Issue 3/2017
Content (25 Articles)
Scaring and encouraging news on diagnosis, spreading, and therapy of resistant organisms: the ECCMID 2017 in Vienna
Johannes R. Bogner
Rapid detection of Clostridium difficile toxins and laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infections
Shuyi Chen, Huawei Gu, Chunli Sun, Haiying Wang, Jufang Wang
The “Choosing Wisely” initiative in infectious diseases
Clara Lehmann, Reinhard Berner, Johannes R. Bogner, Oliver A. Cornely, Katja de With, Susanne Herold, Winfried V. Kern, Sebastian Lemmen, Mathias W. Pletz, Bernhard Ruf, Bernd Salzberger, Hans Jürgen Stellbrink, Norbert Suttorp, Andrew J. Ullmann, Gerd Fätkenheuer, Norma Jung
Detection of transrenal DNA for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and treatment monitoring
Ines Labugger, Jan Heyckendorf, Stefan Dees, Emilia Häussinger, Christian Herzmann, Thomas A. Kohl, Elvira Richter, Eric Rivera-Milla, Christoph Lange
Hepatitis delta infection in Italian patients: towards the end of the story?
Tommaso Stroffolini, Evangelista Sagnelli, Caterina Sagnelli, Maurizio Russello, Massimo De Luca, Floriano Rosina, Bruno Cacopardo, Giuseppina Brancaccio, Caterina Furlan, Giovanni Battista Gaeta, Anna Licata, Piero Luigi Almasio
Risk for latent and active tuberculosis in Germany
Christian Herzmann, Giovanni Sotgiu, Oswald Bellinger, Roland Diel, Silke Gerdes, Udo Goetsch, Helga Heykes-Uden, Tom Schaberg, Christoph Lange
Does serum procalcitonin aid in the diagnosis of bloodstream infection regardless of whether patients exhibit the systemic inflammatory response syndrome?
Rashi Arora, James P. Campbell, Gyorgy Simon, Nishant Sahni
Role of neutrophil to lymphocyte and monocyte to lymphocyte ratios in the diagnosis of bacterial infection in patients with fever
Are Naess, Siri Saervold Nilssen, Reidun Mo, Geir Egil Eide, Haakon Sjursen
Incidence of hepatitis C in HIV positive and negative men who have sex with men 2000–2016: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Virginia Ghisla, Alexandra U. Scherrer, Dunja Nicca, Dominique L. Braun, Jan S. Fehr
Bibles as a possible source of pathogens in hospitals? A pilot observation
Birgit Ross, Oliver Witzke
Non-fermentative Gram-negative rods bacteremia in children with cancer: a 14-year single-center experience
D. Averbuch, C. Avaky, M. Harit, P. Stepensky, I. Fried, T. Ben-Ami, V. Temper, Y. Peled, H. Troen, R. Masarwa, W. Abu Ahmad, M. Weintraub, S. Revel-Vilk, D. Engelhard
Three months of weekly rifapentine plus isoniazid for latent tuberculosis treatment in solid organ transplant candidates
B. M. Knoll, R. Nog, Y. Wu, A. Dhand
Low prevalence of DHFR and DHPS mutations in Pneumocystis jirovecii strains obtained from a German cohort
Isabelle Suárez, Lisa Roderus, Edeltraud van Gumpel, Norma Jung, Clara Lehmann, Gerd Fätkenheuer, Pia Hartmann, Georg Plum, Jan Rybniker
Retrospective analysis of clinical and virological parameters of influenza cases at four university hospitals in Germany, 2015
Robert Heyd, Anna Maria Eis-Hübinger, Annemarie Berger, Sibylle Bierbaum, Sandra Pietzonka, Jürgen J. Wenzel, Daniela Huzly, Oliver T. Keppler, Marcus Panning
Secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis triggered by postnatally acquired cytomegalovirus infection in a late preterm infant
Christine Silwedel, Eric Frieauff, Wolfgang Thomas, Johannes G. Liese, Christian P. Speer
Invasive cutaneous infection due to Scopulariopsis brevicaulis unsuccessfully treated with high-dose micafungin in a neutropenic patient
Daniela Gavril, Paul-Louis Woerther, Aicha Ben Lakhdar, Linda Mahjoubi, Emilie Routier, Elisabeth Chachaty, Bertrand Gachot, Stephane De Botton, Jean-Baptiste Micol, Christophe Willekens
Hints for control of infection in unique extrahepatic vertebral alveolar echinococcosis
Jean-François Faucher, Cécile Descotes-Genon, Bruno Hoen, Joël Godard, Sophie Félix, Sébastien Aubry, Oleg Blagosklonov, Frédéric Grenouillet, Marie-Pascale Brientini, Carine Richou, Solange Bresson-Hadni, Catherine Chirouze
Fatal Neisseria macacae infective endocarditis: first report
Maude Vecten, Hélène Martel, Jean-Paul Casalta, Sandrine Hubert, Hubert Lepidi, Gilbert Habib, Didier Raoult, Frédérique Gouriet
Louse-borne relapsing fever in a refugee from Mali
Cecilia Grecchi, Paola Zanotti, Agostina Pontarelli, Erika Chiari, Lina Rachele Tomasoni, Maurizio Gulletta, Anna Barbui, Silvio Caligaris, Alberto Matteelli, Francesco Castelli
Subacute invasive pulmonary aspergillosis as a rare cause of pneumothorax in immunocompetent patient: brief report
Tatjana Adzic Vukicevic, Aleksandra Dudvarski-Ilic, Vladimir Zugic, Goran Stevanovic, Salvatore Rubino, Aleksandra Barac
Invasive listeriosis in a patient with several episodes of antibiotic associated colitis presumably due to Clostridium difficile
Novella Carannante, Pasquale Pagliano, Marco Rossi, Vittorio Attanasio, Carolina Rescigno, Laura Corte, Carlo Tascini, Gianluigi Cardinali
Acute human herpes virus 7 (HHV-7) encephalitis in an immunocompetent adult patient: a case report and review of literature
Nicoletta Riva, Iacopo Franconi, Marianna Meschiari, Erica Franceschini, Cinzia Puzzolante, Gianluca Cuomo, Alessandro Bianchi, Francesca Cavalleri, Maurilio Genovese, Cristina Mussini
Human visceral pentastomiasis: Armillifer armillatus
Anna Beltrame, Dario Raniero, Zeno Bisoffi, Lawrence R. Ash
An unexpected waterborne traveller
N. Riccardi, G. Cenderello, M. Costa, G. Cassola