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  The San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital experience: improving blood and urine culture preanalytical quality by shared protocols

  Angela Samiolo, Elena Ardizzi, Angela Ardizzola, Ornella Bianco, Anna Rita De Luigi, Paola Lovera, Stefania Pelassa, Paola Silvaplana, Giuseppina Viberti, Giuseppe De Renzi

  07-07-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.6602

  1942

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• Optimizing Gram stain interpretation: a comparison of four smear preparation methods for Gram staining of positively automated blood culture bottles

  Swati Nirmal, Kirti Nirmal, Nimisha Jain, Arghya Bandyopadhyay, Shukla Das

  02-03-2026

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2025.14213

  165

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  Emergency management in bacterial meningitis and sepsis: application of real time-polymerase chain reaction and FilmArray technology performed directly on cerebrospinal fluid and blood samples

  Loria Bianchi, Zaleida Napoli, Swan Donati, Patrizia Lencioni, Fabiano Santoni, Riccardo Lari

  18-12-2015

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2015.5084

  5463

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  Evaluation of the Verigene® Blood Culture Nucleic Acid test for rapid identification of gram positive pathogens from positive blood cultures

  Agnese Cellini, Maria Federica Pedna, Francesca Del Bianco, Vittorio Sambri

  18-06-2015

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2015.4945

  2164

  Downloads: 761

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• Same-day identification and genotypic antibiotic resistance testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and non-tuberculous mycobacteria from positive blood culture bottles – a proof of principle assessment

  Anna Camaggi, Rosalba Minisini, Stelvio Tonello, Monia Mantovani, Maria Simona Caroppo, Anna Merlo, Miriam Cordovana, Markus Kostrzewa, Hagen Frickmann, Stefano Andreoni

  03-12-2024

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2024.12755

  928

  Downloads: 334

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• Extended incubation in blood cultures: necessity or nuance?

  Prakriti Negi, Salman Khan, Kuhu Chatterjee, Munesh Kumar Gupta, Deepak Kumar, Pradyot Prakash

  12-12-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2025.14134

  589

  Downloads: 306

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  Introduction of Gram negative microrganisms rapid identification and direct susceptibility testing to reduce turnaround time in blood cultures

  Maria Vittoria Mauro, Saveria Dodaro, Daniela Perugini, Francesca Greco, Cristina Giraldi

  30-12-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.6963

  1904

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  Real life turnaround time of blood cultures in the clinical microbiology laboratory: results of the first Italian survey, May 2015

  Fabio Arena, Marta Argentieri, Paola Bernaschi, Giacomo Fortina, Vesselina Kroumova, Esther Manso, Pier Giorgio Montanera, Pierluigi Nicoletti, Patrizia Pecile, Mario Rassu, Gian Maria Rossolini, Teresa Spanu, Pierangelo Clerici, Carla Fontana

  18-10-2016

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.6127

  2515

  Downloads: 921

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  Elizabethkingia meningosepticum: an emerging nosocomial pathogen in a critical patient with septicaemia

  Vittorio Panetta, Rita Greco, Sandra Costanzo, Andrea Morello, Angelo Costanzo, Giuseppe Canzano

  28-03-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.5009

  2259

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  Superficial and subcutaneous mycoses

  Gianluigi Lombardi, Giuliana Lo Cascio, Stefano Andreoni, Elisabetta Blasi, Marco Conte, Claudio Farina, Paolo Fazii, Silvana Sanna, Laura Trovato

  22-07-2020

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2020.9156

  3804

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  The clinical relevance of pathogen Aerococcus urinae identification by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry: a case of sepsis in 86-year-old Caucasian male

  Jari Intra, Cecilia Sarto, Giuseppe Serra, Paolo Brambilla

  05-08-2020

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2020.8965

  905

  Downloads: 452

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  Parvovirus B19: recent insights and implications for pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy

  Giorgio Gallinella

  10-10-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.7109

  2277

  Downloads: 1024

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  Implementation of satellite blood-culture system in an emergency department: impact of time-to results in sepsis detection

  Andrea Rocchetti, Fabio Rapallo, Paolo Bottino, Alessandra Mastrazzo

  30-06-2016

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.5859

  1973

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  A rare case of enteric and systemic Yersinia enterocolitica infection in a chronic, not iron-overloaded dialysis patient

  Jari Intra, Sara Auricchio, Roberta M. Sala, Paolo Brambilla

  28-03-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.6614

  1941

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  Culturomics: bacterial species isolated in 3 healthy donors for faecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection

  Luca Masucci, Gianluca Quaranta, Domenico Nagel, Sandra Primus, Lucio Romano, Rosalia Graffeo, Gianluca Ianiro, Antonio Gasbarrini, Giovanni Cammarota, Maurizio Sanguinetti

  28-03-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.6510

  2771

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• Susceptibility patterns of Streptococcus pyogenes isolated in the Italian Hospital of Desio: a 20-year (2000-2019) retrospective study

  Jari Intra, Davide Carcione, Roberta Maria Sala, Claudia Siracusa, Paolo Brambilla, Valerio Leoni

  02-03-2026

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2025.14201

  134

  Downloads: 109

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• A fatal rhabdomyolysis with the presence of Bacillus cereus on blood culture: description of a clinical case

  Lara Scoppapietra, Alessio Audino, Guido Ricciardelli, Giuseppina Amarù, Maura Millesimo, Cristina Crocillà, Valentino Granero

  27-05-2024

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2024.12419

  884

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• Identification of Brucella (Ochrobactrum) anthropi by MALDI-TOF MS from blood: a case report

  Maria Teresa Della Rocca, Filomena Merola, Adriana Durante, Vittorio Panetta, Stefano Labella, Giuseppina Tucci, Antonio Marino, Giusy Natale, Francesco Pardo, Catia Sabbato, Rita Greco

  12-03-2024

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2024.11885

  1114

  Downloads: 360

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  Risk factors matter: case report of Y. pseudotuberculosis in obese patient

  Lara Scoppapietra, Giuseppina Amarù, Cristina Crocillà, Mara Finotti, Marika Salafia, Alessandra Canevaro, Valentino Granero

  12-12-2022

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2022.10784

  832

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  Atopobium vaginae: a literature review, on findings and potential clinical implications

  Andrea Mariano, Angelo Salzo, Valentina Felice, Massimiliano Scutellà

  22-05-2019

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2019.8014

  1864

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  First case of fungal rhinosinusitis due to Aspergillus nomius in a child with aplastic anaemia

  Yasemin Oz, Muge Aslan, Nuray Gundogdu, Ozcan Bor

  06-11-2019

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2019.8148

  1228

  Downloads: 453

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  Proteomics: the new era of microbiology

  Marco Toscano, Roberta de Grandi, Lorenzo Drago

  27-02-2018

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.7348

  2182

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  Systematic Yersinia enterocolitica in an iron overloaded and immunocompromised thalassemic patient

  Sophia Delicou, Aikaterini Petrocheilou, Myria Pougiouka, Konstantinos Maragkos

  10-10-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.6873

  1279

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  The global Mycobacterium chimaera outbreak

  Enrico Tortoli

  22-05-2019

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2019.8037

  1300

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  An unusual case of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa fungaemia in a cancer patient

  Valentino Granero, Elvio Peyronel, Nicoletta Mensa, Nicola Liuzzi, Cristina Costa, Maria Rita Cavallo

  10-10-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.6827

  1451

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  Sepsis by Capnocytophaga

  Lara Ines Bellazzi, Liudmyla Diachyshyna, Marcella Mercuri, Cristina Terulla, Panajota Troupioti, Filippo Costanzo

  30-12-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.7105

  1542

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• Use of Maldi-Tof Mass spectrometry in direct microorganism identification in clinical laboratories

  Tamara Brunelli, Roberto Degl’Innocenti, Antonella Conti, Patrizia Casprini

  30-09-2010

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2010.2416

  1176

  Downloads: 1228
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  Plasma concentration of presepsin and its relationship to the diagnosis of infections in multiple trauma patients admitted to intensive care

  Monica Sparacino, Emanuele Russo, Sofia Vitali, Arianna Torri, Maria Federica Pedna, Mariangela Di Viesti, Marina Gagliardi, Elisabetta Crepaldi, Monica Castiglioni, Vanni Agnoletti, Vittorio Sambri

  07-07-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.6870

  2228

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  Case series of Salmonella spp. infections confirmed by culture test at the hospital clinical laboratory in L’Aquila (Italy), years 2011-2018

  Vittoriano Torrelli, Valentina Cesarini, Elisa Di Giulio, Gianfranca Miconi, Francesco Gentile, Alessia Rosciano, Anna Rita Tomei, Pamela Renzetti, Maria Scatigna

  06-05-2021

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2021.9354

  1773

  Downloads: 471

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• Validity of direct identification and antibiotic susceptibility of microrganisms from bottles of blood culture

  Carmela Mazzone, Maria Luisa Laterza, Lucio Tauro

  31-12-2009

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2009.2499

  962

  Downloads: 896
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  Rapid acquisition and modulation of colistin-resistance by an extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: case report and review of current literature

  Jari Intra, Roberta M. Sala, Eduardo Beck, Paolo Brambilla

  18-10-2016

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.5869

  1285

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• Optimizing urinary tract infection diagnosis: time and resource efficiency with the Sysmex UF-4000i

  Babacar Ndiaye, Moustapha Faye, Abdou Diop, Mareme Thiam, Rena Derwiche, Samba Diao, Thierno Abdoulaye Diallo, Chantal Mahou, Abdoulaye Seck

  22-04-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2025.13299

  798

  Downloads: 320

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• A study on non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli: their isolation and in vitro susceptibility in a tertiary care hospital in Central India

  Preeti Sharma, Varsha Wanjare, Sunanda Shrikhande Zodpey

  04-08-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2025.13765

  799

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  Reporting epidemiology of antibiotic resistance

  Simone Ambretti, Carlo Gagliotti, Francesco Luzzaro, Paolo Malacarne, Angelo Pan, Barbara Pieretti, Carlo Tascini, Mario Sarti, Comitato CoSIAS-AMCLI

  18-12-2015

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2015.5308

  3600

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• Survey of blood cultures methods in Italy in 2010

  Antonio Goglio, Pierluigi Nicoletti, Patrizia Pecile, Annibale Raglio

  30-09-2011

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2349

  1996

  Downloads: 1246
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  Colonial morphology of Escherichia coli: impact of detection in clinical specimens

  Lucia Barcella, Angelo Pasquale Barbaro, Santa Beatrice Rogolino

  30-06-2016

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.5636

  12143

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  MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for the rapid identification of aetiological agents of sepsis

  Roberto Degl’Innocenti, Tamara Brunelli, Loredana Ortega De Luna, Patrizia Miglietta, Mayra Sosa, Antonella Conti, Patrizia Casprini

  30-04-2013

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2013.2276

  1253

  Downloads: 1232

• Sepsis: a more faster report from blood culture

  Raffaella Ledonne, Paolina Cavalcanti, Maria Agnese Filia, Daniela Perugini, Carmela Gaccione, Paola Pingitore, Cristina Giraldi

  30-09-2010

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2010.2431

  949

  Downloads: 912

• Advancing antimicrobial susceptibility testing in body fluid-associated infections: a focus on direct testing for timely and targeted therapeutic interventions

  Nisha Goyal, Vikas Saini, Nimisha Jain, Bandi Shravana, Shukla Das, Narendra Pal Singh, Meenakshi Goswami

  04-08-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2025.13602

  471

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  Epidemiology of extended spectrum β-lactamase, AmpC and class A carbapenemases-producing organisms isolated at San Camillo Hospital of Treviso (Italy) between April 2012 and March 2014

  Margherita Scapaticci, Giacomo Fossen, Vittorina Ius

  31-03-2016

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.4622

  1768

  Downloads: 1081

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• Indagine nazionale sulle metodiche per emocoltura in Italia

  Antonio Goglio, Pierluigi Nicoletti

  30-03-2004

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2004.3015

  1702

  Downloads: 1412

• A rare case report of Aeromonas salmonicida causing neonatal septicaemia

  Ankita Shreya, Hina Rahangdale, Sangeeta Bhalavi, Swati Kale, Sunanda Shrikhande

  02-03-2026

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2025.14523

  103

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• Evaluation of a direct method for the identification and antibiotic susceptibility assessment of microrganisms isolated from blood cultures by automatic systems

  Sergio Frugoni, Giovanna Viola, Eutilia Conte, Daniela Consoli, Roberta Marchetti, Chiara Silvia Vismara

  31-03-2008

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2008.2593

  1084

  Downloads: 1047

• Rapid tests: preliminar identification from blood culture

  Elisa Gobbato, Vesselina Kroumova, Paola Macaluso, Sabrina Tamburelli, Luca Mucedola, Giacomo Fortina

  30-06-2012

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2012.2317

  1701

  Downloads: 902
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  Oligella ureolytica conjunctivitis in a female patient

  Giuseppe Ivan Potente, Francesca Fabiola Bianco, Raffaella Aiello

  30-06-2016

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.5797

  1652

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• Central Venous Catheter (CVC) related infections: a local retrospective study

  Manuela Fresu, Agostina Ronca, Carla Pruzzo, Simona Roveta

  30-06-2008

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2008.2581

  2120

  Downloads: 1121
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  Evaluation of the in vitro activity of ceftobiprole against clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

  Carola Mauri, Silvia Bracco, Elisa Meroni, Davide Oggioni, Luigi Principe, Beatrice Pini, Francesco Luzzaro

  22-12-2016

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.6205

  1336

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• Detection of free-living amoeba in a tertiary care hospital

  Nairita Choudhuri, Bhaskar Narayan Chaudhuri, Partha Guchhait, Arup Kumar Dawn, Satadal Das

  21-05-2024

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2024.12287

  1117

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  First case of Arthrographis kalrae pulmonary infection in a patient with AIDS

  Neha Samal, M.V Narasimham, Susmita Kumari Sahu, Sanghamitra Padhi

  11-05-2021

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2021.9684

  1628

  Downloads: 488

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• CVC related infections reported from Salam Center for Cardiac Surgery of Khartoum

  Margherita Scapaticci, Nino Di Pietro, Enzo Tucci

  30-06-2010

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2010.2453

  1027

  Downloads: 956
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  Microbial biofilm: a “sticky” problem

  Arianna Pompilio, Giovanni Di Bonaventura

  19-12-2018

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2018.7851

  1516

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  Drug-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes: a case report of pyoderma and cellulitis

  Barbara Pieretti, Benedetta Canovari, Marco Moretti, Carlo Pieretti, Enzo Pazzaglia

  10-10-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.6617

  1848

  Downloads: 852

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• Identify of Granulicatella adiacens from blood cultures of a patient bearer of prosthetic valve

  Raffaele Gargiulo, Carla Sabia, Stefano Giordani, Virginia Agnoletto, Agostino Barozzi, Sandra Fregni, Anna Mucci, Maria Olga Zirilli, Mario Sarti

  31-03-2012

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2012.2327

  1234

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  Preliminary antimicrobial susceptibility: possibility of early and effective therapy during treatment of septic patients

  Maria Antonietta Distasi, Giuseppe Mennea, Angela Pirronti, Tito Del Gaudio

  18-03-2014

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2013.3268

  1796

  Downloads: 953

• The mass spectrometry technology MALDI-TOF (Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time- Of-Flight) for a more rapid and economic workflow in the clinical microbiology laboratory

  Simona Barnini, Paola Morici, Laura Micio, Giuseppina Grasso, Mario Campa

  31-12-2012

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2012.2291

  1148

  Downloads: 1027
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  Clinical microbiologists, could we forget the history?

  Roberta Migliavacca, Vittorio Sambri

  10-10-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.7108

  1445

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  Gemella hemolysans endocarditis and septicemia: case report and literature review

  Antonio Mastroianni, Sonia Greco, Valeria Vangeli, Maria Vittoria Mauro, Francesca Greco, Filippo Urso, Roberto Manfredi

  29-12-2022

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2022.10983

  813

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• Epidemiology of pathogens isolated from blood cultures processed at the “Salam Center for Cardiac Surgery” in Khartoum (Sudan)

  Margherita Scapaticci, Nino Di Pietro

  30-06-2011

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2370

  902

  Downloads: 1006

• Colistin, the last resort antibiotic: challenges in the implementation of its routine susceptibility testing

  Nisha Goyal, Seema Gangar, Krishna Sarkar, Narendra Pal Singh, Shukla Das, Aditya Nath Dwivedi

  28-05-2024

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2024.12388

  1629

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• Evaluation of GeneXpert® system for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus in clinical samples

  Antonella Mencacci, Luca Merlini, Marta Meucci, Mariolina Vitali, Senia Farinelli, Maria Rita Pagliochini, Francesco Bistoni, Alessandra Sensini

  31-03-2011

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2382

  989

  Downloads: 976

• Streptococcus salivarius meningitis after dental care: case report

  Maira Zoppelletto, Dario Cesco, Dina Bonini, Alessandra Dinale, Maria Frizzo, Gilberto Lorenzin, Elide Marcon, Alessandra Vigolo, Francesco Malfa, Giorgio Da Rin

  31-12-2012

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2012.2295

  2072

  Downloads: 1007

• Incidence of Acinetobacter baumannii and other pathogens isolated from Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital San Carlo, Genoa - Voltri

  Silvana Delfino, Alessandro Smeraldi, Orietta Illiberi, Matteo Piazzai, Elisabetta Schellino, Alida Galleano, Susanna Oddera, Antonio Lapolla, Luigi Carlo Bottaro

  31-12-2010

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2010.2400

  1350

  Downloads: 1515

• Evaluation of two commercially available methods used for the rapid detection of ESBL-producing strains

  Concetta De Luca, Erminia AM Casari, Elisabetta Nucleo, Antonella Ferrario, Roberta Migliavacca, Laura Pagani

  31-03-2011

  https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2387

  1234

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