List of works - Fabio Arena

A new selective broth enrichment automated method for detection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from rectal swabs.

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Accuracy of different methods for susceptibility testing of gentamicin with KPC carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae

scientific article published on 4 November 2014

Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing: Present and Future

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

Bactericidal activity of ceftaroline against mature Staphylococcus aureus biofilms

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Breakthrough bacteremia by linezolid-susceptible Enterococcus faecalis under linezolid treatment in a severe polytrauma patient

scientific article published on December 2013

CTX-M-type β-lactamases: a successful story of antibiotic resistance

scientific article published on 13 March 2013

Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae during 2011-12 in the Bolzano area (Northern Italy): increasing diversity in a low-endemicity setting

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

Ceftolozane-Tazobactam Pharmacokinetics during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Lung Transplant Recipient

scholarly article by Fabio Arena et al published March 2019 in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Ceftolozane-tazobactam pharmacokinetics during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a lung transplant recipient

Characterization of pFOX-7a, a conjugative IncL/M plasmid encoding the FOX-7 AmpC-type β-lactamase, involved in a large outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit

scientific article published on 13 June 2014

Clinical outcomes of elderly patients with bloodstream infections due to extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in an Italian Internal Medicine ward

scientific article

Clostridium difficile ribotype 033 colitis in a patient following broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment for KPCproducing Klebsiella pneumoniae infection, Italy

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Colistin Resistance Caused by Inactivation of the MgrB Regulator Is Not Associated with Decreased Virulence of Sequence Type 258 KPC Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Colistin resistance superimposed to endemic carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: a rapidly evolving problem in Italy, November 2013 to April 2014.

scientific article published on 23 October 2014

Compliance of clinical microbiology laboratories with recommendations for the diagnosis of bloodstream infections: Data from a nationwide survey in Italy

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Direct identification of microorganisms from positive blood cultures using the lysis-filtration technique and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS): a multicentre study

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Diversity of the epidemiology of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in long-term acute care rehabilitation settings from an area of hyperendemicity, and evaluation of an intervention bundle

scientific article published on 04 June 2018

Draft Genome Sequence of the First Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae Isolate from a Bloodstream Infection

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Epidemic diffusion of OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in Italy: results of the first cross-sectional countrywide survey

scientific article

Erythromycin Resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes and Macrolide Consumption in a Central Italian Region

article

Evolving beta-lactamase epidemiology in Enterobacteriaceae from Italian nationwide surveillance, October 2013: KPC-carbapenemase spreading among outpatients

scientific article published on August 2017

First case of bacteremic liver abscess caused by an ST260-related (ST1861), hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

scientific article published on 12 April 2016

First report of spondylodiscitis due to vancomycin heteroresistant Staphylococcus capitis in immunocompetent host

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Impact of a clinical microbiology-intensive care consulting program in a cardiothoracic intensive care unit

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

In vivo emergence of colistin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae producing KPC-type carbapenemases mediated by insertional inactivation of the PhoQ/PhoP mgrB regulator.

scientific article published on 26 August 2013

In vivo evolution to colistin resistance by PmrB sensor kinase mutation in KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae is associated with low-dosage colistin treatment

scientific article published on 19 May 2014

Infections and Organ Transplantation

Infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae with hypermucoviscous phenotype: A case report and literature review

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Italian nationwide survey on Pseudomonas aeruginosa from invasive infections: activity of ceftolozane/tazobactam and comparators, and molecular epidemiology of carbapenemase producers

scientific article

Lactobacillus Sepsis and Probiotic Therapy in Newborns: Two New Cases and Literature Review.

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Large Nosocomial Outbreak of Colistin-Resistant, Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Traced to Clonal Expansion of an mgrB Deletion Mutant

scientific article

Large oligoclonal outbreak due to Klebsiella pneumoniae ST14 and ST26 producing the FOX-7 AmpC β-lactamase in a neonatal intensive care unit

scientific article published on 02 October 2013

Mechanisms of Antibacterial Resistance

MgrB inactivation is a common mechanism of colistin resistance in KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae of clinical origin

scientific article

Molecular antibiogram in diagnostic clinical microbiology: advantages and challenges

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Molecular epidemiology of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae from invasive infections in Italy: increasing diversity with predominance of the ST512 clade II sublineage

scientific article published on September 2016

Novel Infectious Diseases and Emerging Gram-Positive Multi-Resistant Pathogens in Hospital and Community Acquired Infections

Oral gentamicin gut decontamination for prevention of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infections: relevance of concomitant systemic antibiotic therapy

scientific article

Performance of the BD MAX™ instrument with Check-Direct CPE real-time PCR for the detection of carbapenemase genes from rectal swabs, in a setting with endemic dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

scientific article published on 7 June 2016

Persistent carriage and infection by multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli ST405 producing NDM-1 carbapenemase: report on the first Italian cases

scientific article published on 27 April 2011

Pneumococcal disease in a paediatric population in a hospital of central Italy: a clinical and microbiological case series from 1992 to 2006.

scientific article published on 25 January 2008

Population structure of KPC carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a long-term acute-care rehabilitation facility: identification of a new lineage of clonal group 101, associated with local hyperendemicity

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Rapid detection of intestinal carriage of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing KPC carbapenemase during an outbreak.

scientific article published on 3 May 2012

Rapid resistome fingerprinting and clonal lineage profiling of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates by targeted next-generation sequencing

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

The GISA call to action for the appropriate use of antimicrobials and the control of antimicrobial resistance in Italy

article

The role of dalbavancin in the multi-disciplinary management of wound infections in orthopaedic surgery

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Update on the antibiotic resistance crisis

scientific article published on 23 September 2014

Usefulness of procalcitonin in differentiating Candida and bacterial blood stream infections in critically ill septic patients outside the intensive care unit

scientific article published on 4 February 2017

mcr-1.2, a New mcr Variant Carried on a Transferable Plasmid from a Colistin-Resistant KPC Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain of Sequence Type 512.

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

List of works by Fabio Arena

A new selective broth enrichment automated method for detection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from rectal swabs.

Accuracy of different methods for susceptibility testing of gentamicin with KPC carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae

Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing: Present and Future

Bactericidal activity of ceftaroline against mature Staphylococcus aureus biofilms

Breakthrough bacteremia by linezolid-susceptible Enterococcus faecalis under linezolid treatment in a severe polytrauma patient

CTX-M-type β-lactamases: a successful story of antibiotic resistance

Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae during 2011-12 in the Bolzano area (Northern Italy): increasing diversity in a low-endemicity setting

Ceftolozane-Tazobactam Pharmacokinetics during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Lung Transplant Recipient

Ceftolozane-tazobactam pharmacokinetics during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a lung transplant recipient

Characterization of pFOX-7a, a conjugative IncL/M plasmid encoding the FOX-7 AmpC-type β-lactamase, involved in a large outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit

Clinical outcomes of elderly patients with bloodstream infections due to extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in an Italian Internal Medicine ward

Clostridium difficile ribotype 033 colitis in a patient following broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment for KPCproducing Klebsiella pneumoniae infection, Italy

Colistin Resistance Caused by Inactivation of the MgrB Regulator Is Not Associated with Decreased Virulence of Sequence Type 258 KPC Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae

Colistin resistance superimposed to endemic carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: a rapidly evolving problem in Italy, November 2013 to April 2014.

Compliance of clinical microbiology laboratories with recommendations for the diagnosis of bloodstream infections: Data from a nationwide survey in Italy

Direct identification of microorganisms from positive blood cultures using the lysis-filtration technique and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS): a multicentre study

Diversity of the epidemiology of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in long-term acute care rehabilitation settings from an area of hyperendemicity, and evaluation of an intervention bundle

Draft Genome Sequence of the First Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae Isolate from a Bloodstream Infection

Epidemic diffusion of OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in Italy: results of the first cross-sectional countrywide survey

Erythromycin Resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes and Macrolide Consumption in a Central Italian Region

Evolving beta-lactamase epidemiology in Enterobacteriaceae from Italian nationwide surveillance, October 2013: KPC-carbapenemase spreading among outpatients

First case of bacteremic liver abscess caused by an ST260-related (ST1861), hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

First report of spondylodiscitis due to vancomycin heteroresistant Staphylococcus capitis in immunocompetent host

Impact of a clinical microbiology-intensive care consulting program in a cardiothoracic intensive care unit

In vivo emergence of colistin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae producing KPC-type carbapenemases mediated by insertional inactivation of the PhoQ/PhoP mgrB regulator.

In vivo evolution to colistin resistance by PmrB sensor kinase mutation in KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae is associated with low-dosage colistin treatment

Infections and Organ Transplantation

Infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae with hypermucoviscous phenotype: A case report and literature review

Italian nationwide survey on Pseudomonas aeruginosa from invasive infections: activity of ceftolozane/tazobactam and comparators, and molecular epidemiology of carbapenemase producers

Lactobacillus Sepsis and Probiotic Therapy in Newborns: Two New Cases and Literature Review.

Large Nosocomial Outbreak of Colistin-Resistant, Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Traced to Clonal Expansion of an mgrB Deletion Mutant

Large oligoclonal outbreak due to Klebsiella pneumoniae ST14 and ST26 producing the FOX-7 AmpC β-lactamase in a neonatal intensive care unit

Mechanisms of Antibacterial Resistance

MgrB inactivation is a common mechanism of colistin resistance in KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae of clinical origin

Molecular antibiogram in diagnostic clinical microbiology: advantages and challenges

Molecular epidemiology of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae from invasive infections in Italy: increasing diversity with predominance of the ST512 clade II sublineage

Novel Infectious Diseases and Emerging Gram-Positive Multi-Resistant Pathogens in Hospital and Community Acquired Infections

Oral gentamicin gut decontamination for prevention of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infections: relevance of concomitant systemic antibiotic therapy

Performance of the BD MAX™ instrument with Check-Direct CPE real-time PCR for the detection of carbapenemase genes from rectal swabs, in a setting with endemic dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

Persistent carriage and infection by multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli ST405 producing NDM-1 carbapenemase: report on the first Italian cases

Pneumococcal disease in a paediatric population in a hospital of central Italy: a clinical and microbiological case series from 1992 to 2006.

Population structure of KPC carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a long-term acute-care rehabilitation facility: identification of a new lineage of clonal group 101, associated with local hyperendemicity

Rapid detection of intestinal carriage of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing KPC carbapenemase during an outbreak.

Rapid resistome fingerprinting and clonal lineage profiling of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates by targeted next-generation sequencing

The GISA call to action for the appropriate use of antimicrobials and the control of antimicrobial resistance in Italy

The role of dalbavancin in the multi-disciplinary management of wound infections in orthopaedic surgery

Update on the antibiotic resistance crisis

Usefulness of procalcitonin in differentiating Candida and bacterial blood stream infections in critically ill septic patients outside the intensive care unit

mcr-1.2, a New mcr Variant Carried on a Transferable Plasmid from a Colistin-Resistant KPC Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain of Sequence Type 512.