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Naas T. - Integrase-mediated veb1 gene cassette mobilization
  - Functional characterisation of IS1999, an IS4-family member involved in beta-lactam resistance gene mobilisation
  - First nosocomial outbreak of Enterococcus faecium expressing heterogenous vancomycin-resistance at a French university hospital
Naber K.G. - Bacterial spectrum and antibiotic resistance of uropathogens in hospitalised urological patients with urinary tract infections (1994–2004) and consequences for the empiric antibiotic therapy
Nack Z. - Citrofresh, a revolutionary new, natural, broad spectrum disinfectant
Nadaf S. - Entomological study of sandflies (Dipthera: Psychodidea) in three foci of endemic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran
Nadal P. - Effect of levofloxacin coadministration on the international normalised ratios during acenocumarol therapy
Nadim A. - Epidemiological measures of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever infection in Sistan va Baluchestan province, Iran
Nae D. - Central nervous system tuberculosis: a 4-year review
Nagl M. - Tolerability and efficacy of N-chlorotaurine in infections of different body sites: results of phase II clinical trials
Nagy E. - Evaluation of antibiotic consumption and resistance patterns in a tertiary care surgical ICU and a medical ICU
  - Mitochondrial DNA variability of human pathogenic Trichoderma isolates
  - Epidemiological examination of Clostridiumdifficile isolates from different parts of Hungary
  - Production of extracellular proteases and toxic metabolites by Trichoderma strains isolated from opportunistic infections
  - Occurrence of carbapenem-resistant Bacteroides fragilis strains in Sweden during a relatively long period (1990–2004) and analysis of the resistance mechanisms
  - Antibiotics promote colonisation by resistant anaerobic bacteria
Naim M. - Acinetobacter baumanii: evolution of the antimicrobial resistance of strains isolated at a central military hospital
  - Aetiologies of 121 cases of male genital ulcers examined in the microbiology laboratory of the central army hospital in Algiers from 1990 to 2003
Nain M. - Frequency and susceptibility to antimicrobial agents of the Proteus genus strains isolated in chronic middle ear disease
Nair L. - Rapid drug sensitivity testing for M. tuberculosis using slide culture
Najar Peerayeh S. - Comparison of culture with the polymearase chain reaction for detection of Ureaplasma urealyticum in endocervical specimens
  - Production, extraction and evaluation of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B outer membrane vesicle containing PorA
  - Intracellular expression of B subunit of heat-labile enterotoxin of ETEC in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  - The role of iodine in ampicillin and tetracycline antibiotic resistance transfer
Najarian N. - Pharmacokinetics and fungicidal activity of aminocandin (HMR3270), a novel echinocandin in healthy volunteers
Nakhasi H. - Microarray based analysis of gene expression in drug resistant Leishmania donovani isolated from Indian patients of Kala azar
Nakos G. - Incidence study of nosocomial infections in ten intensive care units in Greece
Ünal E. - Successful treatment of Trichosporon mucoides infection with lipid complex amphotericin B and 5–fluorocytosine
Namba E. - High affinity for PBP 2’ enables RO490–8463 (CS-023), a unique guanidine-pyrrolidine carbapenem, to achieve good in vitro activity against MRSA, which is confirmed in murine infection models
Nanou G. - Mechanisms of nosocomial S. aureus resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics
Narain R. - Citrofresh, a revolutionary new, natural, broad spectrum disinfectant
Narciso P. - Persistence of chronic premature priming for apoptosisin HIV-infected individuals during HAART and short structured interruption
Narovlyansky A.N. - Anti-herpetic activity of phosphorylated derivative of plant polyprenols
  - Antiviral activity of phosphorylated derivatives of plant polyprenyls in different tick-born encephalitis models
Naseer U. - A nosocomial outbreak of CTX-M-15 producing E. coli in Norway
Nasrolahi Z. - Susceptibility testing of pathogenic fungi with fluconazole and tea (Camellia sinensis) on Candida albicans PTCC-5027
Nasrollahi Omran A. - Fungal burn wound infection
  - Survey of the prevalence and identification of dermatophytosis in Northern Iran, 2003–2004
Nasrollahie M. - Determination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance in Mazandaran province, Iran – 2002
  - Determination of drug resistance in Pseudomonasaeruginosa isolated from burn patients in Sari, Iran 2004
Nateghpour M. - Fire ants, the new public health problem in Iran
Nathwani D. - CURB65 outperforms generic severity assessment tools in stratifying and predicting 30-day mortality in community-acquired pneumonia
Natås O. - A nosocomial outbreak of CTX-M-15 producing E. coli in Norway
Natsch S. - An additional measure for quantifying antibiotic use in hospitals
Natsios J. - Increasing incidence of S. maltophilia in bacteraemic patients
Nau R. - Amyloid peptide beta 1–40 enhances the action of Toll-like receptor-2 and -4 agonists but antagonizes Toll-like receptor-9 induced inflammation in primary mouse microglial cell cultures
  - Increased expression of BDNF and proliferation of dentate granule cells after bacterial meningitis
Naumiuk L. - Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonasaeruginosa from clinical specimens over two years
Naumiuk E. - Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonasaeruginosa from clinical specimens over two years
Naumov A. - The outcome of non-hospital pneumonia depending on pre-hospital tactics during patient's first application for medical aid
Navarra A. - Molecular epidemiology and beta-lactamase production of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates from Italian hospitals
Navarro F. - ESBL in Escherichia coli: increase in prevalence and diversity
  - Streptococcus agalactiae highly resistant to quinolones
Navarro M.D. - Community-acquired bacteraemia due to extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli: an emerging clinical challenge
Navarro F. - LCD-array for molecular analysis of isoniazid and rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Navasa M. - Ten-year experience in bloodstream infections in liver transplant recipients. Changes in microbiological patterns between 1991–1995 and 1996–2000
Nawrot U. - Evaluation of Candiselect®4 a chromogenic medium for yeasts differentiation
  - Identification of Trichosporonmucoides isolates using ID-32C tests (BioMérieux) and direct DNA sequencing of internally transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and ITS2 of rDNA
Nayebzadeh H. - Immunisation of Arabian sheep against haemonchosis with Haemonchus contortus intestinal homogenate
Naylor S.C. - Role of gene polymorphisms of interleukin-10 and CD14 in meningococcal disease
Nazify A. - Determination of Helicobacter pylori cagA gene prevalence in Iranian GUD and PUD patients
Nazik H. - Identification of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance in enterobacterial isolates in Turkey
Nazlican O. - Parainfluenzae tybe B meningitis with autonomic nerve involvement: a case report
  - The antibiotic resistance and metallo-b-lactamase production of carbapenem-resistant pseudomonas and acinetobacter
  - The evaluation of metallo-b-lactamase presence with E-test in five imipenem resistant five klebsiella strains
  - Antibiotic resistance of 69 Klebsiella strains isolated from a paediatric clinic over three years
Öncel S. - Herpes zoster in hospitalised Turkish children
  - Caspofungin treatment in two infants with persistent fungaemia due to Candida lipolytica
  - Successful treatment of Trichosporon mucoides infection with lipid complex amphotericin B and 5–fluorocytosine
Ündar L. - 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
Neal K.R. - Mortality in a cohort of hepatitis C patients
Nealon P. - A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-design trial of multiple doses of tolevamer in healthy male volunteers
Nedel W.L. - Nosocomial candidemia in patients using antifungals (breakthrough): comparison to non-breakthrough episodes
  - A comparative study of risk factors and outcome among outpatient-acquired and nosocomial-acquired candidemia
  - Nosocomial candidaemia in a Brazilian paediatric population: a 9-year study comparing risk factors and the outcome of paediatric and adult candidaemia
Neela V. - Molecular analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genes in isolates inhibited by natural products
  - Development of a membrane based assay for the identification of Staphylococcus aureus at species level and detection of multiple drug resistant isolates
  - Molecular diagnosis of Staphylococcus aureus isolates
Neeling H.A.J. - Panton–Valentine leukocidin positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Netherlands
  - Rapid increase in development of multidrug resistance among Klebsiella pneumoniae during hospitalisation: surveillance of first isolates underestimates the resistance problem
Negm A. - Electron microscopic, bacteriological and clinical studies of biliary stent blockage
Negoita A. - Central nervous system tuberculosis: a 4-year review
Negri C. - Seroprevalence of rubella among puerperae in an area of North-Eastern Italy
Negrutiu L. - Clinical-evolutive aspects of varicella in immunocompromised patients
Neher A. - Tolerability and efficacy of N-chlorotaurine in infections of different body sites: results of phase II clinical trials
Neil N. - A simulation model of the cost of treatment failure in patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia in the US
Nejat S. - Factors affecting medical students’ participation in measles-rubella immunisation campaign in Iran
Nejati M. - The role of iodine in ampicillin and tetracycline antibiotic resistance transfer
  - Immunological evaluation of OMP-F vesicle of native Iranian Pseudomonas aeruginosa CSBPI: 16-190 as a protective vaccine in mice model
  - Production, extraction and evaluation of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B outer membrane vesicle containing PorA
Nekouie H. - Entomological study of sandflies (Dipthera: Psychodidea) in three foci of endemic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran
Nelson N. - Evaluation of BBL CHROMagar MRSA for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from surveillance swabs
  - Evaluation of oxoid mannitol salt agar with cefoxitin for the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from surveillance specimens
Nematov A. - 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
Nenova R. - Genome-based amplified fragment length polymorphism for typing of Francisella tularensis strains
Neonakis I. - Salmonella enterica serovar Virchow with TEM-52 ESBL in Greece
Öner Y.A. - Malaria problem in Afghanistan: malaria scanning results of the Turkish medical aid group after the war
Nergisoglu G. - A situation that mimics viral hepatitis: statin induced rhabdomyolysis
Nergiz I. - Penetration of moxifloxacin into rat mandibular bone and soft tissue
Neri A. - Simultaneous detection of rifampicin resistant and penicillin intermediate phenotypes in Neisseria meningitidis by real-time multiplex PCR
Netesov S. - Complete L segment coding-region sequence determination of a Russian Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
Neuberger N. - Community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia in Germany: first results of the CAPNETZ study
  - Characterisation of the first telithromycin resistant pneumococcal isolate in Germany
Neuwirth M. - A role for rmoA in IncF plasmid mediated biofilm formation in E. coli K12
Newell D.G. - Detection of cytolethal distending toxin for diagnosis of Campylobacter jejuni gastroenteritis
Nexoe J. - Predictors of pneumonia in patients with lower respiratory tract infection in primary care
Neyme D. - Epidemiology and management of pressure ulcers in an acute care hospital
Ng L. - Characterisation of Campylobacter jejuni/coli strains isolated in Serbia and Montenegro
Ng W. - Investigation of the aetiology of a trachoma-like condition in a rural population in Guangxi province, PRC
Nguyen Van J.C. - Analysis of consecutive blood cultures performed in one year by an infectious team: were three haemocultures still necessary?
Nica M. - Management of lower respiratory tract infections in HIV-infected adults
Nicastri E. - Human herpes virus 8 infection and pulmonary hypertension in lung transplantation candidates
  - HIV-1 DNA load in naive and successful antiretroviral treated patients
Nichol K. - Activity of telithromycin and oral comparators against 20,886 Canadian respiratory tract pathogens isolated from 1997–2003
NiChulain M. - Incidence and mechanisms of reistance to macrolides in S. pyogenes in the West of Ireland
Nicol S. - Performance of a new amplification based assay for quantification of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) RNA
Nicola L. - Evaluation of synergy between glycopeptides, levofloxacin and beta-lactams against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Nicolau D.P. - Pharmacodynamics of antimicrobials for the empiric treatment of nosocomial pneumonia: a report from the OPTAMA program
Nicolau D. - Pharmacokinetics and tissue penetration of telavancin in healthy subjects
  - Comparison of pharmacodynamic target attainment calculated by Monte Carlo simulation with microbiological response for two carbapenems in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections
  - Pharmacodynamic comparison of intravenous antimicrobials against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Hungarian hospitals – A report from the OPTAMA Program
Nicolau D.P. - Activity and pharmacodynamics of RO490–8463 (CS-023), a carbapenem with activity against MRSA
Nicoletti G. - Antipneumococcal activity of telithromycin in comparison with other drugs in relation to the presence of different resistance genes
  - Incidence and antibiotic susceptibility of pathogens causing severe community-acquired and nosocomial infections in Italy
Nicoletti P. - Antimicrobial resistance in an intensive care unit before adopting an antibiotic rotation programme for empiric therapy of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Nicoletti G. - Patterns of antibiotic resistance in pathogens causing respiratory tract infections: results of the 2002–2003 PROTEKT Italy survey
  - Italian survey of urinary tract infections: in vitro activity of prulifloxacin
Nicolini G. - Handling toxoplasmosis in pregnancy: the Verona experience
  - HIV-proviral DNA and plasma-RNA sequencing for detection of drug resistance mutations in antiretroviral naive patients
Nicolosi V.M. - Incidence and antibiotic susceptibility of pathogens causing severe community-acquired and nosocomial infections in Italy
Nicolosi D. - Virulence factors and antibiotic resistance in uropathogenic Escherichia coli
Nicoloudi A. - Sexually transmitted infections among registered female sex workers in Athens
Niedzwiadek J. - Aetiological factors of vascular grafts infection and their antimicrobial susceptibility
Nielsen L.P. - Predictors of pneumonia in patients with lower respiratory tract infection in primary care
Nielsen R. - Ampicillin resistant Enterococcus faecium: a rapidly increasing problem in hospitals in a Danish region
Nielsen P.B. - Matrix assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry provides fast and reliable identification of Staphylococcus haemolyticus
Nielsen E.M. - magA, a previously assigned virulence gene of Klebsiellapneumoniae, is a part of the capsular polysaccharide gene cluster of serotype K1
Nielsen H. - Non-typhoid Salmonella bacteraemia in a Danish county: a population-based prognostic follow-up study
Nielsen I.-M. - Characteristics of children with clinical suspicion of Lyme neuroborreliosis
Nielsen S.V. - Detection of decreased susceptibility to glycopeptides in Staphylococcus aureus using tablet (disc) prediffusion
Nielsen J.O. - Thymic size and CD4+ cell recovery in HIV-infected patients during long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy
Nielsen S.D. - Thymic size and CD4+ cell recovery in HIV-infected patients during long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy
Nielsen H. - High incidence of intravascular infection in zoonotic nontyphoid Salmonella bacteraemia in elderly patients
Nielsen J. - Development of novel antipathogenic drugs
Nielsen A.D. - Prediction of bloodstream infections using TREAT. A causal probabilistic network for diagnosis and treatment of infections
Nieman R.B. - Telithromycin versus other first-line single-agent antibiotics in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia: a randomised superiority trial
Niemann S. - Molecular interactions with platelets – lessons for endovascular infections
Niemetz A. - Bacterial spectrum and antibiotic resistance of uropathogens in hospitalised urological patients with urinary tract infections (1994–2004) and consequences for the empiric antibiotic therapy
Nieuwenhuis M.K. - Dressing changes under laminar flow conditions to prevent Staphylococcus aureus wound colonisation in patients admitted to a burn centre
Nightingale C. - Activity and pharmacodynamics of RO490–8463 (CS-023), a carbapenem with activity against MRSA
Nikaeen M. - Evaluation of QIAamp DNA min kit for removing of inhibitors in detection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in water samples by a nested PCR assay
Niki Y. - Linezolid vs vancomycin for the treatment of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Japan
Nikitina O. - Two consecutive point prevalence studies on indications for antibiotic use in selected Latvian hospitals
Niknam Asl A. - RT-PCR analysis of fulminantly dead Iranian patients with Crimean- Congo haemorrhagic fever symptoms and without antibody response to CCHF
Nikolaevsky V. - Evaluation of molecular assays for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis multi drug resistant strains and genotyping this isolates by spoligotyping
Nikolaidis P. - Impact of hand hygiene on hospital-acquired infections in the cardiosurgical department of a Greek university hospital
  - Impact of infectious diseases division interventions on hospital-acquired infections and antimicrobial resistance in the neurosurgical department of a Greek university hospital
  - Vancomycin-resistant enterococci, colonising the intestinal tract of hospitalised patients in a university hospital in Greece
  - Incidence study of nosocomial infections in ten intensive care units in Greece
  - Vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Greece: a multicentre prevalence study on intestinal colonisation
Nikolakopoulou M. - Colonisation of long-term care facilities residents with quinolone-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in Greece
Nikolaou S. - MB/BacT system and E-test versus standard methods for drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Nikolaou M. - Patterns of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp. and Proteus mirabilis isolates from urinary tract infection: one-year study
Nikolaou S. - A progressive study of mycobacterium isolations in HIV+ patients (1991–2004)
Nikolaou M. - Children's urinary pathogens: one-year survey in a Greek hospital
Nikolaou S. - M. tuberculosis drug resistance and clinical outcome in Greek and immigrant patients
Nikolayevskyy V. - Use of the expanded set of VNTR-MIRU loci for the differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family isolates
  - Epidemiology of Beijing strain family in Samara region, Russia
  - Prevalence of mutations associated with drug resistance in Beijing and non-Beijing Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from the Southern Ukraine
Nikolic L. - Sensitivity to meropenem and imipenem pseudomonas strains isolated from various patients’ material
Nikolopoulou B. - Resistance phenotypes of methicillin resistant S. aureus in a Greek hospital during 1998–2003
Nikolopoulou C. - Antimicrobial resistance rates in nosocomial catheter-associated urinary tract infections
Nikolopoulou A. - Gastric fluid cultures of neonates
Nikulin A. - Point-in-time prevalence survey of utilisation of antibiotics in departments of surgical infection in Russia: HIT-04 study results
Nilgate S. - Enigmatic Leuconostoc and Lactobacillus infections
Nilsson L.E. - In vitro activity of tigecycline and comparative agents against Staphylococci in Sweden
Nilsson H.-O. - Helicobacter spp. in chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic adenoma and pancreas cancer
Nilsson L.E. - In vitro activity of tigecycline and comparative agents against Enterococci in Sweden
Nilsson M. - A Nordic study of antibiotic susceptibility of enterococci at different ward levels
Nilsson L.E. - A Nordic study of antibiotic susceptibility of enterococci at different ward levels
  - In vitro activity of tigecycline and comparative agents against selected species of Enterobacteriacae in Sweden
  - Diversity among high-level gentamicin resistant Enterococcus faecium in the south east of Sweden
Nilsson M. - RT-PCR analysis of fulminantly dead Iranian patients with Crimean- Congo haemorrhagic fever symptoms and without antibody response to CCHF
Nimmo G.R. - Efficient genotyping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using a combination of binary markers and single nucleotide polymorphisms
Nimri L. - Pneumocystis jiroveci in patients with pulmonary infections
Ninet B. - Assessment of the MagNa pure compact system for extraction of Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae DNA from clinical CSF and blood specimens
Nioti E. - Microbiological aspects of peritonitis in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
  - Bacterial pathogens associated with acute diarrhoea on the island of Crete, Greece, and their resistance to antibiotics
Nisalak A. - Diagnosis of dengue infection by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and reverse transcription-nested polymerase chain reaction from dried urine spots on filter paper
  - Diagnosis of dengue infection by reverse transcription-nested polymerase chain reaction and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay using whole blood stored on filter paper
Niscigorska J. - Genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi in patients with erythema migrans
  - Serological evidence of coinfection with Borrelia burgdorferi and agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in forestry workers in north western Poland
  - Procalcitonin PCT and other routine measured factors of bacterial infections
Nishimura M. - Group B streptococci carriage in pregnant women
Nistor I. - Study of antibiotic resistant commensal and invasive Pneumococci isolated in Romania between 1996–2003
Nitschko H. - Automated extraction of RNA and DNA from different specimen types feeding the detection of several markers in the field of molecular diagnostics
Nizet H. - Surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility of anaerobes in a Belgian University hospital
Nocales C. - Diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a sexually transmitted disease clinic using polymerase chain reaction in endocervical, urethral and rectal swab
Noe L. - A simulation model of the cost of treatment failure in patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia in the US
Noel R. - Evaluation of MicroScan Dried Overnight Panels compared to a NCCLS reference panel for daptomycin susceptibility testing with a challenge set of organisms
Nogal B. - Epidemiology of pneumococcal carriage among Warao children in the Delta Amacuro in Venezuela
Nogales M.C. - Rapid diagnosis herpes simplex genital infection using real-time PCR after automated extraction nucleic acid
  - Variable prediction of clinical outcome of the GART interpretation system Guidelines 6.0 and Virtual Phenotype
Nogueira J.M. - Demography and Fine score of community-acquired pneumonia in adults admitted to hospital in Spain
  - Influence of influenza cases on the number of hospital admissions of CAP in Spain
  - Risk factors associated with the development of multiresistant micro-organism bacteraemia in an intensive care unit
  - Outcome of coagulase-negative staphylococci bacteraemia in an intensive care unit
Noguer M. - Pneumonia in cancer patients
Nolard N. - Evaluation of Candiselect®4 a chromogenic medium for yeasts differentiation
  - Identification of Trichosporonmucoides isolates using ID-32C tests (BioMérieux) and direct DNA sequencing of internally transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and ITS2 of rDNA
Noll I. - ESBL-strains of E. coli and K. pneumoniae in GENARS hospitals
  - Multi-resistance in K. pneumoniae: epidemiological results from the GENARS Project
  - Multi-resistance in E. coli– an underestimated therapeutic problem? Epidemiological results from the GENARS Project
  - Multi-resistance in P. aeruginosa : epidemiological results from the GENARS Project
  - The development of antimicrobial resistance in German hospitals
  - Evaluation of a microdilution sensitivity test which uses 384 Well plates
Nonhoff C. - Ceftobiprole activity against epidemic strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from hospitalised patients in Belgium
  - Community-associated emergence of CTX-M and TEM extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli in Belgium
  - Comparison of MRSA ID medium and enrichment broth culture for detection of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers by muco-cutaneous surveillance cultures
  - In vitro antibacterial activity of temocillin against extended spectrum beta-lactamases Enterobacteriaceae producing clinical isolates
  - Screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to glycopeptide in a Belgian hospital
  - Clonal outbreak of vancomycin and ampicillin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) in the haematological unit of a Belgian hospital
Nord C.E. - Isotretinoin versus tetracycline: a comparative study with regard to efficiency in the treatment of acne vulgaris
  - The ecological effects of norfloxacin and pivmecillinam (PIV) on the periurethral and vaginal flora in women with recurrent urinary tract infection
  - Safety of probiotics – a surveillance study of lactobacilli induced bacteraemia
  - In vitro activity of human intestinal anaerobic bacteria against Nisin
  - Oral Ipsat P1A is a novel product to prevent antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic induced disturbance in gastrointestinal tract in humans
  - Occurrence of carbapenem-resistant Bacteroides fragilis strains in Sweden during a relatively long period (1990–2004) and analysis of the resistance mechanisms
Nordbø S.A. - A new flexible automated sample preparation method based on paramagnetic particles for the isolation of Chlamydiatrachomatis from urine samples, for downstream analysis using three different naat systems
Nordmann P. - Association of plasmid-mediated QnrA-like determinant and gene coding for extended-spectrum beta-lactamase VEB-1
  - Analysis of the genetic structures at the origin of acquisition and expression of the blaOXA-58 carbapenem-hydrolysing oxacillinase gene of Acinetobacter baumannii
  - Identification of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance in enterobacterial isolates in Turkey
  - Spread of OXA-58-producing carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in Iasi, Romania
  - Integrase-mediated veb1 gene cassette mobilization
  - 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
  - First nosocomial outbreak of Enterococcus faecium expressing heterogenous vancomycin-resistance at a French university hospital
  - Functional characterisation of IS1999, an IS4-family member involved in beta-lactam resistance gene mobilisation
Noreddin A. - Telithromycin and azithromycin pharmacodynamics vs. genotypically characterised (mefA and ermB) macrolide-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae simulating free serum and free epithelial lining fluid concentrations
Norrby R. - The ecological effects of norfloxacin and pivmecillinam (PIV) on the periurethral and vaginal flora in women with recurrent urinary tract infection
Norrby-Teglund A. - Molecular and clinical characteristics of invasive Group A streptococcal infections in Sweden
Norris S.J. - Comparison of the genomes of pathogenic treponemes, Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum, ssp. pertenue and Treponema paraluiscuniculi
Norskov-Lauritsen N. - Integron class 1-determined antibiotic resistance in Enterobacteriaceae from blood stream infections in a Danish county
North S.E. - Effect of erythromycin on the selection of linezolid resistance in hypermutable and clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus
  - In vitro selection of linezolid resistance in hypermutable and wild-type Staphylococcus aureus
Northwood J. - 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
Nourbakhsh F. - Molecular characterisation of GTP-binding protein gene in dermatophyte pathogen Trichophyton rubrum
Novack R. - Effect of haemodialysis on single dose pharmacokinetics of telavancin
Novais A. - Low diversity of integrons among non-Escherichia coli Enterobacteriaceae clinical isolates producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases from Spain
Novais C. - Persistence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates belonging to C1 lineage in a healthy human volunteer during a 4 year period
  - Molecular characterisation of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from Portuguese hospitals
Novais A. - First description of bla-ctx-m-2 producing isolate in Spain and characterisation of its genetic environment
  - High diversity of genetic elements associated with CTX-M-9-producing Enterobacteriaceae clinical isolates from Spain
Novais C. - Wide dissemination of enterococci highly resistant to aminoglicosides among poultry and healthy humans from Portugal
Novak D. - Trends in antimicrobial resistance in urinary isolates of E. coli from patients hospitalised at a teaching hospital Maribor, Slovenia
Noveck R. - Bioavailability and safety in healthy volunteers unaltered when crushed garenoxacin tablets are administered via a nasogastric tube with or without enteral feeding
Novelli A. - Moxifloxacin concentrations in plasma and tonsillar tissue in adult patients
Noviello S. - Moxifloxacin concentrations in plasma and tonsillar tissue in adult patients
Nowaczek A. - Klebsiella oxytoca outbreak in the department of neonatology of a university hospital in Gdansk, Poland
Nowak K. - Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus strains defective in species-specific proteins
Nowak P. - Aspergillosis of the maxilla sinus in patients from maxillofacial surgery clinic in Cracow, Poland, between 1998 and 2004
  - Antibiotic resistance of Pseudomonasaeruginosa strains isolated from patients in intensive care unit
Nowicka J. - Adhesion to catheters and slime production of Staphylococcus haemolyticus isolated from hospitalised patient occurrence of antibiotic susceptibility
Nowosiad M. - Genetic diversity of Streptococcus pneumoniae resistant strains isolated in Western Pomeranian Region of Poland in 2001–2003
Nowotny N. - Extended spectrum beta-lactamase production of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strains isolated in the United Arab Emirates
Noyan Ashraf M.A. - A survey on drug resistance in Shigella organisms in 3 hospitals in Tehran over a six month period
Noyer-Weidner M. - Rapid culture-independent monitoring of gastrointestinal flora changes by PCR-based denaturing HPLC
Nørgaard M. - Haematological malignancies and bacteraemia. The impact of malignancy type and microbial agent on 30-day mortality
  - Non-typhoid Salmonella bacteraemia in a Danish county: a population-based prognostic follow-up study
  - Incidence of bacteraemia in patients with haematological and other malignancies after placement of central venous catheter
Nucleo E. - Detection of a novel CMY-type beta-lactamase in Italian isolates of Proteus mirabilis
  - Dissemination of CTX-M-type beta-lactamases among clinical isolates of E. coli from geriatric long-term care and rehabilitation facilities in northern Italy
Nuk M. - A role for rmoA in IncF plasmid mediated biofilm formation in E. coli K12
Nuland N.A.J. - Structural characterisation and susceptibility testing of epilancin 15X, a novel antibiotic
Numanoglu N. - Aspergillus arthritis in an immunocompetent patient
Nummi H. - Standard inoculum for a broth microdilution method for antimicrobial sensitivity testing of Campylobacter jejuni
Nunes S. - Serotype 11A prevalence and clonal diversity in Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from children attending day-care centres in Lisbon, Portugal
  - Prevalence of non-typeable Streptococcus pneumoniae in carriers and insights into its population structure
  - 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
Nuorti P. - Incidence, predisposing conditions and outcome of invasive pneumococcal infections in Finland
  - The International Circumpolar Surveillance System for population-based surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease 1999–2003
Nyamekye B. - Sensitivity of PCR for IS2404 insertion sequence of Mycobacterium ulcerans in diagnosis of Buruli ulcer from punch biopsies
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