Clinical Microbiology & Infection

Increasing antimicrobial resistance—an emerging problem in the treatment of shigellosis
pp. 1141-1143(3)
Author: Niyogi, S. K.

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (EUCAST document E.DEF 8.1) − Report of the Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
pp. 1144-1156(13)
Authors: Drobniewski, F.; Rüsch-Gerdes, S.; Hoffner, S.

High diversity of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive, methicillin-susceptible isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and implications for the evolution of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus
pp. 1157-1164(8)
Authors: Monecke, S.; Slickers, P.; Ellington, M. J.; Kearns, A. M.; Ehricht, R.

Emergence in Brazil of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying SCCmecIV that are related genetically to the USA800 clone
pp. 1165-1172(8)
Authors: de Miranda, O. P.; Silva-Carvalho, M. C.; Ribeiro, A.; Portela, F.; Cordeiro, R. P.; Caetano, N.; Vidal, C. F. L.; Figueiredo, A. M. S.

Epidemiology of invasive Streptococcus pyogenes infections in Germany, 1996-2002: results from a voluntary laboratory surveillance system
pp. 1173-1178(6)
Authors: Wahl, R. U.; Lütticken, R.; Stanzel, S.; van der Linden, M.; Reinert, R. R.

Serological responses to Cryptosporidium in human populations living in areas reporting high and low incidences of symptomatic cryptosporidiosis
pp. 1179-1185(7)
Authors: Elwin, K.; Chalmers, R. M.; Hadfield, S. J.; Hughes, S.; Hesketh, L. M.; Rothburn, M. M.; Muller, T.; Hunter, P. R.

Comparison of microscopy, real-time PCR and a rapid immunoassay for the detection of Giardia lamblia in human stool specimens
pp. 1186-1191(6)
Authors: Schuurman, T.; Lankamp, P.; van Belkum, A.; Kooistra-Smid, M.; van Zwet, A.

High prevalence of carbapenem-hydrolysing oxacillinases in epidemiologically related and unrelated Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates in Spain
pp. 1192-1198(7)
Authors: Ruiz, M.; Marti, S.; Fernandez-Cuenca, F.; Pascual, A.; Vila, J.

A PCR-based method to differentiate between Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter genomic species 13TU
pp. 1199-1201(3)
Authors: Higgins, P. G.; Wisplinghoff, H.; Krut, O.; Seifert, H.

Specific detection of bla_VIM and bla_IMP metallo-β-lactamase genes in a single real-time PCR
pp. 1201-1203(3)
Authors: Bisiklis, A.; Papageorgiou, F.; Frantzidou, F.; Alexiou-Daniel, S.

Clinical epidemiology of ciprofloxacin-resistant Proteus mirabilis isolated from urine samples of hospitalised patients
pp. 1204-1206(3)
Authors: Saito, R.; Okugawa, S.; Kumita, W.; Sato, K.; Chida, T.; Okamura, N.; Moriya, K.; Koike, K.

Antimicrobial susceptibility of 136 Escherichia coli isolates from cases of neonatal meningitis and relationship with virulence
pp. 1207-1210(4)
Authors: Houdouin, V.; Bonacorsi, S.; Bidet, P.; Bingen, E.

Molecular, epidemiological and infectivity characterisation of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain prevalent in Madrid
pp. 1210-1213(4)
Authors: Martín, A.; Chaves, F.; Iñigo, J.; Alonso, M.; Sola, C.; Rastogi, N.; Ruiz Serrano, M. J.; Palenque, E.; Bouza, E.; García de Viedma, D.

Spread of the Streptococcus pneumoniae Taiwan^19F-14 clone among children in Greece
pp. 1213-1216(4)
Authors: Mavroidi, A.; Paraskakis, I.; Pangalis, A.; Kirikou, E.; Charisiadou, A.; Athanasiou, T.; Tassios, P. T.; Tzouvelekis, L. S.

High variability in viral load in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with herpes simplex and varicella-zoster infections of the central nervous system
pp. 1217-1219(3)
Authors: Růžek, D.; Piskunova, N.; Žampachová, E.

Detection of human bocavirus in children with Kawasaki disease
pp. 1220-1222(3)
Authors: Catalano-Pons, C.; Giraud, C.; Rozenberg, F.; Meritet, J.-F.; Lebon, P.; Gendrel, D.

Author index
pp. 1223-1227(5)

Subject index
pp. 1228-1243(16)