Annals ofInfectology

Volume: 9 - Number: 104 - December 14, 2009

Outstanding

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolates from a Danish patient and two healthy human volunteers are possibly related to isolates from imported turkey meat

Lovastatin, but not pravastatin, limits in vitro infection due to Coxiella burnetii

Cefepime overdosage with neurotoxicity recovered by high-volume haemofiltration

Correlation between case mix index and antibiotic use in hospitals

Original Research

Changes in antibiotic resistance rates of invasive Haemophilus influenzae isolates in England and Wales over the last 20 years

Multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of intravenous telavancin in healthy male and female subjects

Once- or twice-daily dosing of nevirapine in HIV-infected adults: a population pharmacokinetics approach

Efficacy of pegylated interferon and ribavirin for retreatment of chronic HCV infection in HIV co-infected patients failing a previous standard interferon-based regimen

Initial therapy with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-containing regimens is more effective than with regimens that spare them with no difference in short-term fat distribution: Hippocampe-ANRS 121 Trial

A prospective double-blind randomized trial comparing intraluminal ethanol with heparinized saline for the prevention of catheter-associated bloodstream infection in immunosuppressed haematology patients

Trends in the prescription of antiretroviral drugs and impact on plasma HIV-RNA measurements

Specific control measures for antibiotic prescription are related to lower consumption in hospitals: results from a French multicentre pilot study

Antibiotic consumption in southern and eastern Mediterranean hospitals: results from the ARMed project

Correlation between case mix index and antibiotic use in hospitals

Research letters

Description of an unusual class 2 integron in Shigella sonnei isolates in Senegal (sub-Saharan Africa)

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolates from a Danish patient and two healthy human volunteers are possibly related to isolates from imported turkey meat

Lovastatin, but not pravastatin, limits in vitro infection due to Coxiella burnetii

Effect of different Mueller–Hinton agars on tigecycline disc diffusion susceptibility for Acinetobacter spp

Cefepime overdosage with neurotoxicity recovered by high-volume haemofiltration

Safety of linezolid in patients with baseline thrombocytopenia

Antifungal activity against Candida albicans of nikkomycin Z in combination with caspofungin, voriconazole or amphotericin B

Cluster of multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae with reduced susceptibility to the newer cephalosporins in Northern Greece

Susceptibility of 170 isolates of the USA300 clone of MRSA to macrolides, clindamycin and the novel ketolide cethromycin