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La Rosa N. - Role of exposure to HPV infection and genetic susceptibility for cervical neoplasia in Italy
La Salandra G. - Occurrence and enterotoxic characterisation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from raw milk in southern Italy
LaBadie R. - Pharmacokinetic interaction and dose adjustment for combined use of voriconazole and efavirenz
Labarga P. - Assessment of liver cirrhosis by elastography in HCV/HIV co-infected patients
LaBombardi V. - Accuracy of b-lactam susceptibility testing results from VITEK and VITEK 2 systems when testing Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Labri N. - In vitro efficacy of cefditoren against recent isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Greece
Labropoulou-Karatza C. - Serum adiponectin in chronic hepatitis C and B
Labrune V. - Evaluation of InfluA&B Respi-Strip for the rapid detection of influenza A and B viruses in respiratory samples
Lacey S. - The clinical significance of Viridans streptococcal bacteraemia in patients at a district general hospital
Lacey K. - Demonstration of the application of the tmRNA transcript of the bacterial ssrA gene as a molecular diagnostic target using a combination of NASBA and BiaCore technologies
Lacoma A. - Evaluation of two new tests for the detection of Helicobacter pylori in stool specimens
Lacoux X. - Performance evaluation of VIDIA HIV DUO, a new automated immunoassay test for the qualitative HIV antigen/antibodies detection in serum and plasma human samples
Ladas H. - Clostridium difficile in Europe: results of the 2005 European-wide survey
Laderman E.I. - Rapid, sensitive and specific lateral-flow immunochromatographic device to measure antibodies to HSV-2 in serum and whole blood
Laderman E. - A multiplex microsphere-based assay for the simultaneous detection of C. parvum, E. histolytica and G. lamblia antigen in human faecal sample
  - Multiplex bead-based assays for Epstein-Barr virus, IgG and IgM serum antibody detection
Lagadinou M. - The effect of variceal bleeding on T-cell subsets in patients with cirrhosis
Lagergren Å. - Polyclonal distribution of extended-spectrum b-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in Stockholm
Lagler H. - Changing pattern of candidaemia 2001–2005 and consumption of antifungal agents at a university hospital, Vienna
  - A comparative study on the frequency of genes encoding cytotoxins in Austrian, Hungarian and Macedonian methicillin-resistant and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus strains
Lago M. - Traveller diarrhoea. Aetiological study in a tropical medicine unit
Lagrou K. - Evaluation of five commercial screening assays and two commercial immunoblots for the serological diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis
  - Evaluation of a new combined hepatitis C antigen/antibody assay for routine HCV testing of patient samples
Lahue B.J. - Metronidazole and vancomycin outcomes for Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in a US hospital database
Lai H.C. - Prediction of the tuberculosis reinfection rate from the local incidence
Lai S. - Comparison of antibiotic susceptibilities of Staphylococcus aureus and S. intermedius isolates from dog owners and their dogs
Lai R. - Improving the evidence base for the effectiveness of Staphylococcal healthcare-associated infection interventions
Laich F. - Evaluation the cefoxitin 30 mG disk diffusion method for detection of methicillin-resistance in selected Staphylococcus aureus isolates
Lakhal K. - Repeated lumbar puncture in patients with pneumococcal meningitis: practical or anxiolytic relevance?
Lakner A. - Evaluation of fluorescence in situ hybridisation for the identification of clinically relevant Candida species
Lakomy A. - Analysis of plasmids from multi-resistant and multi-plasmid clinical E. coli strain CZD1527
Laliltha M.K. - C-reactive protein in community-acquired pneumonia among adults in India: association with aetiology, severity, treatment and outcome
Lam S.K. - Emerging viral diseases: fighting an uphill battle
Lamagni T. - Risk factors for invasive group A streptococcal infections in Europe
  - Mortality following invasive MRSA infection in England, 2004–5
  - Longitudinal trends in candidaemia in England and Wales
Lamas A. - Prevention of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation with antibiotics used in cystic fibrosis patients during early broncopulmonary colonisation
Lamas M.J. - Oncogenic human papillomavirus type distribution by L1 and E6/E7 sequencing
Lambert P. - Evaluation of the efficacy of disinfectants used in hospital aseptic dispensing against Bacillus spores
Lambert P.A. - Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of micro-organisms present in excised human skin used for ex vivo assessment of topical antimicrobials
Lambertsen L. - Potential impact of pneumococcal vaccination in Denmark
Lammens C. - Fluoroquinolone-resistant group A Streptococcus in Belgium: first report of an emergence of high-level FQ resistance in Emm6 GAS
  - Comparison of selective media for the detection and enumeration of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria from human faecal samples
Lammers J. - Clinical implications of chest radiographic resolution in hospitalised adults with severe community-acquired pneumonia
Lamonaca V. - Echinococcus cyst of liver and lung in animal models treated by radio-frequency thermal ablation. An ex vivo pilot experimental study
Lamp K. - Clinical factors associated with daptomycin outcomes in skin and soft-tissue infections
  - Clinical experience trends with daptomycin in the first two years: report from a registry
Lancett P. - Novel small-molecule inhibitors of gyrase B: antibacterial activity in vitro and in murine models of infection
Landini M. - Comparison of real-time PCR and blood culture for the diagnosis of bloodstream infections in onco-haematologic patients: microbiological and clinical assessment
Landini P. - Negative correlation between biofilm formation and antibiotic sensitivity in clinical isolates of clonally related Acinetobacter baumannii
Lang U. - CMV monitoring of transplant patients – a ten-year experience
Lang S. - The prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formers in Scotland
Lange P. - Increased fibronectin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients suffering from bacterial meningitis aggravate toll-like receptor induced inflammation in primary mouse microglial cells
Langeland N. - Rapid diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis by real-time PCR
Langewouters A. - Early effective treatment of cutaneous infection with Mycobacterium chelonae complex after rapid molecular identification
Lantero M. - Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii prosthetic joint infection treated with colistin
Lanzarini P. - IgG IgM Western Blot in early diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis
Lapatschek M.S. - Antibiotic usage and resistance development in an intensive care unit
  - Microbial diversity and resistance of pathogens in prostatitis
LaPlante K. - Linezolid inhibits alpha-toxin and biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus
Laqua H. - Treponema pallidum in the vitreous tap
Laquerre K. - Efficacy of oritavancin in a mouse model of Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia
Lara M. - Evaluation the cefoxitin 30 mG disk diffusion method for detection of methicillin-resistance in selected Staphylococcus aureus isolates
Larché J. - Liposomal amphotericin B standard dose in combination with caspofungin versus liposomal amphotericin B high dose regimen for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients: randomised pilot study (Combistrat Trial)
Larcher C. - Comparison of human metapneumovirus strains from Alto Adige with strains from surrounding regions in Italy and Austria
Larios G. - Patient demand for antibiotic prescription. An often-neglected cause of antibiotic resistance in the community
Larke B. - Epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae serotype A from 2000–2005, an emerging pathogen in Northern Canada and Alaska
Larrat S. - Fatal viral opportunistic infections and Epstein-Barr virus positive large B-cell lymphoma after alemtuzumab treatment for a refractory Sezary syndrome
Larsen A. - Characterisation of an MRSA clone in Denmark similar to USA300 in PFGE pattern but with different properties: a potential pitfall when identifying USA300 isolates
Lasa I. - Dispersin B therapy of Staphylococcus aureus experimental port-related bloodstream infection
Lascols C. - In vitro antibacterial activity of tigecycline against hospital isolates: comparison of two methods and proposal for zone diameter breakpoints in France: a multicentre study
  - In vitro antibacterial activity of tigecycline against anaerobic hospital isolates; comparison of two methods in France: a multicentre study
  - Mode of action and resistance of the new fluoroquinolone BOL-303224-A
  - Detection by DHPLC of 23S rDNA mutations responsible for clarithromycin resistance in Helicobacter pylori
Lassaux P. - Mercapto-phosphonate compounds as broad-spectrum inhibitors of the metallo-b-lactamases
Laterre P. - Efficacy and safety of voriconazole in real-life setting in Belgium: results from the Voribel-1 trial
Latorre I. - Utility of the IFN-g assays using Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific antigens for the diagnosis of latent infection in contacts of people with sputum smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis
  - Evaluation of two new tests for the detection of Helicobacter pylori in stool specimens
Lau S.K.P. - Human bocavirus infections in children in Hong Kong
Lau K. - Increasing prevalence of glycopeptide hetero-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from the Detroit Metropolitan Area over a 20-year period (1986–2006)
Lau S.K.P. - Molecular epidemiology, genotypes and recombination of coronavirus HKU1, a novel human coronavirus associated with respiratory tract infections
Laudy A. - A novel not b-lactam inhibitor of DD-peptidase 64–575
Laudy A.E. - GES-1 and TEM-1-like b-lactamases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from patients in two Warsaw hospitals
Lauhio A. - Changing clinical features of severe odontogenic infections
Launay C. - Changes in healthcare-associated infection rates in French maternity units from 1997 to 2003
Launois P. - Leishmania major induces secretion of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines by keratinocytes via a TLR2 pathway
Laurans G. - Occurrence of AmpC chromosomally b-lactamase ACT-1 and extended spectrum b-lactamases type TEM, SHV and CTX-M in clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae
Laurent C. - High frequency of CTX-M genes among ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a university hospital in Belgium
Laurent T. - Evaluation of InfluA&B Respi-Strip for the rapid detection of influenza A and B viruses in respiratory samples
Lauria N. - Comparison of real-time PCR with conventional bDNA based assay for quantification of HBV, HCV and HIV-1: possible clinical implications
Laus F. - Preliminary evaluation of a PCR protocol to directly detect Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus in equine specimens
Lauwers S. - Discrepant antimicrobial susceptibility data: an important quality tool for the microbiological laboratory?
  - Impact on viral pathogen yield of the absence of cells in nasopharyngeal aspirate specimens
  - Isolation of Microbacterium species in a case of dialysis-associated peritonitis
Lavadinovic L. - Visceral leishmaniasis – does antimony loose its efficiency?
Lavigne T. - REA-RAISIN: microbiology of national surveillance network of ICU-acquired infections, France, 2005
  - REA-RAISIN: National surveillance network of ICU-acquired infections, France, 2005
Lazanas M. - Factors correlated with adherence to HAART: a multicentre study from an HIV-infected Greek population
Lazar V. - Virulence, pathogenicity, antibiotic resistance and plasmid profile of Escherichia coli strains isolated from drinking and recreational waters
  - Detection, quantifiation and investigation of virulence potential of dental-plaque formers by optic and scanning electron microscopy and microbiological assessment tools
  - Investigation of the antimicrobial activity of different antibiotics on monospecific biofilms developed in vitro by microbial strains isolated from cardiovascular devices associated infections
  - Mechanisms of resistance in multiple-antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli strains isolated from drinking and recreational, salmaster waters
  - Extended-spectrum b-lactamases and plasmid-mediated AmpC enzymes among Enterobactercloacae strains isolated from cardiovascular prosthetic devices associated infections
  - Genetic characterisation of highly prevalent MBLs and OXA carbapenemases in multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains in a Romanian hospital
Lazaraki T. - Chryseobacterium meningosepticum septicaemia in a N.I.C.U.
Lazaraki F. - Human papillomavirus genotyping by DHPLC and sequencing
Lazarevska L. - Antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteria causing early onset sepsis
Lazo A. - Three years of universal molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Almeria (Spain), a setting with a high proportion of TB in immigrants
le Berre M. - Relationship of plasma concentration and changes in the QTc interval in hospitalised patients receiving intravenous moxifloxacin for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia
Le Borgne M. - Broad spectrum anti-Candida activities of a new indolyl-triazole, NL114
  - New antiprotozoal drugs refered as antimicrotubular haloacetamidobenzoates
Le Bouvier N. - Broad spectrum anti-Candida activities of a new indolyl-triazole, NL114
Le Cabec V. - The innate immune response to P. aeruginosa in human monocytes is mediated mainly by TLR-2 and mannose receptor
Le Pape P. - New antiprotozoal drugs refered as antimicrotubular haloacetamidobenzoates
  - Broad spectrum anti-Candida activities of a new indolyl-triazole, NL114
Leal A. - Antimicrobial susceptibility of the pathogens of bacteraemia in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in Bogota, Colombia, 2001–2006
Lebessi E. - Epidemiologic study of paediatric bacterial meningitis in Greece (1998–2006)
LeBlanc J. - Bactericidal activity of moxifloxacin against Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis at concentrations simulating bone penetration
Leblebicioglu H. - Protein Z, other natural anticoagulan and procalcitonin levels in adult patients with sepsis
  - Determination of lamivudine and adefovir resistance in acute hepatitis B virus infections
  - In vitro activity of tigecycline against pathogens from Turkey – T.E.S.T. Program 2006
  - Are our mobile phones clean?
  - Comparison of oral ribavirin treatment in Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever: a historical cohort study in Turkey
Lecky D.M. - School education in Europe: what are children being taught about antibiotic use and hygiene?
Leclercq R. - Evaluation of a new chromogenic medium SaSelect for identification of Staphylococcus aureus
  - Expert rules for aminoglycosides, macrolides and lincosamides
  - In vitro antibacterial activity of tigecycline against anaerobic hospital isolates; comparison of two methods in France: a multicentre study
  - In vitro antibacterial activity of tigecycline against hospital isolates: comparison of two methods and proposal for zone diameter breakpoints in France: a multicentre study
  - Risk for selection by clindamycin of resistant mutants from Staphylococcus aureus inducibly resistant to erythromycin: erm(A) and erm(C) genes are not similar
Leclipteux T. - Evaluation of InfluA&B Respi-Strip for the rapid detection of influenza A and B viruses in respiratory samples
Lecuona M. - Exogenous ventilator associated pneumonia incidence in a medical-surgical intensive care unit: a four-year surveillance
  - Emergence of EMRSA-15 in a university hospital, Canary Islands
Ledeboer N. - A new chromogenic agar medium, chromID VRE®, to screen for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis
Lederman E. - An investigation of a cluster of parapoxvirus cases in Missouri, February–May 2006
Ledesma K.R. - Susceptibility of various b-lactams to the inoculum effect
Lee S.H. - Diagnosis of scrub typhus by immunohistochemical staining of Orientia tsutsugamushi in cutaneous lesions
Lee M.S. - Molecular characterisation of community-associated and healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Korea
Lee M. - Clinical and epidemiological aspects of locally-acquired Cryptococcus gattii human infections, an emerging fungal pathogen in British Columbia, Canada
Lee K. - Toxigenic status of Korean Clostridium difficile isolates
Lee C.H. - Epidemiology and genotypes of plasmid-mediated AmpC b-lactamase produced by clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in Korea
Lee J. - Epidemiology and genotypes of plasmid-mediated AmpC b-lactamase produced by clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in Korea
Lee K. - Epidemiology and genotypes of plasmid-mediated AmpC b-lactamase produced by clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in Korea
Lee S. - Efficacy and safety of gatifloxacin for chronic prostatitis (NIH category II or IIIa) in Korea
Lee M.H. - Antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Mycobacterium kansasii in Taiwan
Lee K. - Increasing diversity of metallo-b-lactamases produced by Gram-negative bacilli at a Korean hospital in 2006
Lee K.M. - Investigation of autolysin and autolysis of glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus induced from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Lee Y.S. - Investigation of autolysin and autolysis of glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus induced from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  - Characterisation of insertion sequence, conjugative transferase gene and mupA gene of mupR plasmid from MuH methicillin-resistant staphylococci
Lee C. - Bacteraemia caused by high-level gentamicin-resistant Enterococcus: risk factors, clinical features and outcomes
Lee B. - Virulence and biofilm formation of non-mucoid and mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains in cystic fibrosis: an animal study
Lee C.-C. - Predictive value of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin for bacteraemia in adult community-acquired infection
Lee K. - The influence of antimicrobial resistance on mortality in critically ill patients with bacteraemia
Lee H.J. - Immune response to serotype 19A induced by serotype 19F in pneumococcal protein conjugate vaccine
Lee C-C. - Predicting sepsis mortality in the emergency department: a comparison among mortality in emergency department sepsis (MEDS) score, procalcitonin, and C-reactive protein
Lee H.-H. - A new type of TT virus in eastern Taiwanese indigenes
Lee Y.-J. - A new type of TT virus in eastern Taiwanese indigenes
Lee C-S. - Human brucellosis as an emerging disease in Korea
Lee S-H. - Antiretroviral drug resistance among drug-naive HIV-infected patients in Korea
Lee S-J. - Antiretroviral drug resistance among drug-naive HIV-infected patients in Korea
Lee R.A. - Human bocavirus infections in children in Hong Kong
Lee S.H. - Preferential sites of eschar for scrub typhus
Lee S.-D. - Evaluation of the antibody responses induced by the 2006–2007 influenza vaccine
Lee C.-H. - Evaluation of the antibody responses induced by the 2006–2007 influenza vaccine
Lee V. - Clinical features of dengue infections, and predictors of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Singapore
Lee T. - Pneumococcal empyema in Toronto, Canada, 1995–2006
Lee L.N. - Prediction of the tuberculosis reinfection rate from the local incidence
Lee D-G. - The genetic organisation of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IVA from invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Korea
Lee H.J. - Comparison of immunogenecity of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine with protein conjugate vaccine in Korean adults
Leegaard T.M. - Carbapenem resistance mechanisms in Norwegian clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Leen G. - Tobramycin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from children with cystic fibrosis on nebulised tobramycin – temporal relationship with antibiotic usage
Lefèvre O. - Evaluation of InfluA&B Respi-Strip for the rapid detection of influenza A and B viruses in respiratory samples
Lefevre-Pettazzoni M. - Delayed maturation of toxoplasma immunoglobulin G avidity in pregnant women: impact of spiramycin treatment and gestational age
Legakis N. - Risk factors for invasive group A streptococcal infections in Europe
Legakis N.J. - Genetic basis of macrolide and lincosamide resistance among staphylococcal clinical isolates in a cancer centre
  - Epidemiological and clinical investigation of Gram-negative anaerobic infections in Greece
  - Evaluation of real-time PCR assays, based in molecular beacon technology, for detection and quantification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA
Legakis for The Hellenic Strep-EURO Study Group N. - Differences in the epidemiology of paediatric and adult Streptococcus pyogenes invasive infections in Greece, 2003–2005
Legout L. - Efficacy and tolerance of linezolid-rifampicin combination prolonged oral therapy for bone and joint infections
  - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones producing toxic shock syndrome toxin 1: first case of intrafamily transmission
Lehmann M. - Unique pre-analytic tool for microbial diagnosis
Lehoux D. - Efficacy of oritavancin in a mouse model of Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia
Leib S. - Vitamin B6 attenuates cellular energy depletion and hippocampal apoptosis in experimental pneumococcal meningitis
  - Profiling the acute inflammatory response to heat-killed menigococci and pneumococci in cerebrospinal fluid
  - Hippocampal apoptosis in pneumococcal meningitis: contribution of decreased cellular NAD+ levels?
  - Lack of robust neuroprotection by erythropoietin in acute experimental pneumococcal meningitis
  - Ex vivo profiling of cytokines/chemokines in patients with tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection
Leib S.L. - Rapid diagnosis of experimental meningitis by measuring bacterial heat flow in cerebrospinal fluid samples
  - Assessment of tryptophan metabolism and cytokine profile in cerebrospinal fluid samples from patients with bacterial meningitis
Leibner J. - Molecular typing of clinical isolates of Escherichia coli by a new PCR MP method
Leibovici L. - Efficacy and safety of colistin
  - Prophylaxis for Pneumocystis pneumonia in non-HIV immunocompromised patients: systematic review and meta-analysis
  - Risk factors and outcomes for persistent bacteraemia caused by Staphylococcus aureus
  - Empirical antifungal therapy in febrile neutropenic patients – systematic review
  - Antifungal prophylaxis for patients undergoing chemotherapy or haematopoeitic stem cell transplantation – meta-analysis
  - Efficacy and safety of aminoglycoside monotherapy: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
  - Effect of adequate empiric antibiotic therapy on survival of patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
  - Time trends in odds ratios of antimicrobial susceptibility in nosocomial and non-nosocomial Gram-negative infections in Israel
Leibovici for the TREAT Study Group L. - Beta-lactam alone compared to b-lactam-macrolide combination therapy for community-acquired pneumonia: prospective, observational study using a propensity score
Leirens D. - Detection of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) subtypes, genotypes, mutants and evaluation of potential hook effect using the new Access® HBsAg and confirmatory assays
Leirens Y. - Specificity studies of the new Access® HBs Ag and HBs Ag confirmatory assays from Beckman Coulter
  - A comparative study of the new Access® HBs Ag assay and the HBs Ag confirmatory assay from Beckman Coulter
  - Sensitivity studies of the new Access® HBs Ag and HBs Ag confirmatory assays from Beckman Coulter
Leitão J. - Spread of clinical extended-spectrum b-lactamase (CTX-M)-producing Escherichia coli in Portugal
  - Spread of extended-spectrum b-lactamases among clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from an Algerian hospital
Leitner E. - In vitro activity of tigecycline against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria cultured from blood samples, wound swabs and intra-abdominal specimens: results of the German T.E.S.T. Surveillance Program 2005
  - Comparative in vitro activity of tigecycline against staphylococci and enterococci from patients on ICU- and non-ICU wards: results of the German T.E.S.T. Surveillance Program 2005
  - Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Austria: prevalence and clinical features
  - Comparative in vitro activity of tigecycline against ICU- and non-ICU isolates of five clinically important Gram-negative pathogens: results of the German T.E.S.T. Surveillance Programme 2005
Leiva J. - Dispersin B therapy of Staphylococcus aureus experimental port-related bloodstream infection
  - Venous access ports. Prospective study to analyse use-related complications
Lekkou A. - Serum adiponectin in chronic hepatitis C and B
Lelekis M. - Trends in antibiotic consumption in 5 Hellenic hospitals over a three-year period: results of the Hellenic Network for Nosocomial Antibiotic Consumption for the years 2003–2004–2005
  - Carbapenem consumption and resistance of P. aeruginosa and K. pneumoniae to carbapenems: results from a 7-year study in a general hospital
  - Trends in antibiotic consumption over a 7-year period in a general hospital, Athens, Greece
  - In vitro interaction of imipenem, sulbactam, colistin and rifampin on 18 imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates
  - Use of intravenous catheters in a general hospital: results of a day-prevalence survey
Lellek H. - Successful treatment of a linezolid- and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sepsis with daptomycin plus doxycycline in an allogenic stem cell transplant recipient
Lemaire S. - Intracellular activity of daptomycin against methicillin-sensitive, methicillin-resistant and vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus
Lemaire X. - Efficacy and tolerance of linezolid-rifampicin combination prolonged oral therapy for bone and joint infections
Lemaire S. - Comparative activity of moxifloxacin vs. trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, cloxacillin, linezolid, clindamycin, and ciprofloxacin against intracellular methicillin-sensitive and community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus
  - Inhibitors and activator of the P-glycoprotein (P gp) efflux pump modulate the accumulation of daptomycin (DAP) in THP-1 macrophages and its intracellular activity towards Staphylococcus aureus
Lemaire X. - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones producing toxic shock syndrome toxin 1: first case of intrafamily transmission
Lemeni D. - Antimicrobial resistance in strains isolated in 2005 by Romanian National Sentinel System for Nosocomial Infections Surveillance
Lemmen S.W. - MRSA spa-typing reveals a newly imported hospital endemic strain
Lemmen S. - Impact of an infectious disease service on the quality of the management of infections and the usage of antimicrobials
Lenga S. - Comparison of methods for penicillinase detection in S. aureus
Lentnek A. - Baseline characteristics of patients, with or without MRSA, in two double-blind, randomised, multinational, Phase 3 studies comparing telavancin with vancomycin for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections
Lenzhofer R. - First fatal infection due to c-MRSA in Austria
Leo Y.S. - Clinical features of dengue infections, and predictors of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Singapore
Leo Skov R. - In vitro evaluation of MRSA screening methods
Leon P. - Efficacy and safety of colistin
León J.R. - Utility of molecular methods in the diagnosis of infections related to abnormal vaginal discharge
Leon A. - Efficacy and safety of tenofovir, abacavir and efavirenz in treatment-naïve patients: 48-week results (The ABATE Trial)
Leon for the ProCAS Study Group – Grupo de Trabajo en Enfermedades Infecciosas C. - Caspofungin for the treatment of invasive mycoses in critically ill patients (ProCAS study)
Leonard N. - Reduction of pathogen shedding and alleviation of disease signs in pigs challenged with Salmonella Typhimurium by the application of a five-strain probiotic combination
Leonard S. - Evaluation of daptomycin activity against Staphylococcus aureus following vancomycin exposure in an in vitro pharmacodynamic model with simulated endocardial vegetations
Leonardi C. - Association between oral candidiasis and immunity level in a population of drug addicts in a centre for prevention and treatment of drug addictions in Rome, Italy
Leonhard S. - Epidemiological aspects of Borrelia spielmanii from Germany with special respect to its genetic heterogeneity
Leonildi A. - Microbiological epidemiology of infections related to pace-makers and indwelling cardiac defibrillator
Leontieva G. - Development of novel recombinant group B streptococcal vaccine based on surface expressed polypeptides
Leotsakos A. - WHO first Global Patient Safety Challenge: current achievements
Lepage J.F. - Mode of action and resistance of the new fluoroquinolone BOL-303224-A
Lepape A. - REA-RAISIN: National surveillance network of ICU-acquired infections, France, 2005
  - REA-RAISIN: microbiology of national surveillance network of ICU-acquired infections, France, 2005
  - European surveillance of ICU-acquired infections (HELICS-ICU), 2004–2005: ICU-acquired pneumonia
Lepenies B. - TLR-cascade in malaria: role in antiparasitic clearance
Lepsanovic Z. - Characterisation of PER-1 extended-spectrum b-lactamase producing P. aeruginosa clinical isolates from Hungary and Serbia
Lerner S. - An evaluation of MicroScan WalkAway results for broad-spectrum b-lactams when testing Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Leroy V. - Meta-analysis of blood scores for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C
Leroy H. - A retrospective study of 230 consecutive patients hospitalised after transcontinental travel
Lescoe M. - Multiresistant Klebsiella pneumoniae from NYC hospitals contain b-lactamase KPC-2 or KPC-3 and porin changes
Lesse A. - Detection of heteroresistant vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in bloodstream infection
Lesseva M. - Emergence of carbepenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Bulgarian university hospital
  - Touchdown PCR as a tool for improved detection of invasive candidosis
Letaief A. - Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in central Tunisia: a review of 114 cases
Leth R.A. - Mortality associated with bloodstream infection
Lettinga K.D. - Low functional levels of mannose-binding lectin despite normal genotypes in Legionella pneumophila pneumonia
Leu H.S. - Antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Mycobacterium kansasii in Taiwan
Lev S. - Efficacy and safety of colistin
Levayer T. - Multi-centre evaluation of a new hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) assay on the family of Access® immunoassay systems
Levcovich A. - Efficacy and safety of colistin
Leveidiotou S. - Clonal analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis strains isolated from bloodstream infections in Greece
Leverstein-van Hall M. - Evaluation of a rapid test panel, the API Strep 20, the BD Phoenix and VITEK 2 automated instruments, and Raman spectroscopy for species identification of Enterococci
Levidiotou S. - Application of hybridisation probe-based real-time PCR assay to monitor the Brucella DNA load in patients with brucellosis throughout different stages of the disease
Levin B. - Natural variation within Staphylococcus aureus populations determines concentration and time-dependent phenotypic daptomycin resistance
Levina M. - New enzyme immunoassay ``DS-EIA-HIV-AG-SCREEN'' for early diagnostics of HIV infection
Levine D. - Comparison of clinical outcomes in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and endocarditis presenting with or without systemic inflammatory response syndrome
Levterova V. - Touchdown PCR as a tool for improved detection of invasive candidosis
Lew D. - A teicoplanin-resistant mutant of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus exhibits increased uptake and improved survival in non-professional phagocytes
Lewden C. - Causes of liver related death in HIV-infected patients in France: mortality 2005 Survey
Lewis R. - Candida lusitaniae fungaemia in cancer patients: risk factors, amphotericin B-mutational frequency and killing and outcome
Lewsley R. - Tissue distribution of [14C]-EDP-420 in the rat by quantitative whole-body autoradiography
Leydon J. - Low mannose-binding lectin complement activation function is associated with predisposition to Legionnaires' disease
L'Hériteau F. - Surveillance of occupational blood and body fluids exposures
L'Heriteau F. - Are recommendations for antibiotic use related to antibiotic consumption in hospital? Results from a French surveillance network
  - Surgical site infection surveillance in France: the first 1999–2004 trend analysis
L'heriteau F. - REA-RAISIN: National surveillance network of ICU-acquired infections, France, 2005
L'Heriteau F. - REA-RAISIN: microbiology of national surveillance network of ICU-acquired infections, France, 2005
Li F. - Extending structure-activity-relationship studies of bioactive natural products by novel iminonitroso cycloaddition chemistry
Li M. - Clinical and epidemiological aspects of locally-acquired Cryptococcus gattii human infections, an emerging fungal pathogen in British Columbia, Canada
Li X.F. - Development of hybridomas secreted Streptococcus suis 2 serotype-specific monoclone antibody
Li H. - Staphylococci speciation and Panton-Valentine leukocidin detection by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Li Y. - An investigation of a cluster of parapoxvirus cases in Missouri, February–May 2006
Li H.C. - Identification of dermatophytes by using in-house databases of sequences of the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacers
Li H.J. - StaphPlex System for rapid and simultaneous identification, antibiotic resistance determination and Panton-Valentine leukocidin detection of staphylococci from positive blood cultures
Li G. - Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Stockholm with increased genetic diversity
Lianou L. - In vitro efficacy of cefditoren against recent isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Greece
Liappi G. - Fatal case of antritis caused by mucormycosis in patient with diabetes mellitus
Liaw Y.S. - Prediction of the tuberculosis reinfection rate from the local incidence
Liberopoulos E. - Alterations of serum lipoproteins in patients with acute brucellosis
Libisch B. - Characterisation of PER-1 extended-spectrum b-lactamase producing P. aeruginosa clinical isolates from Hungary and Serbia
Lichtner M. - Study of the genotypic-resistant pattern in plasma of a group of HIV-infected Cameroonian pregnant women and children
Liebenow A-L. - Prevalence and diversity of bacteria in root-filled teeth associated with periradicular lesions
Liebert U.G. - Evaluation of an automated chemiluminescent immunoassay for the detection of anti-rubella virus IgM antibodies
Lien D.C. - Pilot evaluation of Innovotech bioFILM PA susceptibility test for clinical utility in the treatment of cystic fibrosis patients infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Liendo P. - Changing of hepatitis C virus genotypes patterns in HIV-positive and -negative patients in Northern Spain
Lillie P. - Duration of exposure to a case of smear positive tuberculosis and rates of positive whole-blood interferon gamma test and tuberculin skin testing
Lillie M. - The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a major cause of surgical site infection in England
Lillie P. - CURB65 may predict 30-day mortality in patients with bacteraemia
Lim S.Y. - Comparison of immunogenecity of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine with protein conjugate vaccine in Korean adults
Lim S.C. - Diagnosis of scrub typhus by immunohistochemical staining of Orientia tsutsugamushi in cutaneous lesions
Lim C-W. - Human brucellosis as an emerging disease in Korea
Lim S.Y. - Immune response to serotype 19A induced by serotype 19F in pneumococcal protein conjugate vaccine
Limsuwan S. - Screening for medicinal plants with broad spectrum of antibacterial activity
Lin T-Y. - Epidemiology of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae in Taiwan, 2001–2003
Lin T.Y. - Association of proinflammatory cytokines with fibrinolytic enzymes and biochemical parameters in childhood infectious parapneumonic effusions
Lin C.-L. - A new type of TT virus in eastern Taiwanese indigenes
Lin T.Y. - Pneumococcal meningitis in Taiwanese children: emphasis on clinical outcomes and prognostic factors
Lin J.-C. - Evaluation of the antibody responses induced by the 2006–2007 influenza vaccine
Lina G. - Clinical and microbiological features of 55 cases of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome in France
  - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones producing toxic shock syndrome toxin 1: first case of intrafamily transmission
  - Global epidemiology of CA-MRSA
Linares L. - Human immunodeficiency virus infected patients with community-acquired pneumonia: implication of respiratory viruses
Liñares J. - Pneumococcal meningitis: is disease severity related to capsular or clonal types?
Linares L. - Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium emergence during a nosocomial outbreak of Clostridium difficile diarrhoea
Liñares J. - Molecular characterisation of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated from children with acute otitis media in Barcelona (1992–2005)
Lindauer A. - Low specificity of GenoType® MRSA Direct test when result interpretation is restricted to hybridisation of PCR products
Linde H.J. - 10-year epidemiology of operated endocarditis patients at a tertiary university hospital in Germany – a preliminary analysis
Lindemans A. - Risk factors, including antibiotic use, at hospital level for outbreaks with Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 027
Linder K. - Relapses versus reactions in multibacillary leprosy: proposal of new relapse criteria
Lindfield K. - Daptomycin is clinically more rapidly effective than comparator for treatment of complicated skin and skin-structure infections
  - Clinical factors associated with daptomycin outcomes in skin and soft-tissue infections
Lindqvist C. - Changing clinical features of severe odontogenic infections
Lindsay J.A. - Identification of bacterial lineages using multi-strain whole genome microarrays
Lindstedt B. - Variable number of tandem repeats of S. typhimurium in Ireland
Lioni A. - Factors correlated with adherence to HAART: a multicentre study from an HIV-infected Greek population
Liosis G. - Chryseobacterium meningosepticum septicaemia in a N.I.C.U.
Lischenski Y. - Efficacy and safety of colistin
Liskova A. - Risk factors for voriconazole resistance in non/albicans candida in HIV-positive children
  - Reversibility of antimicrobial resistance in respiratory isolates in HIV-positive Cambodian children after 36 months of HAART
Litt D. - Genotypic and phenotypic diversity of clinical Bordetella pertussis isolates in the UK from 1920 to 2005
Liu Y-F. - Presence of plasmid pA15 correlates with prevalence of constitutive MLSB resistance in group A Streptococci isolates at a university hospital in southern Taiwan
Liu H.-F. - A new type of TT virus in eastern Taiwanese indigenes
Liu N. - Multiplex bead-based assays for Epstein-Barr virus, IgG and IgM serum antibody detection
Liu C-E. - Seventy Enterobacter cloacae bloodstream infections in central Taiwan during 2001 and 2003: evaluation of the roles of extended-spectrum b-lactamases and class 1 integron
Liu C.-Y. - Evaluation of the antibody responses induced by the 2006–2007 influenza vaccine
Livermore D. - Prevalence of an epidemic ESBL-producing Escherichia coli strain in LTCFs in Belfast
Livermore D.M. - Carbapenem resistance in an epidemic CTX-M-15 b-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli strain in the United Kingdom
Livermore D. - Evaluation of Etests for determining tigecycline MICs by BSAC methodology
Livermore D.M. - Complete nucleotide sequence of pEK499, a multidrug-resistance plasmid from the UK's most prevalent Escherichia coli strain with CTX-M-15 b-lactamase
Livermore D. - Should all carbapenems be viewed the same?
  - Isolation of quinolone-resistant CTX-M-producing Escherichia coli from raw chicken meat sold in retail outlets in the West Midlands, UK
Livermore D.M. - Epidemiology of hospital-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae producing CTX-M b-lactamases in Slovenia
Ljung R. - Evaluation of a new LightCycler approach for detection of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli
Llanos C. - Risk factors for ciprofloxacin resistance among ESBL-producing Escherichia coli isolated from non-hospitalised patients in Spain
Llinares on behalf of the Spanish Transplantation Infection Study Group P. - Prospective, multicentre study of caspofungin for prophylaxis in high-risk liver transplantation
Llorens L. - Intravenous therapy with doripenem versus levofloxacin with an option for oral step-down therapy in the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections and pyelonephritis
Lo Cascio G. - Linezolid resistance in a Staphylococcus haemolyticus strain isolated in an intensive care unit
Lochman I. - Lamivudin treatment in patients with acute severe hepatitis B
Locking M. - Microbiology of thrombotic microangiopathies in Scotland, 2003–2006
Lode H.M. - Recent and emerging uses of long-acting tetracyclines
Lode H. - Pooled analysis of retrospective and prospective data on levofloxacin vs. other antibiotics in the treatment of hospitalised patients with pneumonia
  - Development of resistance toward macrolides in oropharyngeal streptococci after administration of azithromycin SR or clarithromycin XL in comparison to a control group
Logan S. - Aspergillus endophthalmitis in an immunocompetent woman: intra-ocular penetration of oral voriconazole
Logginidis I. - Time to positivity of BACTEC blood culture bottles
Logothetis M. - Evaluation of a real-time RT-PCR assay for the diagnosis of measles virus infections during a measles outbreak in Greece
Lohr M. - Antimicrobial susceptibilities and prevalence of qnrA in UTI isolates from hospital and the community
Loiez C. - Efficacy and tolerance of linezolid-rifampicin combination prolonged oral therapy for bone and joint infections
Lõivukene K. - Probiotic influence of Bacillus smithii TBMI 12 against Clostridiumdifficile infection in mice and hamster model
Loli A. - ECL-1, a novel plasmid-mediated class A b-lactamase with carbenicillinase characteristics from Escherichia coli
Lomas J.M. - Differences between early and late prosthetic valve endocarditis in a series of 169 cases
Lomas E. - Quantitative CMV PCR in allogenic stem-cell transplant patients
Lonca M. - Immunological reconstitution in severely immunosuppressed antiretroviral-naïve patients (<100 CD4+ T cells/mm3) using a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-based or boosted protease inhibitor-based ART regimen: 3-year results
Long L. - Efficacy of linezolid in the treatment of biofilm-associated infection using a rabbit model of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus catheter biofilm
Longauerova A. - Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus biofilms to vancomycin and gentamicin
Longhi E. - PCR with universal primers targeting the small ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) gene of bacteria as a diagnostic tool in 15 hospitalised patients with infectious diseases
Lonks J. - A quantitative analysis of clincal nasal swab samples testing positive for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Loparev V. - Seroprevalence and genotyping of Varicella zoster virus strains in the Russian Federation
Lopes Cruz J.P. - Cardiovascular risk evaluation in HIV-infected adults
López J. - Epidemiology and outcome of primary and secondary community-acquired bacteraemia in adult patients
López O. - Ten years of surveillance on antimicrobial resistance in non-typhoidal Salmonella from humans in a Spanish hospital: 1996–2005
  - In vitro activity of tigecycline and other antimicrobial agents against extended-spectrum b-lactamase E. coli producers
López J.L. - Tuberculosis in the area of Barcelona: the increasing influence of immigration
López E.L. - Invasive infections due to Haemophilus influenzae in paediatrics
Lopez I. - Oncogenic human papillomavirus type distribution by L1 and E6/E7 sequencing
López M. - Dose ranging and fractionation of moxifloxacin against Stenotrophomonas maltophilia using an in vitro pharmacodynamic model
Lopez Brea M. - Candida kefyr: a new emerging pathogen?
Lopez-Brea M. - Inhibitory effect of probiotic and non-probiotic micro-organisms against Helicobacter pylori clinical isolates
  - Primary and secondary resistance to metronidazole and clarithromycin in Spanish Helicobacter pylori clinical isolates obtained from children
  - Non-tuberculous mycobacteria in a Spanish teaching hospital during a five-year period
López-Brea M. - Prevalence of intestinal parasitism in an urban public hospital of Madrid
López-Calleja E. - Effects on quality prescription of a prospective interventional study based on a restrictive antibiotic policy
López-Cerero L. - Faecal carriage of extended-spectrum b-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli: prevalence and risk factors in different populations
Lopez-Jimenez J. - Trends in bacteraemia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa: comparison between oncohaematologic and non-oncohaematologic patients
Lopez-Martin J. - Trends in bacteraemia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa: comparison between oncohaematologic and non-oncohaematologic patients
Lopez-Oviedo E. - In vitro activity of three echinocandins (caspofungin, micafungin and anidulafungin) against Aspergillus spp.
López-Oviedo E. - Comparison of Etest and microdilution method for antifungal susceptibility testing of C. neoformans to four azoles
López-Roger Roger R. - Cysticercosis: correlation between serological and radiological diagnosis
Lora-Tamayo J. - Assessment and management of tuberculosis infection in patients due to start anti-TNF-a treatment
Loregian A. - Potential role of TDM in dosing protease inhibtors in HIV-HCV co-infected patients with or without cirrhosis
  - Pharmacokinetics of atazanavir in HIV-HCV co-infected patients with or without cirrhosis
Lorente L. - Exogenous ventilator associated pneumonia incidence in a medical-surgical intensive care unit: a four-year surveillance
Lorentzen M. - A new automated magnetic bead based nucleic acid sample preparation directly from nasal swabs for MRSA diagnostics
Lorenzotti S. - Topical treatment with mupirocine/chlorexydine and long-term risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection
  - Adherence to surgical site infection guidelines in Italian heart surgery units
Lortholary O. - Comparison of RPMI and AM3 medium for in vitro susceptibility testing of caspofungin against Candida spp. by EUCAST broth microdilution method
  - In vitro activity of caspofungin and micafungin against 1038 yeasts isolates from France by EUCAST reference method
Lortholary on behalf of RATIO O. - A risk of tuberculosis persists in patients treated with anti TNF-a antagonist therapy despite prophylactic guidelines: identification of main risk factors
Lorusso V. - Occurrence and enterotoxic characterisation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from raw milk in southern Italy
Losco M. - Mixed infection of the lower limb caused by rare bacterial and fungal pathogens in a patient with multiple traumatic injuries
Losson B. - Is Echinococcus multilocularis increasing in prevalence in the Western European border line?
Lo-Ten-Foe J. - Comparative evaluation of the VITEK 2, disk diffusion, E-test, and agar dilution susceptibility testing methods for colistin in clinical isolates (including heteroresistant E. cloacae and A. baumannii strains)
  - Evaluation of five commercially available rapid ESBL detection methods in a routine clinical microbiology laboratory
Lotlikar M. - Multiplexed molecular testing for the detection of human respiratory viruses using the TM Bioscience ID-Tag RVP assay
  - Clinical evaluation of the NucliSENS analyte specific reagents for the detection of respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus in paediatric respiratory specimens
Loucou I. - Risk factors for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolation from patients with cystic fibrosis
Loughrey A. - Prevalence of an epidemic ESBL-producing Escherichia coli strain in LTCFs in Belfast
Loukas T. - Fatal case of antritis caused by mucormycosis in patient with diabetes mellitus
Loupa C. - Carbapenem consumption and resistance of P. aeruginosa and K. pneumoniae to carbapenems: results from a 7-year study in a general hospital
  - Use of intravenous catheters in a general hospital: results of a day-prevalence survey
  - Trends in antibiotic consumption over a 7-year period in a general hospital, Athens, Greece
  - Trends in antibiotic consumption in 5 Hellenic hospitals over a three-year period: results of the Hellenic Network for Nosocomial Antibiotic Consumption for the years 2003–2004–2005
Louro D. - Beta-lactam resistance mechanisms in clinical isolates of Proteus spp. in Portugal: plasmid-mediated inhibitor resistant TEM and extended-spectrum b-lactamases
  - Spread of clinical extended-spectrum b-lactamase (CTX-M)-producing Escherichia coli in Portugal
Loveckova Y. - Cultivation versus PCR analysis of joint fluid samples in prosthetic joint infection
Lovering A.M. - Pre-admission penicillin in patients with meningitis or meningococcal disease
Lovgren M. - International Circumpolar Surveillance interlaboratory quality control programme, 1999–2004
  - Epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae serotype A from 2000–2005, an emerging pathogen in Northern Canada and Alaska
Low D. - Nosocomial invasive pneumococcal disease in Toronto, Canada, 1995–2005
Low C.Y. - Comparison of the Plus Aerobic/F and Plus Anaerobic/F media using the BacTec 9240 system with an in-house agar-broth biphasic selective fungal culture media (modified from the BACTEC Myco/F Lytic media) for the diagnosis of fungaemia
Low for the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network D. - Pneumococcal empyema in Toronto, Canada, 1995–2006
Lowther J. - Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modelling of the plasma bactericidal activity of NXL103 against Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in phase I studies
  - The activity of NXL101 against community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  - The activity of NXL101 against fluoroquinolone-resistant clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus
  - The efficacy of ceftazidime combined with NXL104, a novel b-lactamase inhibitor, in a mouse model of kidney infections induced by b-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae
Loza E. - Assessment of cefoxitin MICs with the BD Phoenix® system to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates
  - Trends in bacteraemia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa: comparison between oncohaematologic and non-oncohaematologic patients
Lozano F. - Mortality and time for detection of blood growth in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia; implication of mannose-binding lectin
Lu X.J. - The correlation between resistance phenotype and expression levels of efflux pumps of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  - A multicentre, double-blind, randomised clinical trial of parenteral cefepime in the treatment of acute bacterial infections
  - Analysis of clinical characteristics in 53 patients with Crypotococcus neoformans meningitis
Lubenko I. - Concentration-dependent selection of resistant mutants of Enterococcus faecium exposed to linezolid in an in vitro dynamic model
  - Comparative pharmacodynamics of telavancin and vancomycin with Staphylococcus aureus: multiple-dose simulations using an in vitro dynamic model
  - Bacterial strain-independent anti-staphylococcal effects of telavancin in an in vitro dynamic model that simulates multiple-dose pharmacokinetics in humans
Luca C. - Clinical and paraclinical aspects of tuberculous meningitis in a hospital of infectious diseases, Iasi, Romania
Luca V. - Clinical and paraclinical aspects of tuberculous meningitis in a hospital of infectious diseases, Iasi, Romania
Luca B. - Risk factors for invasive group A streptococcal infections in Europe
Luca A. - Echinococcus cyst of liver and lung in animal models treated by radio-frequency thermal ablation. An ex vivo pilot experimental study
Luca V. - Oral side effects of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients
  - Resistance to antibiotics in coagulase-negative staphylococci in an infectious diseases hospital, Iasi, Romania
  - Adverse reactions to imipenem therapy in adult patients with sepsis
Lucas C. - On-site molecular typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa as an adjunct to infection control in a paediatric cystic fibrosis centre
Lucasti C. - Treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections: doripenem versus meropenem
Lucerna M. - Three years of universal molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Almeria (Spain), a setting with a high proportion of TB in immigrants
Lucignano B. - Rapid molecular detection of bacterial species and resistance determination in paediatric blood cultures
Lück C. - Legionella spp. causing community-acquired pneumonia in Germany. Data from the Competence Network for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAPNETZ)
Lucke K. - Evaluation of the IDI-MRSA assay for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from clinical specimens
Luczak M. - Emergence of a new epidemic Clostridium difficile strain (ribotype 017) resistant to newer fluoroquinolones in Poland
  - Survey of Clostridium difficile infection and faecal lactoferrin in Polish paediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease
  - Alert pathogens in blood of haematological patients from 2004 through 2005
  - Molecular epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant enterococci isolated in 2003–2005 in a large teaching hospital in Warsaw
  - Epidemiology of Candidakrusei and Candida inconspicua infections in haematology-oncology ward
Ludlam H. - Community coliforms in Cambridgeshire: resistance patterns in urinary isolates from 1997 to 2006
Ludwig K. - Growth inhibition of biofilm-associated Candida albicans by voriconazole in long-term continuous flow cultures
Luedde T. - Acute hepatitis B virus infection by genotype F despite successful vaccination in an immune-competent German patient
Luger C. - Susceptibility patterns to oral antimicrobials of PVL+ MRSA from Austria
  - Resistance to tigecycline and other non b-lactam antimicrobials of MRSA strains collected in Austria in 2005/2006
Lugos M. - Using ELISPOT to expose false positive skin test conversion in tuberculosis contacts
Lui B. - Evaluation of a direct cefoxitin disc diffusion test for the presumptive identification of MRSA from clinical specimens
Luijt D. - Evaluation of the Abbott M2000 sp/rt real-time PCR on Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae using urine samples, and comparison with the Roche Cobas Amplicor Ctr/Ngo PCR assays
Lukas W.L. - Therapeutic approach to upper respiratory tract infections among primary healthcare physicians
Lukhnova L. - Molecular diversity of Bacillus anthracis in Kazakhstan
Lulchuk M. - Viral clearance, lamivudine resistant mutants appearance and HBV reactivation in patients with chronic hepatitis B in end-stage renal disease treated with lamivudine
Luna A. - Control programme of an outbreak of pneumococcal pneumonia among residents of a rest home in southern Spain
Lund B. - Febrile neutropenia in children with cancer; a retrospective Norwegian multicentre study
  - Occurrence of virulence determinants, antibiotic resistance in Swedish Enterococcus faecium blood-culture isolates during a six-year period
Lundblad E. - Genotypic characterisation of Norwegian Escherichia coli clinical isolates with an AmpC-resistance profile
  - Phenotypic detection of AmpC in E. coli: comparison of cloxacillin, boronic acid and EDTA disk synergy assays
Lunde C. - Telavancin targets the bacterial membrane of Staphylococcus aureus: analysis of membrane effects by flow cytometry
  - Telavancin inhibits peptidoglycan biosynthesis through preferential targeting of transglycosylation: evidence for a multivalent interaction between telavancin and lipid II
Lundgren B. - Phylogenetic groups, antibiotic susceptibility, biofilm formation and PFGE in Escherichia coli from community-acquired cystitis
Lundholm R. - Phylogenetic groups, antibiotic susceptibility, biofilm formation and PFGE in Escherichia coli from community-acquired cystitis
Lundkvist A. - The situation of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in the last years in Iran
Lundström L. - Galanin-message-associated peptide suppresses hyphal growth of Candida albicans
Lunel-Fabiani F. - Multi-centre evaluation of a new hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) assay on the family of Access® immunoassay systems
  - Meta-analysis of blood scores for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C
Lunsdorf H. - Characterisation of bacterial isolates colonising urinary tract catheters
Lupse M. - Unusual association of tuberculous meningitis and cerebral toxoplasmosis in a HIV-negative patient. Case report
  - Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection – 63 case studies
  - Community-acquired Gram-positive sepsis
  - Resistance dynamics and multidrug resistance among Klebsiella spp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in severe sepsis
Luque Pardos S. - Mortality risk factors in patients admitted to an emergency unit with severe infection treated with imipenem
Lutsar I. - The coexistence of secondary PR mutations M36I, K20I and L63H predominates in CRF06-cpx and its next generation recombinant viruses circulating in Estonian treatment-naïve patients
  - GB virus C infection among HIV-positive patients in Estonia
Lütticken R. - Epidemiology of invasive Streptococcus pyogenes infections in Germany
  - Evaluation of partial rpoB and 16S rDNA sequencing for identification of Enterococcal species and the comparison to phenotypic methods
Luzzaro F. - Risk factors and outcome of bloodstream infections caused by enterobacteria producing extended-spectrum b-lactamases
  - Resident OXA-51-like carbapenemases in Acinetobacter baumannii: a useful marker for genotyping?
  - Activity of tigecycline against ESBL-producing enterobacteria spreading in Italy
Lye D. - Clinical features of dengue infections, and predictors of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Singapore
Lymperopoulou M. - Genetic basis of macrolide and lincosamide resistance among staphylococcal clinical isolates in a cancer centre
Lysén J. - Evaluation of a rapid automated assay for the isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA directly from clinical samples, using magnetic particles
Lyskova P. - Occurrence of Mycoplasma hominis in amniotic fluid of pregnant women
  - Group G beta-haemolytic streptococci of human and animal origin
Lyytikäinen O. - An outbreak of pneumonia caused by S. pneumoniae at a military training facility in Finland in 2006
  - Recent trends in epidemiology of MRSA in Finland