Kim, Si-Ho Mun, Seok Jun Ko, Jae-Hoon Huh, Kyungmin Cho, Sun Young Kang, Cheol-In Chung, Doo Ryeon Choi, Gyu-Seong Kim, Jong Man Joh, Jae-Won
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European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Bloodstream infection (BSI) is a common complication after living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Some patients develop recurrent BSIs. We evaluated the impacts of early recurrent BSIs (ER-BSIs) on outcomes in LDLT recipients. LDLT cases between 2008 and 2016 were included. Early BSI (E-BSI) was defined as a BSI event that occurred within 2 mon...
Monreal, Enric Sainz de la Maza, Susana Natera-Villalba, Elena Beltrán-Corbellini, Álvaro Rodríguez-Jorge, Fernando Fernández-Velasco, Jose Ignacio Walo-Delgado, Paulette Muriel, Alfonso Zamora, Javier Alonso-Canovas, Araceli
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Despite the increasing evidence of the benefit of corticosteroids for the treatment of moderate-severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, no data are available about the potential role of high doses of steroids for these patients. We evaluated the mortality, the risk of need for mechanical ventilation (MV), or death and the risk of devel...
Lapuente, Dennis Maier, Clara Irrgang, Pascal Hübner, Julian Peter, Antonia Sophia Hoffmann, Markus Ensser, Armin Ziegler, Katharina Winkler, Thomas H. Birkholz, Torsten
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European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
SARS-CoV-2 has emerged as a previously unknown zoonotic coronavirus that spread worldwide causing a serious pandemic. While reliable nucleic acid–based diagnostic assays were rapidly available, only a limited number of validated serological assays were available in the early phase of the pandemic. Here, we evaluated a novel flow cytometric approach...
Pegoraro, Manuela Militello, Valentina Salvagno, Gian Luca Gaino, Stefania Bassi, Antonella Caloi, Cecilia Peretti, Angelo Bizzego, Silvia Poletto, Laura Bovo, Chiara
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Results of three rapid immunochromatographic tests (ICTs) were compared with those obtained with two automated immunoassays for evaluation of their usefulness. One hundred fifty-nine patients and 67 healthy volunteers were included. Different assays demonstrate 41–45% of diagnostic sensitivities and 91–98% of specificities, with substantial agreeme...
Lin, Enze Zou, Shengmei Wang, Yue Lee, Chien-Chung Chiu, Cheng-Hsun Feng, Ye
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Capsular polysaccharide (CPS) genes and pilus islands encode important virulence factors for group B Streptococcus (GBS) genomes. This study aims to detect phylogenetic inconsistency in CPS genes and pilus islands in GBSs and to explore its relationship with invasiveness. A total of 1016 GBS genomes were downloaded from the NCBI public database. Th...
Volpato, Fabiana Lima-Morales, Daiana Wink, Priscila Lamb Willig, Julia de-Paris, Fernanda Ashton-Prolla, Patricia Barth, Afonso Luís
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This study has aimed to evaluate the use pool of samples as a strategy to optimize the diagnostic of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-qPCR. A total of 220 naso/orofaryngeal swab samples were collected and tested using two different protocols of sample pooling. Results from protocol A were identical with the individual results. However, for results from protocol B,...
Gidari, Anna Nofri, Marco Saccarelli, Luca Bastianelli, Sabrina Sabbatini, Samuele Bozza, Silvia Camilloni, Barbara Fusco-Moffa, Igino Monari, Claudia De Robertis, Edoardo
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Can a patient diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) be infected again? This question is still unsolved. We tried to analyze local and literature cases with a positive respiratory swab after recovery. We collected data from symptomatic patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Italian Umbria Region tha...
Jiang, Yue-Peng Zhao, Xiao-Xuan Lv, Hui-Qing Wen, Cheng-Ping
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Recently, various studies have shown that angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) acts as the “doorknob” that can be bound by the spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which conduces to its entrance to the host cells, and plays an important role in corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This paper aims to coll...
Nouchi, Agathe Chastang, Julie Miyara, Makoto Lejeune, Julie Soares, André Ibanez, Gladys Saadoun, David Morélot-Panzini, Capucine Similowski, Thomas Amoura, Zahir
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European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Anecdotal evidence rapidly accumulated during March 2020 from sites around the world that sudden hyposmia and hypogeusia are significant symptoms associated with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our objective was to describe the prevalence of hyposmia and hypogeusia and compare it in hospitalized and non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients to evaluate an associ...
Yin, Yuyao Zhao, Chunjiang Li, Henan Jin, Longyang Wang, Qi Wang, Ruobing Zhang, Yawei Zhang, Jiangang Wang, Hui Yang, Chunxia
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European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is a significant nosocomial infection; data on the distribution and antimicrobial resistance profiles of HAP in China are limited. We included 2827 adult patients with HAP from the Chinese Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections network admitted in 15 Chinese teaching hospitals between 2007 a...
