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  1. Insights of SEDRIC, the Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant Infections Consortium
  2. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bloodstream Infections Presenting with Septic Shock in Neutropenic Cancer Patients: Impact of Empirical Antibiotic Therapy
  3. Recent advances in the treatment of Ebola disease: A brief overview
  4. Molecular Characteristics of Colistin Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii and the Activity of Antimicrobial Combination Therapy in a Tertiary Care Medical Center in Lebanon
  5. Mucormycosis: A 14-Year Retrospective Study from a Tertiary Care Center in Lebanon
  6. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Epidemiology and Outcomes of Candidemia: A Retrospective Study from a Tertiary Care Center in Lebanon
  7. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Epidemiology and Outcomes of Candidemia: A Retrospective Study from a Tertiary Care Center in Lebanon
  8. Infective Endocarditis after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Challenges in the Diagnosis and Management
  9. Infective Endocarditis after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Challenges in the Diagnosis and Management
  10. Antimicrobial Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Severe Sepsis
  11. Human monkeypox: A review of the literature
  12. Epidemiology and burden of invasive fungal infections in the countries of the Arab League
  13. Mycobacterium simiae: Harmless colonizer or deadly pathogen?
  14. Visceral and Cutaneous Leishmaniases in a City in Syria and the Effects of the Syrian Conflict
  15. Ten-year surveillance study of ventilator-associated pneumonia at a tertiary care center in Lebanon
  16. Effect of carbapenem resistance on outcomes of bloodstream infection caused by Enterobacteriaceae in low-income and middle-income countries (PANORAMA): a multinational prospective cohort study
  17. Impact of antibiotic resistance on outcomes of neutropenic cancer patients withPseudomonas aeruginosabacteraemia (IRONIC study): study protocol of a retrospective multicentre international study
  18. Moraxella nonliquefaciens septic arthritis in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant patient a case report and review of the literature
  19. Disseminated herpes simplex virus and varicella zoster virus co-infection in a patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
  20. Pseudomonas stutzeri prosthetic valve endocarditis: A case report and review of the literature
  21. The 2018 Lebanese Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Guidelines for the use of antimicrobial therapy in complicated intra-abdominal infections in the era of antimicrobial resistance
  22. ESICM/ESCMID task force on practical management of invasive candidiasis in critically ill patients
  23. Successful treatment of severe aplastic anemia with syngeneic stem cell transplantation in the setting of active disseminated mucormycosis
  24. Developing definitions for invasive fungal diseases in critically ill adult patients in intensive care units. Protocol of the FUNgal infections Definitions in ICU patients (FUNDICU) project
  25. Correction to: Mucormycosis in hospitalized patients at a tertiary care center in Lebanon: a case series
  26. INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTER EXPERIENCE IN THE TREATMENT OF INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED CANCER PATIENTS
  27. Haploidentical related donor allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for patient aged older than 76 years with refractory acute myeloid leukemia
  28. Epidemiology of common resistant bacterial pathogens in the countries of the Arab League
  29. Comparing Mycobacterium simiae infections between two studies.
  30. Feasibility of Venetoclax-based combinations for adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia relapsing after allogenic stem cell transplantation
  31. An Elderly Woman With Painful Buttock and Vulvar Ulcers
  32. Correction to: Mucormycosis in hospitalized patients at a tertiary care center in Lebanon: a case series
  33. Effect of Piperacillin-Tazobactam vs Meropenem on 30-Day Mortality for Patients With E coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae Bloodstream Infection and Ceftriaxone Resistance
  34. Non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae septicemia at a tertiary care center in Beirut, Lebanon; a case report and review
  35. Mucormycosis in hospitalized patients at a tertiary care center in Lebanon: a case series
  36. Feasibility of the Combination of Venetoclax and Asparaginase-based Chemotherapy for Adult Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
  37. International experience with minocycline, EDTA and ethanol lock for salvaging of central line associated bloodstream infections
  38. Emergence of Mycobacterium simiae: A retrospective study from a tertiary care center in Lebanon
  39. Discovery, research, and development of new antibiotics: the WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and tuberculosis
  40. Shared Nearest Neighbor Clustering in a Locality Sensitive Hashing Framework
  41. Raising concerns about the Sepsis-3 definitions
  42. Multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter species: a seven-year experience from a tertiary care center in Lebanon
  43. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in patients receiving rituximab and cyclophosphamide after haplo-identical T-cell replete transplantation and review of the literature
  44. A 27-year experience with infective endocarditis in Lebanon
  45. Cytomegalovirus reactivation in lymphoma and myeloma patients undergoing autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
  46. The Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery: defining a model for antimicrobial stewardship—results from an international cross-sectional survey
  47. Influence of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration on the outcome of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus left-sided infective endocarditis treated with antistaphylococcal β-lactam antibiotics: a prospective cohort study by the Internati...
  48. A review of eleven cases of tuberculosis presenting as sternal wound abscess after open heart surgery
  49. Extended infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics: optimizing therapy in critically-ill patients in the era of antimicrobial resistance
  50. Injury to hypopharynx by a foreign body with subsequent candida osteomyelitis of the upper cervical spine
  51. Catheter Lock with Minocycline, EDTA and Ethanol for Salvaging of Central Venous Catheters in the Setting of Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections
  52. Shared Nearest Neighbor clustering in a Locality Sensitive Hashing framework
  53. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium report, data summary of 50 countries for 2010-2015: Device-associated module
  54. Antifungal use in intensive care units: another uncertainty that highlights the need for precision medicine
  55. Right-Sided Infective Endocarditis and Pulmonary Infiltrates
  56. Ten key points for the appropriate use of antibiotics in hospitalised patients: a consensus from the Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Working Groups of the International Society of Chemotherapy
  57. Isavuconazole treatment for mucormycosis: a single-arm open-label trial and case-control analysis
  58. Device-associated infections in the pediatric intensive care unit at the American University of Beirut Medical Center
  59. Successful Salvage of Central Venous Catheters in Patients with Catheter-Related or Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections by Using a Catheter Lock Solution Consisting of Minocycline, EDTA, and 25% Ethanol
  60. Managing atypical and typical herpetic central nervous system infections: results of a multinational study
  61. HACEK endocarditis: a review
  62. Reply to Werth et al
  63. Retrospective case series of infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae at a tertiary care centre in Lebanon
  64. Validated Risk Score for Predicting 6‐Month Mortality in Infective Endocarditis
  65. Reply to Dr Fierer
  66. Controversies in Candida management
  67. Assessment of combination therapy in BALB/c mice injected with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae strains
  68. Executive Summary: 2015 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Adultsa
  69. 2015 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Adultsa
  70. Results of a Multinational Study Suggest the Need for Rapid Diagnosis and Early Antiviral Treatment at the Onset of Herpetic Meningoencephalitis
  71. One-year outcome following biological or mechanical valve replacement for infective endocarditis
  72. Emergence of MERS-CoV in the Middle East: Origins, Transmission, Treatment, and Perspectives
  73. War and Infectious Diseases: Challenges of the Syrian Civil War
  74. Impact of Early Valve Surgery on Outcome of Staphylococcus aureus Prosthetic Valve Infective Endocarditis: Analysis in the International Collaboration of Endocarditis–Prospective Cohort Study
  75. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortiu (INICC) report, data summary of 43 countries for 2007-2012. Device-associated module
  76. Recurrent Buttock Cellulitis in a Female Adolescent
  77. Surgical Site Infections Following Spine Surgery: Eliminating the Controversies in the Diagnosis
  78. Aspergillus mastoiditis in an immunocompetent patient: A case report and review of the literature
  79. In vitro activity of tigecycline and comparators against Gram-positive and Gram-negative isolates collected from the Middle East and Africa between 2004 and 2011
  80. Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and molecular typing of salmonella typhi isolated from patients with typhoid fever in Lebanon
  81. Enterococcal endocarditis in the beginning of the 21st century: analysis from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Prospective Cohort Study
  82. Combination therapy for Gram-negative bacteria: what is the evidence?
  83. In-Hospital and 1-Year Mortality in Patients Undergoing Early Surgery for Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis
  84. Impact of a multidimensional infection control approach on catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates in an adult intensive care unit in Lebanon: International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) findings
  85. Surgical Site Infections, International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) Report, Data Summary of 30 Countries, 2005–2010
  86. Management of candidaemia and invasive candidiasis in critically ill patients
  87. Association of Streptococcus bovis endocarditis and advanced colorectal neoplasia: A case–control study
  88. HACEK Infective Endocarditis: Characteristics and Outcomes from a Large, Multi-National Cohort
  89. Impact of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) Multidimensional Hand Hygiene Approach over 13 Years in 51 Cities of 19 Limited-Resource Countries from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe
  90. PROPHYLACTIC ADMINISTRATION OF DOXYCYCLINE REDUCES CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION
  91. Underlying mechanisms of carbapenem resistance in extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli isolates at a tertiary care centre in Lebanon: role of OXA-48 and NDM-1 carbapenemases
  92. Effectiveness of a multidimensional approach for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in adult intensive care units from 14 developing countries of four continents
  93. Influence of the Timing of Cardiac Surgery on the Outcome of Patients With Infective Endocarditis and Stroke
  94. Impact of a multidimensional infection control strategy on catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates in the adult intensive care units of 15 developing countries: findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)
  95. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) report, data summary of 36 countries, for 2004-2009
  96. The threat of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Lebanon: An update on the regional and local epidemiology
  97. Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis Involving Implantable Cardiac Devices
  98. First Report ofNocardia asiaticaPresenting as an Anterior Mediastinal Mass in a Patient with Myasthenia Gravis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
  99. Genotypes and serotype distribution of macrolide resistant invasive and non- invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from Lebanon
  100. International nosocomial infection control consortium findings of device-associated infections rate in an intensive care unit of a Lebanese university hospital
  101. Recurrent refractory Clostridium difficile colitis treated successfully with rifaximin and tigecycline: A case report and review of the literature
  102. Toxocara Canis Myelitis
  103. Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis Isolates Are Associated With Clonal Complex 30 Genotype and a Distinct Repertoire of Enterotoxins and Adhesins
  104. Epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections at a tertiary care center in Lebanon
  105. Gastrointestinal Cancer Educatinal Case Series: A 65 year-old Female with Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer and a Supraclavicular Lymph Node
  106. Current Concepts in Antimicrobial Therapy Against Resistant Gram-Negative Organisms: Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Enterobacteriaceae, Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, and Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  107. Prophylaxis with Ertapenem in Patients with Obstructive Jaundice Undergoing Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography: Safety, Efficacy, and Biliary Penetration
  108. Time-dependent analysis of extra length of stay and mortality due to ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive-care units of ten limited-resources countries: findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)
  109. Time-dependent analysis of length of stay and mortality due to urinary tract infections in ten developing countries: INICC findings
  110. “Ten commandments” for the appropriate use of antibiotics by the practicing physician in an outpatient setting
  111. Transfusion-related Plasmodium ovale malaria complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in a non-endemic country
  112. Impact of International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) Strategy on Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates in the Intensive Care Units of 15 Developing Countries
  113. Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Lebanon: A report of three cases
  114. Profile of opportunistic infections in HIV-infected patients at a tertiary care center in Lebanon
  115. Non-pyogenic infections of the spine
  116. Revisiting the effect of referral bias on the clinical spectrum of infective endocarditis in adults
  117. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) report, data summary for 2003-2008, issued June 2009
  118. Pyogenic spondylodiscitis: An overview
  119. Heterogeneous Vancomycin‐Intermediate Susceptibility Phenotype in Bloodstream Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from an International Cohort of Patients with Infective Endocarditis: Prevalence, Genotype, and Clinical Significance
  120. Cardiac tamponade caused by polymicrobial Gram-negative organisms
  121. Fatal disseminated Mycobacterium simiae infection in a non-HIV patient
  122. First case of Pasteurella multocida endocarditis of the tricuspid valve: a favorable outcome following medical treatment
  123. Genital ulceration associated with typhoid fever
  124. Disseminated varicella presenting as acute abdominal pain nine days before the appearance of the rash
  125. Severe hemophagocytic syndrome developing after treatment initiation for disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Case report and literature review
  126. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium report, data summary for 2002-2007, issued January 2008
  127. Primary Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex cutaneous infection: report of two cases and literature review
  128. Molecular characterisation of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp. isolates at a tertiary-care centre in Lebanon
  129. Antimicrobial susceptibility of respiratory pathogens at the American University of Beirut Medical Center
  130. Leptotrichia endocarditis: Report of two cases from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis (ICE) database and review of previous cases
  131. Development and evaluation of real-time polymerase chain reaction assays on whole blood and paraffin-embedded tissues for rapid diagnosis of human brucellosis
  132. Bloodstream infections in febrile neutropenic patients at a tertiary care center in Lebanon: a view of the past decade
  133. Fatal brain infection caused by Aspergillus glaucus in an immunocompetent patient identified by sequencing of the ribosomal 18S–28S internal transcribed spacer
  134. Prepatellar Brucella melitensis bursitis: case report and literature review
  135. Catastrophic aortic thrombosis due to Toxocara infection
  136. Efficacy and Safety of Rabeprazole, Amoxicillin, and Gatifloxacin After Treatment Failure of Initial Helicobacter pylori Eradication
  137. Ceramide regulates SR protein phosphorylation during adenoviral infection
  138. Seroprevalence of toxocariasis in Lebanon: a pilot study
  139. Asymptomatic Mycobacterium xenopi lung abscess in an immunocompetent male without pre-existing lung pathology
  140. Surgical site infections following spinal surgery at a tertiary care center in Lebanon: Incidence, microbiology, and risk factors
  141. Epidemiology and risk factors for extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing organisms: A case control study at a tertiary care center in Lebanon
  142. Antibiotic use in acute cholecystitis: practice patterns in the absence of evidence-based guidelines
  143. Fatal streptococcal toxic shock syndrome in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis treated with etanercept
  144. In vitro activity of antimicrobial agents against extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae at a tertiary care center in Lebanon
  145. Intracerebral Bleeding in a Patient With Neurosarcoidosis While on Corticosteroid Therapy
  146. Acute Epstein-Barr Virus Infection Causing Bilateral Conjunctival Hemorrhages
  147. Acute calculous cholecystitis associated with brucellosis: A report of two cases and review of the literature
  148. The use and abuse of antibiotics in elective colorectal surgery: The Saga Continues…
  149. Pseudallescheria boydii cranial osteomyelitis and subdural empyema successfully treated with voriconazole: a case report and literature review
  150. Cytomegalovirus Appendicitis Following Acute Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient
  151. Streptococcus pyogenes bacteremia in the setting of cholangitis
  152. Clinical and Microbiological Profile of Urinary Tract Infection at a Tertiary-Care Center in Lebanon
  153. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia at a Tertiary-Care Center in a Developing Country: Incidence, Microbiology, and Susceptibility Patterns of Isolated Microorganisms
  154. Anticardiolipin antibodies in acute multifocal posterior placoid pigment epitheliopathy
  155. Endemic Gastrointestinal Anthrax in 1960s Lebanon: Clinical Manifestations and Surgical Findings
  156. Brucella Pelvic Tubo-ovarian Abscess Mimicking a Pelvic Malignancy
  157. Infective Endocarditis at a Tertiary Care Centre in Lebanon: Predominance of Streptococcal Infection
  158. Azithromycin-induced rash in infectious mononucleosis
  159. Campylobacter fetus pericarditis in a patient with β-thalassemia: case report and review of the literature
  160. SAFETY OF AEROSOLIZED AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX IN LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS12
  161. A Case of Trichosporon beigelii Endocarditis
  162. Ramichloridium mackenzieibrain abscess: report of two cases and review of the literature
  163. Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in the Lebanon: implications for presumptive therapy
  164. Mycoplasma hominis Pneumonia Complicating Bilateral Lung Transplantation
  165. Infections in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis Following Lung Transplantation
  166. A CASE OF DISSEMINATED INFECTION WITH Nocardia brasiliensis IN A LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT
  167. Fungal Infections in Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Recipients: Report of 9 Cases and Review of the Literature
  168. Cytomegalovirus Infection Following Liver Transplantation: Review of the Literature
  169. Mycoplasma hominis Septic Arthritis: Two Case Reports and Review
  170. Myocardial ischemia associated with high-dose carmustine infusion