During the past 10 years, multidrug-resistant Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae have become
a substantial challenge to infection control. It has been suggested by clinicians that the …

… A recent review of the literature confirmed that VIM-2 is the most dominant MBL in P.
aeruginosa and confers the greatest clinical threat. VIM-2 has been reported from 37 countries …

Globally, rates of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae are rising. We undertook a literature
review, and present the temporal trends in bla CTX-M epidemiology, showing that bla CTX-M-…

Background The Direct Repeat locus of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) is a
member of the CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) …

Background Ulcerative colitis has been suggested to be caused by infection and there is
circumstantial evidence linking Escherichia coli with the condition. Our aim was to find out …

… of epidemiologically linked patients differing by five SNPs or fewer was 47 (p=0·003). …
separated by 25, 94, 96, and 275 SNPs (exact p=0·03 comparing six of six known links [individuals …

… In a, the position of the inferred root is indicated by a dashed line, and dashed outlines in
a,b enclose the isolates with the gyrA mutation encoding p.Thr82Ile associated with …

We determined the prevalence and characteristics of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)
genes of Enterobacteriaceae in retail chicken meat and humans in the Netherlands. Raw …

Acinetobacter spp. are important nosocomial pathogens reported with increasing frequency
in outbreaks of cross-infection during the past 2 decades. The majority of such outbreaks are …

These evidence-based guidelines have been produced after a literature review of the
laboratory diagnosis and susceptibility testing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (…