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Oancea C. - Evolutive pattern of trichinellosis in patients of a Roma community
Obando I. - Modified sequential multiplex PCR for determining capsular serotypes of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates
Obasuyi O. - Clones and toxin gene profiles of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing infections among children and adults
Ober P. - Assessment of Microscan rapid ID-AST versus conventional panels for Gram-negative bacteria
Oberson K. - Anti-inflammatory effect of adjuvant glycerol in experimental pneumococcal meningitis
  - Beneficial effects of erythropoietin in experimental pneumococcal meningitis
  - In infant rat pneumococcal meningitis, ceftriaxone plus daptomycin versus ceftriaxone attenuates brain damage and hearing loss while ceftriaxone plus rifampicin versus ceftriaxone does not
  - Cell replacement therapy for brain damage after bacterial meningitis: neuronal stem/progenitor cells migrate, differentiate and integrate in organotypic hippocampal slices injured after challenge with Streptococcus pneumoniae
Obertegger S. - Efficacy of quinolones, mono versus combination therapy, in difficult-to-treat mixed infections caused by Escherichia coli and Bacteroides fragilis
  - Efficacy of moxifloxacin in a murine granuloma pouch model caused by clinical Bacteroides fragilis isolates belonging to different breakpoint categories
O'Brien F. - Differentiation of CC59 community-acquired MRSA strains
O'Brien D. - A lot done, more to do a survey of teaching about healthcare-associated infections in UK and Irish medical schools
O'Brien S. - A laboratory evaluation of chromogenic screening media for the detection of extended-spectrum lactamase producing bacteria
Ocete M.D. - Relationship between Guillain-Barr syndrome and Coxiella burnettii infection
O'Connell B. - An anonymous survey to determine the nasal colonisation rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients attending the emergency department of a tertiary referral hospital in Dublin, Ireland
Odabasi A.R. - The prenatal diagnosis for Cytomegalovirus in pregnant women
Odds F. - Linking research to the clinic: how laboratory findings relate to management of invasive Candida infections
  - FUN-gi: thoughts on yeasts, moulds and medicine
Odén H. - ECO-SENS II: antimicrobial susceptibility in Escherichia coli from community acquired urinary tract infections in Austria, Greece, Portugal, Sweden and United Kingdom
Odinec V. - HIV/AIDS epidemics development of pregnant woman in Ukraine
O'Donnell M. - Assessment of screening all patients and the environment for MRSA in an acute hospital
Odorico M. - Anorectal Chlamydia trachomatis infections in Swiss HIVinfected homosexual men
Oezcan S. - Evaluation of VITEK 2 for identification of enterococci and detection of vancomycin resistance
Offidani M. - Invasive aspergillosis in acute myeloid leukaemia: report of Seifem-2008 multi-centre survey
O'Flanagan D. - Clostridium difficile-associated disease: a newly notifiable disease in Ireland
Oggioni M.R. - Tn1806, the erm(TR)-carrying genetic element of Streptococcus pneumoniae
  - Sialic acid: a preventable signal for pneumococcal biofilm, colonisation and invasion of the host
Ögünç D. - In vitro activity of ertapenem in comparison with imipenem against Enterobacteriaceae in Turkey
Oh E.J. - Comparative distribution of phylogenetic groups, virulence genes and antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from blood, urine and faeces
Oh M.D. - Genotype of varicella zoster virus isolated from Korean elderly patients with herpes zoster
Oh S.H. - Prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance and its association with extended-spectrum lactamase in clinical isolates from Korea
Oh H.J. - Comparison of two immunoassays for diagnosis of Clostridium difficile toxinA and toxinB
Oh S.S. - Usefulness of chromoID VRE agar for the detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in faecal specimen
Oh E.J. - Outbreak of pan aminoglycoside-resistant armA producing Acinetobacter baumannii in a Korean hospital
Ohlasova D. - The occurrence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin in MRSA strains isolated from hospitalised patients in Slovakia
Ohno A. - Molecular characterisation of fluoroquinolone resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Haemophilus influenzae and Escherichia coli clinical isolates collected from 72centres in Japan,2007
  - Susceptibility to levofloxacin-centred fluoroquinolones and other antibiotics of 19species, 12,919clinical isolates collected from 72centres in Japan,2007
Oikonomopoulos G. - Colonisation of intravascular catheters in the intensive care unit of a paediatric hospital during a ten-year period (19992008)
  - Epidemiology of Moraxella catarrhalis infections in children and resistance phenotypes
  - Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility among Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated in a paediatric hospital
  - Anaerobic bacteriology and antibiotic susceptibility of intra-abdominal community-acquired infections in children
Oishi K. - Improvement of a latex agglutination assay for specific detection of Panton-Valentine leukocidin
Ojo O. - Prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among female patients presenting with hepatitisB virus and human immunodeficiency virus infections in a Nigerian teaching hospital
Ojukwu J.U. - Iron supplementation for children in malaria-endemic areas: systematic review and meta-analysis
Okamoto Y. - Streptococcus milleri group sepsis: abdominal infections and macrolide resistance
Okaygün E. - Entamoeba histolytica or dispar through PCR and ElisaII?
Okebe J. - Iron supplementation for children in malaria-endemic areas: systematic review and meta-analysis
Okolo P. - Comparative susceptibility of European Gram-negative pathogens to ceftobiprole, ceftazidime and cefepime
Okuzumi K. - Streptococcus milleri group sepsis: abdominal infections and macrolide resistance
Olarte N. - Presence of the KPC carbapapenemase in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from 6 hospitals in Colombia
Olarte I. - In vivo acquisition of aac(6)-Ib-cr and mutations in gyrA gene after ciprofloxacin treatment of a clinical qnrS1-positive Salmonella typhimurium strain
Olcén P. - Antibiotic susceptibility of invasive Neisseria meningitidis isolates from 1995 to 2008 in Sweden the meningococcal population remains susceptible
Oldfield E. - Role of rsbU and Staphyloxanthin in intracellular growth of Staphylococcus aureus in human phagocytic cells (THP-1 macrophages)
O'Leary A. - No change in MRSA vancomycin MICs among isolates from paediatric infections (20002007)
Oliva A. - Resistance to antibiotics of Helicobacter pylori strains from patients after treatment failure
Oliveira R. - Farnesol as a prospective antimicrobial agent against Staphylococcus epidermidis
Oliveira V. - Diverse populations of fluoroquinolone nonsusceptible groupA streptococci recovered from colonisation and infections in Portugal (19992006)
Oliveira M.G. - Class 1 and 2 integrons determining multidrug resistance to Acinetobacter spp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Oliveira J. - Seroepidemiological survey of viral hepatitis, HIV, syphilis and herpes simplex virus in a Portuguese correctional facility
Oliveira M. - Antimicrobial resistance and in vitro biofilm-forming ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from veterinary origin
Oliveira Nunes C.M. - Antimicrobial activity of seven chemotypes of Lippia alba
Oliver D. - Voriconazole-impregnated beads in the treatment of candidal prosthetic joint infection
Oliver A. - Molecular epidemiology of metallo-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas putida in a Spanish hospital
  - Ability of Spanish clinical laboratories in detecting MBL-producing strains of Pseudomonas: results from the SEIMC QC programme
Oliver H. - Evaluating the user experience of the Sealife Semantic Web browsers
Olivier A. - Role of rsbU and Staphyloxanthin in intracellular growth of Staphylococcus aureus in human phagocytic cells (THP-1 macrophages)
Olmo M. - Strategies for the sequence study of the exposure to pulmonary tuberculosis in a neonatal unit
O'Lorcain P. - Assessment of screening all patients and the environment for MRSA in an acute hospital
Olsen S.S. - Typing of vancomycin-resistant enterococci from Danish hospitals
Olsen K. - The epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus nasal and throat carriage in a large community-based population in northern Norway. The Troms Staph and Skin Study
  - Nasal and throat swab cultures for the assessment of S.aureus colonisation and carriage in the Troms Staph and Skin Study. Avalidation study including standard screening methods and molecular typing
Olson L.K. - Growth inhibition of micro-organisms involved in catheter-related infections by an antimicrobial transparent IVdressing containing chlorhexidine gluconate
Olson M. - Multi-centre evaluation of the CMV IgG assay on the Family of Access immunoassay systems from Beckman Coulter
Olsson-Liljequist B. - Spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 398 in Europe
  - A nationwide outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Sweden, 20072008
Oluwole A.S. - Awareness, possession and use of insecticide-treated net for prevention of malaria in children under five in Abeokuta, Nigeria
Omar M. - Virulence factors and susceptibility patterns of Candida species isolated from patients with obstructive uropathy and bladder cancer
Omidvarnia A. - Epidemiology and drug resistance pattern of cholera outbreak in summer 2008 in Iran
Ommeslag D. - Influence of a restriction model on the rational use of antibiotics in a large, secondary care hospital
Oncul O. - Dimension of nosocomial infections in a burn care centre: analysis of 7year active surveillance
Önde U. - Risk of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever among healthcare workers
O'Neill E. - The impact of rapid PCR screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on patient isolation
Oner A. - Genotypic analysis of human Echinococcus granulosus strains in Turkey
Öner Y.A. - Entamoeba histolytica or dispar through PCR and ElisaII?
Oner Y.A. - The prognostic and diagnostic value of Western Blot test in cystic echinococcosis
Ong C. - Efficacy and pharmacodynamic evaluation of CEM-101, a novel macrolide, in murine infection models
Ong M.L. - Single-dose azithromycin microspheres versus 5day moxifloxacin in acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis
Onigbogi O. - Prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among female patients presenting with hepatitisB virus and human immunodeficiency virus infections in a Nigerian teaching hospital
Onken A. - Emergence of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Norway is associated with hospitalisation abroad, nosocomial transmission and sporadic urinary tract infections in outpatients without recent hospitalisation
Onni T. - Molecular typing of enterotoxigenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from different foods of animal origin
Ontañón J. - Increasing survival in HIV patients with HLA-B57 allele: report and analysis of a Spanish series
Ooi N. - Comparison of bacterial membrane active novel porphyrin and metalloporphyrin antimicrobials
Oostdijk E.A.N. - Ecological effects of selective digestive tract decontamination and selective oropharyngeal decontamination on colonisation with antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria
Oosterheert J.J. - High long-term mortality rate after initial recovery from severe community-acquired pneumonia
Opal S. - The role of microbial virulence factors in the pathogenesis of bacterial pneumonia
Opatowski L. - Individual dose impact on resistance selection in the community: a mathematical model of Streptococcus pneumoniae dynamics and lactams
Opdenbergh I. - Evaluation of different immunoassays on Liaison
Oppenheim B. - Testing for Clostridium difficile infection
Oral B. - Evaluation of risk factors for fatality in patients with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
  - A case of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever with normal laboratory findings
  - The evaluation of catheter-related bloodstream infections in neurology and neurosurgery intensive care units
  - The epidemiological, clinical and laboratory evaluation of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever cases in a tertiary-care hospital in Turkey, 2008
Orasch C. - Can multiplex PCR (SeptiFast) detect DNAemia before occurrence of sepsis in neutropenic patients?
  - Galactomannan as a prognostic marker for poor outcome of invasive pulmonary mould infection in patients with haematological malignancies
Orczykowska-Kotyna M. - Molecular characteristic of Staphylococcus aureus associated with bacteraemia in Poland during 2005
Ordouzadeh N. - Heat shock-induced phage shock proteinA increases Salmonella typhimurium virulence in BALB/cmice
Ordovas Baines J.P. - Use of drotrecogin alpha in a surgical septic cohort of patients
Ordovas-Baines J.P. - Pharmacokinetics analysis of vancomycin initial dose in critically ill patients
Orduna A. - Intraphagocytic activity of ciprofloxacine against intracellular Brucella melitensis
Orduña Domingo A. - Biotyping of Brucella melitensis using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Orengo G. - Outbreak of Ralstonia pickettii bacteraemia in patients with haematological malignancies and haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
Oresic N. - Comparison of two commercial molecular tests for routine diagnosis of C.difficile
Orfanidou M. - Toxigenicity and resistance to antibiotics of Clostridium difficile strains isolated from patients of a tertiary hospital in Greece during a six-year period
  - Isolation of glycopeptides-resistant enterococci from stool and blood samples of hospitalised patients during a three-year period
O'Riordan W. - Results of a phase 2 study comparing two doses of delafloxacin to tigecycline in adults with complicated skin and skin-structure infections
Orlando G. - Knowledge on sexually transmitted infections of HIVinfected patients
Orlandou K. - Acinetobacter baumannii resistance rates in a tertiary hospital
Ormiston D. - Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus in Canada: results from the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 19992007
Orosi P. - First detection of plasmid-mediated AmpC-typeACC-4 lactamase from Proteus mirabilis in Hungary
Orrico F. - Diagnosis of primary rubella infection in 122adults in Cosenza, Italy and neonatal follow-up
Orsagova I. - Long-term protection against carriage of hepatitisB virus after newborn vaccination
Orta Mira N. - Ability of Spanish clinical laboratories in detecting MBL-producing strains of Pseudomonas: results from the SEIMC QC programme
  - Evaluation of the results of the SEIMC External Quality Control Programme for HCV viral load
Ortenberg E.A. - Real practice of antimicrobials use in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in Russia
Ortiz J. - Predictive model of anaerobic bacteraemias
Ortiz N. - Genotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis in Bilbao, Spain
Ortiz de Urbina J. - Ortotopic liver transplantation in HIVinfected patients. Outcome of a single-centre cohort of 21 patients
Ortiz-Leyba C. - Genetic polymorphisms of innate immunity and susceptibility to pneumococcal infection
Ortiz-Pérez A. - Detection of efflux pump genes among clinical isolates of non-pigmented rapidly growing mycobacteria and their relationship with phenotypic resistance
Ortiz-Perez A. - Evaluation of a sonication protocol for the detection of bacteria in retrieved osteosynthesis implants
Örtqvist Å. - Faecal colonisation with extended-spectrum -lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae among patients in nine Swedish nursing homes
Osaki Kiyan P. - A unique way to predict vancomycin failure in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia early in therapy: a classification and regression tree analysis
  - How does persistent bacteraemia affect outcome in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia?
Ossel J. - Multiplex real-time assay for the detection of 7viruses causing infections of the central nervous system
Ossewaarde J. - Characteristics of patients infected with Mycoplasma genitalium in an STI outpatient clinic, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Ossiprandi M.C. - Preliminary molecular evaluation of the toxigenicity of Clostridium difficile strains isolated from dogs in the area of Parma (Italy)
Österback R. - Rapid one-step antigen detection method for human bocavirus
Österblad M. - The effect of sewage treatment on antibiotic resistance of enterobacteria
  - Evaluation of EDTA and dipicolinic acid, with and without the addition of zinc, in the detection of metallo-betalactamases
Østergaard C. - Attenuation of bacteraemia by treatment with serotype-specific antibodies diminishes hippocampal neural apoptosis during experimental pneumococcal meningitis
  - Old and new diagnostic tests
  - Creating a collaborative network for the study of bacteraemia in Denmark: frequency of recurrence with the same and different micro-organisms
Österlund P. - Toll-like receptor ligand induced synergistic interferon gene expression in human monocyte-derived dendritic cells
Östholm Balkhed Å. - In vitro activity of beta-lactam antibiotics against CTX-M-producing E.coli
  - Molecular fingerprinting of faecal isolates of E.coli with and without ESBL-phenotype in patients with intra-abdominal infections
Ostiguy V. - Efficacy of oritavancin in the rat haematogenous pneumonia model
Ostrosky-Zeichner L. - Micafungin versus liposomal amphotericinB for the treatment of serious Candida infections in intensive care unit and non-ICU patients: results of post-hoc analyses
Ota Y. - Changes in platelet sizes as indicators for clinical outcome of bacteraemia
Otelea D. - Significance of QuantiFeron-TB Gold test for patients infected with HIV1
Otlu B. - Detection of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase typePER1 in Acinetobacter baumannii species isolated from bloodstream infections and investigation of clonal relationship
Ott E. - Costs of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia
Ott A. - Bacterial causes of gastroenteritis in the Netherlands: ten-year trends
Ott E. - Economic aspects of deep sternal wound infections
Ott A. - Improved detection of bacterial gastro-intestinal pathogens using molecular screening
Otter J.A. - Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene sequence and the PVL-encoding bacteriophage vary with lineage in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Ouattara D. - National network set-up for monitoring micro-organisms resistance to anti-infectives in a developing country: case of the Ivory Coast
Ouburg S. - Polymorphisms in the promoter region of TANK-binding kinase1 are associated with Gram-positive bloodstream infections
Ovalle M.V. - Presence of the KPC carbapapenemase in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from 6 hospitals in Colombia
  - In vitro activity of tigecycline and other broad spectrum antibiotics against micro-organisms isolated from infected patients in Colombia
Over-Hasdemir U. - High prevalence of mefE gene among macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Istanbul
Ovies M. - Ability of Spanish clinical laboratories in detecting MBL-producing strains of Pseudomonas: results from the SEIMC QC programme
  - Evaluation of the results of the SEIMC External Quality Control Programme for HCV viral load
Owens M. - Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampin-resistance from sputum samples with an easy-to-use PCR test system with near-patient capability
Oxoby M. - MUT056399: a novel antibacterial against methicillin-resistant staphylococci
Oyen W. - The value of FDG-PET for detection of metastatic infectious foci complicating Gram-positive bacteraemia
Özakin C. - In vitro activity of ertapenem in comparison with imipenem against Enterobacteriaceae in Turkey
Ozbek B. - In vitro activity of tigecycline alone and in combination with colistin methanesulfonate against carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates
Ozcimen E. - Antimicrobial susceptibility of genital Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum
Özden K. - Protein C, proteinS levels and other haematologic parameters in patients with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
Ozden K. - Evaluation of the anthrax cases who were admitted to our hospital in 2008
Ozgunes I. - Evaluation of device-associated nosocomial infection rates in intensive care units of a university hospital in Turkey
  - Evaluation of the risk factors, mortality and cost of nosocomial infections in intensive care units of a university hospital
Ozinel M.A. - Effect of shorter antimicrobial prophylaxis+using intestinal cleaning+using single use sterile gels on infections developing after transrectal prostate biopsies
Özisik A. - Device-associated nosocomial infection rates in three different intensive care units in a training and research hospital, Ankara
Ozkurt Z. - Evaluation of the anthrax cases who were admitted to our hospital in 2008
Özkurt Z. - Protein C, proteinS levels and other haematologic parameters in patients with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
Oztuna V. - Using of sonication of bone or removed orthopaedic prostheses for diagnosis of infection after surgery
Ozturk D. - Brucellosis: a retrospective evaluation of clinical, laboratory and therapeutic features of 101cases
Ozturk D.O. - A one-day prevalence study: the evaluation of antibiotic use and cost in a training hospital
Ozturk Engin D. - Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Turkey
Ozyurek S.C. - Brucellosis: a retrospective evaluation of clinical, laboratory and therapeutic features of 101cases
Ozyurt C. - Effect of shorter antimicrobial prophylaxis+using intestinal cleaning+using single use sterile gels on infections developing after transrectal prostate biopsies