Issue 3/2021
Content (26 Articles)
Is it time to move away from polymyxins?: evidence and alternatives
Rajeev Soman, Yamuna Devi Bakthavatchalam, Abinaya Nadarajan, Hariharan Triplicane Dwarakanathan, Ramasubramanian Venkatasubramanian, Balaji Veeraraghavan
Culture of SARS-CoV-2 in a panel of laboratory cell lines, permissivity, and differences in growth profile
Nathalie Wurtz, Gwilherm Penant, Priscilla Jardot, Nathalie Duclos, Bernard La Scola
Inference of SARS-CoV-2 spike-binding neutralizing antibody titers in sera from hospitalized COVID-19 patients by using commercial enzyme and chemiluminescent immunoassays
Arantxa Valdivia, Ignacio Torres, Víctor Latorre, Clara Francés-Gómez, Eliseo Albert, Roberto Gozalbo-Rovira, María Jesús Alcaraz, Javier Buesa, Jesús Rodríguez-Díaz, Ron Geller, David Navarro
Nosocomial infections associated to COVID-19 in the intensive care unit: clinical characteristics and outcome
Tommaso Bardi, Vicente Pintado, Maria Gomez-Rojo, Rosa Escudero-Sanchez, Amal Azzam Lopez, Yolanda Diez-Remesal, Nilda Martinez Castro, Patricia Ruiz-Garbajosa, David Pestaña
Changes of intestinal microflora of breast cancer in premenopausal women
Chuan He, Yue Liu, Shandong Ye, Shiwu Yin, Junfei Gu
Invasive group B Streptococcus among non-pregnant adults in Brussels-Capital Region, 2005–2019
Elena Graux, Maya Hites, Delphine Martiny, Evelyne Maillart, Marc Delforge, Pierrette Melin, Nicolas Dauby
Epidemiology, bacteriology, and clinical characteristics of HACEK bacteremia and endocarditis: a population-based retrospective study
Andreas Berge, Christian Morenius, Alexandros Petropoulos, Bo Nilson, Magnus Rasmussen
Mortality related to drug-resistant organisms in surgical sepsis-3: an 8-year time trend study using sequential organ failure assessment scores
Junichi Yoshida, Tetsuro Tamura, Kazuhiro Otani, Masaaki Inoue, Eiji Miyatake, Toshiyuki Ishimitsu, Chihiro Nakahara, Masao Tanaka
Children were less frequently infected with SARS-CoV-2 than adults during 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Warsaw, Poland
Ernest Kuchar, Andrzej Załęski, Michał Wronowski, Dagny Krankowska, Edyta Podsiadły, Klaudia Brodaczewska, Aneta Lewicka, Sławomir Lewicki, Claudine Kieda, Andrzej Horban, Małgorzata Kloc, Jacek Z. Kubiak
Performance and user-friendliness of the rapid antigen detection tests QuickVue Dipstick Strep A test and DIAQUICK Strep A Blue Dipstick for pharyngotonsillitis caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in primary health care
Una Ørvim Sølvik, Elisabet Eriksson Boija, Sara Ekvall, Afamia Jabbour, Anne Christin Breivik, Gunnar Nordin, Sverre Sandberg
Comparison of the CapitalBio™Mycobacterium RT-PCR detection test and Xpert MTB/RIF assay for diagnosis of renal tuberculosis
Pengju Liu, Yeqiang Wang, Sida Hao, Yong Qin
The metabolic and immunological characteristics of pregnant women with COVID-19 and their neonates
Jingjiao Zhou, Yudie Wang, Juan Zhao, Lixing Gu, Cheng Yang, Jun Wang, Heng Zhang, Yu Tian, Hu Tuo, Dan Li, Min Wei, Bing He
Multicenter study of automated systems for colistin susceptibility testing
Ahalieyah Anantharajah, Youri Glupczynski, Martin Hoebeke, Pierre Bogaerts, Philippe Declercq, Olivier Denis, Julie Descy, Katelijne Floré, Koen Magerman, Hector Rodriguez-Villalobos, Anne-Marie Van den Abeele, Te-Din Huang
Phylogeny, recombination, and invasiveness of group B Streptococcus revealed by genomic comparisons of its global strains
Enze Lin, Shengmei Zou, Yue Wang, Chien-Chung Lee, Cheng-Hsun Chiu, Ye Feng
Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycoplasma genitalium and Trichomonas vaginalis including relevant resistance-associated mutations in a single center in the Netherlands
R. H. T. Nijhuis, R. G. Duinsbergen, A. Pol, P. C. R. Godschalk
Comparison of conventional molecular and whole-genome sequencing methods for subtyping Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis strains from Tunisia
Boutheina Ksibi, Sonia Ktari, Houcemeddine Othman, Kais Ghedira, Sonda Maalej, Basma Mnif, Mohamed salah Abbassi, Laetitia Fabre, Faouzia Rhimi, Simon Le Hello, Adnene Hammami
Chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Italy during the twenty-first century: an updated survey in 2019
Tommaso Stroffolini, Alessia Ciancio, Caterina Furlan, Maria Vinci, Grazia Anna Niro, Maurizio Russello, Guido Colloredo, Filomena Morisco, Nicola Coppola, Sergio Babudieri, Luigina Ferrigno, Caterina Sagnelli, Evangelista Sagnelli, Giulia Verzon, Arianna Latanza, Viviana Picciotto, Rosanna Fontana, Rosa Grazia Benigno, Giuseppina Pontillo, Vincenzo Messina, Vito Fiore
The effect of oropharyngeal aspiration before position change on reducing the incidence of ventilator- associated pneumonia
Ayşe Akbiyik, Ziynet Hepçivici, Ismet Eşer, Mehmet Uyar, Perihan Çetin
Forgoing transesophageal echocardiogram in selected patients with complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
John C. Lam, Daniel B. Gregson, Ranjani Somayaji, Stephen Robinson, John M. Conly, Lisa Welikovitch, Michael D. Parkins
Late onset pulmonary embolism in young male otherwise healthy COVID-19 patients
M. Karolyi, E. Pawelka, S. Omid, H. Kelani, T. Mader, S. Baumgartner, H. Laferl, M. Traugott, T. Seitz, A. Zoufaly, C. Wenisch
Frequent detection of enterovirus D68 and rhinovirus type C in children with acute respiratory infections
Sayed-Hamidreza Mozhgani, Mohsen Keshavarz, Neda Mousavi, Haideh Namdari, Vahid Salimi, Talat Mokhtari-Azad, Mohadeseh Zarei-Ghobadi, Seyed Alireza Nadji, Nastaran Ghavami, Farhad Rezaei
Point-of-care multiplex-PCR enables germ identification in haemolytic uremic syndrome 94 h earlier than stool culture
Luis Hernán Llano López, Pablo Melonari, Stephan Gehring, Daniel Schreiner, Sandra Grucci, Sofía Pérez Araujo, Lorena Di Pauli, Christina Oetzmann von Sochaczewski, Arne Schröder, Laura Piovano
A rare case of cutaneous Papiliotrema (Cryptococcus) laurentii infection in a 23-year-old Caucasian woman affected by an autoimmune thyroid disorder with hypothyroidism
J. Intra, C. Sarto, P. Brambilla
The vaginal microbiota in the course of bacterial vaginosis treatment
Romy D. Zwittink, Ellen H. A. van den Munckhof, Maurine A. Leverstein-van Hall, Kim Boers, Anco Molijn, Cornelis W. Knetsch, Ed J. Kuijper
Positive virus detection in patients who recovered from COVID-19 during quarantine period between discharge and home: a two-center experience in Wuhan, China
Xiaobing Wang, Ping Zhang, Jun Xiao, Yue Zhu, Lin Zhang, Liping Chen
A novel approach to managing COVID-19 patients; results of lopinavir plus doxycycline cohort
Banu Cakir