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A comparative study of two different methods of sample preparation for positive blood cultures for the rapid identification of bacteria using MALDI-TOF MS.

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Activity of ceftazidime-avibactam against fluoroquinolone-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 9 March 2015

Adherence to Human Colon Cells by Multidrug Resistant Enterobacterales Strains Isolated From Solid Organ Transplant Recipients With a Focus on Citrobacter freundii

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

An evidence-based bundle improves the quality of care and outcomes of patients with candidaemia

scientific article published in March 2020

An experimental model of pneumonia induced by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in ventilated piglets

scientific article published on 29 March 2010

Antibiotic selection in the treatment of acute invasive infections by Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Guidelines by the Spanish Society of Chemotherapy.

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Antimicrobial susceptibility among important pathogens collected as part of the Tigecycline Evaluation and Surveillance Trial (T.E.S.T.) in Spain, 2004-2014.

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Assessment of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Assay for the Rapid Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria from Respiratory Samples in Patients with Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia

scientific article published on 11 January 2020

Assessment of in vivo versus in vitro biofilm formation of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from endotracheal tubes

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Author Correction: Biofilm formation by multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae strains isolated from solid organ transplant recipients

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Bacteraemia and antibiotic-resistant pathogens in community acquired pneumonia: risk and prognosis

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

Biofilm Formation and Quorum-Sensing-Molecule Production by Clinical Isolates of Serratia liquefaciens.

scientific article published on 6 March 2015

Biofilm formation by multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae strains isolated from solid organ transplant recipients

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE WITH CEFTOLOZANE/TAZOBACTAM IN PATIENTS WITH SERIOUS INFECTIONS DUE TO RESISTANT PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA.

scientific article published on 20 January 2018

Candida norvegensis fungemia in a liver transplant recipient

scientific article published on 2 May 2014

Candida species bloodstream infection: epidemiology and outcome in a single institution from 1991 to 2008

scientific article published on 07 January 2011

Candida spp. bloodstream infection: influence of antifungal treatment on outcome.

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

Cefotaxime resistance and outcome of Klebsiella spp bloodstream infection

scientific article published on 21 April 2011

Changes in the treatment of Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis in Spain in the last 15 years: from ampicillin plus gentamicin to ampicillin plus ceftriaxone

scientific article published on 11 August 2014

Changing epidemiology of bloodstream infection in a 25-years hematopoietic stem cell transplant program: current challenges and pitfalls on empiric antibiotic treatment impacting outcomes

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Changing epidemiology of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections: increasing prevalence of Gram-negative pathogens

scientific article published on 10 June 2011

Class 1 Integrons in Salmonella Strains causing traveler's diarrhea

scientific article published in April 2006

Clinical characteristics and outcome of elderly patients with community-onset bacteremia.

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Clinical characteristics and prognosis of infections caused by OXA-48 carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in patients treated with ceftazidime-avibactam

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Clinical utility of daptomycin in infective endocarditis caused by Gram-positive cocci.

scientific article published on 21 March 2011

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus meningitis complicated by cerebral infarction. Role of antibiotic combination of linezolid plus levofloxacin.

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Community-onset bacteraemia of unknown origin: clinical characteristics, epidemiology and outcome.

scientific article published on 8 June 2014

Comparative activity of carbapenem testing: the COMPACT study

scientific article published in 2011

Comparison of the Vitek MS and Bruker Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Systems for Identification of Rhodococcus equi and Dietzia spp.

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Correction: Outcome of Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis according to the length of antibiotic therapy: Preliminary data from a cohort of 78 patients.

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Current time-to-positivity of blood cultures in febrile neutropenia: a tool to be used in stewardship de-escalation strategies

scientific article published on 07 August 2018

Cutaneous infection by Phaeoacremonium parasiticum

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Daptomycin is effective for treatment of experimental endocarditis due to methicillin-resistant and glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus epidermidis

scientific article published on 26 April 2010

Detection of extended-spectrum β-lactamase- and/or carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae directly from positive blood culture using a commercialised microarray technique.

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Development of a new protocol for rapid bacterial identification and susceptibility testing directly from urine samples.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Distribution of beta-lactamases in Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates and the effect of Syn 2190 (AmpC inhibitor) on the MICs of different beta-lactam antibiotics

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Early in vitro and in vivo development of high-level daptomycin resistance is common in mitis group Streptococci after exposure to daptomycin

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Echinocandins Compared to Fluconazole for Candidemia of a Urinary Tract Source: A Propensity Score Analysis

scientific article published in 2017

Effect of meropenem administration in extended infusion on the clinical outcome of febrile neutropenia: a retrospective observational study

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Effectiveness of combination therapy versus monotherapy with a third-generation cephalosporin in bacteraemic pneumococcal pneumonia: A propensity score analysis

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Efficacy and safety of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy for infective endocarditis: a ten-year prospective study

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Efficacy of linezolid compared to vancomycin in an experimental model of pneumonia induced by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in ventilated pigs

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Emergence of Resistance to Quinolones and β-Lactam Antibiotics in Enteroaggregative and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Causing Traveler's Diarrhea

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Epidemiology and clinical outcomes of bloodstream infections among lupus patients

scientific article published on 09 June 2011

Epidemiology and prognostic determinants of bacteraemic biliary tract infection.

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Epidemiology and prognostic determinants of bacteraemic catheter-acquired urinary tract infection in a single institution from 1991 to 2010.

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Epidemiology and prognostic determinants of bacteremic acute pyelonephritis in women

scientific article published on 17 October 2012

Epidemiology, risk factors, and impact of bacterial infections on outcomes for pancreatic grafts

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Epidemiology, species distribution and in vitro antifungal susceptibility of fungaemia in a Spanish multicentre prospective survey.

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Evaluation of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification-based methodology to detect carbapenemase carriage in Acinetobacter clinical isolates.

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Evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic test for the detection of OXA-48 carbapenemase

scientific article published on 6 December 2016

Evaluation of ceftazidime/avibactam for serious infections due to multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Evaluation of different competitive immunoassays for aflatoxin M1 determination in milk samples by means of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Evaluation of the Magicplex™ Sepsis Real-Time Test for the Rapid Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections in Adults

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Evaluation of the eazyplex® SuperBug CRE system for rapid detection of carbapenemases and ESBLs in clinical Enterobacteriaceae isolates recovered at two Spanish hospitals

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Evolution of antimicrobial resistance in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli causing traveller's diarrhoea.

scientific article published on 27 May 2009

Extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli faecal carriage in Spanish travellers returning from tropical and subtropical countries.

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Factors associated with the development of septic shock in patients with candidemia: a post hoc analysis from two prospective cohorts

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

First description of an Escherichia coli strain producing NDM-1 carbapenemase in Spain

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First outbreak of a plasmid-mediated carbapenem-hydrolyzing OXA-48 beta-lactamase in Klebsiella pneumoniae in Spain.

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Fosfomycin plus β-Lactams as Synergistic Bactericidal Combinations for Experimental Endocarditis Due to Methicillin-Resistant and Glycopeptide-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus

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Glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium. Analysis of the resistance genotype, virulence and genetic lines ⬇️

scientific article published on July 9, 2012

HACEK infective endocarditis: Epidemiology, clinical features, and outcome: A case-control study

scientific article published on 25 August 2018

Health Care-Associated Infective Endocarditis: a Growing Entity that Can Be Prevented

scientific article published on November 2014

High prevalence of nalidixic acid resistant, ciprofloxacin susceptible phenotype among clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and other Enterobacteriaceae

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High-dose daptomycin plus fosfomycin is safe and effective in treating methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis

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Impact of Cefotaxime Non-susceptibility on the Clinical Outcomes of Bacteremic Pneumococcal Pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Impact of antibiotic resistance on the development of recurrent and relapsing symptomatic urinary tract infection in kidney recipients

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Impact of urinary tract infections on short-term kidney graft outcome

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In vitro activity of clinafloxacin in comparison with other quinolones against Stenotrophomonas maltophilia clinical isolates in the presence and absence of reserpine

scientific article published in February 2002

In vitro activity of gemifloxacin against clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with and without mutations in the gyrA gene

scientific article published on July 2003

Inappropriate Empirical Antibiotic Treatment in High-risk Neutropenic Patients With Bacteremia in the Era of Multidrug Resistance

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Incidence and outcome of early Candida peritonitis after liver and pancreas transplantation

scientific article published on 17 August 2012

Infective endocarditis in patients with an implanted transcatheter aortic valve: Clinical characteristics and outcome of a new entity

scientific article published on 03 January 2015

Influence of empirical double-active combination antimicrobial therapy compared with active monotherapy on mortality in patients with septic shock: a propensity score-adjusted and matched analysis

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Influence of multidrug resistance and appropriate empirical therapy on the 30-day mortality rate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia.

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Influence of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration on the outcome of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus left-sided infective endocarditis treated with antistaphylococcal β-lactam antibiotics: a prospective cohort study by the Intern

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Isolation of VIM-2-producing Pseudomonas monteilii clinical strains disseminated in a tertiary hospital in northern Spain.

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

Management of infection and febrile neutropenia in patients with solid cancer

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Mecanismos de resistencia a betalactámicos y ácido nalidíxico en aislados clínicos de Salmonella enterica serotipo hadar y bsilla

Mechanism of resistance to several antimicrobial agents in Salmonella Clinical isolates causing traveler's diarrhea

scientific article published on October 2004

Molecular characterization of blaNDM-5 carried on an IncFII plasmid in an Escherichia coli isolate from a nontraveler patient in Spain

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Molecular methods for septicemia diagnosis.

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Mortality due to Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in low-income settings: an autopsy study

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Multicenter study of epidemiological cutoff values and detection of resistance in Candida spp. to anidulafungin, caspofungin, and micafungin using the Sensititre YeastOne colorimetric method.

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Neglecting enterococci may lead to a misinterpretation of the consequences of last changes in endocarditis prophylaxis American Heart Association guidelines

scientific article published on 01 November 2015

Outcome of Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis according to the length of antibiotic therapy: Preliminary data from a cohort of 78 patients.

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Performance of EUCAST and CLSI approaches for co-amoxiclav susceptibility testing conditions for clinical categorization of a collection of Escherichia coli isolates with characterized resistance phenotypes

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Performance of differential time to positivity as a routine diagnostic test for catheter-related bloodstream infections: a single-centre experience

scientific article published on 06 July 2019

Perioperative prophylaxis with ertapenem reduced infections caused by extended-spectrum betalactamase-producting Enterobacteriaceae after kidney transplantation

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Predictive and prognostic factors in patients with blood-culture-positive community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia.

scientific article published on 12 May 2016

Predictors of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in neutropenic patients with bloodstream infection

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Prevalence of Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase- and/or Carbapenemase-Producing Escherichia coli Isolated from Yellow-Legged Gulls from Barcelona, Spain

scientific article published on 5 December 2016

Prospective multicenter study of the epidemiology, molecular identification, and antifungal susceptibility of Candida parapsilosis, Candida orthopsilosis, and Candida metapsilosis isolated from patients with candidemia

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Pulmonary complications of pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia: incidence, predictors, and outcomes

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Rapid Diagnosis of Staphylococcal Catheter-Related Bacteraemia in Direct Blood Samples by Real-Time PCR.

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Rapid detection of β-lactamases directly from positive blood cultures using a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)-based assay

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Real-life epidemiology and current outcomes of hospitalized adults with invasive fungal infections

scientific article published in 2023

Recommendations of the Spanish Antibiogram Committee (COESANT) for selecting antimicrobial agents and concentrations for in vitro susceptibility studies using automated systems

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Relationship Between Enterococcus faecalis Infective Endocarditis and Colorectal Neoplasm: Preliminary Results From a Cohort of 154 Patients

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Relationship between Vancomycin MIC and Virulence Gene Expression in Clonal Complexes of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from Left-Sided Endocarditis

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Risk factors for mortality in patients with acute leukemia and bloodstream infections in the era of multiresistance.

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Risk factors for pericardial effusion in native valve infective endocarditis and its influence on outcome.

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Risk factors for the isolation of a third generation cephalosporin resistant strain in patients with community-acquired Enterobacteriaceae bacteraemia.

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Role of age and comorbidities in mortality of patients with infective endocarditis

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Serotypes and clones causing invasive pneumococcal disease before the use of new conjugate vaccines in Catalonia, Spain ⬇️

scientific article published on June 12, 2011

Serotypes and genotypes of S. pneumoniae isolates from adult invasive disease in Spain: A 5-year prospective surveillance after pediatric PCV13 licensure. The ODIN study

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Severe Hepatitis C Recurrence as a Risk Factor for Opportunistic Infections in Liver Transplant Recipients

scientific article published on 10 March 2018

Successful treatment of three severe MDR or XDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections with ceftolozane/tazobactam

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

The Combination of Daptomycin plus Fosfomycin has Synergistic, Potent and Rapid Bactericidal Activity against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a Rabbit Model of Experimental Endocarditis (EE).

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The Effect of Macrolide Resistance on the Presentation and Outcome of Patients Hospitalized for Streptococcus pneumoniae Pneumonia.

scientific article published on June 2015

Time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcomes and severity in adults with bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia.

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Time to positivity and detection of growth in anaerobic blood culture vials predict the presence of Candida glabrata in candidemia: a two-center European cohort study.

scientific article published on 4 June 2014

Time-to-positivity, type of culture media and oxidase test performed on positive blood culture vials to predict Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients with Gram-negative bacilli bacteraemia

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Trends in antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter spp. causing traveler's diarrhea

scientific article published on March 2007

Twenty-year trend in mortality among hospitalized patients with pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Usefulness of time-to-positivity in aerobic and anaerobic vials to predict the presence of Candida glabrata in patients with candidaemia.

scientific article published on 9 July 2013

[Fulminant sepsis due to Capnocytophaga canimorsus: Diagnosis by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry]

scientific article published on 06 October 2013

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