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Introduction to the MRSA series of reviews
23 December 2011
Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) continues to cause major healthcare problems in most countries, both in hospitals and in the community.
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Ian Gould
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New insights into meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pathogenesis, treatment and resistance
26 December 2011
Abstract: Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) remains one of the principal multiply resistant bacterial pathogens causing serious healthcare-associated and community-onset infections. Th...
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Ian M. Gould,
Michael Z. David,
Silvano Esposito,
Javier Garau,
Gerard Lina,
Teresita Mazzei,
Georg Peters
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96-104
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Emergence of resistance to carbapenems in Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe: clinical impact and therapeutic options
23 November 2011
Abstract: Despite having a reputation of low virulence, Acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogen responsible for community- and hospital-acquired infections that are d...
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Marie Kempf,
Jean-Marc Rolain
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105-114
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In vitro activity of tigecycline and comparators against Gram-negative pathogens isolated from blood in Europe (2004–2009)
21 December 2011
Abstract: Here we report on the antimicrobial resistance amongst Gram-negative isolates (excluding Acinetobacter spp.) collected from blood culture sources at European study sites as part of the globa...
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Arjana Tambic Andrasevic,
Michael J. Dowzicky
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115-123
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An antibacterial from Hypericum acmosepalum inhibits ATP-dependent MurE ligase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
14 November 2011
Abstract: In a project to characterise new antibacterial chemotypes from plants, hyperenone A and hypercalin B were isolated from the hexane and chloroform extracts of the aerial parts of Hypericum ac...
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Khadijo Osman,
Dimitrios Evangelopoulos,
Chandrakala Basavannacharya,
Antima Gupta,
Timothy D. McHugh,
Sanjib Bhakta,
Simon Gibbons
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124-129
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Efficacy and safety of moxifloxacin as antibacterial prophylaxis for patients receiving autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a randomised trial
14 December 2011
Abstract: Patients receiving high-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) are at high risk of infections, especially bacteraemia. A prospective, double-bli...
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J. Janne Vehreschild,
Gregor Moritz,
Maria J.G.T. Vehreschild,
Dorothee Arenz,
Martina Mahne,
Henning Bredenfeld,
Jens Chemnitz,
Florian Klein,
Birgit Cremer,
Boris Böll,
Ingrid Kaul,
Gernot Wassmer,
Michael Hallek,
Christof Scheid,
Oliver A. Cornely
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130-134
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Effect of antibiotic prescribing in primary care on meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in community-resident adults: a controlled observational study
14 November 2011
Abstract: The objectives of this study were to investigate the relationship between primary care antibiotics prescribed within 2 months and 12 months and the carriage of meticillin-resistant Staphyloc...
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Céire Costelloe,
Andrew Lovering,
Alan Montgomery,
Deirdre Lewis,
Cliodna McNulty,
Alastair D. Hay
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135-141
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Colistin therapy in critically ill patients with chronic renal failure and its effect on development of renal dysfunction
24 November 2011
Abstract: Recently, colistin has become a salvage therapy in the treatment of serious Intensive Care Unit infections owing to the emergence of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) bacterial isolates. This...
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Melda Turkoglu,
Murat Dizbay,
Arzu Çiftçi,
F. Nur Aksakal,
Gülbin Aygencel
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142-145
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In vitro antibacterial and antimalarial activity of dehydrophenylalanine-containing undecapeptides alone and in combination with drugs
28 November 2011
Abstract: A set of three cationic undecapeptides, analogous to the previously reported peptide VS2 (KWΔFWKΔFVKΔFVK), was created by alanine substitution in order to probe the effect of hydrophobicity ...
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Sarika Pathak Sharma,
Jyotsna Sharma,
Shamsher Singh Kanwar,
Virander Singh Chauhan
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146-152
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Continuous infusion of piperacillin/tazobactam in ventilator-associated pneumonia: a pilot study on efficacy and costs
12 December 2011
Abstract: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) occurs in nearly one-third of mechanically ventilated patients in the Intensive Care Unit. Piperacillin/tazobactam (TZP) is currently recommended in the...
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Wieslawa Duszynska,
Fabio Silvio Taccone,
Marcin Switala,
Magdalena Hurkacz,
Beata Kowalska-Krochmal,
Andrzej Kübler
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153-158
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Activity of oritavancin and comparators in vitro against standard and high inocula of Staphylococcus aureus
09 November 2011
Abstract: In this study, the impact of inoculum density on the growth inhibitory and killing activities of oritavancin and comparators (vancomycin, daptomycin and linezolid) in vitro against four Stap...
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Francis F. Arhin,
Ingrid Sarmiento,
Thomas R. Parr,
Gregory Moeck
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159-162
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In vitro pharmacodynamic evaluation of garenoxacin against quinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
17 November 2011
Abstract: The bactericidal activity and resistance selectivity of garenoxacin against Streptococcus pneumoniae with mutations in ParC (S79F) or both GyrA (S81F) and ParC (D83Y and K137N) were investig...
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Yoshiko Fukuda,
Masahiro Takahata,
Yoko Sugiura,
Yuko Shinmura,
Nobuhiko Nomura
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163-167
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Rapid emergence and spread of OXA-48-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Belgian hospitals
24 November 2011
Abstract: During a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based surveillance study of β-lactam resistance, 19 OXA-48-positive enterobacterial isolates were detected at nine Belgian hospitals from January 201...
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Youri Glupczynski,
Te-Din Huang,
Warda Bouchahrouf,
Roberta Rezende de Castro,
Caroline Bauraing,
Michèle Gérard,
Anne-Marie Verbruggen,
Ariane Deplano,
Olivier Denis,
Pierre Bogaerts
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168-172
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Drug susceptibility testing and pharmacokinetics question current treatment regimens in Mycobacterium simiae complex disease
18 November 2011
Abstract: The Mycobacterium simiae complex bacteria can cause opportunistic infections in humans. In the case of definite disease, there are no evidence-based treatment regimens and outcomes are very ...
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Jakko van Ingen,
Sarah E. Totten,
Leonid B. Heifets,
Martin J. Boeree,
Charles L. Daley
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173-176
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Use of anti-infective drugs during pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth
14 November 2011
Anti-infective drugs are amongst the most frequently used medications during pregnancy . Maternal infections during gestation are associated with an increased risk of preterm birth . Preterm babies ar...
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Fabiano Santos,
Odile Sheehy,
Sylvie Perreault,
Ema Ferreira,
Anick Bérard
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177-178
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Diversity of acquired β-lactamases amongst Klebsiella pneumoniae in Greek hospitals
21 November 2011
Until 2001, the majority of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated in Greek hospitals produced extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs), with SHV-5 being the most prevalent type, followed by...
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Constantinos C. Papagiannitsis,
Kyriaki Tryfinopoulou,
Panagiota Giakkoupi,
Olga Pappa,
Michalis Polemis,
Eva Tzelepi,
Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis,
The Carbapenemase Study Group,
Alkiviadis C. Vatopoulos
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178-180
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Synergistic activity of sulbactam combined with colistin against colistin-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
21 November 2011
Acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogen that is responsible for community- and hospital-acquired infections that are difficult to control and treat . With increasing ...
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Marie Kempf,
Lamia Djouhri-Bouktab,
Jean-Michel Brunel,
Didier Raoult,
Jean-Marc Rolain
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180-181
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Community-onset bacteraemia caused by fluoroquinolone-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: clinical epidemiology and risk factors
21 November 2011
Despite the high prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in hospital-acquired infections, the clinical epidemiology of fluoroquinolone (FQ) resistance in community-onset K. pneumon...
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Cheol-In Kang,
Jeong-A. Lee,
Yu Mi Wi,
Doo Ryeon Chung,
Kyong Ran Peck,
Nam Yong Lee,
Jae-Hoon Song
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181-182
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Emergence of nosocomial New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in patients admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Kuwait
23 November 2011
Resistance to carbapenems has recently emerged in Enterobacteriaceae and has resulted in serious clinical consequences as carbapenems are practically the last option to treat infections due to these b...
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W. Jamal,
V.O. Rotimi,
M. John Albert,
F. Khodakhast,
E.E. Udo,
L. Poirel
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183-184
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Occurrence and molecular epidemiology of blaCTX-M, including co-occurrence of blaTEM and blaSHV genes, and sul1 association in Indian Enterobacteriaceae
22 December 2011
β-Lactam antibiotics are the first-line curative treatment for infections caused by Enterobacteriaceae, however increasing resistance to these compounds has been reported in the last decade . Resistan...
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Anuradha Singh,
Mohd Shahid,
Farrukh Sobia,
Umesh,
Haris M. Khan
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184-185
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Corrigendum to “Linezolid resistance in Staphylococcus epidermidis associated with a G2603T mutation in the 23S rRNA gene” [Int. J. Antimicrob. Agents 34 (2009) 281–282]
07 December 2011
The authors regret the error which appeared in the above article and would like to publish the following corrigendum:
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Nilton Lincopan,
Lara M. de Almeida,
Maria R. Elmor de Araújo,
Elsa M. Mamizuka
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