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Gómez De Argila I. - Epidemiology of hospitalised patients with AECB (acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis) and Gram-negative bacilli in the sputum
Gómez-Garcés J.L. - Characterisation and sensitivity of coryneforme bacteria isolated in clinically significant pictures: a 3-year study
Gòmez-Garcés J.L. - Activity of ertapenem and 19 other antimicrobials against Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae isolated from the respiratory tract showing resistance mechanisms to betalactam antibiotics
Gündüz A. - Comparison of stool test (HpSA) with rapid urease test and histology in the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection
Günde S. - Recovery rate and drug resistance of mycobacterial strains by the BACTEC 460TB system during 2001–2003 in Kocaeli, Turkey
  - Antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella and Shigella strains isolated from stool cultures over a 2-year period in Kocaeli, Turkey
  - Survey of extended-spectrum b-lactamase in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter species
Gündes S. - Ceftazidim-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from four Turkish hospitals: identification of TEM-, SHV-, and GES-type b-lactamases
Galani I. - The first identification of VIM-1 in an Enterobacter cloacae isolate from a university hospital in Greece
  - The first report of a metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Proteus mirabilis clinical isolate from Greece
Gales A.C. - Frequency of occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility profile of pathogens causing bloodstream infections in paediatric patients from Latin America: report of SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (1997–2002)
Galiè M. - Cytomegalovirus (CMV) colitis in an immunocompetent patient
Galiana A. - Six lethal cases of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in young adults in Montevideo, Uruguay
Gamazo C. - Efficacy of a vaccine against Salmonella enteritidis based on Gantrez nanoparticles as adjuvant and delivery system
Gambotti L. - Trends of Staphylococcus aureus susceptibility to antibiotics isolates in a university hospital in France, 1997–2002
Gandolfi P. - Animal model of Guillain–Barré syndrome by sensitisation with a Campylobacter jejuni lipopolysaccharide
Garau J. - Surveillance hot spots: the highs and lows of regional resistance. Europe North and South
  - Factors behind the resistance
Garbino J. - A prospective randomised trial comparing cefepime plus metronidazole and imipenem-cilastatin for the treatment of intra-abdominal infections
García Castillo M. - Comparative levofloxacin and ciprofloxacin mutant prevention concentrations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations from cystic fibrosis and ICU patients
García Rodríguez J.F. - Long-term efficacy of a 6-month treatment regimen (6HR2Z) for HIV-negative tuberculous meningitis
García I. - Intracellular penetration and activity of cethromycin against Legionella pneumophila in a monocytic cell line (Mono Mac 6)
García-Bujalance S. - Comparison of line probe assay vs. sequence analysis for detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) mutations conferring resistance to antiretroviral drugs
  - Mutational pattern in failing patients to antiretroviral regimen including tenofovir
García-Campos J.A. - cagA, vacA and babA2 genotypes of Helicobacter pylori strains from patients with gastritis or peptic ulcer in Spain
García-Peñuela E. - Micro-organisms isolated from exit site of peritoneal catheters in patients submitted to chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
Garcia Vidal C. - Paradoxical response in infliximab-treated patients with disseminated tuberculosis
Garcia-Cia J.I. - Osteoarticular infections due to mycobacteria in a university hospital
Garcia-Martinez J. - Ganciclovir-resistant Cytomegalovirus infection in a heart transplant recipient
  - Molecular epidemiology of bacteraemia due to methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary hospital in Madrid
  - Detection of herpes simplex virus and enteroviruses in cerebrospinal fluid by real-time PCR
Garcia-Nuñez M. - Prevalence and degree of Legionella colonisation in cooling towers
Garcia-Perea A. - Susceptibility of Haemophilus influenzae respiratory isolates from adults in Spain (2001–2002)
Garcia-Tapia A.M. - Cryptosporidiosis in children
Garcinuño S. - HCV viraemia and the degree of hepatic affectation in HCV-HIV co-infected patients
Gascón I. - Bacterial adherence ability and adherence factors of quinolone sensitive and resistant E. coli strains isolated from cirrhotic patients
  - Restricted antibiotic evaluation and pharmacoeconomic outcomes
Gastmeier P. - Investigation of the association between the MRSA colonisation pressure and the occurrence of nosocomial MRSA infections in 75 German intensive care units
Gatsouli E. - A map of bacterial frequency and resistance in a Greek Region – Corfu Island
Gattringer R. - Pharmacokinetics of telithromycin in plasma and soft tissue after single-dose administration in healthy volunteers
Gavilanes S. - Cell-detaching Escherichia coli activity in urinary-tract infection isolates
Gayet-Ageron A. - CD4+ T-lymphocytes counts at AIDS among patients treated by highly active antiretroviral therapy or other antiretroviral regimens
Gazi H. - Bacterial profile and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern
Georges B. - Risk factors for emergence of resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa to beta-lactams in intensive care units
Georgiou C. - Rickettsia typhii infection in children in Cyprus
Geretti A. - Prevalence and impact of adenovirus viraemia in adult stem-cell transplant recipients treated with Campath-1H
Gesser R. - Abscesses of skin and skin structures: insights from a randomised study of ertapenem vs. piperacillin-tazobactam
Gesu G. - Evaluation of the ability of Italian laboratories to detect beta-lactam resistance phenotypes in Enterobacteriaceae: a proficiency study by the Associazione Microbiologi Clinici Italiani (AMCLI)
Geyik M.F. - Evolution of nosocomial infections rates during 5 years in a university hospital
Gharizadeh B. - Pyrosequencing technology: a novel DNA sequencing technique for rapid and reliable typing of human papillomaviruses
Giamarellos-Bourboulis E.J. - Postantibiotic effect of antimicrobial combinations on multiresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  - Should procalcitonin be introduced in the diagnostic criteria for the systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis?
  - Clarithromycin: immunomodulatory therapy of experimental sepsis and acute pyelonephritis by Escherichia coli
Gianneli D. - Comparative evaluation of uropathogenic E. coli resistance during a 5-year period
  - Emerging antimicrobial resistance in bacterial strains isolated from intensive care unit patients with bacteraemia
Giannitsioti E. - Changing microbiological profile of infective endocarditis in Greece during the last 17 years
Giantsou E. - Preliminary bronchoalveolar lavage culture results in ventilator-associated pneumonia
  - Ventilation-associated pneumonia and de-escalation practice, oriented by the results of bronchoalveolar lavage vs transtracheal aspiration cultures
  - Pseudomonas aeruginosa and ventilator-associated pneumonia: impact on outcome and duration of mechanical ventilation
  - Ventilator-associated pneumonia and modification of initially inappropriate antibiotic therapy according to bronchoalveolar lavage culture results: timing and outcome
Gibson A. - Molecular epidemiological analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates reported in England in 1998
Gikas A. - Antibiotic susceptibility of isolates in the intensive care unit in Greece: 3 years of the Meronem Yearly Susceptibility Test Information Collection (MYSTIC) programme
Gionechetti F. - Integrons carried by Enterobacteria from avian cloacal swabs harbour the same cassette arrays as isolates from clinical human origin
Giorgio A. - Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of visceral Leishmaniasis
Giske C. - Defining the meropenem susceptible population in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by analysing expression of resistance genes in clinical isolates with different levels of meropenem resistance
Gitti Z. - Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from clinical specimens in Crete, Greece
Giuliani G. - Evaluation of the total hepatitis C virus core antigen in patients with chronic hepatitis: comparison with quantiplex branched DNA 3.0
Glazar I. - Antifungal resistance patterns among oral Candida species from patients receiving anticancer therapy
Glupczynski Y. - Antimicrobial usage and resistance trends among Gram-negative nosocomial bacteria: a 4-year follow-up study in a Belgian hospital
Gobernado M. - Susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae respiratory isolates from adults in Spain (2001–2002)
Gobin I. - The susceptibility of different mouse strains to Legionella longbeachae infection
Goering R.V. - Usefulness of mec-associated dru sequences in monitoring the spread of highly clonal epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Scotland
Goettner G. - A new recombinant IgG and IgM line immunoblot improves serodiagnosis of early Lyme borreliosis
Goldstein B.P. - Once-weekly dalbavancin in catheter-related bloodstream infections: microbiological findings
Goletti D. - The role of a new immune diagnostic test based on ESAT-6 epitopes in the evaluation of subjects with a clinical suspicion of active tuberculosis
González Ayala S. - Serotypes and subtypes of N. meningitidis serogroup B from Argentinian children with invasive disease
Gonzalez Mediero G. - Evaluation of available stains for detection of Acanthamoeba sp. from brain specimen: an assessment
  - Nosocomial outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis in a neonatal unit
Gonzalez-Claudio G. - Candidaemia: epidemiological data, complications and outcome of patients from the VAMC during 7 years of evaluation
Gonzalez-Lama Z. - Gene for aac(6’)-Ib, conferring resistance to amikacin, found in four different isolates of enterobacteria
Goossens H. - Outpatient use of fluoroquinolones in Europe with focus on respiratory tract infections
Gordillo S. - Sigma factors and hspX expression could be markers of stress adaptation and reactivation of growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in acidified cultures
Gorkiewicz G. - The contribution of a subspecies-specific type IV secretion system to pathogenicity in Campylobacter fetus venerealis
Gottlieb T. - Changing epidemiology of multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii in intensive care and burns unit patients, Sydney, Australia
Gottschalk B. - The cylA/B genes of the Streptococcus agalactiae haemolysin genecluster encode a multidrug resistance ABC transporter
Gould I.M. - Use of overnight processing of bacteriology samples to modify antibiotic prescribing habits in the community
  - The breakpoint index – a new pharmacodynamic parameter for assessing antibiotic combinations
  - Attitudes to antibiotic prescribing, resistance and laboratory investigations amongst practitioners and patients in the Grampian region of Scotland
Gould V. - Loss of function mutations in smeT lead to multiresistance in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Gould I.M. - Influence of an antibiotic facilitator in a surgical unit
Gouvras G. - Europe needs to be prepared
Gozalan A. - A food-borne outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis in Ankara, Turkey
Grünewald T. - StAKoB – The German working group of centres for the management of highly contagious diseases as part of a preparedness network responding to biological hazards
Grammelis V. - Prevalence and risk factors for colonisation with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA-C) in residents of long-term-care facilities in Greece
  - Microbiologic survey of long-term-care facilities in Greece
Grape M. - Spread of the new sul3 gene in human and animal Escherichia coli in Sweden
  - Molecular basis for trimethoprim resistance in clinical urinary isolates
Grattard F. - Application of 23S-5S intergenic spacer sequencing for the detection and molecular differentiation of Legionella species
Greeff S.C. - Pertussis incidence in the Netherlands after introduction of an acellular booster vaccination at 4 years of age
  - Intensified surveillance after introduction of vaccination against meningococcal C disease in the Netherlands
Greig J.M. - Repetitive element typing of M. tuberculosis from the Caribbean and African population in the UK reveals unsuspected transmission
Grewal H. - Detection of common agents of bacterial meningitis with a low density DNA array
Grif K. - Monitoring outbreaks of MRSA in a university hospital, Innsbruck by automated ribotyping
Grilo A. - Q fever: retrospective analysis of 25 patients (1985–2003)
Grimm H. - Nearly unchanged susceptibility against piperacillin/tazobactam, 10 years after its introduction
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Gros I. - Five-year experience with Roche Amplicor PCR assay for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Grozdanovski K. - Procalcitonin rapid test in the diagnosis of sepsis
Grudinina S.A. - Antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes isolates in Moscow, Russia from 2002 to 2003
Grundmann H. - EARSS report on increasing fluoroquinolone resistance among Escherichia coli in Europe
Grunevska V. - Markers of HBV, HCV and HIV infections among persons with multiple sexual partners
Grygorczuk S. - Serologic evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection among patients hospitalised with tick-borne encephalitis
  - Concentration of MCP-1 in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Lyme borreliosis
  - Concentration of I-TAC in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Lyme borreliosis
  - Protein C6 in serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis in patients from Poland – a premilinary study
Gualco L. - Comparative in vitro activity of ertapenem against respiratory pathogens circulating in Italy
Guardiola J. - Comparison between basal parameters in hepatitis due to HCV alone and HCV-HIV co-infected patients. A different spectrum of the same disease
Guerrier G. - Control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in an intensive care unit: evaluation of the efficacy of control practices
Guggenbichler J.P. - Impact of telithromycin vs. azithromycin on the nasopharyngeal microflora of patients with respiratory tract infections caused by pneumococci
Guilabert I. - Relationship between the level of basal antigenaemia of HCV and hepatic affectation in HIV patients
Guinea J. - Air surveillance of Aspergillus. Are two different growth media required?
  - Fluconazole resistance mechanisms in C. krusei clinical isolates. The contribution of efflux pumps
Gulay Z. - High prevalence of CTX-M type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in members of Enterobacteriaceae in Turkey
Guleri A. - Bacteraemia caused by ESBL-producing Salmonella enterica serovar. virchow 6.7:r:1,2 – a cause for concern
  - Nosocomial candidaemia: emerging resistance, newer antifungals and cost implications
  - A simple, relevant and cost-effective ESBL testing protocol for a routine clinical microbiology laboratory: a tertiary care hospital study
Gurgui M. - Nosocomial infection prevention and control programme during hospital reconstruction
Gurkan F. - Relationship between serum selenium levels, lipid peroxidation and acute bronchiolitis in infancy
Gutiérrez O. - Lack of association between hypermutation and antibiotic resistance development in Pseudomonas aeruginosa from intensive care unit patients
Gutiérrez F. - Epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia revisited: a large population-based prospective study in the Mediterranean coast of Spain
Gyssens I. - Antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery: the Dutch experience