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López-Calleja A.I. - Mycobacterium malmoense lymphadenitis in Spain: first two cases in immunocompetent patients
Lõivukene K. - Gram-negative nosocomial pathogens in Estonian intensive care units
Löwdin E. - Pharmacodynamics of amoxicillin/clavulanic acid against Haemophilus influenzae in an in vitro kinetic model: a comparison of different dosage regimens including a pharmacokinetically enhanced formulation
LaBombardi V. - Comparison of the VersaTREK to the ESP Culture System II for blood cultures
  - Comparison of the VersaTREK to the ESP Culture System II for mycobacterial detection and susceptibility testing
Labuda M. - Epidemiology and ecology of tick-borne encephalitis
Ladel C.H. - BAY 73-7388 demonstrates greater activity than linezolid in a range of murine models of skin and soft tissue infection
Lago J. - Early laboratory diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. How to evaluate the results?
  - Evaluation of the MB/BacT system for antimicrobial drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  - Comparison of the MB/BacT culture system and the Lowenstein–Jensen medium for detection of Mycobacteria from respiratory samples
Lagoumintzis G. - Pseudomonas aeruginosa LPS and slime glycolipoprotein (GLP) differentially activate the same mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling pathways for tumour necrosis factor alpha in fresh human monocytes
Lai S.Y. - Comparison of the different disinfecting capacities of contact lens solutions for rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses against ocular pathogens
Lallemand C. - Effect of EPs7630 (Umckaloabo®) on the adherence of Streptococcus pyogenes to human epithelial cells
Lamagni T. - Results from the first 6 months of enhanced surveillance of severe Streptococcus pyogenes disease in England and Wales
  - UK enhanced surveillance of invasive fungal infections in very low birth weight infants
Lamoth F. - Blood cultures as a surrogate marker of case-mix for adjustment of hospital antibiotic consumption
Landgren M. - Diversity among 2481 Escherichia coli from women with community-acquired lower urinary tract infections in 17 countries (ECOSENS project)
Larssen K.W. - MRSA outbreaks in nursing homes in Central Norway
Lartigue M.-F. - Corynebacterium ulcerans diphtheria in France; a dog as the culprit
Lasitsa O. - Atypical pathogens in pathogenesis of bronchial asthma in children and efficacy of azithromycin as a part of complex therapy
Lass-Flörl C. - Diagnosing of invasive Aspergillosis during antifungal therapy by polymerase chain reaction on blood samples
Latorre C. - Susceptibility of recent paediatric respiratory isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae in Spain
Lau S.K.P. - Lack of evidence for DNA in antibiotic preparations as a source of antibiotic resistance genes
Laudy A.E. - The activity of some quinolones against Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates in the presence of pump inhibitors
Lavrinovica E. - The aetiologic agents of onychomycosis in Latvia
Lawson A. - Detection of mutations associated with resistance to tetracycline and clarithromycin in Helicobacter pylori using the Pyrosequencer
Lazar V. - Study of antibiotic resistance, production of ESBL and other virulence factors in enterobacterial strains isolated from nosocomial infections in cardiovascular devices inserted patients
  - Study of cell surface hydrophobicity and its correlation with bacterial adherence capacity to catheter sections
Lazarevic G. - Erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes
Leal M.V. - Mycobacterium kansasii in Bilbao and Bizkaia
Lebedova V. - The assessment of 3 years of routine vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae b in the Czech Republic
Leca D. - Fluoroquinolones in Gram-negative bacilli meningitis
Lecuona M. - Evaluation of the BDProbeTec ET system for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory and extra-respiratory specimens
Lee K. - Metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Gram-negative bacilli in KONSAR group hospitals: continued prevalence of VIM-2-producing Pseudomonas spp. and increase of IMP-1-producing Acinetobacter spp. in 2002
Lee J.K. - Genetic analysis of fluoroquinolone-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Korea
Lee M.A. - Communitiy-acquired urinary tract infections by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in children: clinical and molecular characteristics
Lee S. - Characterisation of Salmonella paratyphi A strains with reduced susceptibility to quinolone isolated from an outbreak in Korea
Lee Y.-S. - The prevalence of nasal colonisation with MRSA among residents of long-term care facilities in South Korea
Lehn N. - MRSA screening by RT-PCR directly from the swab within the same day
Leibovitz E. - An evaluation of once daily cefdinir 25 mg/kg oral suspension in children with acute otitis media at risk of persistent or recurrent otitis media
Leitão Semedo T.M. - Virulence in Enterococci: chromosomal versus plasmidic location of virulence genes
Lekkou A. - Early prognostic markers of outcome in severe sepsis
Lemaire S. - Comparison of ertapenem, ampicillin, and meropenem against the intracellular forms of Listeria monocytogenes in human THP-1 macrophages
Lemeshevskay M. - Prevalence of Clostridium difficile in hospitalised patients
Lemsaddek A. - Virulence factors in dermatophytes: screening of SUB genes encoding subtilisin-like proteases
Leonard I. - Catheter-related sepsis in critically ill and associated mortality
Leong W.Y. - Molecular characterisation and prevalence of Clostridium difficile in Singapore
Lequaglie C. - Levofloxacin in the treatment of nosocomial pulmonary complications after lung resection for cancer
Lescure F.-X. - Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: role of home nursing care in a French prospective study
Lesnicar G. - Sepsis in a department of infectious diseases in a general hospital, Celje, 2000–2003
Lestari E.S. - Antimicrobial resistance among Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli isolates in the Indonesian population inside and outside hospitals
Leverstein-van Hall M.A. - Failure of classical surveillance strategy to detect a large hospital-wide outbreak of a multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae
Levi K. - Evaluation of the Artus HBV LightCycler kit for quantitative detection of hepatitis B virus in serum samples
  - Evaluation of Roche LightCycler kits for the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patient screening broths
Levidiotou S. - Chlamydia trachomatis infections in a Northwestern Greece population
  - Detection of the six commonest human herpesviruses in clinical specimens by a single PCR (Herpes Consensus methodology)
Lewi P.J. - Pharmacokinetics of non-nucleoside inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase of the DATA/DAPY classes of compounds
  - DAPY non-nucleoside inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase possess high activity in microbicide assays and have potential for prevention of sexual transmission of HIV
Libisch B. - Characterisation of integrons carrying blaVIM type metallo-beta-lactamase genes from carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates in Hungary
Lightman S. - Coagulase-negative Staphylococci strain types affect visual outcome in patients with endophthalmitis
Linde H.J. - Overexpression of Rob increases MIC to norfloxacin by upregulation of the MdfA efflux pump in Escherichia coli in vitro
Lindgren M. - Identification of Enterococcus spp. of the human normal microbiota by pyrosequencing
Ling J.M. - In vitro sequential development of gene mutations in fluoroquinolone-resistant salmonellae
Liptakova A. - The first case of haemolytic-uraemic syndrome caused by STEC O26 in Slovakia
Lisby G. - Experiences with Chlamydia testing using the BD ProbeTecET and BD Viper focusing on inhibition in urine samples
Lising M. - DNA fingerprinting of mycobacteria using automated repetitive sequenced-based PCR
Lister P. - Fluoroquinolone-selected resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa: impact on susceptibility to imipenem, ertapenem and meropenem
  - Pharmacodynamics of levofloxacin-imipenem combination against mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistant to one or both drugs
Littauer P. - Prevalence, phenotypes, genotypes and molecular epidemiology of macrolide-resistant clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Norway, 2001–2002
Liu C.-C. - The therapeutic effects of milrinone in treatment of enterovirus 71-induced pulmonary oedema
Li-Yueh H. - High prevalence of phagocytic-resistant capsular serotypes of Klebsiella pneumoniae in liver abscess
Lode H. - Sputum colour as marker for clinical success in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis (AECB) treated with levofloxacin
Loens K. - Application of different nucleic acid amplification techniques for the detection of M. pneumoniae, C. pneumoniae and Legionella spp. in respiratory specimens
Loftus F. - Immunodetection of parvovirus B19 virus in human plasma: appraisal of a novel fluorometric immunoassay and comparison with an enzyme immunoassay
  - A novel enzyme immunoassay for the detection of anti-herpesvirus-8 lytic IgG antibodies: evaluation of clinical performance characteristics
Longauerova A. - Characteristics of staphylococci from hip prostheses infections
Lopez-Lozano J.-M. - Effect of an intervention programme on the MRSA outbreak in an Aberdeen infirmary
Loregian A. - Disruption of the interaction between the HCMV DNA polymerase subunits: towards new anti-HCMV inhibitors
Lortholary O. - Fungal bone infections
Los R. - Aerobic and anaerobic flora isolated from pleural drains in patients with lung cancer after thoracic surgery
Losa J. - Simultaneous urinary and respiratory infection or respiratory manifestations of urinary infection?
Lotric-Furlan S. - Comparison of azithromycin and amoxicillin for treatment of adult patients with solitary erythema migrans
  - Comparison of azithromycin and amoxicillin for treatment of adult patients with solitary erythema migrans
Louie T. - Tolemaver (GT160-246) binds Clostridium cytotoxins A/B and is associated with restoration of components of the anaerobic intestinal microflora during treatment of C. difficile-associated diarrhoea
Loupa C.V. - Gender differences in HIV RNA and CD4 counts, but not in AIDS-defining illnesses and CD4-based HAART initiation threshold, in new entrants to HIV care in Cleveland, Ohio
Louro E. - Mediterranean spotted fever: study of 29 cases
Loutit J.S. - Phase 2 trial comparing four regimens of oritavancin vs. comparator in the treatment of patients with S. aureus bacteraemia
Lu J.J. - Experience in PCR diagnosis of SARS coronavirus in Taiwan
Lubenko I. - Comparative pharmacodynamics of ABT492 and ciprofloxacin (CIP) with Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in an in vitro dynamic model
Luzzaro F. - Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in isolates of Enterobacteriaceae from inpatients and outpatients in Northern Italy
  - Prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases and metallo-beta-lactamases in clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae from Northern Italy
Ly T.D. - Evaluation of sensitivity and specificity of six combined P24 antigen and HIV antibody screening assays
Lynn W. - Differential effect of HAART on CD4 and CD8 T-cell cytokine production and response to CMV antigens in HIV+ patients