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  1. Mobile phones are widely used and may cause bacterial pathogens to spread among various professionals. Staphylococcus aureus from the mobile phones can contaminate the hands of food vendors and food during the co...

    Authors: Krissana Khoothiam, Watsawan Prapasawat, Atchariya Yosboonruang, Anchalee Rawangkan, Chorpaka Phuangsri, Kitwadee Rupprom, Parinya Kraivuttinun, Wimonrat Tanomsridachchai, Orasa Suthienkul and Achiraya Siriphap
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:68
  2. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, therapeutic options for treating COVID-19 have been investigated at different stages of clinical manifestations. Considering the particular impact of COVID-19 in t...

    Authors: Alexandre Naime Barbosa, Alberto Chebabo, Carlos Starling, Clevy Pérez, Clóvis Arns Cunha, David de Luna, Estevão Portela Nunes, Gabriela Zambrano, Juliana Carvalho Ferreira, Julio Croda, Maicon Falavigna, Monica Maria Gomes-da-Silva, Monica Thormann, Sergio Cimerman, Suena Medeiros Parahiba, Suzana Tanni…
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:67
  3. Rectal colonisation with carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (CR-GNB) may cause CR-GNB infection in children with haematological malignancies (HMs) haematological. To date, information on its epidemiolo...

    Authors: Chao Fang, Zheng Zhou, Mingming Zhou and Jianping Li
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:66
  4. The occurrence of zoonotic infections following an animal exposure continues to be an important consideration for all patients, especially those within agricultural communities. Streptococcus equi subspecies equi

    Authors: Tristan Bohlman, Heith Waddell and Brant Schumaker
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:65
  5. The aim of this study was to assess the risk factors for colistin-resistant carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CR-CPE), and describe the mortality associated with this organism, in a low-income country.

    Authors: Soria-Segarra Claudia, Soria-Segarra Carmen, Diaz Andrés, Miranda-Ayala Marcela, Cevallos-Apolo Kerly, Bombón Moreno Bryan, Chuzan J. John and Gutierrez-Fernández José
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:64
  6. This study provided a theoretical basis for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of bacterial infection after liver transplantation through analyzing the pathogenic distribution, drug sensitivity and risk fact...

    Authors: Min Liu, Cuiying Li, Jing Liu and Qiquan Wan
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:63
  7. The Accelerate PhenoTest® BC system (AXDX) is a novel assay for rapid bacterial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility (AST). We report an evaluation of its impact on treatment of patients with Gram-n...

    Authors: Tal Brosh-Nissimov, Anka Tzur, Daniel Grupel, Amos Cahan, Nir Ma’aravi, Maya Heled-Akiva, Hasan Jawamis, Hanna Leskes, Erez Barenboim and Nadav Sorek
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:62
  8. Biofilms play a role in recalcitrance and treatability of bacterial infections, but majority of known antibiotic resistance mechanisms are biofilm-independent. Biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, especially in cy...

    Authors: Fereshteh Jabalameli, Mohammad Emaneini, Reza Beigverdi, Shahnaz Halimi and Maryam Siroosi
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:61
  9. Colistin (CST) is a last-line drug for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. CST-heteroresistant Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) has been isolated. However, integrated analysis of epidemiolog...

    Authors: Shota Fukuzawa, Toyotaka Sato, Kotaro Aoki, Soh Yamamoto, Noriko Ogasawara, Chie Nakajima, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Motohiro Horiuchi, Satoshi Takahashi and Shin-ichi Yokota
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:60
  10. Despite the clinical benefits of external ventricular drains (EVD), these devices can lead to EVD-related infections (EVDRI). The drainage insertion technique and standardized guidelines can significantly redu...

    Authors: Mariel Rojas-Lora, Luisa Corral, Ivan Zabaleta-Carvajal, Pau López-Ojeda, Verónica Fuentes-Mila, Iluminada Romera-Peregrina, Cristina Lerma-Briansò, Erika Plata-Menchaca, Alba Pavón, Joan Sabater and Carmen Cabellos
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:59
  11. Here, we showed our clinicopathological findings of infected aortic aneurysm (IAA) with Pasteurella multocida, which is a Gram-negative coccobacillus and is part of the normal oral flora of many animals. The pati...

    Authors: Kazuhiro Nomoto, Yukiko Hata, Shojiro Ichimata, Syu Mizuno and Naoki Nishida
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:58
  12. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is associated with a high rate of pulmonary infections (bacteria, fungi, and viruses). To overcome the low sensitivity and long turnaround time of traditional laborato...

    Authors: Juan Zhong, Yanfen Liu, Na Luo, Qiu Wei, Qisi Su, Jun Zou, Xiaozhong Wu, Xianzhen Huang, Yuting Jiang, Lijuan Liang, Hongmian Li and Jianyan Lin
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:57
  13. Viral respiratory infections may predispose to co-infections with other pathogenic microorganisms. In this study, pathogenic respiratory bacteria were detected using commercial kit Allplexâ„¢ Respiratory Panel 4 fr...

    Authors: Nathalia Zuluaga, David Martínez, Carolina Hernández, Nathalia Ballesteros, Sergio Castañeda, Juan David Ramírez and Marina Muñoz
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:56
  14. Infections in critically-ill patients caused by extensively-drug-resistant (XDR)-Pseudomonas aeruginosa are challenging to manage due to paucity of effective treatment options. Cefepime/zidebactam, which is curre...

    Authors: Dilip Dubey, Manish Roy, Tajamul H. Shah, Noor Bano, Vidushi Kulshrestha, Sandeep Mitra, Pushpender Sangwan, Madhulika Dubey, Ali Imran, Bhawna Jain, Aravind Velmurugan, Yamuna Devi Bakthavatchalam and Balaji Veeraraghavan
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:55
  15. Hybrid therapy (HT) is a non-bismuth quadruple therapy created to surpass Helicobacter pylori’s (H. pylori) resistance rates to antibiotics. HT has excellent eradication rates, as well as a very good compliance a...

    Authors: Maria José Temido, Dara Mbanze, Nuno Almeida, Bárbara Oliveiros, Elisa Gravito-Soares and Pedro Figueiredo
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:54
  16. Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) represents an escalating healthcare hazard with high mortality worldwide, especially in presence of biofilm. The current study aimed to evaluate the anti-biofilm...

    Authors: Mona Shaban E. M. Badawy, Walid F. Elkhatib and Rania I. Shebl
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:53
  17. NDM-producing Acinetobacter baumannii (NDMAb) were reported sporadically worldwide but little is known about the transmission, epidemiology and clinical features of NDMAb-infected patients. The goals of this stud...

    Authors: Amos Adler, Hiren Ghosh, Andrea Gross, Amit Rechavi, Michal Lasnoy, Marc V. Assous, Yuval Geffen, Basel Darawsha, Yonit Wiener-Well, Anat Alony, Hajo Grundmann and Sandra Reuter
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:52
  18. Pseudomonas aeruginosa has intrinsic antibiotic resistance and the strong ability to acquire additional resistance genes. However, a limited number of investigations provide detailed modular structure dissection ...

    Authors: Xiaofei Mu, Xinyue Li, Zhe Yin, Ying Jing, Fangzhou Chen, Huixia Gao, Zhi Zhang, Yueyang Tian, Huiqian Guo, Xiuhui Lu, Jiaqi He, Yali Zheng, Dongsheng Zhou, Peng Wang and Erhei Dai
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:51
  19. Description and comparison of bacterial characteristics of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) between critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients with COVID-19-positive, COVID + ; and non-COVID-19, CO...

    Authors: Maxime Pichon, Julie Cremniter and Christophe Burucoa
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:50
  20. Catheter-related bacteremia (CRB) is a significant cause of morbidity, resource expenditure and prolonged hospital stays in patients with long-term catheters, whose numbers have increased considerably in recen...

    Authors: Celia Permuy, Jone Ruiz-Azcárate, Mercedes Sampedro, Cristina Jiménez, Fernando Baquero-Artigao, Cristina Calvo and Ana Méndez-Echevarría
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:48
  21. Septicemia is potentially fatal infection caused by pathogenic bacteria infiltrating the bloodstream, resulting in morbidity and mortality among Ethiopian hospital patients. Multidrug resistance is a therapeut...

    Authors: Habtamu Belew, Workineh Tamir, Tebelay Dilnessa and Abeba Mengist
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:47
  22. Antibiotics exert an outstanding selective pressure on bacteria, forcing their chromosomal gene mutations and drug resistance genes to spread. The objective of this study is to evaluate the expression of the N...

    Authors: Qiong Zhao, Longhua Sha, Zhaomeng Wu, Lixue Meng, Feixiang Yang, Lingling Wu, Chunfang Yu, Hua Zhang, Jingdan Yu and Zhixiong Jin
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:46
  23. Appendicitis remains a common surgical emergency in children. Empirical antibacterial treatment is indicated to reduce infective complications. We investigate the bacterial pathogens identified intra-operative...

    Authors: Keir Bhaskar, Simon Clarke, Luke S. P. Moore and Stephen Hughes
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:45
  24. Neurobrucellosis (NB) presents a challenge for rapid and specific diagnosis. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has showed power in detection of causative pathogens, even some infreq...

    Authors: Lili Yu, Zhenyuan Zhang, Yueli Zou, Xuejiao Qi, Yu Zhang, Kaixuan Bai, Xiaochen Han and Hui Bu
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:44
  25. Bacterial and viral infections are commonly implicated in the development of pneumonia. We aimed to compare the diversity and composition of lung bacteria among severe pneumonia patients who were influenza vir...

    Authors: Yiguo Zhou, Juan Du, Jing-Qin Wu, Quan-Rong Zhu, Ming-Zhu Xie, Lin-Yi Chen, Ya-Qiong Liu, Wei Li, Ting-Fa Zhou and Qing-Bin Lu
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:43
  26. This meta-analysis evaluated the Efficacy and Effectiveness of several COVID-19 vaccines, including AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Bharat, and Johnson & Johnson, to better estimate their immunogenicity, benefit...

    Authors: Marzieh Soheili, Sorour Khateri, Farhad Moradpour, Pardis Mohammadzedeh, Mostafa Zareie, Seyede Maryam Mahdavi Mortazavi, Sima Manifar, Hamed Gilzad Kohan and Yousef Moradi
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:42
  27. Bloodstream infection (BSI) caused by Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are associated with poor outcomes in hematological patients. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for mortality...

    Authors: Lining Zhang, Sisi Zhen, Yuyan Shen, Tingting Zhang, Jieru Wang, Jia Li, Qingsong Lin, Zhijian Xiao, Yizhou Zheng, Erlie Jiang, Mingzhe Han, Jianxiang Wang and Sizhou Feng
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:41
  28. Carbapenemase-producing makes a great contribution to carbapenem resistance in Gram-negative bacilli. BlaAFM-1 gene was first discovered by us in Alcaligenes faecalis AN70 strain isolated in Guangzhou of China an...

    Authors: Yingcheng Qin, Yuan Peng, Xiaonv Duan, Zhenli Song, Rong Huang and Yongyu Rui
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:40
  29. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of untreatable gonococcal infection is an emerging threat, especially in Guangdong, a prosperous province in Southern China.

    Authors: Yiwen Liao, Qinghui Xie, Xiaoxiao Li, Xiaona Yin, Xingzhong Wu, Mingjing Liu, Yuying Pan, Lihong Zeng, Jianjiang Yang, Zhanqin Feng, Xiaolin Qin and Heping Zheng
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:39
  30. Since the first report of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in China in 2007, the prevalence of CRKP and CRE has increased significantly. However, the molecular characteristics of IMP-producing

    Authors: Liuyang Yang, Guangcun Zhang, Qiang Zhao, Ling Guo and Jiyong Yang
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:38
  31. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an ever-growing threat to modern medicine and, according to the latest reports, it causes nearly twice as many deaths globally as AIDS or malaria. Elucidating reservoirs and d...

    Authors: A. C. Anderson, C. von Ohle, C. Frese, S. Boutin, C. Bridson, K. Schoilew, S. A. Peikert, E. Hellwig, K. Pelz, A. Wittmer, D. Wolff and A. Al-Ahmad
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:37
  32. Curvularia hawaiiensis (formerly Bipolaris hawaiiensis) is a plant pathogen often isolated from soil and vegetative material. However, only a few cases of opportunistic invasive infections in humans have been des...

    Authors: Cristina Aguirre, Jaime David Acosta-España, Sheila Jissela Patajalo-Villata and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:36
  33. The clinical symptoms of invasive fungal infections (IFI) are nonspecific, and early clinical diagnosis is challenging, resulting in high mortality rates. This study reports the development of a novel aptamer-...

    Authors: Ying Hua, Feng Hu, Xia Ren, Yueling Xiong, Jian Hu, Fan Su, Xiaolei Tang and Yufeng Wen
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:35
  34. Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) is a global health crisis. This study aimed to determine the clonal relatedness of antibiotic-resistant A. baumannii isolates in hospitalized patients who suffe...

    Authors: Farzaneh Firoozeh, Mahnaz Nikibakhsh, Farzad Badmasti, Mohammad Zibaei and Vajihe Sadat Nikbin
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:34
  35. Extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) are a group of beta-lactamase enzymes that confer resistance to the oxyimino-cephalosporins and monobactams. The emergence of ESBL - producing genes possesses a serious t...

    Authors: Mahesh Kumar Chaudhary, Indrani Jadhav and Megha Raj Banjara
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:33
  36. Acinetobacter baumannii (AB) has emerged as one of the most problematic pathogens affecting critically ill patients. This study aimed to investigate the longitudinal epidemiology of AB causing invasive diseases i...

    Authors: Hyun Mi Kang, Ki Wook Yun and Eun Hwa Choi
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:32
  37. Despite the global prevalence of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase (KPC)-type class A β-lactamases, occurrences of KPC-3-producing isolates in China remain infrequent. This study aims to explore the emergence, ...

    Authors: Haoyu Ge, Jie Qiao, Jiahao Zheng, Hao Xu, Ruishan Liu, Junhui Zhao, Ruyan Chen, Chenyu Li, Xiaobing Guo and Beiwen Zheng
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:31
  38. Finegoldia magna (formerly known as Peptococcus magnus or Peptostreptococcus magnus) belonging to phylum Firmicutes, class Clostridia and genus Finegoldia, is the only species known to cause infections in human b...

    Authors: Seema Shetty, Renuka Anegundi, Padmaja Ananth Shenoy and Shashidhar Vishwanath
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:30
  39. For treatment of ventriculitis, vancomycin and meropenem are frequently used as empiric treatment but cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) penetration is highly variable and may result in subtherapeutic concentrations. F...

    Authors: Christina König, Jens Martens-Lobenhoffer, Patrick Czorlich, Manfred Westphal, Stefanie M. Bode-Böger, Stefan Kluge and Jörn Grensemann
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:29
  40. Mycoplasma hominis is one of the main opportunistic pathogenic mycoplasmas in humans which has a major impact on patients with bloodstream infections. Because it is difficult to detect or isolate, rapid and accur...

    Authors: Yili Chen, Hengxin Chen, Hao Huang, Yinyin Zhong, Xiaoshu Lin, Peisong Chen, Kang Liao, Juhua Yang, Min Liu, Mengzhi Hong and Ruizhi Wang
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:28
  41. Culture of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is essential for surveillance of complete antimicrobial susceptibility profiles. In 2014, the culture success rate of N. gonorrhoeae from samples taken at the clinic for sexually ...

    Authors: LM Brendefur Corwin, P Campbell, K Jakobsen, F Müller, X Lai, M Unemo, TM Leegaard, J Vildershøj Bjørnholt and AO Olsen
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:27
  42. Authors: Rawan Taha, Ola Kader, Sherine Shawky and Shahinda Rezk
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:26

    The original article was published in Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:21

  43. Patients who develop severe illness due to COVID-19 are more likely to be admitted to hospital and acquire bacterial co-infections, therefore the WHO recommends empiric treatment with antibiotics. Few reports ...

    Authors: Linzy Elton, Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid, John Tembo, Hana Elbadawi, Kwitaka Maluzi, Mohammed H. Abdelraheem, Teresa Cullip, Caren Kabanda, Kerry Roulston, Isobella Honeyborne, Margaret J Thomason, Kamal Elhag, Alaelddin Mohammed, Abdelsalam Adam, Kangwa Mulonga, Kapatiso Sikakena…
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:25
  44. Carbapenemase-producing gram-negative organisms continue to be a significant healthcare concern and a therapeutic challenge. Members of the genus Citrobacter have emerged as increasingly multidrug resistant and v...

    Authors: Stephen M. Brecher, Isabella A. Tickler and Fred C. Tenover
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:24
  45. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes life-threatening infections, with narrow therapeutic options including: vancomycin and linezolid. Accordingly, this study aimed to characterize phenotypic...

    Authors: Asmaa I. AbdAlhafiz, Nooran S. Elleboudy, Khaled M. Aboshanab, Mohammad M. Aboulwafa and Nadia A. Hassouna
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:23
  46. Chest computerized tomography (CT) scan is an important strategy that quantifies the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia. To what extent inactivated COVID-19 vaccines could impact the COVID-19 pneumonia on chest CT...

    Authors: Miao Lai, Kai Wang, Chengyuan Ding, Yi Yin, Xiaoling lin, Chuanjun Xu, Zhiliang Hu and Zhihang Peng
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:22
  47. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) show rapid global dissemination and pose a significant therapeutic challenge. This study aimed to characterize carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella spp. and Escherichi...

    Authors: Rawan Taha, Ola Kader, Sherine Shawky and Shahinda Rezk
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:21

    The Correction to this article has been published in Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:26

  48. The tick-borne bacterium, Neoehrlichia mikurensis (N. mikurensis) can cause severe febrile illness and thromboembolic complications in immunocompromised individuals. We investigated the presence of N. mikurensis ...

    Authors: Rosa Maja Møhring Gynthersen, Mette Frimodt Hansen, Lukas Frans Ocias, Andreas Kjaer, Randi Føns Petersen, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Lene Harritshøj, Søren Jacobsen, Ulrik Overgaard, Karen Angeliki Krogfelt, Anne-Mette Lebech and Helene Mens
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:20
  49. To investigate the prevalence and molecular characterization of bedaquiline resistance among MDR-TB isolates collected from Chongqing, China.

    Authors: Yan Hu, Jun Fan, Damin Zhu, Wenguo Liu, Feina Li, Tongxin Li and Huiwen Zheng
    Citation: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2023 22:19