngahane, Bertrand Hugo, Ning Shen, Jin-fu Xu, Carlos Andres Bustamante Rico, Ricardo Buitrago, Fernando Jose Pereira Paternina, Kayembe Ntumba Jean-Marie, Vesna Vladic Carevic, Marko Jakopovic, Mateja Jankovic, Zinka Matkovic, Ivan Mitrecic, Marie-Laure Bouchy Jacobsson, Anette Bro Christensen, Uff e Christian HeitmannBødtger, Christian Niels Meyer, Andreas Vestergaard Jensen, Gertrud Baunbæk-knudsen, Pelle Trier Petersen, Stine Andersen, Ibrahim El-Said Abd El-Wahhab, Nesreen Elsayed Morsy, Hanaa Shafiek, Eman Sobh, Fabrice Bertrand, Christian Brun-Buisson, Etienne de Montmollin, Muriel Fartoukh, Jonathan Messika, Pierre Tattevin, Michael Dreher, Martin Kolditz, Matthias Meisinger, Mathias W Pletz, Stefan Hagel, Jan Rupp, Tom Schaberg, Marc Spielmanns, Beatrice Siaw-Lartey, Katerina Dimakou, Dimosthenis Papapetrou, Evdoxia Tsigou, Dimitrios Ampazis, Mohit Bhatia, Raja Dhar, George D’Souza, Rajiv Garg, Parvaiz A Koul, P A Mahesh, B S Jayaraj, Kiran Vishnu Narayan, Hirennappa B Udnur, Shashi Bhaskara Krishnamurthy, Keihan Golshani, Vera M Keatings, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Yasmin Maor, Jacob Strahilevitz, Salvatore Battaglia, Maria Carrabba, Piero Ceriana, Marco Confalonieri, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte, Bruno Del Prato, Marino De Rosa, Riccardo Fantini, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Maria Antonia Gammino, Francesco Menzella, Giuseppe Milani, Stefano Nava, Gerardo Palmiero, Roberta Petrino, Barbra Gabrielli, Paolo Rossi, Claudio Sorino, Gundi Steinhilber, Alessandro Zanforlin, Kiyoyasu Kurahashi, Zeina Aoun Bacha, Daniel Barajas Ugalde, Omar Ceballos Zuñiga, José F Villegas, Milic Medenica, E M W van de Garde, Deebya Raj Mihsra, Poojan Shrestha, Elliott Ridgeon, Babatunde Ishola Awokola, Ogonna N O Nwankwo, Adefuye Bolanle Olufunlola, Segaolu Olumide, Kingsley N Ukwaja, Muhammad Irfan, Lukasz Minarowski, Skoczyński Szymon, Felipe Froes, Pedro Leuschner, Mariana Meireles, Cláudia Ferrão, Pedro Leuschner, João Neves, Sofia B Ravara, Cova da Beira, Victoria Brocovschii, Chesov Ion, Doina Rusu, Cristina Toma, Daniela Chirita, Alexei Birkun, Anna Kaluzhenina, Abdullah Almotairi, Zakeya Abdulbaqi, Ali Bukhary, Jameela Edathodu, Amal Fathy, Abdullah Mushira Abdulaziz Enani, Nazik Eltayeb Mohamed, Jawed Ulhadi Memon, Nada Bogdanović, Branislava Milenkovic, Dragica Pesut, Luis Borderìas, Noel Manuel Bordon Garcia, Hugo Cabello Alarcón, Catia Cilloniz, Antoni Torres, Vicens Diaz-Brito, Xavier Casas, Alicia Encabo González, Maria Luisa Fernández-Almira, Miguel Gallego, Inmaculada Gaspar-GarcÍa, Juan González del Castillo, Patricia Javaloyes Victoria, Elena Laserna Martínez, Rosa Malo de Molina, Pedro J Marcos, Rosario Menéndez, Ana PandoSandova, Cristina Prat Aymerich, Alicia Lacoma del la Torre, Ignasi García-Olivé, Jordi Rello, Silvia Moyano, Francisco Sanz, Oriol Sibila, Ana Rodrigo-Troyano, Jordi Solé-Violán, Ane Uranga, Job FM van Boven, Ester Vendrell Torra, Jordi Almirall Pujol, Charles Feldman, Ho Kee Yum, Arnauld Attannon Fiogbe, Ferdaous Yangui, Semra Bilaceroglu, Levent Dalar, Ufuk Yilmaz, Artemii Bogomolov, Naheed Elahi, Devesh J Dhasmana, Rhiannon Ions, Julie Skeemer, Gerrit Woltmann, Carole Hancock, Adam T Hill, Banu Rudran, Silvia Ruiz-Buitrago, Marion Campbell, Paul Whitaker, Karen S Allen, Veronica Brito, Jessica Dietz, Claire E Dysart, Susan M Kellie, Ricardo A Franco-Sadud, Garnet Meier, Mina Gaga, Thomas L Holland, Stephen P Bergin, Fayez Kheir, Mark Landmeier, Manuel Lois, Girish B Nair, Hemali Patel, Katherine Reyes, William Rodriguez-Cintron, Shigeki Saito, Nilam J Soni, Julio Noda, Cecilia I Hinojosa, Stephanie M Levine, Luis F Angel, Antonio Anzueto, K Scott Whitlow, John Hipskind, Kunal Sukhija, Richard G. Wunderink, Ray D Shah, Kondwelani John Mateyo

Original Article

Implementation of the WASPLab™ and first year achievements within a university hospital

Abdessalam Cherkaoui, Gesuele Renzi, Arnaud Viollet, Mark Fleischmann, Ludovic Metral-Boffod, David Dominguez-Amado, Nicolas Vuilleumier, Jacques Schrenzel

Tuberculosis Original Article

Targeting novel genes for simultaneous detection of five fungal and bacterial agents from BAL samples using multiplex PCR assay

Reza Kamali Kakhki, Mohammad Javad Najafzadeh, Reza Kachuei, Kiarash Ghazvini

Kidney Transplantation Original Article

Risk factors for development and mortality of invasive pulmonary Aspergillosis in kidney transplantation recipients

Hyeri Seok, Kyungmin Huh, Sun Young Cho, Cheol-In Kang, Doo Ryeon Chung, Woo Seong Huh, Jae Berm Park, Kyong Ran Peck

The use of 3 selected lactobacillary strains in vaginal probiotic gel for the treatment of acute Candida vaginitis: a proof-of-concept study

Gilbert Donders, Gert Bellen, Eline Oerlemans, Ingmar Claes, Kateryna Ruban, Tim Henkens, Filip Kiekens, Sarah Lebeer

Doxycycline Original Article

In vitro activity of omadacycline against pathogens isolated from Mainland China during 2017–2018

Dong Dong, Yonggui Zheng, Qingqing Chen, Yan Guo, Yang Yang, Shi Wu, Demei Zhu, Daniel Deng, Patricia A. Bradford, Harald Reinhart, Fupin Hu

Point-of-care multiplexed diagnosis of meningitis using the FilmArray® ME panel technology

Jean-Jacques Vincent, Christine Zandotti, Sophie Baron, Christian Kandil, Pierre-Yves Levy, Michel Drancourt, Didier Raoult, Laetitia Ninove

Open Access Adenovirus Original Article

Viruses and atypical bacteria in the respiratory tract of immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients with airway infection

Maria Reckziegel, Claudia Weber-Osel, Renate Egerer, Bernd Gruhn, Florian Kubek, Mario Walther, Stefanie Wilhelm, Roland Zell, Andi Krumbholz

Open Access Expectoration Brief Report

Brief report of the first cured 2019-nCoV pneumonia patient in West China Hospital

En-Qiang Chen, Li-Chun Wang, Guang-Min Tang, Yao Yang, Min-Jin Wang, Rong Deng, Fang Chen, Meng-Lan Wang, Ya-Chao Tao, Ping Feng, Hong Tang

Coronavirus Brief Report

Ultrarapid diagnosis, microscope imaging, genome sequencing, and culture isolation of SARS-CoV-2

Philippe Colson, Jean-Christophe Lagier, Jean-Pierre Baudoin, Jacques Bou Khalil, Bernard La Scola, Didier Raoult

Ritonavir Brief Report

A family cluster of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections

Xuesong Gao, Zheng Yuan, Di Yang, Hongjie Li, Yijin Zhang, Ping Gao, Xiaomin Liu, Wenshan Zhao, Te Xiao, Xuefei Duan

Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

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Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.