Description
Book SynopsisThis Series will provide microbiologists, hygienists, epidemiologists and infectious diseases specialists with well-chosen contributed volumes containing updated information in the areas of basic and applied microbiology involving relevant issues for public health, including bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections, zoonoses and anthropozoonoses, environmental and food microbiology.
The increasing threat of the multidrug-resistant microorganisms and the related host immune response, the new strategies for the treatment of biofilm-based, acute and chronic microbial infections, as well as the development of new vaccines and more efficacious antimicrobial drugs to prevent and treat human and animal infections will be also reviewed in this series in the light of the most recent achievements in these fields.
Special attention will be devoted to the fast diffusion worldwide of the new findings of the most advanced translational researches carried out in the different fields of microbiological sciences, with the aim to promote a prompt validation and transfer at clinical level of the most promising experimental results.
Table of ContentsOverview of the antimicrobial activity of 19 essential oilsNaouel Chaftar*, Marion Girardot, Jérôme Labanowski, Tawfik Ghrairi, Khaled Hani, Jacques Frère, Christine Imbert
Refractory Trichophyton rubrum infections in Turin, Italy: a problem still present
Vivian Tullio, Ornella Cervetti, Janira Roana, Michele Panzone, Daniela Scalas, Chiara Merlino, Valeria Allizond, Giuliana Banche, Narcisa Mandras, Anna Maria Cuffini*
Antioxidant hydroxytyrosol-based polyacrylate with antimicrobial and antiadhesive activity versus Staphylococcus epidermidis
Fernanda Crisante, Vincenzo Taresco, Gianfranco Donelli, Claudia Vuotto; Andrea Martinelli, Lucio D’Ilario, Loris Pietrelli, Iolanda Francolini*, Antonella Piozzi*
The role of human Herpesvirus 8 in diabetes mellitus type 2: state of the art and a medical hypothesis
Raffaello Pompei
Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae based on data collected by a network of clinical microbiology laboratories, in Italy
Maria Cristina Salfa*, Barbara Suligoi and Italian STI Laboratory-based Surveillance Working Group
β-defensins: work in progress
Giovanna Donnarumma*, Iole Paoletti, Alessandra Fusco, Brunella Perfetto, Elisabetta Buommino, Adone Baroni
Emergence of Escherichia coli Sequence Type 131 (ST131) and ST3948 with KPC-2, KPC-3 and KPC-8 carbapenemases from a Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Facility (LTCRF) in Northern Italy. Aurora Piazza, Mariasofia Caltagirone, Ibrahim Bitar, Elisabetta Nucleo, Melissa Spalla, Elena Fogato, Roberto D’Angelo, Laura Pagani, Roberta Migliavacca*
Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: results of a laboratory surveillance program in an Italian General Hospital (August 2014-January 2015)
Claudia Monari, Luca Merlini, Emanuela Nardelli, Maria Cacioni, Antonella Repetto, Antonella Mencacci, Anna Vecchiarelli*
A snapshot of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains in Croatia
Ljiljana Zmak*, Mihaela Obrovac, Vera Katalinic-Jankovic
Quorum quenching strategy targeting gram-positive pathogenic bacteria
Ravindra Pal Singh, Said E. Desouky, Jiro Nakayama*
