Outcomes with daptomycin versus standard therapy for osteoarticular infections associated with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Jan 2008  Vol.61  N.1  p.177-182

T. Lalani1,*, H. W. Boucher2, S. E. Cosgrove3, V. G. Fowler1, Z. A. Kanafani1, G. A. Vigliani4, M. Campion5, E. Abrutyn6,, D. P. Levine7, C. S. Price8, S. J. Rehm9, G. R. Corey1, A. W. Karchmer for the S. aureus Endocarditis and Bacteraemia Study Group10

1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA 2 Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA 3 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 4 Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Lexington, MA, USA 5 Independent Consultant, Newton, MA, USA 6 Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA 7 Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA 8 Denver Health Medical, Denver, CO, USA 9 Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA 10 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1-919-668-8077; Fax: +1-919-668-7103; E-mail: lalan002@mc.duke.edu

abstract
http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/61/1/177

Non-HACEK Gram-Negative Bacillus Endocarditis

Annals of Internal Medicine  18 Dec  2007  Vol.147  N.12   p.829-835

Susan Morpeth, MBChB; David Murdoch, MD; Christopher H. Cabell, MD, MHS; Adolf W. Karchmer, MD; Paul Pappas, MS; Donald Levine, MD; Francisco Nacinovich, MD; Pierre Tattevin, MD; Núria Fernández-Hidalgo, MD; Stuart Dickerman, MD; Emilio Bouza, MD, PhD; Ana del Río, MD; Tatjana Lejko-Zupanc, MD, PhD; Auristela de Oliveira Ramos, MD; Diana Iarussi, MD; John Klein, MD; Catherine Chirouze, MD; Roger Bedimo, MD, MS; G. Ralph Corey, MD; Vance G. Fowler, Jr., MD, MHS, the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Prospective Cohort Study (ICE-PCS) Investigators*

From Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina; University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Wayne State University Health Center, Detroit, Michigan; Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Pontchaillou University Hospital, Rennes, France; Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; New York University School of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York; Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain; Hospital Clínic i Provincial Clinic—Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Medical Center Ljublijana, Ljublijana, Slovenia; Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiología, São Paulo, Brazil; II Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy; St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom; University Medical Center of Besançon, Besançon, France; and Veterans Health Affairs North Texas, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

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http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/147/12/829

Acute Hepatitis with Severe Cholestasis and Prolonged Clinical Course Due to Hepatitis A Virus Ia and Ib Coinfection

Clinical Infectious Diseases 1 May 2007 Vol.44 N.9  e73–e77

Nicola Coppola,1 Domenico Genovese,2 Mariantonietta Pisaturo,1 Stefania Taffon,2
Claudio Argentini,2 Giuseppe Pasquale,1 Caterina Sagnelli,1 Felice Piccinino,1 Maria Rapicetta,2 and Evangelista Sagnelli1

1Department of Public Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Second University of Naples, Naples, and 2Viral Hepatitis Unit, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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