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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Meat Products, the Netherlands
Emerging Infectious Diseases journal Nov 2007 Vol.13 N.11
Inge H.M.van Loo,* Bram M.W. Diederen,* Paul H.M. Savelkoul,† Joyce H.C. Woudenberg,† Robert Roosendaal,† Alex van Belkum,‡ Nicole Lemmens-den Toom,‡ Carlo Verhulst,§ Peter H.J. van Keulen,§ and Jan A.J.W. Kluytmans†§
*St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands; †VUmc Medical University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; ‡Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and §Amphia Hospital, Breda, the Netherlands
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Repeat Infective Endocarditis: Differentiating Relapse from Reinfection
Clinical Infectious Diseases 1 Aug 2005 Vol.41 N.3 p.406-409
Vivian H. Chu,1,2 Daniel J. Sexton,1 Christopher H. Cabell,1,2 L. Barth Reller,1,4 Paul A. Pappas,2 Rakesh K. Singh,3 Vance G. Fowler, Jr.,1,2 G. Ralph Corey,1,2 Olcay Aksoy,3 and Christopher W. Woods1,2,5
1Department of Medicine, 2Duke Clinical Research Institute, 3School of Medicine, and 4Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Duke University Medical Center, and 5Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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Improved Diagnosis of the Etiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia with Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Clinical Infectious Diseases 1 Aug 2005 Vol.41 N.3 p.345-351
Kate E. Templeton, Sitha A. Scheltinga, Willian C. J. F. M. van den Eeden,2 A. Willy Graffelman,3 Peterhans J. van den Broek,2 and Eric C. J. Claas1
Departments of 1Medical Microbiology and 2Infectious Diseases, and 3Center of Infectious Diseases and Department of General Practice and Nursing Home Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Assessment of the Risk of Ebola Virus Transmission from Bodily Fluids and Fomites
Journal of Infectious Diseases 15 Nov. 2007 Vol.196 S2 S142-S147
Daniel G. Bausch,1,2 Jonathan S. Towner,2 Scott F. Dowell,3 Felix Kaducu,4 Matthew Lukwiya,5,a Anthony Sanchez,2 Stuart T. Nichol,2 Thomas G. Ksiazek,2 and Pierre E. Rollin2
1Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; 2Special Pathogens Branch and 3Coordinating Office for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; 4Gulu Regional Hospital and 5St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu, Uganda
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Outbreaks of Filovirus Hemorrhagic Fever: Time to Refocus on the Patient
Journal of Infectious Diseases 15 Nov. 2007 Vol.196 S2 S136-S141
Daniel G. Bausch,1 Heinz Feldmann,5,6 Thomas W. Geisbert,2 Mike Bray,3 A. G. Sprecher,7 Paul Boumandouki,8 Pierre E. Rollin,4 Cathy Roth,9 and the Winnipeg Filovirus Clinical Working Group
1Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; 2United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, and 3National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; 4Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; 5Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, and 6Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; 7Medecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium; 8Ministry of Health and Population, Republic of the Congo, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo; 9World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Comparison of ß-Lactam and Macrolide Combination Therapy versus Fluoroquinolone Monotherapy in Hospitalized Veterans Affairs Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1 Nov 2007 Vol.51 N.11 p.3977-3982
Thomas P. Lodise,1,2* Andrea Kwa,1,3 Leon Cosler,1 Reetu Gupta,1 and Raymond P. Smith4
Albany College of Pharmacy,1 Ordway Research Institute,2 Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, New York,4 Singapore General Hospital, Singapore3
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A New Old Opportunity for Preventing Serious Group A Streptococcal Infections
Clinical Infectious Diseases 1 Aug 2005 Vol.41 N.3 p.343-344
EDITORIAL COMMENTARY
Orin S. Levine,1 Chris A. Van Beneden,2 and Daniel B. Jernigan2
1Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; and 2National Centers for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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Hospital-Acquired Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections in Ontario, Canada, 1992-2000
Clinical Infectious Diseases 1 Aug 2005 Vol.41 N.3 p.334-342
N. Daneman,1 A. McGeer,1,2 D. E. Low,1,2 G. Tyrrell,6 A. E. Simor,1,3 M. McArthur,2 B. Schwartz,7 P. Jessamine,5 R. Croxford,4 and K. A. Green,2 for the Ontario Group A Streptococcal Study Group
1University of Toronto, 2Mount Sinai Hospital, 3Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, and 4Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science, Toronto, and 5Ottawa Hospital and University of Ottawa, Ontario; 6National Centre for Streptococcus, Edmonton, Alberta; and 7Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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