Annals ofAntibiotics

Volume: 5 - Number: 46 - October 15, 2007

Outstanding

Outbreak of multiple clones of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates expressing OXA-58 carbapenemase in an intensive care unit

Activity of human ß-defensins 2 and 3 against ESBL-producing Klebsiella strains

Factors associated with adherence to infectious diseases advice in two intensive care units

Antibiotic prescribing for acute and recurrent cystitis in primary care: a 4 year descriptive study

Antimicrobial practice

Factors associated with adherence to infectious diseases advice in two intensive care units

Antibiotic prescribing for acute and recurrent cystitis in primary care: a 4 year descriptive study

Brief Reports

Outbreak of multiple clones of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates expressing OXA-58 carbapenemase in an intensive care unit

Activity of human ß-defensins 2 and 3 against ESBL-producing Klebsiella strains

Original Articles

Role of novel gyrA mutations in the suppression of the fluoroquinolone resistance genotype of vaccine strain Salmonella Typhimurium vacT (gyrA D87G)

Infrequent occurrence of single mutations in topoisomerase IV and DNA gyrase genes among US levofloxacin-susceptible clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae from nine institutions (1999–2003)

Molecular epidemiology of macrolide resistance in ß-haemolytic streptococci of Lancefield groups A, B, C and G and evidence for a new mef element in group G streptococci that carries allelic variants of mef and msr(D)

Diversity and evolution of blaZ from Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci

Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from pet animals and their relationship to human isolates

Association of antibiotic resistance and higher internalization activity in resistant Helicobacter pylori isolates

Pyridine N-oxide derivatives are inhibitory to the human SARS and feline infectious peritonitis coronavirus in cell culture

Evaluation of the efficacy of albendazole sulphoxide and praziquantel in combination on Taenia crassiceps cysts: in vitro studies

Identification of new antimalarial drugs by linear discriminant analysis and topological virtual screening

Epidemiological MIC cut-off values for tigecycline calculated from Etest MIC values using normalized resistance interpretation

Decreased susceptibility to glycopeptides in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a 20 year study in a large French teaching hospital, 1983–2002

Early empirical glycopeptide therapy for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: impact on the outcome

Safety and factors predicting the duration of first and second treatment interruptions guided by CD4+ cell counts in patients with chronic HIV infection

Treatment with caspofungin in immunocompromised paediatric patients: a multicentre survey

Efficacy and safety of twice-daily pharmacokinetically enhanced amoxicillin/clavulanate (2000/125 mg) in the treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia in a country with a high prevalence of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae