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European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Issue 9/2021

Content (32 Articles)

Prevalence of human papillomavirus detection in ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis

Soumia Cherif, Abdessamad Amine, Sarah Thies, Eliane T. Taube, Elena Ioana Braicu, Jalid Sehouli, Andreas M. Kaufmann

Septicemia Original Article

A decade of neonatal sepsis caused by gram-negative bacilli—a retrospective matched cohort study

Viveka Nordberg, Aina Iversen, Annika Tidell, Karolina Ininbergs, Christian G. Giske, Lars Navér

Echinococcosis Original Article

In vivo efficacy of combination therapy with albendazole and atovaquone against primary hydatid cysts in mice

Shigehiro Enkai, Hirokazu Kouguchi, Daniel Ken Inaoka, Takao Irie, Kinpei Yagi, Kiyoshi Kita

Metronidazole Original Article

Predictive factors, outcomes, and molecular epidemiology of Clostridioides difficile diarrhea in Brazilian hospitals

Evelyne Santana Girão, Bruno de Melo Tavares, Sania Alves dos Santos, Gessica Lorena Gamarra, Camila Rizek, Roberta Cristina Martins, Lauro Vieira Perdigão Neto, Constancia Diogo, Tatiana D’ Annibale Orsi, Hugo Manuel Paz Morales, Keite da Silva Nogueira, Adriane Ceshin Maestri, Icaro Boszczowski, Filipe Piastrelli, Cecilia Leite Costa, Daniely Viana Costa, Geovania Maciel, Janete Romão, Thais Guimarães, Gerly Anne de Castro Brito, Silvia Figueiredo Costa

Meningitis Original Article

Clinical characteristics and serotype distribution of invasive pneumococcal disease in pediatric patients from Beijing, China

Yan Xu, Qing Wang, Kaihu Yao, Fang Dong, Wenqi Song, Gang Liu, Baoping Xu, Wei Shi, Yue Li, Kechun Li, Yingchao Liu, Suyun Qian

Open Access Original Article

Reducing the dosing frequency of selective digestive tract decontamination to three times daily provides effective decontamination of Gram-negative bacteria

Jara R. de la Court, Kim C. E. Sigaloff, Thomas Groot, Johan I. van der Spoel, Rogier P. Schade

Isoniazid Original Article

Exploratory development of PCR-fluorescent probes in rapid detection of mutations associated with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

Jianqin Liang, Huiru An, Jin Zhou, Yuqin Liu, Guangxin Xiang, Yingying Liu, Wanli Xing, Wenping Gong

Antiviral Agents Original Article

Modifications of CD4 T cells, CD4/CD8 ratio and serum levels of soluble CD14 in HIV-HCV-coinfected patients after sustained HCV response induced by direct-acting antiviral agents: influence of liver cirrhosis

José-Antonio Girón-Ortega, Mercedes Márquez-Coello, Daniel Gutiérrez-Saborido, Ana Arizcorreta, Sara Cuesta-Sancho, José-Antonio Girón-González

Endocarditis Original Article

Bartonella species as a cause of culture-negative endocarditis in South Africa

Alfonso (AJK) Pecoraro, Philip (PG) Herbst, Colette (C) Pienaar, Jantjie (JJT) Taljaard, Hans (HW) Prozesky, Jacques (JT) Janson, Anton (AF) Doubell

SARS-CoV-2 Original Article

Accuracy of the serological detection of IgG and IgM to SARS-Cov-2: a prospective, cross-sectional study

Valentina Pecoraro, Tiziana Cassetti, Marisa Meacci, Raffaele Gargiulo, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Cristina Mussini, Elena Vecchi, Monica Pecorari, Carlo Gagliotti, Tommaso Trenti, Mario Sarti

Streptococci Original Article

Multicenter evaluation of the VITEK MS matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry system for identification of bacteria, including Brucella, and yeasts

Victoria Girard, Valérie Monnin, Delphine Giraud, Sophie Polsinelli, Marion Caillé, Gary W. Procop, Marion Tuohy, Deborah Wilson, Sandra S. Richter, Katalin Kiss, Kimberly Clem, Nicholas Tolli, Laurence Bridon, Constance Bradford, Sara Blamey, Jay Li, David H. Pincus

Antibiotic Original Article

Infective endocarditis caused by HACEK group bacteria—a registry-based comparative study

Anna Bläckberg, Christian Morenius, Lars Olaison, Andreas Berge, Magnus Rasmussen

Escherichia Coli Original Article

Performance of a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based method for rapid detection of third-generation oxymino-cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp. from blood cultures

Ignacio Torres, Eliseo Albert, Estela Giménez, Beatriz Olea, Arantxa Valdivia, Tania Pascual, Dixie Huntley, David Sánchez, Rosa María Costa, Carolina Pinto, Rosa Oltra, Javier Colomina, David Navarro

Expectoration Original Article

Application of metagenomic next-generation sequencing in the diagnosis and treatment guidance of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in renal transplant recipients

Feng Zhang, Jia Chen, He Huang, Xiaolong Deng, Wei Zhang, Min Zeng, Rangjiao Liu, Lizhong Dai, Qiquan Wan

Antibiotic Original Article

Semi-mechanistic PK/PD modelling of meropenem and sulbactam combination against carbapenem-resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii

Sazlyna Mohd Sazlly Lim, Aaron J. Heffernan, Hosam M. Zowawi, Jason A. Roberts, Fekade B. Sime

Obesity Original Article

Sex-specific impact of severe obesity in the outcomes of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a large retrospective study from the Bronx, New York

Arcelia Guerson-Gil, Leonidas Palaiodimos, Andrei Assa, Dimitris Karamanis, Damianos Kokkinidis, Natalia Chamorro-Pareja, Preeti Kishore, Jason M. Leider, Lawrence J. Brandt

SARS-CoV-2 Original Article

Clinical evaluation of rapid point-of-care antigen tests for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Johannes G. M. Koeleman, Henk Brand, Stijn J. de Man, David S. Y. Ong

Open Access Coronavirus Original Article

Diagnostic performance of four SARS-CoV-2 antibody assays in patients with COVID-19 or with bacterial and non-SARS-CoV-2 viral respiratory infections

Timo Huber, Philipp Steininger, Pascal Irrgang, Klaus Korn, Matthias Tenbusch, Katharina Diesch, Susanne Achenbach, Andreas E. Kremer, Marissa Werblow, Marcel Vetter, Christian Bogdan, Jürgen Held

SARS-CoV-2 Correction

Correction to: Diagnostic performance of four SARS-CoV-2 antibody assays in patients with COVID-19 or with bacterial and non-SARS-CoV-2 viral respiratory infections

Timo Huber, Philipp Steininger, Pascal Irrgang, Klaus Korn, Matthias Tenbusch, Katharina Diesch, Susanne Achenbach, Andreas E. Kremer, Marissa Werblow, Marcel Vetter, Christian Bogdan, Jürgen Held

Antibiotic Brief Report

Risk factors for enterococcal urinary tract infections: a multinational, retrospective cohort study

Adi Turjeman, Tanya Babich, Miquel Pujol, Jordi Carratalà, Evelyn Shaw, Aina Gomila-Grange, Cuong Vuong, Ibironke Addy, Irith Wiegand, Sally Grier, Alasdair MacGowan, Christiane Vank, Nienke Cuperus, Leo van den Heuvel, Leonard Leibovici, Noa Eliakim-Raz

Influenza Virus Brief Report

The recent characteristics of influenza-related hospitalization in Japanese children

Shunsuke Watanabe, Takayuki Hoshina, Masumi Kojiro, Koichi Kusuhara

Brief Report

The use of multi-pronged screening strategy to understand the epidemiology of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Hong Kong: transition from epidemic to endemic setting

Shuk- Ching Wong, Veronica Wing- Man Chan, Germaine Kit-Ming Lam, Christine Ho-Yan AuYeung, Elaine Yin-Ling Leung, Simon Yung-Chun So, Jonathan Hon-Kwan Chen, Siddharth Sridhar, Anthony Raymond Tam, Ivan Fan-Ngai Hung, Pak- Leung Ho, Kwok- Yung Yuen, Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng

COVID-19 or not COVID-19? Compared characteristics of patients hospitalized for suspected COVID-19

Thomas Rogier, Isabelle Eberl, Florian Moretto, Thibault Sixt, François-Xavier Catherine, Clémentine Estève, Maroua Abdallahoui, Lucile Behague, Antoine Coussement, Lucas Mathey, Sophie Mahy, Marielle Buisson, Arnaud Salmon-Rousseau, Michel Duong, Pascal Chavanet, Quentin Bernard, Barbara Nicolas, Leila Benguella, Bernard Bonnotte, Mathieu Blot, Lionel Piroth

Amikacin Brief Report

Long-term use of liposomal nebulized amikacin and tedizolid for the treatment of disseminated nocardiosis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Sarah Soueges, Claire Triffault-Fillit, Sandrine Roux, Hélène Labussière-Wallet, David Lebeaux, Oana Dumitrescu, Isabelle Morelec, Elisabeth Hodille, Florence Ader, F. Ader, V. Alcazer, E. Bachy, M. Balsat, F. Barraco, M. Boccard, A. Conrad, S. Ducastelle-Leprêtre, O. Dumitrescu, D. Dupont, V. Escuret, E. Ferrant, T. Ferry, E. Frobert, H. Ghesquières, L. Karlin, H. Labussière-Wallet, M-V. Larcher, F. Laurent, B. Lina, G. Lina, J. Menotti, P. Miailhes, G. Monneret, F. Morfin-Sherpa, T. Perpoint, M. Rabodonirina, M. Renault, C. Roure-Sobas, V. Safar, G. Salles, P. Sesques, X. Thomas, F. Valour, F. Venet, F. Wallet, M. Wallon

Meningitis Brief Report

Direct next-generation sequencing diagnosis of echovirus 9 meningitis, France

Madjid Morsli, Jean-Jacques Vincent, Laurine Milliere, Philippe Colson, Michel Drancourt

SARS-CoV-2 Brief Report

The ID NOW COVID-19, a high-speed high-performance assay

Eric Farfour, M. Asso-Bonnet, M. Vasse, Emilie Catherinot, Colas Tcherakian, Antoine Magnan, Simon Chauveau, Sylvie Colin de Verdière, Hélène Salvatore, Antoine Roux, Benjamin Zuber, Charles Cerf, Richard Galliot, Mathilde Neuville, Morgan Le Guen, Camille Cornet, Mathilde Roumier, Antoine Bizard, David Zucman, Ibrahim Marroun, Mathieu Groh, Erwan Fourn, Yoland Schoindre, David Khau, Romain Paule, Philippe Grenier, Anne-Laure Brun, François Mellot, Tiffany Pascreau, Sara Zia-Chahabi, Laurence Mazaux, Emilie Jolly, Brigitte Bonan, Eve Camps, Antoine Faucheron, Anne Verrat, Etienne Imhaus, Marie-Christine Ballester, Marie Desroziers, Mohamed Mouaci, Charlotte Rachline, Carline Amiel

Doxycycline Letter to the Editor

Empirical treatment with doxycycline of fever of intermediate duration

Emilio Guirao-Arrabal, Leopoldo Muñoz-Medina, Francisco Anguita-Santos, David Vinuesa-García, José Hernández-Quero

Correction to: 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

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