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COVID-19 Research: Challenges to Interpret Numbers and Propose Solutions.
Epidemiological situation, laboratory capacity and preparedness for carbapenem-resistant <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> in Europe, 2019.
Automated digital reporting of clinical laboratory information to national public health surveillance systems, results of a EU/EEA survey, 2018.
Perceived utility and feasibility of pathogen genomics for public health practice: a survey among public health professionals working in the field of infectious diseases, Belgium, 2019.
Cross-border spread of <i>bla</i> <sub>NDM-1</sub>- and <i>bla</i> <sub>OXA-48</sub>-positive <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>: a European collaborative analysis of whole genome sequencing and epidemiological data, 2014 to 2019.
Editorial: Pathogen Genomics: Empowering Infectious Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Investigations.
Investing in Public Health Microbiology Laboratories in Western Balkan Countries Enhances Health Security From Communicable Disease Threats in Europe.
Worsening epidemiological situation of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Europe, assessment by national experts from 37 countries, July 2018.
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis.
Candida auris: epidemiological situation, laboratory capacity and preparedness in European Union and European Economic Area countries, 2013 to 2017.
Control of Infectious Diseases in the Era of European Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Consolidation: New Challenges and Opportunities for the Patient and for Public Health Surveillance.
Networking of Public Health Microbiology Laboratories Bolsters Europe's Defenses against Infectious Diseases.
Survey on the Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing for Infectious Diseases Surveillance: Rapid Expansion of European National Capacities, 2015-2016.
Livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among human MRSA isolates, European Union/European Economic Area countries, 2013.
PulseNet International: Vision for the implementation of whole genome sequencing (WGS) for global food-borne disease surveillance.
Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with heater-cooler units (HCU): closing another loophole in patient safety.
Whole-Genome Sequencing for Routine Pathogen Surveillance in Public Health: a Population Snapshot of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus in Europe.
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Europe: assessment by national experts from 38 countries, May 2015.
Widespread implementation of EUCAST breakpoints for antibacterial susceptibility testing in Europe.
Laboratory capability and surveillance testing for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection in the WHO European Region, June 2013.
Dual-use research debates and public health: better integration would do no harm.
Systematic literature analysis and review of targeted preventive measures to limit healthcare-associated infections by meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Impact of rapid molecular screening at hospital admission on nosocomial transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: cluster randomised trial.
Multidisciplinary investigation of a multicountry outbreak of Salmonella Stanley infections associated with turkey meat in the European Union, August 2011 to January 2013.
Strengthening the Reporting of Molecular Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases (STROME-ID): an extension of the STROBE statement.
Phylogenetic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus CC398 reveals a sub-lineage epidemiologically associated with infections in horses.
Laboratory preparedness in EU/EEA countries for detection of novel avian influenza A(H7N9) virus, May 2013.
Laboratory preparedness for detection and monitoring of Shiga toxin 2-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 in Europe and response to the 2011 outbreak.
Development and validation of potential structure indicators for evaluating antimicrobial stewardship programmes in European hospitals.
Subpopulations of Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 121 are associated with distinct clinical entities.
Prevalence, risk factors and genetic diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carried by humans and animals across livestock production sectors.
From molecular to genomic epidemiology: transforming surveillance and control of infectious diseases.
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones circulating in Belgium from 2005 to 2009: changing epidemiology.
Laboratory capability for molecular detection and confirmation of novel coronavirus in Europe, November 2012.
Prospective multicentre feasibility study of a quality of care indicator for intravenous to oral switch therapy with highly bioavailable antibiotics.
Previous healthcare exposure is the main antecedent for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage on hospital admission in Belgium.
Surveillance status and recent data for Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in the European Union and European Economic Area, January 2012.
Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among pigs in Belgium.
Controlled performance evaluation of the DiversiLab repetitive-sequence-based genotyping system for typing multidrug-resistant health care-associated bacterial pathogens.
Positive predictive value of the Xpert MRSA assay diagnostic for universal patient screening at hospital admission: influence of the local ecology.
Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance.
Enteroaggregative, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak: new microbiological findings boost coordinated investigations by European public health laboratories.
Professional challenges and opportunities in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases in Europe.
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in humans, Europe.
Diversity of accessory genome of human and livestock-associated ST398 methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains.
Update on screening and clinical diagnosis of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1-producing Enterobacteriaceae: emergence and response in Europe.
Prevention of methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection: is Europe winning the fight?
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): burden of disease and control challenges in Europe.
Evaluation of the Xpert MRSA assay for rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from nares swabs of geriatric hospitalized patients and failure to detect a specific SCCmec type IV variant.
A European care bundle for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Geographic distribution of Staphylococcus aureus causing invasive infections in Europe: a molecular-epidemiological analysis.
Nationwide implementation of antibiotic management teams in Belgian hospitals: a self-reporting survey.
Antibiotic stewardship implementation in the EU: the way forward.
First case of bacteremia caused by Moellerella wisconsensis: case report and a review of the literature.
Detection of microbial DNAemia: does it matter for sepsis management?
Hyperglycaemic clamp test for diabetes risk assessment in IA-2-antibody-positive relatives of type 1 diabetic patients.
Molecular characterization of AmpC-producing Escherichia coli clinical isolates recovered at two Belgian hospitals.
Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among residents of nursing homes in Belgium.
Antibiotic stewardship and consumption: findings from a pan-European hospital study.
Guidelines and indicators for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus control in hospitals: toward international agreement?
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in swine farm personnel, Belgium.
StaphVar-DNA microarray analysis of accessory genome elements of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Comparison of four commercial methods for determining temocillin susceptibility of Escherichia coli.
Emergence of extended-spectrum-AmpC-expressing Escherichia coli isolates in Belgian hospitals.
Intracellular activity of antibiotics in a model of human THP-1 macrophages infected by a Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variant strain isolated from a cystic fibrosis patient: pharmacodynamic evaluation and comparison with isogenic normal-phenotype and revertant strains.
Intracellular activity of antibiotics in a model of human THP-1 macrophages infected by a Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variant strain isolated from a cystic fibrosis patient: study of antibiotic combinations.
Laboratory tools and strategies for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening, surveillance and typing: state of the art and unmet needs.
Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the hospital.
Destructive otomastoiditis by MRSA from porcine origin.
Rapid detection of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in wound specimens and blood cultures: multicenter preclinical evaluation of the Cepheid Xpert MRSA/SA skin and soft tissue and blood culture assays.
spa typing for epidemiological surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus.
Comparison of three chromogenic media and enrichment broth media for the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from mucocutaneous screening specimens : Comparison of MRSA chromogenic media.
Evaluation of disc diffusion methods and Vitek 2 automated system for testing susceptibility to mupirocin in Staphylococcus aureus.
Frequent emergence and limited geographic dispersal of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial resistance of old and recent Staphylococcus aureus isolates from poultry: first detection of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant strain ST398.
Evolutionary relationships between sporadic and epidemic strains of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
High occurrence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in equine nasal samples.
Evaluation of new Vitek 2 card and disk diffusion method for determining susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus to oxacillin.
Intensive care unit outbreak of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae controlled by cohorting patients and reinforcing infection control measures.
Authors' reply to 'Misidentification of Bordetella bronchiseptica as Bordetella pertussis using a newly described RT-PCR targeting the pertactin gene'.
The bacterial envelope as a target for novel anti-MRSA antibiotics.
Antibiotic stewardship through the EU project "ABS International".
Design and validation of a low density array (Nosochip) for the detection and identification of the main pathogenic bacteria and fungi responsible for nosocomial pneumonia.
Hospital antibiotic management in Belgium--results of the ABS maturity survey of the ABS International group.
Nosocomial infections caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas putida isolates producing VIM-2 and VIM-4 metallo-beta-lactamases.
In vitro activity of temocillin against prevalent extended-spectrum beta-lactamases producing Enterobacteriaceae from Belgian intensive care units.
Guidelines for the validation and application of typing methods for use in bacterial epidemiology.
Low levels of second-line drug resistance among multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Rwanda.
The ORION guidelines: raising research standards for the control of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens and healthcare-associated infection.
A specific real-time PCR assay for the detection of Bordetella pertussis.
Clostridium difficile colitis in cystic fibrosis patients with and without lung transplantation.
Outbreak of hospital-adapted clonal complex-17 vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strain in a haematology unit: role of rapid typing for early control.
Outcome of totally implantable venous access device-related bacteraemia without device removal.
Hospital-acquired pneumonia guidelines in Europe: a review of their status and future development.
Evaluation of molecular typing methods in characterizing a European collection of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains: the HARMONY collection.
Travel-acquired salmonellosis due to Salmonella Kentucky resistant to ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone and co-trimoxazole and associated with treatment failure.
Antimicrobial drug use and infection control practices associated with the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in European hospitals.
Evidence of 'amplifier effect' in pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: report of three cases.
National survey of molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus colonization in Belgian cystic fibrosis patients.
Controlled evaluation of the IDI-MRSA assay for detection of colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in diverse mucocutaneous specimens.
Genetic relatedness between methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: results of a national survey.
Is compliance with hand disinfection in the intensive care unit related to work experience?
Limited fluoroquinolone resistance among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Rwanda: results of a national survey.
Prospective evaluation of imipenem/EDTA combined disc and Etest for detection of metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Emergence and dissemination of multidrug resistant clones of Pseudomonas aeruginosa producing VIM-2 metallo-beta-lactamase in Belgium.
Emergence of ArmA and RmtB aminoglycoside resistance 16S rRNA methylases in Belgium.
Soft tissue infections in Belgian rugby players due to Streptococcus pyogenes emm type 81.
Third Belgian multicentre survey of antibiotic susceptibility of anaerobic bacteria.
Validation of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and spa typing for long-term, nationwide epidemiological surveillance studies of Staphylococcus aureus infections.
New phage type among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus associated with a local outbreak in Belgium during 2002.
External quality assessment of molecular typing of Staphylococcus aureus isolates by a network of laboratories.
Can we control the spread of antibiotic-resistant nosocomial pathogens? The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus paradigm.
In vitro activities of ceftobiprole, tigecycline, daptomycin, and 19 other antimicrobials against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from a national survey of Belgian hospitals.
Microbiology research and education: essential for the future.
Status of infection control policies and organisation in European hospitals, 2001: the ARPAC study.
Implementation of antibiotic management teams in Belgian hospitals.
High interlaboratory reproducibility of DNA sequence-based typing of bacteria in a multicenter study.
In vitro activity of temocillin against extended spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli.
Rapid molecular detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a cost-effective tool for infection control in critical care?
Report of the Consensus Conference on Antibiotic Resistance; Prevention and Control (ARPAC).
Polyclonal emergence and importation of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains harbouring Panton-Valentine leucocidin genes in Belgium.
Prevalence and risk-factors for Helicobacter pylori infection in urban and rural Beninese populations.
Conclusion: ESCMID declaration on meeting the challenges in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.
Destroying the life and career of a valued physician-scientist who tried to protect us from plague: was it really necessary?
Introduction: progress towards meeting the challenges in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.
Low prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to glycopeptides in Belgian hospitals.
Molecular characterization of an epidemic clone of panantibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Emergence of CTX-M extended spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in Belgium.
Evaluation of the Vitek 2 system for identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus spp.
Costs associated with hospital-acquired bacteraemia in a Belgian hospital.
Infection control in the intensive care unit.
Evaluation of stool antigen detection for diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection in adults.
Microbiology of nosocomial infections: progress and challenges.
National surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals indicates rapid diversification of epidemic clones.
Bacillus cereus pneumonia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Professional organization of healthcare-associated infection control: time for action across the patient care system.
Management of long-term catheter-related Brevibacterium bacteraemia.
Marc Struelens--President of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Interviewed by Pam Das.
Report from the European Conference on the Role of Research in Combating Antibiotic Resistance, 2003.
How Europe is facing up to antibiotic resistance.
Haemophilus parainfluenzae: an underdiagnosed pathogen of biliary tract infections?
Are infections due to resistant pathogens associated with a worse outcome in critically ill patients?
Clinical impact of a PCR assay for identification of Staphylococcus aureus and determination of methicillin resistance directly from blood cultures.
Multidisciplinary antimicrobial management teams: the way forward to control antimicrobial resistance in hospitals.
Are there regional variations in the diagnosis, surveillance, and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?
Harmonization of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocols for epidemiological typing of strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a single approach developed by consensus in 10 European laboratories and its application for tracing the spread of related strains.
Molecular epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization in a burn unit: persistence of a multidrug-resistant clone and a silver sulfadiazine-resistant clone.
Emergence and spread of gentamicin-susceptible strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals.
Molecular epidemiology of resistance to macrolides-lincosamides-streptogramins in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causing bloodstream infections in patients admitted to Belgian hospitals.
Pan-European study on culture-proven Legionnaires' disease: distribution of Legionella pneumophila serogroups and monoclonal subgroups.
Designation of the European Working Group on Legionella Infection (EWGLI) amplified fragment length polymorphism types of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 and results of intercentre proficiency testing Using a standard protocol.
Emergence of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in a Belgian hospital: microbiological and clinical features.
Intercenter reproducibility of binary typing for Staphylococcus aureus.
Molecular typing: a key tool for the surveillance and control of nosocomial infection.
The European Centre for Infectious Diseases: an adequate response to the challenges of bioterrorism and major natural infectious threats.
Evaluation of a triplex PCR assay to discriminate Staphylococcus aureus from coagulase-negative Staphylococci and determine methicillin resistance from blood cultures.
Multicentre evaluation of the VITEK 2 Advanced Expert System for interpretive reading of antimicrobial resistance tests.
Ventilator associated pneumonia: risk factors and preventive measures.
Epidemiological validation of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
The emerging power of molecular diagnostics: towards improved management of life-threatening infection.
Distribution and prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative isolates in intensive care units (ICU) in Belgian hospitals between 1996 and 1999.
Role of genomic typing in taxonomy, evolutionary genetics, and microbial epidemiology.
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in European ICUs.
In vitro activities of ertapenem (MK-0826) against recent clinical bacteria collected in Europe and Australia.
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance--what, how and whither?
National epidemiologic surveys of Enterobacter aerogenes in Belgian hospitals from 1996 to 1998.
Evaluating and predicting the ecologic impact of antibiotics.
Rapid identification of clinically relevant Legionella spp. by analysis of transfer DNA intergenic spacer length polymorphism.
Towards a European strategy for controlling antibiotic resistance Nijmegen, Holland August 29-31, 1999.
A Campylobacter coli foodborne outbreak in Belgium.
National guidelines for the judicious use of glycopeptides in Belgium.
Ommaya-catheter-related Staphylococcus epidermidis cerebritis and recurrent bacteremia documented by molecular typing.
Assessment of intercentre reproducibility and epidemiological concordance of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 genotyping by amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis.
In vivo deletion of the methicillin resistance mec region from the chromosome of Staphylococcus aureus strains.
Multicenter evaluation of epidemiological typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains by repetitive-element PCR analysis. The European Study Group on Epidemiological Markers of the ESCMID.
Comparison of resin-containing BACTEC Plus Aerobic/F* medium with conventional methods for culture of normally sterile body fluids.
Polyclonal Staphylococcal endocarditis caused by genetic variability.
Clonal dissemination of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgium and neighboring countries.
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: toward a coordinated response to a continuing challenge.
National Committee for the Coordination of Antibiotic Policy in Belgium: the next step in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
Prevention of pneumococcal disease: an update on the Belgian Consensus Report.
Emergence of Enterobacter aerogenes as a major antibiotic-resistant nosocomial pathogen in Belgian hospitals.
Identification of clinically relevant viridans streptococci by analysis of transfer DNA intergenic spacer length polymorphism.
Impact of infectious diseases specialists and microbiological data on the appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy for bacteremia.
Recurrent "Flexispira rappini" bacteremia in an adult patient undergoing hemodialysis: case report.
Polyclonal coagulase-negative staphylococcal catheter-related bacteremia documented by molecular identification and typing.
Antibiotic policy: a tool for controlling resistance of hospital pathogens.
Antibiotic susceptibility among aerobic gram-negative bacilli in intensive care units in 5 European countries. French and Portuguese ICU Study Groups.
The antimicrobial resistance crisis in hospitals calls for multidisciplinary mobilization.
Tracking the epidemiology of antimicrobial drug resistance in hospitals: time to deploy molecular typing.
Central venous catheter-related bacteraemia in critically ill neonates: risk factors and impact of a prevention programme.
Chorioamnionitis as an apparent source of vertical transmission of Staphylococcus cohnii and Ureaplasma urealyticum to a neonate.
Gastric perforation due to mucormycosis after heart-lung and heart transplantation.
Molecular epidemiologic typing systems of bacterial pathogens: current issues and perspectives.
The epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in hospital acquired infections: problems and possible solutions.
Comparative and library epidemiological typing systems: outbreak investigations versus surveillance systems.
Assessment of resolution and intercenter reproducibility of results of genotyping Staphylococcus aureus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of SmaI macrorestriction fragments: a multicenter study.
Evaluation of arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction analysis for typing Legionella pneumophila.
A multicentre survey of antimicrobial resistance in gram-negative isolates from Belgian intensive care units in 1994-1995. Belgian Multicenter ICU Study Group.
Typing of nosocomial strains of Serratia marcescens: comparison of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of macrorestriction fragments with biotyping, esterase typing and ribotyping.
Nosocomial infections caused by staphylococci.
Problems in diagnosis and treatment of Staphylococcus haemolyticus endocarditis in a hemodialysis patient.
Clonal analysis and identification of epidemic strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by antibiotyping and determination of protein A gene and coagulase gene polymorphisms.
Rapid and accurate identification of Staphylococcus species by tRNA intergenic spacer length polymorphism analysis.
Typing of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis strains by PCR analysis of inter-IS256 spacer length polymorphisms.
Association of mutations in grlA and gyrA topoisomerase genes with resistance to ciprofloxacin in epidemic and sporadic isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Comparison of biotyping, ribotyping, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for investigation of a common-source outbreak of Burkholderia pickettii bacteremia.
Direct detection and identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in clinical samples such as skin biopsy specimens and expectorations by multiplex PCR based on two outer membrane lipoprotein genes, oprI and oprL.
Brucella melitensis osteitis following craniotomy in a patient with AIDS.
Pyogenic arthritis caused by streptococcus equisimilis (group-C streptococcus) in a patient with AIDS.
Investigation of an outbreak of multiresistant Enterobacter aerogenes infection in an intensive care unit
Long survival of a patient with AIDS in spite of previous Rhodococcus equi infection.
Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Enterobacter aerogenes infections and in vivo emergence of imipenem resistance.
Splenectomy in a patients with AIDS, generalized Mycobacterium genavense infection and severe pancytopenia.
Comparison of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and randomly amplified DNA polymorphism analysis for typing extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae.
European multicentre evaluation of a commercial system for identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Antibiotic-lock technique for the treatment of central venous catheter infections.
Consensus guidelines for appropriate use and evaluation of microbial epidemiologic typing systems.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus epidemiology and control in Belgian hospitals, 1991 to 1995. Groupement pour le Dépistage, l'Etude et la Prévention des Infections Hospitalières.
Extraintestinal Clostridium difficile infections.
Inter-centre comparison of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for the typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Erratum from Volume 2 Number 1, page 5. Consensus guidelines for appropriate use and evaluation of microbial epidemiologic typing systems.
Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia and cystic fibrosis: the epidemiology in Belgium.
In vitro activity of amoxycillin/clavulanate and ticarcillin/clavulanate compared with that of other antibiotics against anaerobic bacteria: comparison with the results of the 1987 survey.
Evaluation of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and rep-PCR for the epidemiological analysis of Ochrobactrum anthropi strains.
Evaluation of Rapid ATB Staph for 5-hour antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus aureus. Groupement pour le Dépistage, L'Etude et la Prévention des Infections Hospitalières-Groep ter Opsporing, Studie en Preventie van Infecties in de Ziekenhuizen.
Comparison of arbitrarily primed PCR and macrorestriction (pulsed-field gel electrophoresis) typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from cystic fibrosis patients.
Antibiotic prophylaxis for infectious complications after therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
Rapid identification of Mycobacterium xenopi from bacterial colonies or "Bactec" culture by the polymerase chain reaction and a luminescent sandwich hybridization assay.
Evaluation of gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) for rapid detection of Clostridium difficile in fecal specimens.
Multiple-resistant enterococci and gram-negative bacteria: tracking gene dissemination.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa aortic aneurysm after heart-lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis.
Rapid biochemical screening for Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia, and Aeromonas isolates from stool specimens.
Usefulness of gram staining of blood collected from total parenteral nutrition catheter for rapid diagnosis of catheter-related sepsis.
Concordant clonal delineation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by macrorestriction analysis and polymerase chain reaction genome fingerprinting.
Can we control the rise of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?
National survey of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: detection methods, prevalence trends and infection control measures. The Groupement pour le Dépistage, l'Etude et la Prévention des Infections Hospitalières.
Tuberculosis presenting as acute hepatitis in a renal transplant recipient.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacteriaceae bacteremia after biliary endoscopy: an outbreak investigation using DNA macrorestriction analysis.
Genome macrorestriction analysis of diversity and variability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains infecting cystic fibrosis patients.
Nosocomial colonization and infection with multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii: outbreak delineation using DNA macrorestriction analysis and PCR-fingerprinting.
Typing of Legionella pneumophila strains by polymerase chain reaction-mediated DNA fingerprinting.
Epidemiologic typing and delineation of genetic relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by macrorestriction analysis of genomic DNA by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
Genotypic and phenotypic methods for the investigation of a nosocomial Legionella pneumophila outbreak and efficacy of control measures.
Control of nosocomial transmission of Clostridium difficile based on sporadic case surveillance.
Bacteremia during diarrhea: incidence, etiology, risk factors, and outcome.
In vitro activity of commonly used oral antimicrobial agents against community isolates of respiratory pathogens.
Asymptomatic Legionella pneumophila infections in heart transplant recipients.
Role of bacterial and host factors in the pathogenesis of Shigella septicemia.
Death in shigellosis: incidence and risk factors in hospitalized patients.
In vitro activity of amoxycillin plus clavulanic acid and ticarcillin plus clavulanic acid compared with that of other antibiotics against anaerobic bacteria.
Granulocyte elastase compared to C-reactive protein for early diagnosis of septicemia in critically ill patients.
Melioidosis in Bangladesh: a case report.
Shigella septicemia: prevalence, presentation, risk factors, and outcome.
Epidemiologic and clinical features of endemic Campylobacter jejuni infection in Bangladesh.
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