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Baalham T. - Evaluation of chromogenic Candida agar
  - Comparative evaluation of a new biochemical test kit for the presumptive identification of Candida albicans
Baba K. - Antifungal susceptibility of clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans
Baba H. - Increasing prevalence of beta-lactam resistant Haemophilus influenzae in Japan: in vitro activity of telithromycin and beta-lactam antimicrobials over 4 years
Babacan F. - Nosocomial infections among earthquake victims in a backup university hospital after 1999 Marmara earthquake, Turkey
Babai O. - A novel rapid vaginal yeast infection test
Babalova M. - Bacteraemia – prevalence and antibiotic resistance among clinical isolates from Slovakia
Babic T. - Characterisation of Campylobacter jejuni/coli strains isolated in Serbia and Montenegro
Babic-Erceg A. - Detection of Chlamydiatrachomatis using an automated PCR-based system
Babinchak T. - Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model for the tolerability of tigecycline in healthy volunteers
  - Exposure-response analysis of the efficacy of tigecycline in patients with complicated skin and skin-structure infections
  - A novel approach for evaluating the microbiological efficacy of tigecycline in patients with complicated skin and skin-structure infections
Bacak V. - Candida albicans endocarditis in a human immunodeficiency virus infected patient successfully treated with caspofungin and vegetectomy: a case report
Bace A. - Respiratory syncytial virus infections in Croatia, 1994–99
Bachinskaya E. - Antimicrobial prophylaxis in cardiac surgery and postoperative pneumonia rate
Bachor J. - Antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, and outcome of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea
Bachvarova A. - Widespread detection of VEB-1-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases among nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in Bulgaria: a nationwide multicentre study
Backhaus E. - Antibiotic resistance among invasive pneumococcal isolates from Southwest Sweden 1998–2001
Bacsafra M. - Evaluation of the MicroScan Dried Overnight Panel and Instrumentation for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of mupirocin
  - Evaluation of MicroScan Dried Overnight Panels compared to a NCCLS reference panel for daptomycin susceptibility testing with a challenge set of organisms
Badagliacca R. - Human herpes virus 8 infection and pulmonary hypertension in lung transplantation candidates
Badal R. - Comparison of the antimicrobial agents on the MicroScan Synergies plus Neg Combo Type 2 Panel with an NCCLS reference panel
Badea M. - Antibacterial and antifungal activities of some new acrylate complexes
  - Selective and effective antimicrobial properties of newly synthesised transition metal ions chelates with N, N-Dimethylbiguanide (DMGB)
Badea G. - The antibiotic susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Bae S.Y. - Characterisation of phenotype and genotype of macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes
Baetens D. - Comparison of 2 Chlamydia trachomatis IgG ELISAs with the MIF test
Baggesen D.L. - Molecular characterisation of Salmonella by multilocus sequence typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and amplified fragment length polymorphism
Bagirova N. - Bacteraemia in patients with hematological malignancies
Bagrade L. - Molecular characterisation of MRSA outbreaks in a children's clinical university hospital
Bahar G. - A new outbreak of VIM-1-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the same site as the first VIM description
Bahar H. - The comparison of Western blot test with FTA-ABS test as confirmatory tests in syphilis cases: a cross-sectional study in Turkish population
Bahar I.H. - Effects of acyclovir on nitric oxide and cell death in herpesvirus type 1 and 2 infected HEp-2 cells
Bairami A. - Molecular characterisation of a HSP70 gene from Entamoeba dispar
Baka S. - Recurrent vaginal candidiasis: management of the asymptomatic partner
  - Identification of genital mycoplasmas: comparison of two methods
  - Prevalence of vaginal pathogens in childhood and adolescence
  - Infections in patients with malignancies
Bakantaki A. - Community-acquired enterococcal urinary tract infection
Bakar M. - Hepatitis A outbreak in a school observed after an explosion in the sewer system
Baker L. - An insight into the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using a novel molecular technique – multiple interspersed repetitive units
Baker T. - Cost-effectiveness of linezolid versus vancomycin in complicated skin and soft-tissue infection due to suspected methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in Germany
Bakhshayeshkaram M. - Imaging in 100 patients of pulmonary hydatid disease; review of unusual imaging appearances
Bakir M. - Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in the central Anatolian region of Turkey: a report of 92 cases
Bakir J. - Surveillance of probably bacterial pneumonia in children less than 5 years old in two geographical areas in Argentina
  - Acute bacterial meningitis: epidemiological pattern in a paediatric hospital
Bakir M. - Risk factors of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Central Anatolia: a case control study
  - Epidemiologic and clinical aspects of infective endocarditis in Turkey
Bakirci N. - Nosocomial infections among earthquake victims in a backup university hospital after 1999 Marmara earthquake, Turkey
Bakker A.E. - Follow up of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) after discharge from the hospital
Baklan Z. - Trends in antimicrobial resistance in urinary isolates of E. coli from patients hospitalised at a teaching hospital Maribor, Slovenia
Balaban N. - Using polymerase chain reaction for evaluation of positive results of two automated blood culture systems which remain negative by smear and subcultures
  - Risk factors for intensive care unit – acquired MRSA infections
Balaban D. - Erysipelas like cutaneous leishmaniasis: a case report
Balaban N. - Comparison the bacteriology and beta-lactamase production of the tonsils and adenoids surface and core flora
  - Analysis of risk factors for surgical site infections in a tertiary care hospital in Turkey
Balaban D. - Eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells’ syndrome) due to tick bite
Balabanova Y. - Use of the expanded set of VNTR-MIRU loci for the differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family isolates
  - The role of inadequate prescribing for the development of drug resistance in respiratory infections in Russia
  - Epidemiology of Beijing strain family in Samara region, Russia
Balakrishnan I. - Cephalosporin-resistance in Enterobacteriaceae: a new plague?
Balan S. - Impact of scheduled antibiotic change in the intensive care unit of a tertiary referral hospital in Malaysia
Balfour A. - Quantitative PCR for EBV DNA in paediatric renal transplant patients
Ballesteros S. - Human herpesvirus-6, Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus viral load in cases of sudden death in children. An approach with real-time PCR assay
Bally F. - Resurgent Gram-negative infections are not associated with increased morbidity and mortality in high-risk neutropenic inpatients with haematological malignancies not receiving fluoroquinolone prophylaxis
Balmelli C. - Genetic relatedness of coagulase negative staphylococci in sternal wound colonisation and sternal wound infection after open heart surgery
Balode A. - Molecular characterisation of MRSA outbreaks in a children's clinical university hospital
Balomenaki E. - Clinical course of urinary tract infections in early infancy
  - Immune response in measles-mumps-rubella of young adults aged 16--25 years vaccinated with one or two doses of MMR vaccine
  - Fever in infants less than three months of age
Balotescu M. - Frequency of extended spectrum beta lactamase producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from central venous catheter related infections quantified by three laboratory methods
  - Selective and effective antimicrobial properties of newly synthesised transition metal ions chelates with N, N-Dimethylbiguanide (DMGB)
  - Antibacterial and antifungal activities of some new acrylate complexes
  - Comparative study of antibiotic susceptibility levels of some clinical strains of P. aeruginosa as planktonic and adherent growing in biofilms cells
Balzaretti M. - Dissemination of CTX-M-type beta-lactamases among clinical isolates of E. coli from geriatric long-term care and rehabilitation facilities in northern Italy
Bambacioni F. - Immunocomplexes in HCV-infected patients
Bamdad T. - Evaluation of herpes simplex virus-1 latency in trigeminal ganglia of ocular and systemic infected mice
  - Comparison of the virus neutralisation test (VNT), ELISA and dot immunoassay (DIA) for detection of mumps antibodies
  - Acute morphine treatment reduce innate immunity against systematic infection of HSV-1 in mice
  - Seroprevalence of Rubella antibodies among young population in Tehran, Iran
  - DNA vaccination fails to induce protective immunity against herpes simplex virus type 1 in chronic morphine treatment mice
Banasova K. - Audit of antibiotic prescribing in primary paediatric care for acute tonsillopharyngitis and its progress
Bancescu G. - Study of antibiotic resistant commensal and invasive Pneumococci isolated in Romania between 1996–2003
  - In vitro hexetidine effect on bacterial adherence to restorative materials used in dentistry
  - Detection of Fc receptors released by streptococcal isolates of anginosus group
Bancescu A. - Detection of Fc receptors released by streptococcal isolates of anginosus group
Bandettini R. - Antifungal resistance and production of virulence factors in Candida spp. isolated in Italy during the period 2002–2004 from paediatric and adult patients
Bangsborg J.M. - Combined resistance to penicillin and gentamicin in community-acquired bacteraemia in Copenhagen County, 1991–2000
  - Evaluation of a Bayesian decision support system for diagnosis of Lyme disease
  - Real-time multiplex PCR for the detection of Legionella species in respiratory samples
Bannister W. - HIV-patients across Europe: regional differences in patient characteristics and AIDS diagnoses
Banu O. - Frequency of extended spectrum beta lactamase producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from central venous catheter related infections quantified by three laboratory methods
  - Comparative study of antibiotic susceptibility levels of some clinical strains of P. aeruginosa as planktonic and adherent growing in biofilms cells
Baños R. - S. aureus bacteraemia: prospective study of 238 cases (2000–2003)
Baños V. - S. aureus bacteraemia: prospective study of 238 cases (2000–2003)
Baquero F. - Influence of influenza cases on the number of hospital admissions of CAP in Spain
  - Differences in aetiology according to Fine score in adult patients with hospital admitted CAP in Spain
  - Population structure and MURm gene analysis of early and contemporary high penicillin resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Spain
  - Demography and Fine score of community-acquired pneumonia in adults admitted to hospital in Spain
Baquero M. - Isolation of Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus parainfluenzae in non-gonococcal urethritis
Baquero F. - Fluoroquinolone resistance in invasive Escherichia coli in Europe is related to age and gender
  - Worldwide antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Pseudomonasaeruginosa causing intra-abdominal infections: results from SMART 2003
  - Autochthonous sporadic acute hepatitis E cases in Madrid, Spain
  - High diversity of genetic elements associated with CTX-M-9-producing Enterobacteriaceae clinical isolates from Spain
  - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: colonisation and infection of respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis patients
  - mef(E) and mef(A) gene characterisation in Spanish Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates
Baquero M. - Application of complementary techniques to diagnosis of malaria
Baquero F. - Antimicrobial susceptibility among Enterobacteriaceae causing intraabdominal infections in Europe: results from SMART 2003
  - First description of bla-ctx-m-2 producing isolate in Spain and characterisation of its genetic environment
  - Low diversity of integrons among non-Escherichia coli Enterobacteriaceae clinical isolates producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases from Spain
  - Worldwide antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of inducible Enterobacteriaceae causing intra-abdominal infections: results from SMART 2003
  - Resistance to antibiotics and heavy metal in different species of Aeromonas collected from the Loa River in Chile
  - Diversity of integrons and sulfonamide resistance genes among ESBL and non-ESBL Enterobacteriaceae recovered from Portuguese hospitals
Barè M. - Associated factors and mortality in elderly patients with methicillin-resistant vs. methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
Bara C. - Self-medication with antibiotics in Europe
Barabouti F. - Immune response in measles-mumps-rubella of young adults aged 16--25 years vaccinated with one or two doses of MMR vaccine
  - Clinical course of urinary tract infections in early infancy
  - Fever in infants less than three months of age
Baran I. - Comparison the bacteriology and beta-lactamase production of the tonsils and adenoids surface and core flora
Baranova E. - Prediction of potential antigenic domains of HIV-1 Pol protein and evaluation their immunoreactivity
Baranowicz I. - Evaluation of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage rate among patients on haemodialysis - isolation of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Baranowska M. - Pathogenicity and susceptibility to antibiotics of Proteus mirabilis strains isolated from urinary catheters
Barbanti F. - Tn916-Tn1545-like elements in Clostridiumdifficile clinical isolates
  - Horizontal transfer of the MLSB resistance gene erm(B) between the human pathogen Clostridium difficile and the ruminal anaerobe Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens
Barbarini D. - Colistin-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: report of a case
  - Multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: susceptibility patterns (including tigecycline) and ribotyping
Barbe G. - Blood stream infections in children with acute myeloid leukaemia: contribution of microbiological gum and gut monitoring
Barbosa S. - Characterisation of the first telithromycin resistant pneumococcal isolate in Germany
  - Community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia in Germany: first results of the CAPNETZ study
Barbounakis E. - Fatal acute liver failure due to varicella zoster virus infection in a child with acute lymphoblasticleukaemia
Barbui A. - Prospective evaluation of sequential Aspergillus galactomannan antigen detection and CT scan of the chest for early diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in recipients of allogeneic stem cell transplantation
Barbut F. - Epidemiology and management of pressure ulcers in an acute care hospital
Barchitta M. - Efficacy of nosocomial infection control in urological patients: building benchmarking through active surveillance
Barcia-Macay M. - Pharmacological comparison of antibiotics against intracellular S. aureus
Barco L. - Enter-net Italia: integrated medical and veterinary surveillance of salmonellosis in Italy
Barette M. - Influence of Mannan binding lectin serum levels on the risk of infection during chemotherapy-induced neutropenia in adult haematological cancer patients
Barger A. - Fluoroquinolone-associated anaphylaxis in spontaneous adverse drug reports
Bargiacchi O. - Colistin-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: report of a case
  - Treatment of acute C hepatitis in HIV infected patients
  - Multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: susceptibility patterns (including tigecycline) and ribotyping
Bar[scaron]ic B. - Treatment of CAP in ICU – an intensivist perspective
Barisic Z. - An outbreak of gastroenteritis due to Aeromonas hydrophila
Barisin A. - Respiratory syncytial virus infections in Croatia, 1994–99
Barkham T. - Inhibition controls are not always necessary for PCR on human samples
Barlow M. - Horizontal gene transfer as a cause of fluoroquinolone resistance in an invasive Streptococcus pyogenes isolate
  - Association of antibiotic resistance phenotypes and the presence of class I integrons in a sample of bacterial isolates from U.S. hospitals
Barlow G.D. - CURB65 outperforms generic severity assessment tools in stratifying and predicting 30-day mortality in community-acquired pneumonia
Barrabeig I. - Pertussis cases detected by active surveillance in Catalonia, Spain
  - Community outbreaks of legionellosis in Catalonia, 1990–2003
Barricarte A. - Prevalence of pneumococcal serotypes in invasive disease in children
Barriere S. - Effect of haemodialysis on single dose pharmacokinetics of telavancin
Barrufet P. - Comparative study of Legionella pneumophila pneumonia according to sporadic and outbreak presentation
Bartalesi F. - Molecular basis of the high resistance rates unrelated to antimicrobial exposure detected in faecal Escherichiacoli from the human population of a remote rural Bolivian community
Barth A. - Resistance patterns of S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae isolated from children with upper respiratory tract infection in Southern Brazil – 2003 and 2004
Barthelemy P. - Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria isolated from nosocomial bacteraemia
Bartolomé R. - Genetic profiling, clonal diversity and antibiotic susceptibility in Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolated in Cataluña (Spain)
Bartoloni A. - Molecular basis of the high resistance rates unrelated to antimicrobial exposure detected in faecal Escherichiacoli from the human population of a remote rural Bolivian community
Bartosova D. - The prevention and treatment of neonatal herpesviruses infections
Bartoszewicz M.B. - Adhesion to catheters and slime production of Staphylococcus haemolyticus isolated from hospitalised patient occurrence of antibiotic susceptibility
  - The biofilm formation by Klebsiella strains isolated from various infections on chemically different catheters
Bartscht K. - barAB a new regulatory gene locus mediating NaCl induction of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm formation
Barut G. - Erysipelas like cutaneous leishmaniasis: a case report
Barzekar A. - Study of human infection of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a focus of the disease, southern Iran
Barzon L. - Do oestrogen receptors have a role in the pathogenesis of HIV-associated lipodystrophy?
Basaras M. - Rapid identification of human T-cell leukaemia virus type I using a PCR method
  - Sources of infection in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus
Basca E. - Clinical and epidemiological considerations about anthrax in Constanta county, Romania
Bascesme E. - Evaluation of surgical prophylaxis in heart surgery
Bashir T. - Antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacterial pathogens from blood culture of cancer patients in a single cancer institution
Basiklis A. - Vancomycin-resistant enterococci, colonising the intestinal tract of hospitalised patients in a university hospital in Greece
Basilaki O. - Antibiotics susceptibility patterns of commonly isolated pathogens in a Greek university hospital
Basiliadi A. - Clinical course of urinary tract infections in early infancy
Baskin H. - Effects of acyclovir on nitric oxide and cell death in herpesvirus type 1 and 2 infected HEp-2 cells
Baskin Y. - Effects of acyclovir on nitric oxide and cell death in herpesvirus type 1 and 2 infected HEp-2 cells
Basseri H. - Present and future of malaria in Kahnouj endemic area, southern Iran
  - Some ecological aspects of Anopheles stephensi liston, the main malaria vector in an endemic focus of malaria in Bandar Abbas district, south of Iran
Basset C. - Bactericidal and anti-adhesive properties of culinary and medicinal plants against Helicobacter pylori
Bassetti S. - Prospective observational study on the empirical use of antibiotics and on the adjustment of antibiotic therapies in a university hospital
Bassetti D. - A four-year analysis of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance among Gram-negative bacilli in an Italian intensive care unit
Bassetti M. - A four-year analysis of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance among Gram-negative bacilli in an Italian intensive care unit
Bast D.J. - Postantibiotic sub-MIC and subinhibitory effects of various antibiotics on B. anthracis
  - Efficacy of moxifloxacin significantly more effective than levofloxacin against a first-step ParC mutant of Streptococcus pneumoniae in a murine model of pneumonia
  - Ribosomal protein L22 mutations in Bacillus anthracis associated with cross-resistance between macrolide, lincosamide, streptogramin and ketolide antibiotics
Basterretxea A. - Outpatient intravenous antibiotic therapy
Bastide M.C. - Evaluation of the performance of the new VIDAS C. difficile Toxin A/B test
Basturk S. - Sensorineural hearing loss in three cases with neurobrucellosis
Batanis G. - Impact of hand hygiene on hospital-acquired infections in the cardiosurgical department of a Greek university hospital
Batard E. - There is no correlation between the minimal inhibitory concentration of teicoplanin against Staphylococcus epidermidis and efficacy in the mouse sepsis/peritonitis model
Batlle M. - Usefulness of procalcitonin measurement in the diagnosis of febrile neutropenia
Battegay M. - Prospective observational study on the empirical use of antibiotics and on the adjustment of antibiotic therapies in a university hospital
Battersby T.R. - Evaluation of a new kinetic amplification based assay for quantification of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA
Battisti G. - Bacteraemia due to Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit
Battolla E. - Invasive procedures and aetiological diagnosis in severe community-acquired pneumonia: a case study of 46 patients
Baud O. - Outbreak of glycopeptides Enterococcus faecium infection in a university teaching hospital in Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2004
Bauernfeind A. - Application of PK/PD modelling and simulation (M+S) to define pharmaco-dynamic breakpoints for fluoroquinolones
Bauraing C. - Prevalence and characterisation of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases produced in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from patients hospitalised in a Belgian hospital
Bax N.M. - The susceptibility of coagulase-negative staphylococci in a teaching hospital compared with a secondary care hospital
Bayart E. - Effect of Saccharomycesboulardii on the re-establishment of hamster gut microflora perturbed by vancomycin treatment
Bayindir Y. - Cerebellar abscess and syringomyelia due to isoniazid resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Baykam N. - The epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of HIV/AIDS patients in a tertiary hospital, Turkey
  - Analysis of the mortality among the patients with Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever virus infection
Bayraktar M.R. - Changes in serum cytokines profile and nitric oxide levels in cystic echinococcosis patients at preoperative and postoperative period
Bayraktar O. - Drug resistance pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a technical university medical faculty in Turkey, 2000–2004
Baysallar M. - A case of ventricular drainage infection with a rare pathogen in cerebrospinal fluid: vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
Bazarova G. - Change of the characteristics of natural focuses of plague and microbiological properties of plague microbes as a result of consequences of the natural calamity on Aral Sea
Bazhora Y. - Prevalence of mutations associated with drug resistance in Beijing and non-Beijing Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from the Southern Ukraine
Bazhukova T. - Clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus in the Arkhangelsk region, Russia: prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant strains
Baziaka F. - Clarithromycin as an effective immunomodulator when administered late in experimental sepsis by pan-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
  - Increased monocyte apoptosis correlates with improved survival in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia and sepsis
  - Vitamin E as an adjuvant for the therapy of patients with hidradenitis suppurativa
Böcher S. - National surveillance on methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Denmark, 1999–2003
Bøe E. - Disinfection of surfaces in hospital isolation rooms with ultraviolet C (UVC) light, compared with chloramine
Bean D.C. - Persistence of sulphonamide resistance in the community despite lack of selection
Beattie J. - Quantitative PCR for EBV DNA in paediatric renal transplant patients
Beaty P. - Evaluation of BACTEC LX blood culture system
Bebear C. - Clinical investigation of the new QNR-based mechanism of quinolone resistance in French teaching hospitals: dissemination among enterobacterial species and strains producing expanded spectrum beta-lactamase
Beck T. - Suitability of a single throat swab specimen for the detection of M. pneumoniae, C. pneumoniae and Legionella spp. in respiratory specimens by nucleic acid amplification techniques
Becker J. - Antibiotic resistance, serotypes, and clonal composition of Streptococcus pneumoniae in clinical trials of acute otitis media pre- and post-launch of the 7 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
Becker K. - Susceptibility pattern analysis to determine the in vitro susceptibility to fluconazole, voriconazole, itraconazole, and flucytosine in 1404 clinical yeast isolates (Candida spp.)
  - Characterisation of haem-deficient mutants in Staphylococcus aureus displaying the small colony variant phenotype using a full-genome DNA-microarray
  - Staphylococcal cassette chromosome in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: different methods resulting in different types
Becker D. - Development and validation of a new real-time PCR assay for HHV-6 detection and differentiation of HHV-6A and HHV-6B
Becker K. - A pathogen or a contaminant: the emerging significance of Kytococcus schroeteri
Becker A. - Severe pulmonary Nocardia otitidiscaviarum infection in a patient with underlying chronic lung disease and long-term corticosteroid therapy, confirmed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing
Becker K. - Co-colonisation of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococci and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains: risk for misidentification in molecular detection assays
Beckmann J. - Fluoroquinolone-associated anaphylaxis in spontaneous adverse drug reports
Bedenic B. - Beta-lactamases and antibiotic susceptibilities of Moraxella catarrhalis isolates from Zagreb, Croatia
  - In vitro effect of subMICs of antibiotics on the adherence ability and morphology of Pseudomonasaeruginosa strains isolated from patients with urinary tract infection
  - In vitro effect of subMICs of antibiotics on the antigenic structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis
  - Metallo-beta-lactamase production and susceptibility to antibiotics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from Zagreb, Croatia
Bedenkov A. - Another white spot on the Europe map is gone: first results of the Russian monitoring of antimicrobial consumption
Bednarova J. - Intrathecal synthesis of specific antibodies in facial nerve palsy
Bednorz R. - The role of Chlamydiatrachomatis urinary tract infection in children
Beer J. - The development of antimicrobial resistance in German hospitals
  - Multi-resistance in P. aeruginosa : epidemiological results from the GENARS Project
  - Multi-resistance in K. pneumoniae: epidemiological results from the GENARS Project
  - ESBL-strains of E. coli and K. pneumoniae in GENARS hospitals
  - Multi-resistance in E. coli– an underestimated therapeutic problem? Epidemiological results from the GENARS Project
Beerthuizen G.I.J.M. - Dressing changes under laminar flow conditions to prevent Staphylococcus aureus wound colonisation in patients admitted to a burn centre
  - Mupirocin prophylaxis to prevent Staphylococcus aureus wound colonisation in patients admitted to a burn centre
Begolli L. - Colonisation and antimicrobial resistance in tracheal aspirates of hospitalised patients in intensive care units of a tertiary medical care centre in Kosova
Begovac J. - Candida albicans endocarditis in a human immunodeficiency virus infected patient successfully treated with caspofungin and vegetectomy: a case report
  - Risk factors and seroprevalence of serum antibody to human herpesvirus 8 among HIV seropositive and seronegative adults from Croatia
Behar P.R.P. - High prevalence of admission for AIDS-associated opportunistic infections in a Brazilian teaching hospital
Behcet M. - Effect of melatonin on Candida sepsis in experimental rat models
Behnke M. - Nurse-to-patient-ratio as risk factor for nosocomial primary bloodstream infection in ICUs
  - The HELICS Database Management Software project: electronic exchange of nosocomial infection surveillance data across Europe
Behra J. - Unexpected resistance mechanisms behind known antibiotic resistance in anaerobic pathogen and their detection
Behrendt J. - The influence of severe early-onset infections on dynamic changes of serum gastrin concentration in full-term and pre-term neonates
  - A seven-year review of neonatal sepsis due to multidrug resistant Pseudomonasaeruginosa in a regional NICU
Behzadian F. - Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Iranian HDV complete genome
Behzadian Nejad Q. - Production, extraction and evaluation of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B outer membrane vesicle containing PorA
  - Synergism between ultrasound and ceftazidime in the phagocytosis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Behzadiyan-Nejad Q. - The role of iodine in ampicillin and tetracycline antibiotic resistance transfer
Bejarano G. - Associated factors and mortality in elderly patients with methicillin-resistant vs. methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
Beka Z. - Colonisation of bronchial secretions in intubated patients in paediatric intensive care unit in Athens, Greece
Beld M. - Real-time PCR with an internal control detecting all 51 known adenovirus serotypes
  - Automated DNA extraction influences the sensitivity of PCR-based molecular diagnostics
Belechri M. - Plasma procalcitonin levels and urinary tract infections among elderly patients
Belessiotou H. - The incidence and risk factors for Acinetobacter baumannii bacteraemia in ICU patients with A. baumannii respiratory tract colonisation
Belet N. - Caspofungin treatment in two infants with persistent fungaemia due to Candida lipolytica
  - Herpes zoster in hospitalised Turkish children
Bellini M. - A prospectic nosocomial infection – survey in a medical department in Italy
Bellini C. - Validation and improvement of an automated surveillance system for nosocomial bacteraemia
Bello T. - Epidemiology of pneumococcal carriage among Warao children in the Delta Amacuro in Venezuela
Bellocchi P. - Efficacy of nosocomial infection control in urological patients: building benchmarking through active surveillance
Bellomi F. - In vitro studies on interferon-inducing capacity and sensitivity to IFN of human severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
  - Immunocomplexes in HCV-infected patients
Beloborodova N.V. - Antimicrobial prophylaxis in cardiac surgery and postoperative pneumonia rate
  - Procalcitonin controlled administration of IgM-enriched immunoglobulins in early post-op can prevent postoperative infectious complications in high-risk children with congenital heart diseases
  - Two-year experience of cephalosporins rotation in the cardiosurgery intensive care unit
Beltoft I. - Evaluation of a Bayesian decision support system for diagnosis of Lyme disease
Beltrame A. - Efficacy of intralesional pentavalent antimony in combination with oral azole for treatment of old-world cutaneous leishmaniasis
  - Seroprevalence of rubella among puerperae in an area of North-Eastern Italy
Beltran J. - Rapid identification of human T-cell leukaemia virus type I using a PCR method
Ben Ali A. - Analysis of consecutive blood cultures performed in one year by an infectious team: were three haemocultures still necessary?
Ben Hadj Kacem M.A. - Multidrug resistance of Gram-negative bacilli and consumption of third generation cephalosporins and imipenem in a Tunisian hospital
Ben Hassen A. - Antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus: a Tunisian multicentre study 1999–2003
  - Resistance to third generation cephalosporins in Klebsiella pneumoniae: a five years multicentric Tunisian study (1999–2003)
Ben Mamou-Ben Halima M. - Hepatitis C virus infection among dialysis patients in Tunisia: prevalence and molecular evidence for nosocomial transmission
Ben Moussa M. - High prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in Tunisia
Ben Redjeb S. - Multidrug resistance of Gram-negative bacilli and consumption of third generation cephalosporins and imipenem in a Tunisian hospital
  - Antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus: a Tunisian multicentre study 1999–2003
  - Hepatitis C virus infection among dialysis patients in Tunisia: prevalence and molecular evidence for nosocomial transmission
  - Resistance to third generation cephalosporins in Klebsiella pneumoniae: a five years multicentric Tunisian study (1999–2003)
Ben Saida N. - Multi-drug resistance Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a centre of Tunisia
  - Clonality of endemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis strains isolated in a neonatal intensive care unit
  - Clonality of Staphylococcus haemolyticus strains isolated in a neonatal intensive care unit
Benabdallah H. - Multi-drug resistance Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a centre of Tunisia
Benavente A. - Genetic profiling, clonal diversity and antibiotic susceptibility in Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolated in Cataluña (Spain)
Benea E. - The antibiotic susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Beneden C. - Horizontal gene transfer as a cause of fluoroquinolone resistance in an invasive Streptococcus pyogenes isolate
Benedetti I. - Enter-net Italia: integrated medical and veterinary surveillance of salmonellosis in Italy
Benincasa M. - Activity of cathelicidin peptides against Chlamydia spp.
Ben-Israel Y. - Distribution and susceptibility of urine and blood uropathogens in a long-term care facility
Benito R. - Evaluation of the total hepatitis C virus core antigen in children born to HCV positive mothers
Benito S. - Temporal pattern of infectious complications in HIV-infected patients
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Benito N. - Risk of human herpesvirus 6 infection in seronegative solid organ transplant recipients
Benito I. - Comparison of VNTR analysis with PFGE and REP-PCR for genotyping of pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica
Benito N. - Ten-year experience in bloodstream infections in liver transplant recipients. Changes in microbiological patterns between 1991–1995 and 1996–2000
Benito I. - A novel class 1 integron containing an aadA aminoglycoside resistance gene cassette resulting from in vivo homologous recombination
Benito S. - Global trends in infectious diseases in HIV-infected patients in HAART era
Benko R. - Evaluation of antibiotic consumption and resistance patterns in a tertiary care surgical ICU and a medical ICU
Bennett D.M.C. - Diverse transposons are responsible for the dissemination of Japanese metallo-beta-lactamase alleles: Report from the SENTRY Surveillance Programme
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Bennett N.J. - Treatment of chronic MRSA infections using a novel aqueous extract of allicin (AB1000)
Bennett P.M. - Prevalence of antibiotic resistance among commensal Escherichia coli from farm animals in the UK
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Benoit D. - Predisposing risk factors and outcome in ICU patients with invasive aspergillosis
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Benítez M. - Human trichinellosis in Argentina
Benton B.M. - Telavancin possesses low potential for resistant mutant selection in serial passage studies of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococci
Benvegnu' F. - Evaluation of the use of saliva to soothe blood-sucking arthropod bites
Beran O. - CD27+ (memory) B cell reduction as an independent marker of progression in HIV-1-infected patients
Berberovic B. - Respiratory syncytial virus infections in Croatia, 1994–99
Berberovic E. - Respiratory syncytial virus infections in Croatia, 1994–99
Berchiche C. - A pathogen or a contaminant: the emerging significance of Kytococcus schroeteri
Bereswill S. - Rapid molecular detection of clinically relevant yeasts by PCR-based denaturing high performance liquid chromatography
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Berg R.J. - Introduction of TcdA-negative, TcdB-positive Clostridiumdifficile in a general hospital in Argentina
Berg J.O. - The antibacterial properties of EMLA-cream. An in vitro study on common pathogenic bacteria
Berg S. - Antibiotic resistance among invasive pneumococcal isolates from Southwest Sweden 1998–2001
Berg R.J. - Rapid detection of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in a prospective multicentre study, using a new immunoassay and real-time PCR
Berg A.M. - Moxifloxacin and ciprofloxacin uptake by human neutrophils and their influence on viability, phagocytosis, oxidative burst, and chemotaxis
Berger P. - Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria isolated from nosocomial bacteraemia
Berghold C. - Ongoing cluster of Salmonella typhimurium PT U291 infections in Austria, starting September 2003
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Bergin C. - Genotyping HIV-1 non-B subtypes in Ireland: comparison of env and pol methods
Bergman M. - Relationship between co-trimoxazole use and resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis
Bergval I.L. - Mutator strains may contribute to the acquisition of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Berhin C. - Surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility of anaerobes in a Belgian University hospital
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Berild D. - A controlled intervention study to improve antibiotic use in a Russian paediatric hospital
Berisha L. - Colonisation and antimicrobial resistance in tracheal aspirates of hospitalised patients in intensive care units of a tertiary medical care centre in Kosova
Berke T. - Clinical characteristics of rotavirus, enteric adenovirus and astrovirus infections among hospitalised children in Hungary
Berkowitz E. - Bacteriological outcomes with pharmacokinetically enhanced amoxicillin/clavulanate (2000/125 mg) in patients with community-acquired respiratory infection caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, including drug-resistant strains
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Bernal J.A. - Neoplasia associated with HIV infection in the HAART era
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Bernal S. - Comparison of a LightCycler real-time PCR method and the BDProbeTec ET system for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory specimens
Bernal J.A. - Diagnostic power of peripheral blood phagocyte Fcg receptors expression in bacteraemia
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Bernander S. - Detection of Legionella spp by a multiplex real time PCR based on the rnpB gene
Bernard L. - Suction drainage culture in the management of musculoskeletal infection
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  - Microbial aetiology of osteomyelitis of the foot in diabetic patients
Bernards A.T. - The susceptibility of coagulase-negative staphylococci in a teaching hospital compared with a secondary care hospital
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Bernede C. - Impact of long-term antibiotic therapy on symptoms evocative of chronic lyme disease
Bersos Z. - Prevalence of the internalisation-associated PRTFf1gene in a bacterial population of Streptococcus pyogenes isolated from patients with acute pharyngotonsillitis in Greece before and after antibiotic therapy
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Berthelsen L. - Epidemic spread of at least one prolyliminopeptidase-negative Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain in Denmark
Bertini A. - Replicon typing of emerging plasmids conferring resistance to ceftriaxone and carbapenems
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Bertolotti F. - Parallel real-time PCR quantification of six human herpes viruses in patients with acute neurological infections
Bertona E. - Actinomyces spp.: a disregarded pathogen?
Bertrand Y. - Blood stream infections in children with acute myeloid leukaemia: contribution of microbiological gum and gut monitoring
Berzeg D. - Parainfluenzae tybe B meningitis with autonomic nerve involvement: a case report
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Besier S. - Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants in patients with cystic fibrosis in Franfurt/Main, Germany
Bessaud M. - An in vitro assay for flavivirus NS2B/NS3 serine protease
Bester A.J. - Micafungin (FK463) versus fluconazole in a randomised, double-blind, multinational, oesophageal candidiasis study
Betancor León P. - Human herpesvirus 8 and associated neoplasms
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Betancor Leon P. - Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex in patients with human inmunodeficiency virus. Report of two cases
Bethymoutis G. - Spread of highly carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital: the role of AmpC overproduction in this resistance
Betrán A. - Enterovirus meningitis: study from 1995 to 2003
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Betsou A. - Usual interstitial pneumonia associated with cytomegalovirus infection after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
Beuselinck K. - Automated extraction of RNA and DNA from different specimen types feeding the detection of several markers in the field of molecular diagnostics
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Bevanger L. - Candidaemia in the elderly
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Beytout J. - Outbreak of glycopeptides Enterococcus faecium infection in a university teaching hospital in Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2004
Bezirtzoglou E. - Hygienic quality of some infant formula milk
Bhade S. - Performance of a new amplification based assay for quantification of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) RNA
Bhandari S.K. - Setting up a surveillance system of antimicrobial resistance and use in a low-resource setting: West Delhi, India
Bhatt K. - Efficacy and safety of pharmacokinetically enhanced amoxicillin/clavulanate 2000/125 mg (PKE AMX/CA) in patients with community-acquired pneumonia, including cases caused by penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae
Bhavnani S.M. - Impact of adverse drug events on resource consumption: amoxicillin-clavulanate vs gemifloxacin
Bhoi S. - Impact of dengue viral infection on liver function
Biagetti C. - Basic clinical-applied pharmacoeconomic features of antiretroviral therapy. A pilot single-centre study performed on around 1000 HIV-infected individuals receiving combined antiretroviral treatment
Biarent D. - Attempt to rationalise antibiotic use in a paediatric intensive care unit
Biasolo M. - HIV-1 DNA load in naive and successful antiretroviral treated patients
Bicakcigil M. - Nosocomial infections among earthquake victims in a backup university hospital after 1999 Marmara earthquake, Turkey
Biedenbach D. - Delayed resistance selection for doripenem when passaging P. aeruginosa isolates with an aminoglycoside
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Biehler K. - Sporadic and outbreak cases of plasmid-mediated quinolone-resistance in German ICUs
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Bierla. J. - Epstein-Barr virus infection in patients with gastric carcinoma
Biernasiuk A. - The patterns of nasopharyngeal microflora in pre-school children with recurrent respiratory tract infections
Bihalskyy I. - Prolonged regional arterial antibiotics infusion in the management of severe acute pancreatitis
Bijl M. - Controlling an outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus on a surgical ward
Bilbao J. - Sources of infection in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus
Billaud G. - Evaluation of a real-time NASBA assay for the detection of influenza A and B viruses in clinical respiratory samples
Bille J. - Validation and improvement of an automated surveillance system for nosocomial bacteraemia
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Billström H. - Genetic relationship, occurrence of esp and antibiotic resistance among blood-culture derived Enterococcus faecium isolates
Bimar M. - Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria isolated from nosocomial bacteraemia
Bindels P.J.E. - Bacterial pathogens and their antibiotic susceptibility in infectious conjunctivitis in general practice
Binder W. - Aspects of the mode of action of the novel biocide Akacid Forte on E. coli
Binder S. - Evaluation of a new IgM test for detection of cytomegalovirus IgM antibody
Binikos I. - Epidemiology and resistance pattern of bacteraemia pathogens in medical patients over an 8-year period
Binns M. - In vitro activities of gatifloxacin, moxifloxacin and linezolid versus bloodstream isolates of methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a Canadian tertiary-care centre
Biocina B. - Candida albicans endocarditis in a human immunodeficiency virus infected patient successfully treated with caspofungin and vegetectomy: a case report
Birkelund S. - Chlamydia proteomes
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Birkin J. - Self-medication with antibiotics in Europe
Birol A. - Telomerase activity in cutaneous and anogenital warts: a preliminary study
Bisgaard M. - Identification of potential faecal contamination markers of coliforms and thermotolerant coliforms isolated from chicken feed using tRNA intergenic length polymorphism analysis (tDNA-PCR)
Bishara J. - Antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, and outcome of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea
Bishop L.A. - A comparison of trends in antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae in the UK
Bisiklis A. - Methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci with increased resistance to glycopeptides
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Bistoni F. - Toxoplasma gondii infection in bone marrow transplant recipients: the polymerase chain reaction-blood sample combination in diagnosis and early detection
Biswas A. - Immune activation markers in HIV-1 infected patients from India
Bitsori M. - Community-acquired enterococcal urinary tract infection
Bittker S. - The effect of hyperbaric oxygen treatment on the in vitro and in vivo activity of Borreliaburgdorferi
Bizzoni F. - Comparison of an ELISPOT assay based on the RD1 selected peptides and intact proteins with QF-TB gold assay in the surveillance of health care workers
Bjarnsholt T. - Development of novel antipathogenic drugs
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Bjordal O. - Disinfection of surfaces in hospital isolation rooms with ultraviolet C (UVC) light, compared with chloramine
Bjørløw E. - A controlled intervention study to improve antibiotic use in a Russian paediatric hospital
Blackman M. - Evaluation of chromogenic Candida agar
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Blahova J. - Bacteraemia – prevalence and antibiotic resistance among clinical isolates from Slovakia
Blanc D. - Failure to control MRSA in LTCF by restricting admissions or implementing strict isolation procedures
Blanc V. - Adult community-acquired pneumonia. Evaluation of the antibiotherapy proposed in an emergency department and analysis of the impact of training
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Blanco J. - Genetic profiling, clonal diversity and antibiotic susceptibility in Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolated in Cataluña (Spain)
Blanco S. - Usefulness of procalcitonin measurement in the diagnosis of febrile neutropenia
Blanco M.A. - Antibiotic susceptibility, mechanisms of macrolide resistance and clonal relationship in group B streptococci
Blanco O. - Molecular epidemiology of Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus in Cuban and German patients with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and asymptomatic sexual contacts of Cuban KS patients
Blanco S. - Usefulness of procalcitonin and neopterin measurement in the management of exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases
Blanco A.R. - EDTA (ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid) enhances the activity of tetracycline in P. aeruginosa by increasing drug accumulation
Blandin A. - Analysis of the comparative work-flow and accuracy of the VITEK®2 Compact and the ATB Expression® system
Blandino G. - Virulence factors and antibiotic resistance in uropathogenic Escherichia coli
Blaszczyk A. - Pathogenicity and susceptibility to antibiotics of Proteus mirabilis strains isolated from urinary catheters
Blazquez C. - Quantitative CMV PCR in allogenic stem-cell transplant patients
Bleyzac N. - Blood stream infections in children with acute myeloid leukaemia: contribution of microbiological gum and gut monitoring
Bliese T. - Genetic engineering of Toxoplasma gondii P30 (SAG1) antigen for improved antibody detection in immunoassays
Bliziotis I. - Worldwide trends in quantity and quality of published articles in the field of infectious diseases
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Bloch Y. - Antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, and outcome of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea
Blondeau L. - Determination of the mutant prevention concentration and minimal inhibitory concentration of gemifloxacin against penicillin susceptible and resistant clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Blondeau J. - Determination of the mutant prevention concentration and minimal inhibitory concentration of gemifloxacin against penicillin susceptible and resistant clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Blondeau L. - Analysis of sequential isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis patients, repeatedly treated with ciprofloxacin by mutant prevention concentration, minimal inhibitory concentration and pulsed field gel electrophoresis
Blondeau J. - Determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration and mutant prevention concentration of garenoxacin against over 500 clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Blondeau L. - Determination of the minimum inhibitory and mutant prevention concentration of telithromycin against clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Blondeau J. - Determination of the minimum inhibitory and mutant prevention concentration of telithromycin against clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Blosser R. - The prevalence of multidrug resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae in the United States
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Blot S. - Antimicrobial susceptibility of bloodstream infections has no impact on outcome in intensive care unit patients with acute renal failure
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Blum T. - Pneumocystis jiroveci-pneumonia in immununodeficient patients without AIDS
Blumer J. - Efficacy of posaconazole salvage therapy in paediatric subjects with invasive fungal infections
Blum-Menezes D. - Understanding the Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonisation of HIV outpatients based on DNA genotyping
Blázquez Abellán A. - Second-line antituberculous drugs: usefulness of the E-test for susceptibility testing of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Bán É. - Epidemiology of infective endocarditis in Hungary
Bånrud H. - Disinfection of surfaces in hospital isolation rooms with ultraviolet C (UVC) light, compared with chloramine
Boaventura L. - Detection of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases, including the CTX-M-type enzymes, in Escherichia coli and Klebsiellapneumoniae using VITEK 2 System and the Advanced Expert System
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Bobbio Pallavicini F. - A four-year analysis of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance among Gram-negative bacilli in an Italian intensive care unit
Bobogianni C. - Application of ELISA and confirmative Western Blot assay for the detection IgG and IgA antibodies against plasmid-coded secretory proteins of pathogenic Yersinia strains in serodiagnosis of paediatricyersiniosis
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Bochem E. - The performance of the new streptococci panel for BD Phoenix™
Bochkarev D. - Antimicrobials prescription patterns in outpatient adults with community-acquired pneumonia in Russia: 2003 vs 1998
Bochkova G. - A new anti-HCV EIA based on recombinant antigens derived from different sequence variants of hepatitis C virus
Bode L. - Borna disease virus infection in early childhood, a potential risk for developing brains
Bodenham A. - Rectal carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Gram-negative bacilli in patients admitted to intensive care units
Bodey G.P. - Trends in incidence of invasive fungal infections at a tertiary cancer centre over a 14-year period: an autopsy study
Bodur H. - Value of body temperature, white blood cell count and C-reactive protein for the diagnosis of intensive care unit-acquired infections: a prospective study
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Bodyaeva E. - Antimicrobials prescription patterns in outpatient adults with community-acquired pneumonia in Russia: 2003 vs 1998
Boekhout T. - Identification of dermatophytes using partially digested ITS2-PCR
Boel A. - Enterobacter aerogenes and extended-spectrum beta-lactamases: prevalence and development of a routine ESBL testing protocol in a Belgian hospital
Boel E. - Automated nucleic acid extraction using the NucliSens easyMAG system for the recovery of DNA from various clinical specimen types
Boel A. - Detection and characterisation of a hepatitis B surface antigen mutant in a heart transplant patient
Boer R.F. - Automated DNA extraction influences the sensitivity of PCR-based molecular diagnostics
Boers M. - Rapid detection of parainfluenza virus in respiratory samples: a 3-year experience
Boese K. - Prospective MIRU-VNTR typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in the Midlands, UK: detection of a previously unsuspected large cluster of cases
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Bofill D. - Evidence of infection in humans with West Nile virus in Delta de l'Ebre (a wetland in the south of Catalonia), Spain
Bogaert D. - Epidemiology of pneumococcal carriage among Warao children in the Delta Amacuro in Venezuela
Bogahawata A. - Bactericidal and anti-adhesive properties of culinary and medicinal plants against Helicobacter pylori
Bogdan A. - Comparison of two closed urinary catheter system bags with single and double non-return valve using a laboratory model
Bogdanov M. - Microbiological efficacy of antibiotics in patients with and without antibiotic pre-treatment of community-acquired pneumonia
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Boghossian J. - Bacteriologic efficacy of intravenous piperacillin/tazobactam and ampicillin/sulbactam for infected diabetic foot ulcers
Bognár M. - The first recorded outbreak of VRE in Hungary involving vanB carrying E. faecium isolates from clinical samples and from the hospital environment
Bogusz B. - Aspergillosis of the maxilla sinus in patients from maxillofacial surgery clinic in Cracow, Poland, between 1998 and 2004
Boichenko E. - Linezolid efficacy and tolerability in the treatment of infectious complications in children
Boiron P. - Nocardiosis in a teaching hospital in the Central Anatolia region: treatment and outcome
Bojary Nasrabadi M. - Determination of Helicobacter pylori cagA gene prevalence in Iranian GUD and PUD patients
Bojer M. - magA, a previously assigned virulence gene of Klebsiellapneumoniae, is a part of the capsular polysaccharide gene cluster of serotype K1
Bolanos M. - Two possibly novel Alistipes species isolated from clinical specimens of human origin
Boldrin C. - Molecular epidemiology of glycopeptide-resistant enterococci isolated in a university hospital, Italy (2003–2004)
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Bollineni S. - Acute leptospirosis: experience at a tertiary care referral centre
Bolmström A. - Performance of a unique E-test Daptomycin gradient + calcium gradient on Isosensitest compared to NCCLS broth microdilution in Mueller Hinton
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Bolpe J. - Human trichinellosis in Argentina
Bombicino K. - Actinomyces spp.: a disregarded pathogen?
Bonaccorsi A. - Efficacy of nosocomial infection control in urological patients: building benchmarking through active surveillance
Bonadio M. - Demographic and microbiologic features of urinary tract infections in young and adult patients
Bonasso M. - Is it justifiable to withhold treatment for HCV-chronic hepatitis from drug addicts?
Bondor C. - Procalcitonin and fever as markers of bacteraemia in patients with sepsis
Bonfiglio G. - Use of kanamicin in the topical therapy of aerobic vaginitis
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Boni L. - Aspergillus galactomannan antigen detection in different batches of piperacillin-tazobactam
Boniatsi L. - Hepatitis B virus genotype distribution in Greek population and economic immigrants and association with HBeAg status
Bonilla I. - Evolution in the pattern of sensitivity to penicillin and cefotaxime of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Boniotto M. - Evolution of the primate cathelicidin: effect of structural variations on modulating antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities
Bonnet E. - Trends in penicillin-resistance rates among pneumococcal carriage strains in children's day-care centres in France: 1999–2004
Bonnet R. - Outbreak of glycopeptides Enterococcus faecium infection in a university teaching hospital in Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2004
Bonroy C. - Enterobacter aerogenes and extended-spectrum beta-lactamases: prevalence and development of a routine ESBL testing protocol in a Belgian hospital
Bont J. - Development of a prediction rule for hospitalisation or death in elderly primary care patients with a lower respiratory tract infection
Bonten M.J.M. - Development of a prediction rule for hospitalisation or death in elderly primary care patients with a lower respiratory tract infection
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Boom R. - Automated DNA extraction influences the sensitivity of PCR-based molecular diagnostics
Boost M.V. - Detection of Chlamydiatrachomatis from self-collected vaginal swabs in commercial sex-workers
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Borchi B. - Antimicrobial resistance in an intensive care unit before adopting an antibiotic rotation programme for empiric therapy of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Bordes A. - Antibiotic susceptibility, mechanisms of macrolide resistance and clonal relationship in group B streptococci
Bordi L. - Establishment of non-productive infection and activation of inf-alpha and -gamma gene expression in normal lymphomonocytes by sars-cov
Borg M.A. - Antibiotic resistance in the south-eastern Mediterranean: preliminary results from the ARMed Project
Borg M.A - Validity of antimicrobial susceptibility results from 29 Mediterranean laboratories in the ARMed Project
Borén C. - The use of cefadroxil in primary susceptibility testing to screen for cephalosporin resistance in Enterobacteriaceae, including ESBLs
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Borner K. - Effects of enteral feeding on the oral bioavailability of moxifloxacin
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Borodina I. - Efficacy of hepatitis B immunoprophylaxis in children with malignant diseases at the time of chemotherapy
Borok S. - Empirical antibiotics against Gram-positive infections for febrile neutropenia. Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Boronina L. - Microbiology of meningitis in hospitalised patients of Ural region, Russia: 7-year surveillance
Boron-Kaczmarska A. - Genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi in patients with erythema migrans
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Boroomand S. - The study of prevalence of aetiology and outcome of septic shock patients admitted at obstetric and gynecologic department
Borrasca V. - C. difficile pseudo-outbreak in a general hospital
Borrell N. - Effect of porins and AmpC betalactamases in the treatment of experimental pneumonia due to Klebsiella pneumoniae
Borrow R. - Role of gene polymorphisms of interleukin-10 and CD14 in meningococcal disease
Borsos S. - Determination of the mutant prevention concentration and minimal inhibitory concentration of gemifloxacin against penicillin susceptible and resistant clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae
  - Determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration and mutant prevention concentration of garenoxacin against over 500 clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae
  - Killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae by azithromycin, clarithromycin, telithromycin and gemifloxacin using the minimum inhibitory and mutant prevention drug concentrations
  - Determination of the minimum inhibitory and mutant prevention concentration of telithromycin against clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae
  - Comparative minimal inhibitory concentration and mutant prevention concentration of moxifloxacin against clinical isolates of penicillin susceptible, intermediate and resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
Borzic E. - An outbreak of gastroenteritis due to Aeromonas hydrophila
Bosch J. - Antibiotic susceptibility, mechanisms of macrolide resistance and clonal relationship in group B streptococci
Bose A. - Cephalosporin-resistance in Enterobacteriaceae: a new plague?
Bostock J.M. - Growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in biofilms results in elevated mutation frequencies
Botea S. - The antibiotic susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Botsari S. - Trends in antibiotic consumption and bacterial isolation rate over a 5-year period in a general hospital in Athens, Greece
  - Bacterial causes of community-acquired pneumonia and antibiotic resistance on adult patients hospitalised during 2002–2003
  - Agrobacteriumradiobacterperitonitis in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
Bottin R. - Penetration of levofloxacin in sinusal mucosa of patients with chronic sinusitis following oral administration of a single 500 mg dose
Bouali M.R. - High prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in Tunisia
Bouchillon S. - Addition of a biocatalytic oxygen-reducing agent may be required in the absence of fresh media (<12 hours old) when testing tigecycline using broth microdilution
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  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – European in vitro antibacterial activity against selected species of Enterococcus spp.
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – In vitro antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens in the United States
  - United States in vitro antibacterial activity of tigecycline against methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST)
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – United States in vitro antibacterial activity against selected species of Enterococcus spp.
  - European in vitro antibacterial activity of tigecycline against methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST)
  - A comparative in vitro analysis of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid and seven comparative agents in 15,521 paediatric respiratory isolates
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – global in vitro antibacterial activity against selected species of Enterobacteriaceae
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – United States in vitro antibacterial activity against selected species of glucose non-fermenting organisms
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – European in vitro antibacterial activity against selected species of Enterobacteriaceae
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – Global in vitro antibacterial activity against selected species of Enterococcus spp.
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – European in vitro antibacterial activity against selected species of glucose non-fermenting organisms
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – in vitro antibacterial activity against selected species of Enterobacteriaceae in the United States
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – In vitro antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens in Europe
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – In vitro antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens in Asia
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – Global in vitro antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens
  - Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) – Global in vitro antibacterial activity against selected species of glucose non-fermenting organisms
Boudewijns M. - Evaluation of lipovitellin-salt-mannitol-agar with an oxacillin and cefoxitin disc as primary screening medium for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Boukadida J. - Clonality of Staphylococcus haemolyticus strains isolated in a neonatal intensive care unit
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  - Multi-drug resistance Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a centre of Tunisia
Boularot A. - Structure-activity relationship analysis and therapeutic potential of peptide deformylase inhibitors
Bouloy M. - RT-PCR analysis of fulminantly dead Iranian patients with Crimean- Congo haemorrhagic fever symptoms and without antibody response to CCHF
Boumis E. - Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis during highly active anti-retroviral therapy in an HIV-infected patient. Case report
Bouranta P. - Bloodstream infections in adult patients with malignant blood disorders and neutropenia: microbial spectrum and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern
Bourantas K.L. - Bloodstream infections in adult patients with malignant blood disorders and neutropenia: microbial spectrum and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern
Bourikas G. - Value of antigen detection in the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis
Bourlet T. - Automated extraction of RNA and DNA from different specimen types feeding the detection of several markers in the field of molecular diagnostics
Bousse A. - BIVEMOX III: results of the Belgian in vitro evaluation of moxifloxacin (winter 2003–2004)
Boutemy M. - Corynebacterium urealyticum encrusted cystitis: a new case and review of literature
Boutiba-Ben Boubaker I. - Resistance to third generation cephalosporins in Klebsiella pneumoniae: a five years multicentric Tunisian study (1999–2003)
Bouza E. - Morphological changes in Clostridium difficile during exposure to metronidazole
  - Species distribution and antifungal susceptibility in yeast isolated from peritoneal fluid over a period of 17 years
  - Accuracy of cefoxitin disk diffusion for the detection of oxacillin resistance in Staphylococcus lugdunensis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus
  - Second-line antituberculous drugs: usefulness of the E-test for susceptibility testing of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  - Evaluation of a real-time universal 16S rRNA gene PCR and sequencing method for diagnosis of infective endocarditis directly from heart valve tissue
  - Nocardia and nocardiosis in recent years: different micro-organisms in different patients
  - Evidence for the emergence of non-vaccine types causing invasive pneumococcal disease in Spain
  - Epidemiology and in vitro antifungal susceptibilities of Blastoschizomyces capitatus: a 14-year overview
Boychenko M. - Comparison of two types of recombinant live-attenuated Salmonella strains expressing HBc-ag in experiments
Boye K. - Sequence-based typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus for real-time infection control
Bozdogan O. - Telomerase activity in cutaneous and anogenital warts: a preliminary study
Bozkurt G.Y. - In vitro activity of fucidic acid against Staphylococcus aureus strains
Bozkurt C. - In vitro activities of various antibiotics, alone and in combination with colistin methanesulfonate against Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from cystic fibrosis patients
Brace C. - Accuracy of three automated systems for susceptibility testing selected Gram-negative bacilli against five broad-spectrum beta-lactam agents
Bradford P. - Addition of a biocatalytic oxygen-reducing agent may be required in the absence of fresh media (<12 hours old) when testing tigecycline using broth microdilution
Brahmadattan K.N. - Changing epidemiology, clinical features, and outcome of acute community-acquired pneumonia among adults in India
Branco D.S. - Accessing quality in infection control surveillance
  - Hospital infections in a Brazilian neonatal intensive care unit
Brandt M. - Determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration and mutant prevention concentration of garenoxacin against over 500 clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Brandt C. - Surgical site infections in the Helics network: results from 11 European surveillance networks
Branger C. - Clinical investigation of the new QNR-based mechanism of quinolone resistance in French teaching hospitals: dissemination among enterobacterial species and strains producing expanded spectrum beta-lactamase
Brantsæter A.B. - The utility of cytomegalovirus (CMV) quantitative polymerase chain reaction in diagnosis of CMV disease in patients with AIDS
Brasso B. - Detection and interpretation of macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin resistance among Staphylococcus with Phoenix Automated Microbiology System and BDXpert™ System
Bratfich O.J. - Understanding the Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonisation of HIV outpatients based on DNA genotyping
Bratos M.A. - Prevalence of Leishmania infantum antibodies in central northern Spain
  - Utility of Brucellacapt in the follow-up of patients with acute brucellosis
Braun G. - Effects of food preservatives on oral streptococci biofilm generated in a biofilm reactor
Bravo L. - Molecular epidemiology and mechanisms of resistance to several antimicrobial agents in sporadic Salmonella spp. strains causing acute gastroenteritis in Cuba
Brazier J.S. - Epidemiological examination of Clostridiumdifficile isolates from different parts of Hungary
  - Introduction of TcdA-negative, TcdB-positive Clostridiumdifficile in a general hospital in Argentina
Breda A. - Automated DNA extraction influences the sensitivity of PCR-based molecular diagnostics
Bregulla M. - Catheter-related bacteraemia due to Mycobacterium chelonae complex (M. Fuerth)
Breij A. - Introduction of TcdA-negative, TcdB-positive Clostridiumdifficile in a general hospital in Argentina
Brenner A. - Comparison of MRSA ID medium and enrichment broth culture for detection of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers by muco-cutaneous surveillance cultures
Bretagne S. - Molecular identification of black grain mycetoma agents
  - Sequence-based identification of zygomycetes species of medical interest
  - Molecular identification of zygomycetes species in tissues during experimental zygomycosis
Breuil J. - Exotic pets as possible reservoirs of ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonellatyphimurium infecting children
Breynaert J. - Evaluation of ImmunoCard STAT! immunoassay in the detection of Giardialamblia and Cryptosporidiumparvum specific antigens
Briassoulis G. - Fatal acute liver failure due to varicella zoster virus infection in a child with acute lymphoblasticleukaemia
Briceño F. - Altered phagocyte Fcg receptors expression in HIV-infected patients with active tuberculosis
  - Arthritis associated with chronic hepatitis C virus infection
Brigante G. - Evaluation of the Phoenix Automated Microbiology System in identification and antimicrobial susceptibility of clinical isolates of Streptococci
  - Risk factors and treatment outcome of bloodstream infections caused by Proteus mirabilis isolates producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases
Brinas L. - GES-5, a novel variant of the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase GES-1 with an increased hydrolysis of aztreonam identified in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolate in France
  - Characterisation of blaBEL-1, a novel integron-located extended-spectrum beta-lactamase gene from a Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolate in Belgium
Brinklov Jensen K. - International Circumpolar Surveillance of invasive bacterial diseases, 2000–2004
  - The International Circumpolar Surveillance System for population-based surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease 1999–2003
Bristianou M. - Differences in induction of ex-vivo pro-inflammatory cytokine release between susceptible and resistant isolates of Escherichia coli
Brito-Avô A. - Effect of the 7-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine on the serotype distribution of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae colonising healthy children attending day-care centres in Lisbon
Broadis E. - Procalcitonin measurement in post-surgical neonates: a guide to antibiotic management
Broas M. - Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a health care ward and associated nursing home
Brock I. - Screening for tuberculosis infection using a new blood test in a population of HIV-positive individuals
Broduza A. - C-reactive protein and reduced glutathione in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with tick-borne encephalitis
Broek P.H. - Comparison of real-time PCR and conventional methods to determine aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia
Bronk M. - Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonasaeruginosa from clinical specimens over two years
  - Bacteraemia as a result of bacterial translocation from gastrointestinal tract in patients in the haematological department of a university hospital in Gdansk, Poland
Bronner S. - Determination of FR900098, a promising antimalarial agent, in human serum by capillary electrophoresis for pharmacokinetic studies
Bronska E. - Herpes simplex virus – causative agent, or innocent bystander?
  - Invasive meningococcal disease in children in 1999–2003
Brooks E.J. - Evaluation of a new kinetic amplification based assay for quantification of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA
Broomfield R.J. - Crystalline bacterial biofilm formation on urinary catheters by urease producing urinary tract pathogens
Brosnikoff C. - Evaluation of the essential equivalency of the antimicrobial susceptibility test GN09 Card on the bioMerieux VITEK 2 and the VITEK 2 Compact System
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Brouwers A. - Enterobacter aerogenes and extended-spectrum beta-lactamases: prevalence and development of a routine ESBL testing protocol in a Belgian hospital
Brown T. - An insight into the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using a novel molecular technique – multiple interspersed repetitive units
Brown A. - Comparative evaluation of a new biochemical test kit for the presumptive identification of Candida albicans
Brown T. - Use of the expanded set of VNTR-MIRU loci for the differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family isolates
Brown D.J. - Pulsed field gel electrophoresis of Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica: the presence of plasmid DNA has implications for the interpretation of PFGE data
Brown L. - Evaluation of chromogenic Candida agar
Brown D.J. - Determination of ciprofloxacin resistance in non-typhoidal Salmonellae in Scotland: 1993–2004
Browning R.A. - An MRSA strain associated with a community maternity hospital and carrying an exfoliative toxin gene
Broza M. - Simple sequence repeat analysis for Vibrio cholerae strains typing
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Børseth A.W. - Rising MRSA occurrence in Central Norway – importance of swab sites
Bruce M. - The International Circumpolar Surveillance System for population-based surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease 1999–2003
Bruce R. - A rapid sequencing based prototype assay for detection of high risk HPV strains in cervical samples
Bruce M. - International Circumpolar Surveillance of invasive bacterial diseases, 2000–2004
Bruce J. - The influence of antibiotic policies on antibiotic use patterns: ARPAC data
Brugel P. - Analysis of the comparative work-flow and accuracy of the VITEK®2 Compact and the ATB Expression® system
Brugiere O. - Effects of posaconazole salvage therapy in five patients with zygomycosis
Bruijnesteijn E.S. - Rapid detection of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in a prospective multicentre study, using a new immunoassay and real-time PCR
Bruinsma N. - Fluoroquinolone resistance in invasive Escherichia coli in Europe is related to age and gender
  - Streptococcus pneumoniae resistance in young children: differences between European countries
  - Trends in antimicrobial resistance among Escherichia coli in Europe reported via the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS)
  - New cefotaxime/ceftriaxone NCCLS susceptibility breakpoints: effect on reported Streptococcus pneumoniae resistance in European surveillance
  - Validity of antimicrobial susceptibility results from 29 Mediterranean laboratories in the ARMed Project
Brule A. - Automated nucleic acid extraction using the NucliSens easyMAG system for the recovery of DNA from various clinical specimen types
Brum L. - porA sequencing for subtype characterisation of Neisseria meningitidis group B
  - Detection of Tropheryma whipplei in Portuguese patients by molecular methods
  - Comparison of RFLP-IS6110 and MIRU-VNTR typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains
Brun-Buisson C. - Excess mortality associated with inappropriate treatment of patients with severe sepsis due to antimicrobial-resistant pathogens in European ICUs
Brunet A.S. - Blood stream infections in children with acute myeloid leukaemia: contribution of microbiological gum and gut monitoring
Brunham R.C. - The SARS Accelerated Vaccine Initiative (SAVI) and the search for a SARS vaccine
Brunswik-Tietze A. - Effects of a mixture of antibiotics on a resistant bacterial strain during sewage treatment
Bruun B.G. - A new approach to laboratory diagnostic of infectious gastroenteritis
Bruun J.N. - The utility of cytomegalovirus (CMV) quantitative polymerase chain reaction in diagnosis of CMV disease in patients with AIDS
Bruun B.G. - Aetiology and clinical outcome of blood-stream infections in patients with haematological malignancies in two Danish university hospitals 2000–2003
  - Invasive listeriosis in Denmark
Bruynseels P. - Detection of human metapneumovirus in nasopharyngeal aspirates from young children by real-time RT-PCR
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Bärwolff S. - Nurse-to-patient-ratio as risk factor for nosocomial primary bloodstream infection in ICUs
Bryskier A. - In vitro activity of AVE1330A, a novel b-lactamase inhibitor, in combination with aztreonam or ceftazidime against ceftazidime-resistant isolates of species of the Enterobacteriaceae
  - Comparative in vitro activity of AVE6971A and AVE2221A, novel inhibitors of DNA topisomerase IV, against Staphylococcus aureus
  - Comparative in vitro activity of XRP 2868, a new, oral streptogramin
Brzozowski T. - Is there any association between fungal colonisation of gastric mucosa and gastric ulcer healing? A model of fungal colonisation in healthy adult rats
Bubonja M. - Metallo-beta-lactamase production and susceptibility to antibiotics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from Zagreb, Croatia
Buckridge S. - Analysis of mutations within quinolone resistance determining regions of S. pneumoniae clinical isolates collected from TARGET surveillance during 2003
Buckwalter M. - Tacrolimus pharmacokinetics are not affected by concomitant anidulafungin
  - Population pharmacokinetic analysis of dalbavancin
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Bucur M. - Selective and effective antimicrobial properties of newly synthesised transition metal ions chelates with N, N-Dimethylbiguanide (DMGB)
  - Comparative study of antibiotic susceptibility levels of some clinical strains of P. aeruginosa as planktonic and adherent growing in biofilms cells
Budak A. - Is there any association between fungal colonisation of gastric mucosa and gastric ulcer healing? A model of fungal colonisation in healthy adult rats
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Budimir A. - Metallo-beta-lactamase production and susceptibility to antibiotics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from Zagreb, Croatia
Bue B. - A nosocomial outbreak of CTX-M-15 producing E. coli in Norway
Buell D. - Micafungin (FK463) versus fluconazole in a randomised, double-blind, multinational, oesophageal candidiasis study
Buendía R.M. - Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonisation in adult patients with cystic fibrosis: antimicrobial susceptibility pattern
Buerger C. - Pharmacokinetics of linezolid in bone tissue investigated by in situ microdialysis
Buhl D. - A new interactive approch to improve hand hygiene compliance
Buijs J. - Pharmacokinetics of IV or IM ceftazidime in relation to cytokines in septic neutropenic mice
Bujdakova H. - Comparative analysis of virulence factors in enterococci isolated from hospitals
Bujdáková H. - The effect of subinhibitory concentrations of antifungal agents on variation of cell surface hydrophobicity and biofilm formation with relation to genotype of Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis
Buke C. - Evaluation of surgical prophylaxis in heart surgery
Bukholm G. - Characterisation of ST125-MRSA-IV, a clone evolved in and spread from Norway?
Bulai D. - Comparative study of antibiotic susceptibility levels of some clinical strains of P. aeruginosa as planktonic and adherent growing in biofilms cells
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Bulut V. - Evaluation of treg cells in vivo and in vitro in leprosy patients
Bunnell L. - Culture-independent identification of fungal and bacterial species using one convenient automated platform
Buño B. - Is directly observed therapy necessary in all patients with tuberculosis?
  - Long-term efficacy of a six-month treatment regimen (6HR2Z) for HIV-negative miliary tuberculosis
Burak S. - An ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strain isolated from a nosocomial outbreak becomes resistant to all clinically available antibiotics by acquisition of a plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamase
Burdelski C. - Development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay specifically detecting anti-polysaccharide intercellular-adhesin antibodies
Burioni R. - Immunocomplexes in HCV-infected patients
Burkhardt O. - Effects of enteral feeding on the oral bioavailability of moxifloxacin
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Burkov A. - A new anti-HCV EIA based on recombinant antigens derived from different sequence variants of hepatitis C virus
  - Prediction of potential antigenic domains of HIV-1 Pol protein and evaluation their immunoreactivity
  - IgG response to herpes simplex virus type 2 gG and gD recombinant proteins among adults and children
  - Immunoreactivity of predicted antigenic determinants of Toxoplasma gondii ROP 4 protein
  - Enzyme immunoassay for the detection of anti-Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus IgG antibodies based on new mosaic protein
  - A new recombinant antigen haemagglutination test for the serological diagnosis of syphilis
Burnand B. - Appropriateness of IV antibiotic therapy: impact of counselling based on standardised decisional algorithms 72 hours after prescription
Burnie J.P. - Evaluation of multiplex real-time PCR assay to discriminate Staphylococcus aureus from coagulase-negative staphylococci and determine methicillin resistance from culture and human sera
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Busani L. - Enter-net Italia: integrated medical and veterinary surveillance of salmonellosis in Italy
Busca A. - Prospective evaluation of sequential Aspergillus galactomannan antigen detection and CT scan of the chest for early diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in recipients of allogeneic stem cell transplantation
Busi Rizzi E. - Outcome of HIV-associated tuberculosis in the early- and late-HAART era
Buskens E. - Effectiveness of revaccination against influenza in the Dutch influenza vaccination programme
Butera O. - Comparison of an ELISPOT assay based on the RD1 selected peptides and intact proteins with QF-TB gold assay in the surveillance of health care workers
Butler G. - The effect of hyperbaric oxygen treatment on the in vitro and in vivo activity of Borreliaburgdorferi
Butler D. - A comparative in vitro analysis of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid and seven comparative agents in 15,521 paediatric respiratory isolates
Butti S. - Clostridium difficile infection in hospital: active surveillance
Buttiglieri A.R. - Hospital infection surveillance in a neurosurgical intensive care unit
Butzler J. - Antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial enteric pathogens isolated in humans from 2002 to 2004 in the Province of South-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Buxbaum A. - Antimicrobial profile of the new biocide akacid
  - Intracellular activity of ampicillin, azithromycin, telithromycin, ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin against non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae
Buyukkececi F. - Cefepime combined with a short (four days) or long course of isepamicin for empirical therapy of high-risk febrile neutropenic haematologic cancer patients: a prospective, randomised, multicentre study
Bygbjerg I.C. - Tuberculosis and diabetes: risks and realities
Büyükçelik Ö. - Antibiotic susceptibility patterns and serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from invasive and other infections at a university hospital in Turkey
Byl B. - Clonal outbreak of vancomycin and ampicillin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) in the haematological unit of a Belgian hospital
  - Community-associated emergence of CTX-M and TEM extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli in Belgium