1. Viral infection and atherosclerosis

   • Nima Hemmat
   • Amin Ebadi
   • Hossein Bannazadeh Baghi

   Review 05 September 2018 Pages: 2225 - 2233

   

2. Roles of intestinal microbiota in response to cancer immunotherapy

   • Jing Cong
   • Xiaochun Zhang

   Review 12 September 2018 Pages: 2235 - 2240

3. Related carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella isolates detected in both a hospital and associated aquatic environment in Sweden

   • Faisal Ahmad Khan
   • Bengt Hellmark
   • Jana Jass

   Original Article Open access 31 August 2018 Pages: 2241 - 2251

   

4. Improving timelines in reporting results from positive blood cultures: simulation of impact of rapid identification on therapy on a real-life cohort

   • Lien Cattoir
   • Liselotte Coorevits
   • Jerina Boelens

   Original Article 05 September 2018 Pages: 2253 - 2260

   

5. Infective endocarditis due to Streptococcus dysgalactiae: clinical presentation and microbiological features

   • Anna Bläckberg
   • Bo Nilson
   • Magnus Rasmussen

   Original Article Open access 08 September 2018 Pages: 2261 - 2272

   

6. Use of Andromas and Bruker MALDI-TOF MS in the identification of Neisseria

   • Florence Morel
   • Hervé Jacquier
   • Béatrice Berçot

   Original Article 03 September 2018 Pages: 2273 - 2277

   

7. A comparison of Sensititre™ Anaerobe MIC plate with ATB ANA® test for the routine susceptibility testing of common anaerobe pathogens

   • Abdessalam Cherkaoui
   • Adrien Fischer
   • Jacques Schrenzel

   Original Article 06 September 2018 Pages: 2279 - 2284

   

8. A systematic review of randomised clinical trials for oral antibiotic treatment of acute pyelonephritis

   • Jonathan W. S. Cattrall
   • Alyss V. Robinson
   • Andrew Kirby

   Original Article Open access 06 September 2018 Pages: 2285 - 2291

9. Variable spectrum of disease and risk factors of peripartum Clostridium difficile infection: report of 14 cases from French hospitals and literature review

   • Claire de Curraize
   • Clotilde Rousseau
   • Alban Le Monnier

   Original Article 03 September 2018 Pages: 2293 - 2299

10. Novel diagnostic ELISA test for discrimination between infections with Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

    • Tomasz Wielkoszynski
    • Aliyeh Moghaddam
    • Malgorzata Wilczynska

    Original Article Open access 20 September 2018 Pages: 2301 - 2306

    

11. The effect of short-course gentamicin therapy on kidney function in patients with bacteraemia—a retrospective cohort study

    • Sarah Carlsen
    • Jonas Boel
    • Magnus Arpi

    Original Article 17 September 2018 Pages: 2307 - 2312

12. Laboratory automation reduces time to report of positive blood cultures and improves management of patients with bloodstream infection

    • Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio
    • Francesco Di Donato
    • Antonella Mencacci

    Original Article 14 September 2018 Pages: 2313 - 2322

    

13. Multiplex real-time PCR for diagnosing malaria in a non-endemic setting: a prospective comparison to conventional methods

    • R. H. T. Nijhuis
    • L. van Lieshout
    • E. Wessels

    Original Article Open access 26 September 2018 Pages: 2323 - 2329

    

14. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) proteomic profiling of cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of enteroviral meningitis: a proof-of-principle study

    • Ignacio Torres
    • Estela Giménez
    • David Navarro

    Original Article 27 September 2018 Pages: 2331 - 2339

    

15. Fecal calprotectin concentrations in cancer patients with Clostridium difficile infection

    • Taojun He
    • Samuel E. Kaplan
    • Yi-Wei Tang

    Original Article 21 September 2018 Pages: 2341 - 2346

16. Large variation in ESBL-producing Escherichia coli carriers in six European countries including Russia

    • Sofia Ny
    • Roman Kozlov
    • NoDARS ESBL-carrier working group

    Original Article Open access 18 October 2018 Pages: 2347 - 2354

    

17. Clinical heterogeneity of patients with stool samples testing PCR+/Tox− from a two-step Clostridium difficile diagnostic algorithm

    • Jason Zou
    • Victor Leung
    • Christopher F. Lowe

    Original Article 20 September 2018 Pages: 2355 - 2359

    

18. Implications of stx loss for clinical diagnostics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

    • Thulasika Senthakumaran
    • Lin Torstensen Brandal
    • Hege Smith Tunsjø

    Original Article 28 September 2018 Pages: 2361 - 2370

    

19. Vaginal Ureaplasma species increase chorioamnionitis in very preterm infants with preterm premature rupture of the membranes at < 28 weeks of gestation

    • Yu Suzuki
    • Kenji Horie
    • Akihide Ohkuchi

    Original Article 22 September 2018 Pages: 2371 - 2380

    

20. How are trainees in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases supervised in Europe? An international cross-sectional questionnaire survey by the Trainee Association of ESCMID

    • Zaira R. Palacios-Baena
    • Thea Christine Zapf
    • On behalf of the Trainee Association of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)

    Original Article Open access 25 September 2018 Pages: 2381 - 2387

    

21. Real-time quantitative PCR analysis of endoscopic biopsies for diagnosing CMV gastrointestinal disease in non-HIV immunocompromised patients: a diagnostic accuracy study

    • Yasuhiro Tsuchido
    • Miki Nagao
    • Satoshi Ichiyama

    Original Article 25 September 2018 Pages: 2389 - 2396

    

22. The association between treatment appropriateness according to EUCAST and CLSI breakpoints and mortality among patients with candidemia: a retrospective observational study

    • Nesrin Ghanem-Zoubi
    • Danny Zorbavel
    • Mical Paul

    Original Article 03 October 2018 Pages: 2397 - 2404

23. Impact of total laboratory automation on workflow and specimen processing time for culture of urine specimens

    • Melanie L. Yarbrough
    • William Lainhart
    • Carey-Ann D. Burnham

    Original Article 29 September 2018 Pages: 2405 - 2411

    

24. Respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospitalization rates in high-risk populations: an observational comparative cohort analysis

    • B. Resch
    • C. Puchas
    • B. Urlesberger

    Letter to the Editor 24 September 2018 Pages: 2413 - 2414