classes contains detailed information on the history of development of the drug, chemistry, mechanism of action, mechanism of resistance, spectrum and degree of antimicrobial activity, pharmacology, toxicity and adverse effects, drug interactions, drug monitoring (if necessary), and therapeutic indications. It is a strength of such a multi-authored text that there is good and consistent chapter...

Acetobacter cibinongensis Bacteremia in Human To the Editor: The genus Aceto-bacter belongs to the group of acetic acid bacteria that oxidize alcohols or sugars incompletely, leading to the accumulation of acetic acid. Acetic acid bacteria are of great industrial interest because of their use to produce vinegar from spirits, wine, beer, and cider in temperate regions of Europe, the Americas, an...

Suppression of bacterial growth that persists after short exposure of bacteria to antimicro-bial agents, called the postantibiotic effect (PAE), has been observed both in vitro and in vivo. Duration, and even presence or absence of PAE depends upon the organism, the antimicrobial agent and the environmental conditions used for measuring the effect (Craig, 1991). The most important factors contr...

72 The Choice of Hypoallergens for Fish and Peach to Develop Food Allergy Specific Immunotherapy (TheFAST Project) Laurian Zuidmeer-Jongejan, PhD, Serge Versteeg, Lars Poulsen, MD, PhD, Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas, MD, PhD, Marek L. Kowalski, MD, PhD, Nikos Papadopoulos, Adriano Mari, MD, Ines Swoboda, PhD, Michael Clausen, MD, PhD, Carsten Bindslev-Jensen, MD, PhD, Angela Neubauer, PhD, Stef Ko...

233 Baseline 30 Seconds 10 Minutes 6 Hours FIGURE. Decrease in colony-forming units (CFU) after application of 2% chlorhexidine gluconate in 70% isopropyl alcohol on the abdomen. Humphries T. The establishment and validation of the mobile immunization team concept at a clinic level. workers: vectors of influenza virus? Low vaccination rate among hospital health care workers. To the Editor: A ra...

a reporting bias due to increased hospitalizations for rotavirus-associated infections cannot be excluded. Recurrence rates in the paediatric population are around 25%, 2 and mortality rates are low, with one death seen among 82 patients with CDI in one study. 3 We report a case of recurrent CDI in a 10-year-old child who was successfully treated with fidaxomicin, a newly approved macrocyclic a...